World War 2 Collection Podcast
More than 50 first-hand accounts of significant moments in WW2. Looking back at almost six years of global conflict, from Hiroshima to the Holocaust.
Episodes to download
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Britain's secret propaganda war
Wed 6 Nov 2019
How sex, jazz and 'fake news' were used to undermine the Nazis in World War Two
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Broadcasting D-Day
Thu 6 Jun 2019
How the BBC reported the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944
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D-Day
Tue 4 Jun 2019
Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.
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Berlin's Rubble Women
Mon 3 Dec 2018
At the end of WW2 much of Germany's capital had been destroyed. Women helped clear it up.
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The Arnhem Parachute Drop
Wed 19 Sep 2018
In 'Operation Market Garden' thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi-held Holland
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The Climbers of Leningrad
Thu 28 Dec 2017
Mountaineers risked their lives to camouflage landmarks in the Russian city during WW2.
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The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives
Wed 25 Oct 2017
How tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews escaped the Nazis by using false papers.
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Saving Italy's Art During WW2
Wed 11 Oct 2017
Italy's great works of art were threatened by bombing and looting during World War Two.
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Britain's Land Girls
Tue 26 Sep 2017
Thousands of women and girls worked on farms throughout WW2 to produce much needed food.
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The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
Mon 21 Aug 2017
A German court put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after the end of World War Two
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The Sinking of the Lancastria
Fri 16 Jun 2017
We hear from one of the last survivors of a forgotten World War Two disaster
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The Roma Victims of the Holocaust
Tue 23 May 2017
In 1942, the fascist government of Romania deported its Roma citizens to Transdniestria
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The Katyn Massacre
Tue 11 Apr 2017
Tens of thousands of Polish officers were executed in the USSR during World War 2.
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The Germans Occupy Prague
Thu 16 Mar 2017
In March 1939, German troops occupied Prague; hear the story of one young boy who escaped
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Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan
Tue 13 Dec 2016
A young Jewish woman escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania to fight the Nazis.
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Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot
Tue 6 Dec 2016
Yelena Malyutina was a Soviet female bomber pilot who fought in WW2.
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Italy's Partisan Fighters
Mon 5 Sep 2016
The brother and sister who took part in the struggle to free Italy from fascism in WW2.
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The Fall of Paris
Fri 17 Jun 2016
In June 1940, most of the residents of Paris fled as German soldiers occupied the city
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The Imaginary War Heroes
Mon 9 May 2016
During World War Two, Soviet propaganda promoted a heroic feat that never happened.
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The Death of General Patton
Mon 21 Dec 2015
America's legendary military commander, General George Patton, died in December 1945
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Surviving Pearl Harbor
Wed 2 Dec 2015
How one US Navy mechanic made it through the surprise Japanese attack on his Pacific base
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The Bari Raid 1943
Tue 1 Dec 2015
How a devastating air raid on Bari during WW2 led to the deadly release of mustard gas
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Surviving Ravensbruck
Fri 27 Nov 2015
The story of a survivor of Ravensbruck, the Nazis' concentration camp for women
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The Battle of El Alamein
Thu 5 Nov 2015
In 1942, the Allies launched an offensive in Egypt that helped shape the course of WW2
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The Leningrad Symphony
Fri 18 Sep 2015
In 1942 starving musicians in besieged Leningrad performed Shostakovich's Symphony
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The Auschwitz Cellist
Tue 1 Sep 2015
How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.
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The Dieppe Raid
Tue 18 Aug 2015
The disastrous raid by Allied forces on the German occupied French port of Dieppe in WW2.
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Scouts in the Warsaw Uprising
Tue 28 Jul 2015
On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation of Poland began
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Red Cross Visits Nazi Concentration Camp
Thu 2 Jul 2015
In 1944 the International Red Cross was allowed into Theresienstadt concentration camp
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