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http://www.democracynow.org - As head of the Gestapo office for Jewish affairs, Adolf Eichmann organized transport systems which resulted in the deportation of millions of Jews to extermination camps across Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. Eichmann helped draft the letter ordering the Final Solution -- the Nazi’s plan to exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe. After the war, Eichmann fled to Argentina, where he lived under a false identity until he was kidnapped by the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, on May 11, 1960. He was flown to Israel and brought to trial in Jerusalem in April 1961. After being found guilty he was executed by hanging in 1962. One writer reporting on the trial was the German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, the author of "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and "The Human Condition." Arendt’s coverage of the trial for the New Yorker proved extremely controversial. She expressed shock that Eichmann was not a monster, or evil, but "terribly and terrifyingly normal." Even more controversial was her assertion that the Jews participated in their own destruction through the collaboration of the Nazi-appointed Judenrat, or Jewish Councils, with the Third Reich. Arendt's coverage of the Eichmann trial is chronicled in the 2013 film, "Hannah Arendt." We air clips of the film and speak with the film's star, Barbara Sukowa, who was awarded the Lola Award for Best Actress, the German equivalent of the Oscars, for her role. We are also joined by the film’s director, Margarethe von Trotta, one of Germany's leading directors, who has won multiple awards over her 40-year career.

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"Hannah Arendt" Revisits Fiery Debate over German-American Theorist's Coverage of Eichmann Trial

In the centenary year of the start of the First World War we ask the question, how much do we really know about World War One? British historian and Editorial Consultant for our new book World War I the Definitive Visual Guide, Richard Overy, tackles this question head on, as well as discussing what caused World War I and whether it could have been avoided. Introduced by Kerensa Creswell-Bryant.

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DK Podcast: How Much do we Really Know About WWI?

National History:  When does a "tribe" become a "nation"? The case of Ulster's protestants or the Scotch-Irish as they are called in America

WHAT IS A NATION? pt 1 Northern Ireland

National History:  The story of the Kurds, the largest ethnic group in the world without a "nation-state" of their own.



WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 2 Kurdistan

As the House Intelligence Committee memo alleging FBI malfeasance in its Russia investigation grabs the headlines, a look back at Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre. The Saturday Night Massacre was the hinge point of the Watergate scandal.  The words coup and Third Reich were thrown around. The events of that weekend in October 1973 marked the beginning of the end of Nixon’s Presidency.  Do they hold a lesson for today?  President Trump has started his term of office exercising power in a similar fashion.  His firing of the acting Attorney General Sally Yates has echoes of the Saturday Night Massacre.  Nixon said, “If the President does it, it’s not illegal.” Trump acts as if he thinks that is the way the world works.  But Nixon found out even his own Republican Party didn’t think that was true.  Will Trump?  This is an essay from my archive and it offers a chance to reflect on how American politics has changed in the more than four decades since the Watergate scandal.

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Episode 9 Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre

Political History:  Federalism beginning with the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707 through to the European Union. 

FEDERALISM: A Political History

John Becker is hot on the trail of Hitler's fatal weakness. The Gestapo is closing in. On foot, by train, even on water, Becker is running and gunning for his life ... and for the world. Hitler's Third Reich is rearming and planning for war. Churchill wants to stop him, but only Becker's report can reverse the British mood of appeasement. Cornered by the Gestapo, desperate to save his German collaborator Maria, Becker has mere days to ward off double disaster....
•	Author: Jeffrey Vanke
•	Narrator: Ian Russell
•	Unabridged
•	Length: 11 hr 4 min
•	ISBN# Digital: 978-1-944169-76-3
•	Audiobook copywright: 12/15/2015
•	Price: $14.99
•	Genre: Fiction
•	Age group: 13 and up


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The Berlin Deception - Chapter 2

The Berlin Deception - Chapter 1

orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
conducted by Jan Latham- Koenig

