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May 20, 2023 We Were Soldiers: The Battle of Ia Drang /// 77
The Battle of Ia Drang was the first conventional conflict between American forces and North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War. For days the two sides met at the foot of the Chu Pong Massif – giving and receiving death, pain, and disfigurement. It’s a battle made famous in the film We Were Soldiers. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 77 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas located here: Battle of Ia Drang historical atlas
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Albright, J., Cash, J.A., & Sandstrum, A.W. Seven firefights in Vietnam.
Appy, C. Patriots: The Vietnam War remembered from all sides.
Caldwell, J.D. (2018). Anatomy of a victory: Why the United States triumphed in World War II, fought to a stalemate in Korea, lost in Vietnam, and failed in Iraq. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Kelly, M. & Summer, H. G. (October, 1999). 1st Cav recon in the la Drang. Vietnam Magazine.
Moore, H. We were soldiers once and young.
Moore, H. & Galloway, J.L. We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
Steinman, R. (2015). The soldiers’ story: Vietnam in their own words.
Coleman, J.D. Pleiku: the dawn of helicopter warfare in Vietnam
Carland, J. (2000). Stemming the Tide: May 1965 to October 1966.
Harris, J.P. (2016). Vietnam’s High Ground: Armed Struggle for the Central Highlands, 1954-1965.
Head, W.P. (2020). Storms over the Mekong : Major battles of the Vietnam War. Texas A&M University Press.
Leonard, S.M. (n.d.). Forward support at Ia Drang. Professional Bulletin of United States Army Logistics.
Hasset, S. (August, 2021). 1st Cav’s return to Ia Drang. Vietnam Magazine.
Ngyuen, T. (October, 2018). A New Look at Ia Drang. Vietnam Magazine.
Vance, R. & Beck, B. (December, 2011). Eyewitness Ia Drang. Vietnam Magazine.
DelaRosa L. (August, 2005). Headhunters in the Ia Drang Valley. Vietnam Magazine.
Schifferle, P.J. (1994). The Ia Drang Campaign 1965: A successful operational campaign or mere tactical failure? School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College.
Arnold, D (November 11, 1995). The blood brothers of Ia Drang 30 years ago, the battle raged; today, the healing goes on. Boston Globe.
Vogrin, B. (July 14, 2010). Vietnam vet fulfills battlefield promise to injured comrade. The Gazette.
Hendrick, B. (February 27, 2002). Film’s horror too true, say 60’s soldiers. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
Alley, J.L. (n.d.). The ghosts of the green grass. Codi Publishing.
Harris, J.P. & Kenneth, E. (2020). Ia Drang 1965: The struggle for Vietnam’s Pleiku Province. Osprey Publishing.
55 min
April 19, 2023 Zero Dark Thirty: The Manhunt for Osama bin Laden /// 76
For more than a decade after the September 11th attacks, the United States of America devoted a seemingly limitless amount of time and resources to finding one man – Osama bin Laden. This is the story of that manhunt. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
This episode is a continuation of episode 32 detailing the September 11th attacks. You can find episode 32 here.
You can download episode 76 here: download link
Maps and Images:
Extensive maps and images are posted to the historical atlas located here: Zero Dark Thirty Historical Atlas
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Kill bin Laden: a Delta Force commander’s account of the hunt for the world’s most wanted man by Fury, Dalton.
Manhunt: the ten-year search for Bin Laden: from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Bergen, Peter (2012).
The rise and fall of Osama Bin Laden by Peter Bergen.
The longest war by Peter Bergen.
Jawbreaker : the attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda : a personal account by the CIA’s key field commander by Berntsen, Gary
The finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Mark Bowen
The looming tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
No easy day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer (2012).
The operator: Firing the shots that killed Osama Bin Laden by Robert O’neill (not dated).
Osama bin Laden: A biography by Thomas Mockaitis.
Seal Target Geronimo by Chuck Pfarrer
Obama, B. (2011). President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden by Barak Obama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYmK19-d0U
Bolanos, A.M. (2010). Al Qaeda’s revolution in military affairs. [Doctoral dissertation, Tufts University].
Marwan, A.H. (2015). One death, three regions and two stories: A study of the media coverage of the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistani, British, and American media. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Sheffield].
Steiner, J.B. (2012). The psychology of terrorism: A case study of Osama Bin Laden. [Master’s thesis, Georgetown University].
Schueur, M. (2011). Osama bin Laden. Oxford University Press. 2011.
