This Week with David Rovics

A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 5

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1943-1949

  • The arrests and executions of German communists such as Hamburg city councilor, Franz Jacob

  • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • The boatlift of the Danish Jews to Sweden

  • The Dutch resistance and the killing of Henk Streefkerk

  • The Normandy landings

  • The liberation of Katharina Jacob and other Ravensbruck prisoners by the Red Army

  • The US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • The expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from Palestine, the Naqba

  • The Berlin Airlift of 1948-49

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