Faustus I/2

soprano and ensemble
Linda Matthias (soprano)
Cardiff University Ensemble
conducted by John Hopkins
text by Sylvia Plath
Concert Hall, Corbett Rd, Cardiff

4 Songs from Ariel

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Norwood

Affiliation: History Department, University of Oklahoma 

Title: "Legitimating Nazism: American Universities and the Third Reich" 

Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: February 24, 2011

Description: Dr. Stephen Norwood maintains that during the 1930s, American university campuses forged friendly ties with early Nazi party universities and in doing so helped enhance the Hitler regime’s prestige in the West. Many universities welcomed Nazi officials to campus and eagerly participated in Nazi propaganda. The Nazis believed universities to be critical in their efforts to disseminate propaganda, underlying the Nazi ideology which began by expelling Jews from faculty positions, burning books and ultimately ended in their desire to annihilate the Jewish people. Yet, as the Nazis continued to take steps to isolate and ostracize European Jewry, many leaders of American universities failed to take steps against the Nazi assault on academic freedom.

Legitimating Nazism: American Universities and the Third Reich

Listen to an excerpt of Bill O'Reilly's HITLER'S LAST DAYS audiobook, read by Robert Petkoff.

By early 1945 the destruction of the German Nazi state seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their ends, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history.

Hitler's Last Days is a gripping account of the death of one of the most reviled villains of the 20th century - a man whose regime of murder and terror haunts the world even today. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's historical thriller Killing Patton, this audiobook will have young listeners - and grown-ups, too - hooked on history.

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Hitler's Last Days by Bill O'Reilly, audiobook excerpt

Sir Tam Dalyell was interviewed by Dean White on 21 September 2012 for the History of Parliament Trust.

In this extract, Tam is asked about the West Lothian question. He explains what the question was, how John Smith reacted to it in the House of Commons and why Enoch Powell gave it its name!

You can listen to the full interview (Reference C1503/38) at the British Library: http://sami.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=ukJBfz9C0Q/WORKS-FILE/293450054/9

Copyright History of Parliament Trust and the British Library Board

Image of the Tam Dalyell sculpture at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery by Damian Entwistle on Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/  
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Tam Dalyell on how the West Lothian question got its name

Are there parallels between support for Trump and desire for a superhero? Professor Jason Dittmer thinks so...

I'm sceptical, however.

Floating above the River Cam, sharing a bakewell tart, atop a wooden punt, we discuss masculinity, geopolitics, and faith in individual agency.

He's the coolest professor I know, so I do hope you enjoy listening as much as we did recording.

Buy his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Captain-America-Nationalist-Superhero-Geopolitics-ebook/dp/B00AATCSD8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487708791&sr=8-1&keywords=jason+dittmer+captain+america

Follow Professor Dittmer on Twitter @realjdittmer

'Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero': Professor Jason Dittmer

Brexit: An apostate thought: the EU will be better off without UK. Churchill saw it clearly in a speech given on the 19th of September  1946 at the University of Zurich. The war had been over for just over a year. Continental Europe had been partitioned, Much of it was in ruins. Millions were displaced and homeless.
There was a way out of the catastrophic conditions around the continent, Churchill told his audience,  “It is to re-create the European Family, or as much of it as we can, and provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom. We must build a kind of United States of Europe."
He added, "The first step in the re-creation of the European family must be a partnership between France and Germany.”
The United States of Europe is inevitable the questions are will it be created by war or peace? And can Britain be part of it?

FRDH Episode 13 Brexit & Churchill & United States of Europe

Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak (@barak_ehud), the most decorated soldier in Israel’s history and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukharji) about who needs to defeat ISIS, how Israelis view President Trump, and his curiosity about clocks.

