Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGalina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 98
Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensi…
3 years, 8 months ago
Chris Webb, "The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem, 2016)
Episode 356
Chris Webb's The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (Ibidem, 2016) is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, w…
3 years, 9 months ago
Radu Ioanid, "The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Episode 354
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Radu Ioanid explores i…
3 years, 9 months ago
Susannah Heschel, "The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany" (Princeton UP, 2010)
Episode 88
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton UP, 2010) documents the process, and relative ease, with which instit…
3 years, 9 months ago
Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 183
In the midst of the Second World War, Central and East European governments-in-exile struggled to make their voices heard as they reported back to th…
3 years, 9 months ago
Randle C. DeFalco, "Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 174
International criminal justice is, at its core, an anti-atrocity project. Yet just what an 'atrocity' is remains undefined and undertheorized. Randle…
3 years, 9 months ago
James M. Deem, "The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp" (Mariner Books, 2020)
Episode 343
Fort Breendonk was built in the early 1900s to protect Antwerp, Belgium, from possible German invasion. Damaged at the start of World War I, it fell …
3 years, 9 months ago
Franziska Exeler, "Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 182
How do states and societies confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what do truth, guilt, and justice mean in that process?
In Ghosts of War…
3 years, 9 months ago
Ronald H. Spector, "A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 116
On September 2, 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States, ending the Second World War. Yet the Japanese invasion had upended the old geopolitical…
3 years, 9 months ago
Sean Patterson, "Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921" (U Manitoba Press, 2020)
Episode 213
In the chaos of the end of WWI, the Russian Civil War, and a brief period of Ukrainian independence there occurred a series of massacres of German Me…
3 years, 10 months ago