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The History of WWII Podcast

Episode 458-The Trapped Soviet Soldiers at Uman

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.54.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As it seems Kiev is about to fall, the panzers suddenly turn south and head for Uman. There, a massive soviet response is building, but will it be enough to save Kiev, Uman and stop the Axis Forces from crossing the River Bug? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Adolf Hitler spent much of his early life in Linz, Austria, and considered it his hometown.

0:42.0

As dictator, he planned to remake

0:44.1

lens into the cultural capital of the German Reich, placing stolen artistic

0:49.4

treasures from across Europe in a grand museum there, which made it the perfect symbolic and strategic bomber

0:56.4

target for the Allies.

0:58.5

A new book, bombing Hitler's hometown, the untold story of the last mass bomber raid of World War II in Europe,

1:05.7

is the never before told true story of the white knuckled mission by the U.S. 15th Air Force to bomb

1:11.6

lens. Drawing on interviews with more than 50 survivors of the raid and previously

1:16.9

in published sources, author Mike Crescent puts the reader right there alongside the last of America's greatest generation with intense action

1:25.5

sequences within the new Me 262 jet as well as B24 and B17 Heavy bombers. It provides a unique perspective of Austrian soldiers and

1:36.6

civilians under the bombs who were caught up in events beyond their control.

1:41.5

Bombing Hitler's hometown also provides groundbreaking scholarship on a previously

1:46.0

untold story.

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