Watch highlights on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok0JNSl-ZxQ&index=2&list=PLp1QSxtgPnf5jtL09yzdIlpSuNMOijtm9

More about Ehud Barak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak

Belfer Center website: http://www.belfercenter.org


Watch highlights on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok0JNSl-ZxQ&index=2&list=PLp1QSxtgPnf5jtL09yzdIlpSuNMOijtm9

More about Ehud Barak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Barak

Ehud Barak on Israel, the U.S., Trump, and His Curiosity About Clocks

On the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, Michael Goldfarb has a meditation on how that event changed what it meant to be Jewish and Israeli. The Six-Day War was an epic victory for the young country of Israel and for Jews worldwide.  Coming two decades after the Holocaust it restored a sense of pride but it also brought with it an onerous burden: the Occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and rule over 1 million Palestinians.  Over the last 50 years this has fundamentally altered Israeli society.  It has also changed the way Jews of the diaspora see themselves. At each stage of their modern history what it meant to be authenticallyJewish was analyzed again and again. After 1967 this questioning has grown more intense. Since 1967 Israel has replaced religion as the touchstone of Jewish identity.

FRDH Six Day War 50th Anniversary Meditation

July 4, 2017.  America is not a happy place. It is splitting apart rhetorically and if only a fraction of the threats posted in social networks are acted on it will split apart in other ways. In this FRDH podcast Michael Goldfarb looks at how Americans have forgotten Benjamin Franklin's words on hanging together versus hanging separately. How can Americans rediscover their links to one another? Extremely violent rhetoric amplified by broadcast media always precedes violent acts. Nations, particularly multi-ethnic nations like the US, can disintegrate in months with a concentrated campaign of angry words against a particular group in the society: Yugoslavia, Rwanda … it took less than six months to foment civil war.
Hanging together, keeping the faith, solidarity ... unity has been challenged by this new epoch of economic instability. Liberals are concerned but don't risk their own security to help and Evangelicals go to Church but don't risk talking to those who won't pledge allegiance to their political faith. Neither side makes contact with one another.
Thousands of individual acts of solidarity grow into a social norm. On July 4, 2017, it is clear: the terrible rent in America's social fabric can not be repaired without it.

July 4, 2017: Hanging Together or Separately

The British Library’s India Office Private Papers include fascinating accounts of the lives of passengers and crew on board East India Company ships. Researchers at the University of Southampton have been working with the British Library to explore these unpublished and little-known diaries, which provide great insight into the different experiences of the journey from England to India.

This podcast showcases part of the event which took place on 19 June 2017 at the British Library. It covers the introduction to the event, and performances by the Mustard Club of extracts taken from the accounts of those on board East India Company ships – including passengers’ daydreams, loves, horrors and longings.

*Please note that there is a small error in one of the performances. The boat on which Henry Nicholetts travelled was the Monarch, not the Madras as stated in the performance.*

A Passage to India: Shipboard Life

This Bible study for atheists looks at what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote about God in the Declaration of Independence.  Many evangelical or political Christians argue that the US is a "Christian" country because Jefferson used the word. Michael Goldfarb challenges that idea which explores the Enlightenment use of God as Nature. Far from the scriptural understanding of the Judeo-Christian divinity. He traces Jefferson's ideas back to those of Enlightenment philosopher Benedict Spinoza. He uses Spinoza's own bible study as a way of explaining what the founding father's intentions were. 
Spinoza, who wrote in Latin, coined the phrase Deus sive natura, God or Nature.  Nature for Spinoza is is all there is. YOu can call it God if you like but it does not cause itself, or create itself. It is not the creator God of the Bible, anthropomorphized, and directing the fate of human beings and particularly the Israelites, his chosen people.
This was pretty revolutionary theory, for the late 17th century. By the late 18th century Jefferson and the Founders were moving it out of the realm of speculation and putting it into practice in the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment to the Constitution.
This is the second Bible Study for Atheists, a semi-regular feature of the FRDH podcast. Response to the first Bible Study for Atheists was overwhelmingly positive and is still regularly listened to at the FRDH podcast website. This edition of Bible Study for Atheists will provide background for those who wish to keep religion out of government in America and need to argue with evangelical friends and neighbors about why.

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