The Shadow of the Holocaust (TRIH ep 292)
1941 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Jonathan Friedland 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. They discuss how the report, once public, contributed to dip...
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Around 1941
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)