Smith, A.R. (2011). Belling the cat: The Neo-taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. [Master’s Thesis, University of New Hampshire].
Carey, C.R. (2008). The ideological foundation of Osama Bin Laden. [Master’s thesis, University of Kansas].
Mobely, B.W. (2008). Terrorist group counterintelligence. [Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University].
Rosthauser, R.C. (2010). Terrorism conflict: How the United States responds to Al Qaeda violence and expressed grievances. [Master’s thesis, University of Denver].
1 hr 10 min
March 19, 2023 Chris Kyle – Greatest American Sniper /// 75
Today’s episode recounts the life and death of Chris Kyle – the greatest American sniper in United States history. It’s the final episode of a two part series. It’s 2000 yard shots; it’s death; it’s confused anger and groundless indignation – mixed together into one potent podcast. It’s also the definitive podcast history of Chris Kyle’s life. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact.
You can find episode one in this series here: episode 74 link
Download episode 75 here: download link
American Sniper: Chris Kyle Maps/Images:
Maps and extensive images are located on the Historical Atlas of Chris Kyle page located here: historical atlas link
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
American Sniper: Chris Kyle References:
Chris Kyle: American Sniper by Alexis Burling
The life and legend of Chris Kyle: American sniper, Navy Seal by Michael Mooney
American Sniper by Chris Kyle and Scott McEwen et al.
American Sniper ou les contradictions de l’Amérique by Simon Desplanque. (2015). Défense et Sécurité Internationale. 117, pp. 66-71.
Bernstein, A. (2013, February 3). Chris Kyle, Navy Seal and author of ‘American Sniper,’ dies. The Washington Post.
Gibbons-Neff, T. (2016, July 9). After investigation, Navy lowers ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s medal count. The Washington Post.
Mediaite: New Report Claims That American Sniper Chris Kyle Embellished Own Military Award Record. (2016, May 25). Newstex.
McCoy, T. (2015, February 13). The tragedy of ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s widow. The Washington Post.
Mooney, M. (2013, April). The legend of Chris Kyle. D Magazine.
Lamothe, D. (2015, February 11). ‘American Sniper’ trial: Chris Kyle’s eerie text
message about killer opens proceedings. The Washington Post.
McCoy, T. (2014, July 30). The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history. The Washington Post.
Department of the Navy (2016, January 25). Christopher Kyle official citations and awards.
Schmidle, N. (2013, June 3). In the crosshairs. The New Yorker.
Jesse Ventura vs. Taya Kyle. Civ. No. 12-472. (2014).
Canon, T. (2016). Man o’ War: Collisions of masculinity and militaristic patriotism in American Sniper (Publication number: 10124017) [Master’s thesis, University of Colorado].
Walter, J. (2017). Snipers at war: An equipment and operations history.
Rosenberg, A. (2015, April 28). What students protesting “American Sniper” get wrong about the movie. The Washington Post.
Chomsky, N., Crockford, K, & Summer, J. (2015). Townhall on Terror. The Baffler. 28, 66-82.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks
House to house : an epic memoir of war by David Bellavia and John Bruning
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 1: Invasion – Insurgency – Civil War, 2003-2006 by Jeanne Godfroy et al. Available here: https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/16/
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 2: Surge and Withdrawal, 2007-2011 by Jeanne Godfroy et al. Available here: https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/15/
On Killing by Dave Grossman
Americans at War: Eyewitness accounts from the American Revolution to the 21st Century. Volume 3. Edited by James Arnold. ABC-CLIO. 2018.
1 hr 3 min
February 19, 2023 American Sniper: Chris Kyle and the Battle of Fallujah /// 74
Chris Kyle was the greatest sniper in American history. The subject of the book and film American Sniper, this is the definitive biographical podcast regarding his life, the controversy surrounding his actions, and his battles. It’s also the story of the Second Battle of Fallujah – one of the bloodiest battles the United States has fought in recent history. It’s blood. It’s mile-long kills. It’s Noam Chomsky and Carl Schmitt – distilled and rendered into the foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact. It’s all here and it’s all for free on Battlecast.
You can download episode 74 here: download link
American Sniper: Chris Kyle Maps/Images:
Maps and extensive images are located on the Historical Atlas of Chris Kyle page located here: historical atlas link
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
American Sniper; Chris Kyle References:
Chris Kyle: American Sniper by Alexis Burling
The life and legend of Chris Kyle: American sniper, Navy Seal by Michael Mooney
American Sniper by Chris Kyle and Scott McEwen et al.
