When to Let the Past Die: The Case of Obersalzberg and Denazification

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History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode, we’ll look at Obersalzberg--a region that became a secret headquarters for the Nazi Party in WW2 that was later completely destroyed by the Allies and Germany to denazify it--and what it means to cleanse a region from its past. For...

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1:00.0	Music
1:05.0	History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories
1:10.6	throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History
1:15.3	Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual
1:21.0	stories that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.
1:28.0	Music
1:43.0	Something that's been discussed a lot this year is what to do about parts of your past as
1:48.6	a nation that might be considered embarrassing or shameful. The United States, this is revolved
1:53.0	around monuments, mostly Confederate monuments, whether statues of people like Robert E. Lee
1:57.3	should be taken down. Some of them have been taken down by votes in a city. Others have
2:01.2	been taken down by protesters or rioters. This isn't a new question. When I was in Hungary
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