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This is a video I recorded earlier today, focusing on the memory of the Holocaust in Europe and America. I’ve already done quite a lot on debates surrounding the origins of the Holocaust so this is more focused on the contested memory of the final solution:
For more than a decade, the Explaining History Podcast has helped listeners around the world make sense of modern history. What began in 2012 as a simple experiment—short, accessible episodes explaining major historical events—has grown into a long-running library of carefully researched, thoughtful explorations of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Subscribe to Explaining History →[…] World War II ended in 1945, the Allies confronted unprecedented crimes – the Holocaust and aggressive wars of conquest. Determined to ensure “justice, not vengeance,” the […]
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