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
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- World War II (1939)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Korean War (1950)