Oct 2024

Viena, la capital del vals en el siglo XIX - Ep.2 (Johann Strauss, el rey del vals)

Decía Johann Strauss que el vals era «la música del alma y el baile es la expresión de la alegría». El vals fue una revolución no solo musical, encerraba el contenido de la revolución burguesa que quería acabar con las formas de la aristocracia y diferenciarse. Los bailes anterio ... Show More

21m 12s

Oct 2024

Johann Strauss Hijo, todo comienza con su padre Ep.1 (Johann Strauss, el rey del vals)

Como si del Hollywood clásico se tratase, esta historia contiene música, pasiones, fama, dinero, amores y desamores. ¡Con ustedes, la familia Strauss! Johann Strauss padre (1804-1849), su primera esposa, María Anna Streim (1801-1870), y sus tres hijos varones: Johann (1825-1899), ... Show More

18m 14s

Sep 2024

Misterios y leyendas del camino - Ep.4 (El Camino de Santiago)

Desde sus mismos inicios, el Camino de Santiago se ha caracterizado por un fuerte sentido místico y religioso, lo que ha dado lugar a leyendas de todo tipo. Pero ¿cuál es la verdad histórica que podría subyacer tras estos misterios? Cuenta la tradición que en el año 813 un anacor ... Show More

22m 20s

Sep 2023

The Nazi Massacre at Rumbula

<p>What would it be like to discover that your grandfather was a Nazi? For decades, generations of Germans have been grappling with the legacies of relatives who were part of the Third Reich. These legacies inspire feelings of tremendous guilt but also present an opportunity to a ... Show More

39m 10s

Mar 2024

The man who ran Auschwitz: the real story of The Zone of Interest

The Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest is one of the most acclaimed and talked about films of 2024. Directed by Jonathan Glazer and loosely based on a novel of the same name by Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest focuses on the life of Rudolf Höss and his family during the S ... Show More

39m 39s

Sep 2019

Poland, 1939: World War Two begins

As we reach the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two, historian Roger Moorhouse tells the story of the 1939 battle for Poland that saw the country dismembered by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo ... Show More

49m 24s

Dec 2023

Nazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander

In 1945, after defeat in the Second World War, many Germans claimed to have known nothing about what had happened to their fellow Jewish citizens – and with that, the idea of the ‘innocent bystander’ was born. But just how true was this claim? Delving into a rich archive of perso ... Show More

37m 18s

Oct 2022

The US and The Holocaust

<p>After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, thousands of German Jews facing systematic persecution wanted to flee the Third Reich but found few countries willing to accept them. For refugees fleeing the Nazis, America’s immigration quotas, established in the 1920s and sustaine ... Show More

19m 57s

Sep 2023

Marco Polo

<p>You may have heard the many myths about the life and exploits of Marco Polo- was he really the one who brought ice cream and spaghetti from his travels on the Silk Road from the court of Kublai Khan, where he served as a diplomat? Almost as soon as he wrote his memoir, people ... Show More

27m 37s

Mar 2024

139. Battleground 44' - The Great Escape

The 1963 film The Great Escape immortalised the audacious real-life mass escape of 76 Allied airmen in March 1944 from the German Luftwaffe prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany, now Poland. But what was the reality of the escape, who were the characters involve ... Show More

41m 32s

Feb 2022

السينما الألمانية: راينر فاسبيندر.. الألماني الهارب من العار التاريخي لبلاده

‏لطالما كان راينر فاسبيندر شخصًا مثيرًا للجدل، منذ فيلمه الأول الذي انقسم حوله الجمهور والنقّاد معًا حول عبقريته وسخافته، وكان مردّ هذا التقييم المتباين يكمن في موقف فاسبيندر الاستفزازي حيال ألمانيا وتاريخها، وحتى هذا اليوم ما زالت سيرة فاسبيندر قادرة على إثارة النقاش والخلاف، فع ... Show More

18m 29s

Apr 2022

Le débarquement en Normandie

Dans cet épisode de Crousti-History, on vous parle du D-Day, ce qu’on chante aux anniversaires. Ah non, c’est pas ça ?1944, en pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale, les Allemands ne sont pas au top. Les Américains préparent un débarquement en Normandie. Hitler sait qu’il va avoir lieu, ... Show More

2m 21s

Jul 2024

Un soldat anglais retrouvé dans une tranchée allemande de la Première Guerre mondiale

<strong>D’ici quelques jours, vous pourrez écouter sur le podcast un nouvel entretien historique, en compagnie de Pierre Legrand, un géologue et archéologue spécialiste de la Première et de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Et c’est justement ce dont on parlera avec lui, et petit spoil ... Show More

6m 17s

Escapar o morir, la gesta de tres españo...