S8 Ep843: Ian Buruma recounts the final months of the war, dominated by Goebbels' "death cult" propaganda and the film Colberg. He describes the trial of resistor von Moltke, who stood up to the sadistic judge Roland Freisler, and the eventual bombing of the court
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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1940 BERLIN
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| 1:12.8 | For full terms, visit the QVC website. I'm John Bachelor. Ian Buruma's new book is Stay Alive. It is the story of the city of Berlin, 1939 to 1945, that begins 39 in the launch of the war by the Hitlerites as one of the great capitals, ambitious, great capitals of the earth. |
| 1:49.7 | It ends 1945 in ruins. |
| 1:52.4 | More than that, bricks, that's what was left. |
| 1:55.6 | Pounded to Daoville bricks and the survivors underneath. |
| 2:00.2 | It is now December, 1943, 44. The Americans and the Brits and the |
| 2:09.1 | Canadians and the French have landed in Normandy in the middle of 44 and driving on Paris |
| 2:16.6 | and they're now approaching. They're in Belgium, and they're |
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