Inside Hitler's Bunker (Eclipse, Alan Moorehead)

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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As a new year's treat, Al Murray has recorded a chapter of 'Eclipse' by Alan Moorehead. This incredible history, republished by We Have Ways, was first published in 1945. In chapter 14, Moorehead reconstructs, in terrifying detail, the collapse of Germany and Hitler's fragile grasp on reality slipping away. A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan & Joey McCarthy Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ to watch our livestreams, get earlybird tickets and our weekly newsletter - packed with deals. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.7	Chapter 14, the Battle of the Ardennes.
1:04.6	In November, when one of the hardest winters on record was beginning to set in,
1:09.4	the Germans came under an entirely new system of
1:12.0	command. Hitler at last had divided the bulk of his forces into two independent commands. Goderian,
1:18.9	the tank expert, with some 200 divisions in the east, Rundstedt with some 60 or 70 divisions
1:24.5	in the West. There existed barely a dozen German divisions inside the Reich itself, reinforcements
1:30.8	were coming in.
1:32.3	The German Home Guard, the Folksturm, was formed.
1:36.0	Sedentary workers, formerly considered unfit, were drafted to the front to meet the crisis.
1:40.9	At the same time, many thousands of garrison soldiers were withdrawn from Norway, Finland,
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