American Sniper ou les contradictions de l’Amérique by Simon Desplanque. (2015). Défense et Sécurité Internationale. 117, pp. 66-71.
Bernstein, A. (2013, February 3). Chris Kyle, Navy Seal and author of ‘American Sniper,’ dies. The Washington Post.
Gibbons-Neff, T. (2016, July 9). After investigation, Navy lowers ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s medal count. The Washington Post.
Mediaite: New Report Claims That American Sniper Chris Kyle Embellished Own Military Award Record. (2016, May 25). Newstex.
McCoy, T. (2015, February 13). The tragedy of ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle’s widow. The Washington Post.
Mooney, M. (2013, April). The legend of Chris Kyle. D Magazine.
Lamothe, D. (2015, February 11). ‘American Sniper’ trial: Chris Kyle’s eerie text
message about killer opens proceedings. The Washington Post.
McCoy, T. (2014, July 30). The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history. The Washington Post.
Department of the Navy (2016, January 25). Christopher Kyle official citations and awards.
Schmidle, N. (2013, June 3). In the crosshairs. The New Yorker.
Jesse Ventura vs. Taya Kyle. Civ. No. 12-472. (2014).
Canon, T. (2016). Man o’ War: Collisions of masculinity and militaristic patriotism in American Sniper (Publication number: 10124017) [Master’s thesis, University of Colorado].
Walter, J. (2017). Snipers at war: An equipment and operations history.
Rosenberg, A. (2015, April 28). What students protesting “American Sniper” get wrong about the movie. The Washington Post.
Chomsky, N., Crockford, K, & Summer, J. (2015). Townhall on Terror. The Baffler. 28, 66-82.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks
House to house : an epic memoir of war by David Bellavia and John Bruning
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 1: Invasion – Insurgency – Civil War, 2003-2006 by Jeanne Godfroy et al. Available here: https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/16/
The U.S. Army in the Iraq War – Volume 2: Surge and Withdrawal, 2007-2011 by Jeanne Godfroy et al. Available here: https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/15/
On Killing by Dave Grossman
Americans at War: Eyewitness accounts from the American Revolution to the 21st Century. Volume 3. Edited by James Arnold. ABC-CLIO. 2018.
1 hr 20 min
January 21, 2023 The Colonized Strike Back: The Battle of Adwa /// 73
On March 1, 1896 one of the most important events in Western imperial history took place; it was the Battle of Adwa. In this one decisive battle, Ethiopia defeated Italy and threatened to drive the Italians into the sea. Crushed by the Ethiopians, Italy’s entire foreign policy was upended for decades. Hundreds of thousands of men faced each other in the tawny, undulating hills of Ethiopia and, as a consequence, Ethiopia retained her independence and sovereignty. There are few nations in the world which can say the same. This is the story of that battle, but it is more than that, it’s the story of true sovereignty, true power, and true force. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact.
You can download episode 73 here:download link
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
Maps and Illustrations:
You can find maps and illustrations of the Battle of Adwa at the historical atlas located here.
References:
The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the age of Empire by Raymond Jonas.
History of Italy by C.L. Killinger.
A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan
Garretson, P.P. (1974). A History of Addis Ababa from its Foundation in 1886 to 1910 [Doctoral Dissertation, University of London].
Memorie d’Africa (1892-1896) by Oreste Baratieri (1898)
La battaglia di Adua e il popolo italiano by Luigi Guarnieri (1897).
La battaglia d’Adua del 1. ̊Marzo 1896: desunta dale fonti più sicure con annessi due schizzi by Beniamino Melli (1901).
Haggai, Erlicfi. (1973). A political biography of Ras Alula 1875-1897 [Doctoral Dissertation, University of London].
Armies of the Adowa campaign 1896 by Sean Mclachlin.
Ethiopia by Paul Milkias
Battle of Adwa edited by Paul Milkias and Getachew Metaferia
Sul campo di Adua; diario, marzo-giugno, 1896. Migliaio by Eduardo Ximenes (1897).
The campaign of Adowa and the rise of Menelki by G.F.H. Berkeley.
La battaglia di Adua by Emilio Bellavita
1 hr 17 min
December 21, 2022 The End of the Last Battle: Berlin, May 1945
This is the concluding episode of the definitive history of the Battle of Berlin and the fall of Nazi Germany. You can find parts one through ten at the following links: episode ten, episode nine, episode eight, episode seven, episode six, episode five, episode four, episode three, episode two, and episode one.
