Episode 558-Of All the Gin Joints In the World

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.5 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Americans come at Casablanca. But waiting for them are impressive batteries, submarines and the battleship Jean Bart. And for all the work the US State Department had done, Vichy will not submit quietly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.2	You already know of the incredible Dunkirk civilian mobilization during World War II, and what it took to pull that off.
1:18.2	But there's another remarkable story of a civilian-led maritime operation where Denmark varied thousands of their Jewish citizens to safety and a mass-scale rescue right under the
1:24.5	noses of the Nazis. From award-winning author Tim Brady, A Light in the Northern Sea,
1:31.1	Denmark's incredible rescue of their Jewish citizens during World War II
1:35.3	meticulously explores this nationwide resistance movement that reads like a thriller.
1:41.6	Denmark's nearly 8,000 Jews survived, but it wasn't a miracle. It was the
1:47.0	combined achievement of a nation refusing to stand by, using clever subterfuge and increasingly
1:53.1	daring acts of sabotage. Among the rescued was Neil's Bohr, the world-famous nuclear physicist
1:59.6	who went on to help Oppenheimer build the bomb at Los Alamos.
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