COMING HOME, BBC Radio 4, May 9-13, 2005.
A five-part series in which different people offer interpretations of what the
end of the war in Europe meant for Britain and the world.
GERMAN RITES, PROTESTS MARK SOLEMN DAY,
All Things Considered, May 8, 2005. Germans commemorate the 60th
anniversary of Hitler's defeat.
60TH ANNIVERSARY OF V-E DAY,
On Point, May 6, 2005. An assessment of the meanings of the
Allied defeat of fascism.
RUSSIA MARKS WORLD WAR II DEFEAT OF NAZIS,
All Things Considered, May 6, 2005. On the eve of President
George Bush's visit to Moscow to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the
Russian defeat of Hitler, news reporter Robert Siegel interviews Oxford
historian Robert Service.
"DOWNFALL" FROM GANZ AND HIRSCHBIEGEL, Fresh
Air, February 28, 2005: The lead actor and director of a
controversial new film about Hitler's last days appear upon the NPR talk show.
American RadioWorks,
2005. A feature on the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 by the Polish Resistance
in World War II.
WINNING THE PEACE,
Westminster Hour, September 2004. In a two-part series, historian
John Keegan explains how "peace was won" after 1945.
CHURCHILL'S PARROT -- TRUE OR FALSE?,
Weekend Edition, February 14, 2004. Is Winston Churchill's pet
parrot alive and still cursing Hitler and the Nazis?
SLATE'S HISTORY LESSON: LOOKING FOR HITLER,
Day to Day, July 29, 2003. David Greenberg describes the various myths
about Hitler's fate against the backdrop of the continuing American search for
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
HISTORIAN IAN KERSHAW,
Fresh Air, January 3, 2001. The author of a two-volume biography of
Hitler is the guest on this NPR talk show.
HEISENBERG, NAZI GERMANY AND THE A-BOMB,
Talk of the Nation, March 29, 2000. The guests on this NPR talk
show discuss the mystery surrounding Germany's top physicist and whether he
did or did not deliberately sabotage Hitler's nuclear programme.
MUNICH PACT ANNIVERSARY,
All Things Considered, September 30, 1998. A short news feature upon
the sixtieth anniversary of the agreement between the Western powers and
Hitler's Germany that was to guarantee "peace for our time."
