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Ep. 71. Queering the Holocaust with Anna Hájková

An important part of researching the Holocaust is recovering the stories of the diverse group of victims of the Nazi genocidal project.  For a very long time, queer victims have been marginalized or overlooked in this process.In thi...

February 02, 2026 • Episode 71 • 1:25:58

Ep. 70. Women in the Holocaust with Elissa Bemporad

How did women experience the Holocaust differently from men?  What do we learn from considering a gender perspective when we look at the past?  How did gender play a role in survival and oppression? For a long t...

January 19, 2026 • 1:18:31

Ep. 69- Wehrmacht Chaplains and the Holocaust with Doris Bergen

How could one be a man of God in Nazi Germany?  And, especially, how can one minister to the Wehrmacht, itself an instrument of the Nazi state while professing to adhere to Christian morality?  These are the questions that Doris Berge...

January 06, 2026 • Episode 69 • 1:38:45

EP. 68- Babi Yar: History, Memory, and Literature with Shay Pilnik

The mass shooting of Jews at Babi Yar in Kiev in September 1941 was the largest open-air shooting of Jews during the Holocaust.  In some ways, it came to stand for the Einsatzgruppen killings taking place across the occupied Soviet Union.&...

December 15, 2025 • Episode 68 • 1:21:02

Ep. 67- Nuremberg Trials with Jack El-Hai

The Nuremberg Trials were the first attempt at coming to terms with Nazi criminality.  While there was a legal component to this, there was also a psychological element.  What made Nazi minds tick? In this episode, ...

December 01, 2025 • Episode 67 • 1:17:22

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