Germany After Hitler

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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80 years ago, as the war in Europe drew to a close, the world began to come to terms with the horrors of the Third Reich. This is the story of the Nuremberg Trials, the first of their kind, that would decide the fate of Nazism's worst criminals. It's also the story of the millions of people who were displaced by the chaos of conflict. For them the war would did not end with victory in Europe, and dragged on for years to come.

We're joined by Max Likin, author of '1945: A World at the End of War'. He provides insights into this transformative period and its lasting impact on modern history.

Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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1:13.9	Vasily Grossman was a Soviet journalist.
1:21.9	He was a writer who at the outbreak of the Second World War was engaged as a war correspondent for the Red Army newspaper Red Star.
1:35.4	He is one of the most famous and celebrated writers of the 20th century for his first-hand accounts of the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and the fighting up to and through the gates of Berlin.
1:42.9	He just wrote beautifully, scouringly, about what he called the ruthless truth of war.
1:50.1	Extraordinarily in 1943, he was with the Red Army, it liberated the Ukraine.
1:55.2	And it was then that he learned that his Jewish mother had been murdered by the Nazis.
2:00.7	He would go on to write some of the earliest first-hand accounts of Nazi death camps. He was present just after the
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