This Day in History - May 29, 2023

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In 1777, British General John Burgoyne surrendered 5000 British and Hessian troops in a turning point in the Revolutionary War. In 1974, Gerald Ford addressed congress as to why he decided to pardon Richard Nixon instead of allow congress to prosecute him. In 1989, the Loma Priet ... Show More

In 1968, US track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised black-gloved fists in the air in protest of mistreatment of African American people in the US. In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, VA. In 1793, Marie Antoinette was executed ... Show More

On December 12, 1941, Adolf Hitler accelerates the Holocaust. 

How did the Nazis’ poisonous antisemitic rhetoric eventually culminate in the systematic mass-murder of millions? Speaking to Rachel Dinning back in 2023, historian Laurence Rees charts the course of the Holocaust – from its origins to its devastating conclusion. Holocaust Memor ... Show More

On this day in 1942, the FBI captured the last of eight Nazi saboteurs planning to decimate the American war machine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

In this talk - held as part of Holocaust Memorial Day - record specialists Ela Kaczmarska and Lauren Willmott shed light on the atrocities committed during this dark period of history and the millions of victims who were persecuted by the Nazis' fascist ideology. 

On September 1, 1939, World War II begins. 

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