Download episode 72 here: download link
Maps and Illustrations are located on the Definitive Atlas of the Battle of Berlin page linked here: Definitive Atlas of the Fall of Berlin
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
The Man Outside by Wolfgang Borchert
Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict. (2011) by Janie Leatherman. Polity.
Berlin 1945: A Documentation. (1995). Edited by Reinhard Rurup and translated by Pamela Selwyn.
Berlin 1945: The Final reckoning by Karl Bahm
Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov
The Fall of Berlin, 1945 by Antony Beevor
The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck by Hans Von Luck
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. Translated by Philip Boehm.
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen Fritz
SS Charlemagne: The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS by Tony Le Tissier
Soldat by Siegfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw
Berlin Soldier: The Explosive Memoir of a 12 Year-old German Boy Called Up to Fight in the Last Weeks of the Second World War by Helmut Altner.
The Bunker by James O’Donnell
Berlin, Les Offensives Géantes de L’Armée Rouge : Vistule, Oder, Elbe (12 janvier-9 mai 1945) by Jean Lopez
Un Canto per la Morte by Arturo Turula
Adolf Hitler by John Toland
The Second World War by John Keegan
History of the Second World War by B.H. Liddell Hart
Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History by Alexander Werth
Atlas of the Second World War edited by John Keegan (1989)
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by O. V. Khlevniuk
Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945 by Georgy Zhukov
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Les 30 Jours de Berlin: 8 Avril-8 Mai 1945 by André Besson
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
The End of the Third Reich by Vasiliy Chuikov
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston, Aron
On Pain by Ernst Junger
Year of Victory by Ivan Koniev
The Atlas of World War II by John Pimlott (1995)
The Road to Berlin by John Erickson
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale.
The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov
Gotterdammerung: The last days of the Wehrmacht in the East by Bob Carruthers
A Writer at War : a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Slaughter at Halbe: the Destruction of Hitler’s 9th Army, April 1945 by Tony Le Tissier
The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean Atlas (The West Point Military History Series) by Thomas Griess
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Atlas of 20th Century Warfare by Richard Natkiel (1982)
Inside Hitler’s Bunker by Joachim Fest
The War Lords: Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century by Michael Carver
The Last 100 Days by John Toland
The Order of the Death’s Head; The Story of Hitler’s SS by Heinz Hohne
German Voices; Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederick Tubac
HItler’s Enforces; The Gestapo and SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution by George Browder
The Last Days of Hitler by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski
After the Reich by Giles Macdonogh
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945 by Stephan Hamilton
Battle Lines: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Military History by J.L. Granastein and Norman Hillmer
Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich by Peter Antill (2005)
Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse
Through Hell for Hitler by Henry Metelman
Berlin, Story of a Battle by Andrew Tully
Endkampf; Soldiers, Civilians and the Death of the Third Reich by Stephen Fritz
Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
Good-bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin
He was my Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Secretary by Christa Schroeder
Hitler Youth by Michael Kater
Grandeur et Misère de L’Armée Rouge by Jean Perez and Lasha Otkhmezuri
Hitler’s Praetorians: A History of the Waffen-SS by Tim Ripley
Hitler’s Samurai: The Waffen SS in Action by Brue Quarrie
Hitler’s Second Army: The Waffen SS by Edmund Blandford
Hitler’s Volkssturm by David Yelton
Hitler’s Final Words by Greg Bradsher (not dated)
In Final Defense of the Reich, The Destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division “Nord’’ by Stephen Rusiecki
In the Service of the Reich: The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel by Willhelm Keitel
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
Les Hommes d’Hitler by Jean-Paul Bled
Last Days of the Third Reich, the Collapse of Nazi Germany by James Lucas
Leibstandarte, Hitler’s Elite Bodyguard by Michael Sharpe and Brian Davis
Master of the House Stalin and His Inner Circle by Oleg Khlevniuk
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Montefiore
(1995). Battlefield [Film]. Polygram Filmed Entertainment. No director listed.
Les Guerriers du Froid, Vie et Mort des Soldats de L’Armée Rouge, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops by Hermann Balck
Hirschbiegel, O. (Director). (2004). Downfall [Film] Constantin Films.
