The Holocaust History Podcast

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Send us Fan Mail In Holocaust history much like history in general, women's voices and experiences have often been overlooked or ignored.  In this episode, I talk with an author who has focused on bringing those experiences to light. We talk about the actions of a number of young Jewish women …

Send us Fan Mail HAve you encountered material on the Holocaust that you find disturbing or upsetting?  Was it in your reading or at a Holocaust site or museum?  In this episode, I talk with Julie Golding about the challenges of presenting such material in Holocaust education and at Holocaust museu…

Send us Fan Mail Even as the Holocaust was ongoing, some Jews dreamed of and sought revenge for Nazi attacks on them.  Ironically, the Nazis themselves believed in a particularly antisemitic myth of Jewish vengeance and many Germans after the war feared widespread retaliation by Holocaust survivors…

Send us Fan Mail There are lots of popular and sensationalist accounts of the Nazi obsession with the supernatural and occult, but what is the true history of this.  The truth is that various kinds of supernatural, occult, and border scientific beliefs influenced many of the leading Nazis. In addit…

Send us Fan Mail The Holocaust was a Nazi project, but it required the support, cooperation, complicity, and sometimes collaboration of a wide variety of non-Germans to carry out.  This complicity took a variety of forms and investigating it always generates strong emotional reaction.   In this epi…

Send us Fan Mail The Nuremberg trials, though not perfect, represented in many ways an epic achievement in justice for crimes against humanity.  However, a darker and lesser-known element of the trials is what happened to the convicted Nazis after ward. The overwhelming majority of sentences were n…

Send us Fan Mail The Janowska concentration camp may well be the most important Holocaust place most people have never heard of.  It was central to the Holocaust in eastern Poland, was the scene of unspeakable cruelty, but also witnessed a successful armed uprising. In this episode hosted by the am…

Send us Fan Mail How did Nazi war criminals engage with (or deny) their giult?  How was the prosecution and conviction of Nazi perpetrators dealt with in families?  What was the role of religion and faith assuaging guilt? These are some fo the fascinating questions that we cover in this episode wit…

Send us Fan Mail What is a concentration camp?  What are the distinguishing features of these spaces?  Where did they come from? In this episode, I talk with Andrea Pitzer about the long, global history of the concentration camp and its evolution over time.  We talk about what the definition is, wh…