Category: history

Music in Nazi Germany

https://youtu.be/gvoT8QANp8I?si=vpNEfAnQoqIp5dg9 The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz | DW DocumentaryWhy was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the…… Continue reading Music in Nazi Germany

The Arab Conquest

https://youtu.be/3457zLYJscg?si=r4b5vK4CwtQk0vG1 / 2008 / … BBC Radio 4 … Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Arab conquests – an extraordinary period in the 7th and 8th centuries when the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula conquered the Middle East, Persia, North Africa and Southern Europe and spread the ideas of the Islamic religion. In 632 the…… Continue reading The Arab Conquest

Eugenics… Here they go again…

https://youtu.be/7Dyyt2kVOEg How Britain and America Inspired Nazi Eugenics.After the defeat of the Nazis in 1945, the world was horrified to discover the terrible genocide perpetrated by fascism. But missing from much of our discussion of history is the role played by British and American eugenicists, from the late 19th century onwards, in fuelling ideas of…… Continue reading Eugenics… Here they go again…

Human Zoos

https://youtu.be/nY6Zrol5QEk The missing link was unveiled to the public during the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. The scientific community devised a “human zoo” consisting of thousands of indigenous people who had been imported from remote regions in Africa. Darwin’s influential theories on evolution had been published less than a half a century before, and…… Continue reading Human Zoos

Brutal Reality of Eastern Front Exposed by Lost German Diaries

https://youtu.be/Hw-VUaeNmgw Brutal Reality of Eastern Front Exposed by Lost German Diaries’ On 22 June 1941, Hitler’s Germany launched ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the attack of the Soviet Union, the largest invasion in military history. In June 2019, twelve dusty notebooks and a wealth of loose paperwork were discovered in Germany; the diaries of Oberleutnant Wilhelm Sander, a…… Continue reading Brutal Reality of Eastern Front Exposed by Lost German Diaries