The Shadow of the Holocaust (TRIH ep 292)
1944 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Jonathan Freedland about his book The Escape Artist, which recounts the Vrba–Wetzler report and its journey into Allied and Vatican hands in 1944. The conversation examines why the report’s revelations about Auschwitz-Birkenau did not produce swifter Allied action — exploring practical objections, bureaucratic delays, antisemitism, and public-relations fears in London and Washington.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1944
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)