The Spider in the Web: The Hans Globke Story (Pt 1)
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Who was Hans Globke? In part one of this two-part investigation, we meet the German lawyer in the Nazi regime who helped to lay the legal basis for the Holocaust and then came back to build the foundations of modern Germany.
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Guests:
-Dr. Nadine Freund, historian at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.
-Dr. Gunnar Take, historian at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.
-Manfred Lahnstein, former politician for the SDP in Germany.
Host: Oliver Moody, the Berlin correspondent at The Times.
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| 0:32.4 | Hello, it's Manveen here. |
| 0:34.3 | Today's episode is the first in a two-part investigation |
| 0:38.0 | presented by my colleague Oliver Moody, the Times Berlin correspondent. |
| 0:42.9 | Oliver follows the untold story of a lawyer |
| 0:46.0 | during the Nazi regime who would go on to help found the modern German state. |
| 0:51.8 | Here's part one of the spider in the web, the Hans-Globka story. |
| 1:11.8 | I'm standing on the harbour-lanched harbour. |
| 1:14.8 | A quiet street, bland, low-rise flats in the middle of what used to be |
| 1:18.8 | one of Berlin's Jewish districts. |
| 1:21.8 | A chilly dusk is falling, and a nearby church bell has just been |
| 1:25.3 | tolling for the six o'clock mass. |
| 1:27.9 | I've walked past this street many times without giving it a second glance. |
| 1:32.7 | The pavements in this neighborhood glitter with little brass squares, |
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