This Week with David Rovics

A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 4

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1933-1941. Listen to everything from the beginning at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just start with this one!

  • The rise to power in Germany of Adolf Hitler
  • The International Brigades and the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War
  • Anti-immigration laws and sentiment in the west and the turning back of Jewish refugees
  • The kindertransports — rescuing Jewish children while leaving their parents to die
  • The SS Winnipeg and Pablo Neruda’s rescue of the Spanish refugees in France in 1939
  • Henry Ford and the popularity of fascism in the US
  • Ram Mohamed Singh Azad and resistance to colonialism in India
  • The US-imposed oil blockade on the Japanese Empire
  • The internment of Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans in the western US
  • Chiune Sugihara and the rescue of thousands of European Jews by “the Japanese Schindler”

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