Part One: The Dutch Resistance: The Ice Cream Parlor and Jewish Boxers

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks with Caitlin Durante about the rise of the Dutch Left and the early Jewish resistance to Nazis

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0:42.2	Hello, and welcome to cool partisans who did partisan stuff.
0:45.9	Your weekly reminder that fascism can be confronted directly.
0:51.6	I mean, that fascism has been corrected, confronted directly in the past.
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0:56.0	and the point of history is never, ever study it so that you can learn about the present.
1:00.6	I am your host Margaret Kiljoy, and with me this week is the one and only Caitlin Durante.
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