Prussian Nights by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good-bye to the Mermaid: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin by K. Finnell
German Voices: Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederic Tubach
War of our Childhood: Memories of World War II by W.W.E. Samuel
Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle From Stalingrad to Berlin by Hans Wijers
Commanding the Red Army’s Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza
To Lose a War: Memoirs of a German Girl by Regina Shelton
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45 by Fernand Kaisergruber
The Hitler Youth 1933-1945 by Alan Dearn (2006)
Hitler’s Home Guard – Volkssturmmann – Western Front, 1944-45 by David Yelton (2006)
Ostfront Hitler’s War on Russia 1941-45 by Charles Winchester
Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II by Seweryn Bialer
SS, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler: The History of the First SS Division, 1934-1945 by Rupert Butler
Stalin and Stalinism by Alan Wood
Stalin and the Soviet Union by Stephen Lee
Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky
Berlin 1933-45: avec Wilhelm Mohnke by Thomas Fischer
Stalingrad to Berlin, The German Defeat in the East by Earl Ziemke
The Hitler Youth, Origins and Development 1922-1945 by H.W. Koch
Himmler et L’empire SS by Édouard Calic
The Story of the SS by Nigel Cawthorne
The Unknown Eastern Front: Hitler’s Foreign Soldiers by Rolf-Dieter Muller
Total War by Michael Jones
Slaughter on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Knight’s Cross Panzers : The German 35th Tank Regiment in World War II by Hans Schaufler
Panzer Gunner by Bruno Friesen
Sous Uniforme Allemand: Récit Inédit by J.M. Croisile
The Death of East Prussia by Peter Clark
The French Who Fought for Hitler: Memories From the Outcasts by Philippe Carrard
Stalin by Stephen Kotkin
Hitler’s children: The Hitler Youth and the SS by Gerhard Rempel (1989)
Hitler’s Last Secretary by Traudl Junge
Le Sac de Berlin, Avril-Mai 1945 by Pierre Rocolle
The World at War by Mark Arnold-Forster
The World at War documentary video series. Thames Television. 1973.
Waffen-SS Encyclopedia by Marc Rikmenspoel
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Penalty Strike by Alexander V. Pyl’cyn
Reporting World War II: Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946 by various authors. The Library of America series. 1995.
World War II: A Military and Social History. Lecture series by Thomas Childers. The Teaching Company.
Hitler’s Vikings: The History Of The Scandinavian Waffen-SS by Johnathan Trigg
Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles by Georgi K. Zhukov. Translated by Theodore Shabad.
Les 30 Jours de Berlin by Andre Besson
The Siege of Kustin by Tony Le Tissier
Soldier’s of Destruction: The SS Death’s Head Division, 1933-1945 by Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
Twilight of the Gods by Thorolf Hillblad
The Luftwaffe: a History by John Killen
Reaping the Whirlwind: The German and Japanese Experience of World War II by Nigel Cawthorne
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Kommando: German Special Forces of World War Two by James Lucas
A Writer at War by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945 by Leon Degrelle
The contribution of Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov to the Soviet Scene: 1918-1968: An Appraisal by Otto Preston Chaney Jr. (1969). [Doctoral dissertation – The American University].
Showdown in Berlin: The American-Soviet conflict in Germany, 1945-1951 by Peter Adzuara (1982). [Master’s Thesis – University of Hawaii].
Between responsibility and rehabilitation: Austria in international politics, 1940-1950 by Gunter Bischof (1989). [Doctoral dissertation – Harvard University].
The Soviet Union through German Eyes: Wehrmacht Identity, Nazi Propaganda, and the Eastern Front War, 1941-1945 by Justin Pfiefer (2014). [Doctoral Dissertation – University of Toledo].
Leadership and command on the Eastern Front (1941-1945): The military style of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovskiy by Stphen Michael Walsh (2009). [Doctoral Dissertation – Cranfield University].
Victims, heroes, survivors: Sexual violence on the Eastern Front during World War II by Wendy Gertjejanssen (2004). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Minnesota].
Cold War Capital: The United States, the Western Allies, and the Fight for Berlin, 1945-1994 by Seth A. Givens (2018). [Doctoral dissertation – Ohio University]
The meaning of death and the making of three Berlins: A history, 1933-1961 by Monica Blank. [Doctoral dissertation – University of Virginia].
East Berlin 1945-1961: Ideology, politics, identity and the urban landscape by Paul Stagl (2001). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Texas at Austin].
