ZEITGEIST - The Podcast
1) The Prosecutor with Jack Fairweather
After the Second World War and the Holocaust, many Germans wanted nothing more than to leave the past behind and bury discussions around guilt and responsibility. But the German-Jewish lawyer Fritz Ba...Show More
2) The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis with Stephan Malinowski
Did Germany's last Kaiser and Crown Prince help Hitler into power? That is a fascinating historical question with very real legal consequences in the present. Unearthing an enormous amount of new sour...Show More
3) Breaking Through with Katalin Karikó
From butcher's daughter in Communist Hungary to winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 — Katalin Karikó’s story is astonishing. I spoke to her about growing up in a state that offered excellent ed...Show More
4) The Unknown Warrior with John Nichol
Over half a million British soldiers killed during the First World War are still missing. More than a century later, they have no known grave or their body has never been identified. In a deeply perso...Show More
5) Magnificent Rebels with Andrea Wulf
In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind…I...Show More
6) How Tyrants Fall with Marcel Dirsus
As a German historian, I think a lot about dictatorships — usually, about the age-old question of how tyrants rise. Marcel Dirsus turns this question on its head. How do tyrants fall? Uprisings? Palac...Show More
7) Made in East Germany with Sabine Rennefanz
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, images of celebrating Germans went around the world. But there is another story, too. Nearly a quarter of East Germans have since left their home and moved west. One...Show More
8) Final Verdict: Late justice for Nazi crimes? With Tobias Buck
In 2019, one of the last Nazi trials began. 93-year-old Bruno Dey stood accused of aiding the murder of over 5,000 people at Stutthof concentration camp where he was deployed as an SS guard when he wa...Show More
9) German Cars with James May
German car making is nearly as old as the state itself and woven into the national fabric. It fuelled the country’s innovative zeal during its ‘second’ Industrial Revolution at the end of the 19th cen...Show More
10) The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation
A little-known group of diplomats attempted to save the lives of thousands of Jewish men, women and children trapped in Nazi-occupied Europe. Earlier this week, I spoke to Roger Moorhouse about his ne...Show More
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation
44:56 | Aug 12th, 2023