The impact of military communication and leadership on the outcome of defensive battles during World War II by Karen Grimaldi (2020). [Masters thesis – Harvard University].
Nuremberg and the Waffen-SS: An analysis of the charge of organizational criminality by Richard Wiggers (1990). [Masters thesis – University of Ottawa].
Jews in Hiding in Nazi Berlin, 1941 – 1945 by Richard Newton Lutjens, Jr. (2012). [Doctoral dissertation – Northwestern University].
“The Russians,” by Marha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“A giant whirlpool of destruction,” by Virginia Irwin (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Das Deutsches Volk,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Freed captives fill roads,” by Marguerite Higgns (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Letters from Cologne” by Janet Flanner (Genet) (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“The war in Europe is ended,” by Edward Kennedy (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“33,000 Dachau captives freed by 7th army,” by Marguerite Higgins (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Dachau,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“For most of it I have no words,” by Edward R. Murrow (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
Battleground Berlin by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Last Days of the Third Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945 by James Lucas
Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral History by Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showwalter
From the Ruins of the Reich by Douglas Botting
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Allison Owings
The Battle for Berlin by John Strawson
The Fall of Berlin by David Fischer and Anthony Read
Last Thirty Days: The War Diary of the German Armed Forces High Command from April to May 1945:The Battle for Berlin Reflections in the Events of 1945 by Joachim Schultz-Naumann
52 min
November 21, 2022 The Fall of the Third Reich and the Death of Adolf Hitler /// 71
On April 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger. By this time the Fuhrer bunker walls were literally trembling like a flag in the wind from the constant artillery shelling taking place all around him. While Hitler said goodbye, more than 2,000 die hard veterans of the SS, many of them wounded in previous combat, continued to resist the Soviet advance. An unknown number of Hitler Youth and a mishmash of sailors, police, and Wehrmacht soldiers also joined in the resistance. Against these few thousands, hundreds of thousands of Soviets attempted to crowbar the Axis defenders out of their strongholds. By this point there may have been more Russians in Berlin than Germans; there certainly were more Russian men than German men in the city. And still the fascist death squads continued to comb through Berlin, hanging any male over the age of fourteen who refused to fight while a black cloud of death literally fogged through the streets of the capitol. This is a story of hopeless resistance, total war, and child soldiers. It’s the definitive military history of the Battle of Berlin and today’s double episode comprises April 29 and April 30. It’s the Fall of Berlin and the Death of Adolf Hitler.
Download episode 71 here: download link
This episode is part ten of an ongoing series. You can find parts one through nine at the following links: episode nine, episode eight, episode seven, episode six, episode five, episode four, episode three, episode two, and episode one.
Maps and Illustrations are located on the Definitive Atlas of the Battle of Berlin page linked here: Definitive Atlas of the Fall of Berlin
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict. (2011) by Janie Leatherman. Polity.
Berlin 1945: A Documentation. (1995). Edited by Reinhard Rurup and translated by Pamela Selwyn.
Berlin 1945: The Final reckoning by Karl Bahm
Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov
The Fall of Berlin, 1945 by Antony Beevor
The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck by Hans Von Luck
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. Translated by Philip Boehm.
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen Fritz
SS Charlemagne: The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS by Tony Le Tissier
Soldat by Siegfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw
Berlin Soldier: The Explosive Memoir of a 12 Year-old German Boy Called Up to Fight in the Last Weeks of the Second World War by Helmut Altner.
The Bunker by James O’Donnell
Berlin, Les Offensives Géantes de L’Armée Rouge : Vistule, Oder, Elbe (12 janvier-9 mai 1945) by Jean Lopez
Un Canto per la Morte by Arturo Turula
Adolf Hitler by John Toland
The Second World War by John Keegan
History of the Second World War by B.H. Liddell Hart
Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History by Alexander Werth
Atlas of the Second World War edited by John Keegan (1989)
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by O. V. Khlevniuk
Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945 by Georgy Zhukov
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Les 30 Jours de Berlin: 8 Avril-8 Mai 1945 by André Besson
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
The End of the Third Reich by Vasiliy Chuikov
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston, Aron
On Pain by Ernst Junger
Year of Victory by Ivan Koniev
The Atlas of World War II by John Pimlott (1995)
The Road to Berlin by John Erickson
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale.
The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov
Gotterdammerung: The last days of the Wehrmacht in the East by Bob Carruthers
A Writer at War : a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Slaughter at Halbe: the Destruction of Hitler’s 9th Army, April 1945 by Tony Le Tissier
The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean Atlas (The West Point Military History Series) by Thomas Griess
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Atlas of 20th Century Warfare by Richard Natkiel (1982)
Inside Hitler’s Bunker by Joachim Fest
The War Lords: Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century by Michael Carver
The Last 100 Days by John Toland
The Order of the Death’s Head; The Story of Hitler’s SS by Heinz Hohne
German Voices; Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederick Tubac
HItler’s Enforces; The Gestapo and SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution by George Browder
The Last Days of Hitler by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski
After the Reich by Giles Macdonogh
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945 by Stephan Hamilton
Battle Lines: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Military History by J.L. Granastein and Norman Hillmer
Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich by Peter Antill (2005)
Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse
Through Hell for Hitler by Henry Metelman
Berlin, Story of a Battle by Andrew Tully
Endkampf; Soldiers, Civilians and the Death of the Third Reich by Stephen Fritz
Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
Good-bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin
He was my Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Secretary by Christa Schroeder
Hitler Youth by Michael Kater
Grandeur et Misère de L’Armée Rouge by Jean Perez and Lasha Otkhmezuri
Hitler’s Praetorians: A History of the Waffen-SS by Tim Ripley
Hitler’s Samurai: The Waffen SS in Action by Brue Quarrie
Hitler’s Second Army: The Waffen SS by Edmund Blandford
Hitler’s Volkssturm by David Yelton
Hitler’s Final Words by Greg Bradsher (not dated)
In Final Defense of the Reich, The Destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division “Nord’’ by Stephen Rusiecki
In the Service of the Reich: The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel by Willhelm Keitel
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
Les Hommes d’Hitler by Jean-Paul Bled
Last Days of the Third Reich, the Collapse of Nazi Germany by James Lucas
Leibstandarte, Hitler’s Elite Bodyguard by Michael Sharpe and Brian Davis
Master of the House Stalin and His Inner Circle by Oleg Khlevniuk
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Montefiore
(1995). Battlefield [Film]. Polygram Filmed Entertainment. No director listed.
Les Guerriers du Froid, Vie et Mort des Soldats de L’Armée Rouge, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops by Hermann Balck
Hirschbiegel, O. (Director). (2004). Downfall [Film] Constantin Films.
Prussian Nights by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good-bye to the Mermaid: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin by K. Finnell
German Voices: Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederic Tubach
War of our Childhood: Memories of World War II by W.W.E. Samuel
Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle From Stalingrad to Berlin by Hans Wijers
Commanding the Red Army’s Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza
To Lose a War: Memoirs of a German Girl by Regina Shelton
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45 by Fernand Kaisergruber
The Hitler Youth 1933-1945 by Alan Dearn (2006)
Hitler’s Home Guard – Volkssturmmann – Western Front, 1944-45 by David Yelton (2006)
Ostfront Hitler’s War on Russia 1941-45 by Charles Winchester
Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II by Seweryn Bialer
SS, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler: The History of the First SS Division, 1934-1945 by Rupert Butler
Stalin and Stalinism by Alan Wood
Stalin and the Soviet Union by Stephen Lee
Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky
Berlin 1933-45: avec Wilhelm Mohnke by Thomas Fischer
Stalingrad to Berlin, The German Defeat in the East by Earl Ziemke
The Hitler Youth, Origins and Development 1922-1945 by H.W. Koch
Himmler et L’empire SS by Édouard Calic
The Story of the SS by Nigel Cawthorne
The Unknown Eastern Front: Hitler’s Foreign Soldiers by Rolf-Dieter Muller
Total War by Michael Jones
Slaughter on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Knight’s Cross Panzers : The German 35th Tank Regiment in World War II by Hans Schaufler
Panzer Gunner by Bruno Friesen
Sous Uniforme Allemand: Récit Inédit by J.M. Croisile
The Death of East Prussia by Peter Clark
The French Who Fought for Hitler: Memories From the Outcasts by Philippe Carrard
Stalin by Stephen Kotkin
Hitler’s children: The Hitler Youth and the SS by Gerhard Rempel (1989)
Hitler’s Last Secretary by Traudl Junge
Le Sac de Berlin, Avril-Mai 1945 by Pierre Rocolle
The World at War by Mark Arnold-Forster
The World at War documentary video series. Thames Television. 1973.
Waffen-SS Encyclopedia by Marc Rikmenspoel
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Penalty Strike by Alexander V. Pyl’cyn
Reporting World War II: Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946 by various authors. The Library of America series. 1995.
World War II: A Military and Social History. Lecture series by Thomas Childers. The Teaching Company.
Hitler’s Vikings: The History Of The Scandinavian Waffen-SS by Johnathan Trigg
Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles by Georgi K. Zhukov. Translated by Theodore Shabad.
Les 30 Jours de Berlin by Andre Besson
The Siege of Kustin by Tony Le Tissier
Soldier’s of Destruction: The SS Death’s Head Division, 1933-1945 by Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
Twilight of the Gods by Thorolf Hillblad
The Luftwaffe: a History by John Killen
Reaping the Whirlwind: The German and Japanese Experience of World War II by Nigel Cawthorne
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Kommando: German Special Forces of World War Two by James Lucas
A Writer at War by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945 by Leon Degrelle
The contribution of Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov to the Soviet Scene: 1918-1968: An Appraisal by Otto Preston Chaney Jr. (1969). [Doctoral dissertation – The American University].
Showdown in Berlin: The American-Soviet conflict in Germany, 1945-1951 by Peter Adzuara (1982). [Master’s Thesis – University of Hawaii].
Between responsibility and rehabilitation: Austria in international politics, 1940-1950 by Gunter Bischof (1989). [Doctoral dissertation – Harvard University].
The Soviet Union through German Eyes: Wehrmacht Identity, Nazi Propaganda, and the Eastern Front War, 1941-1945 by Justin Pfiefer (2014). [Doctoral Dissertation – University of Toledo].
Leadership and command on the Eastern Front (1941-1945): The military style of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovskiy by Stphen Michael Walsh (2009). [Doctoral Dissertation – Cranfield University].
Victims, heroes, survivors: Sexual violence on the Eastern Front during World War II by Wendy Gertjejanssen (2004). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Minnesota].
Cold War Capital: The United States, the Western Allies, and the Fight for Berlin, 1945-1994 by Seth A. Givens (2018). [Doctoral dissertation – Ohio University]
The meaning of death and the making of three Berlins: A history, 1933-1961 by Monica Blank. [Doctoral dissertation – University of Virginia].
East Berlin 1945-1961: Ideology, politics, identity and the urban landscape by Paul Stagl (2001). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Texas at Austin].
The impact of military communication and leadership on the outcome of defensive battles during World War II by Karen Grimaldi (2020). [Masters thesis – Harvard University].
Nuremberg and the Waffen-SS: An analysis of the charge of organizational criminality by Richard Wiggers (1990). [Masters thesis – University of Ottawa].
Jews in Hiding in Nazi Berlin, 1941 – 1945 by Richard Newton Lutjens, Jr. (2012). [Doctoral dissertation – Northwestern University].
“The Russians,” by Marha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“A giant whirlpool of destruction,” by Virginia Irwin (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Das Deutsches Volk,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Freed captives fill roads,” by Marguerite Higgns (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Letters from Cologne” by Janet Flanner (Genet) (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“The war in Europe is ended,” by Edward Kennedy (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“33,000 Dachau captives freed by 7th army,” by Marguerite Higgins (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Dachau,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“For most of it I have no words,” by Edward R. Murrow (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
Battleground Berlin by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Last Days of the Third Reich: The Collapse of Nazi Germany, May 1945 by James Lucas
Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral History by Johannes Steinhoff, Peter Pechel, and Dennis Showwalter
From the Ruins of the Reich by Douglas Botting
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Allison Owings
The Battle for Berlin by John Strawson
The Fall of Berlin by David Fischer and Anthony Read
Last Thirty Days: The War Diary of the German Armed Forces High Command from April to May 1945:The Battle for Berlin Reflections in the Events of 1945 by Joachim Schultz-Naumann
1 hr 27 min
October 22, 2022 A Funeral for an Empire: The Fall of Berlin /// 70
On April 28th, 1945 nearly the entire developed world joined together to destroy one city: Berlin. This is the story. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 70 here: download
This episode is part nine of an ongoing series. You can find parts one through eight at the following links: episode eight, episode seven, episode six, episode five, episode four, episode three, episode two, and episode one.
Maps and Illustrations are located on the Definitive Atlas of the Battle of Berlin page linked here: Definitive Atlas of the Fall of Berlin
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict. (2011) by Janie Leatherman. Polity.
Berlin 1945: A Documentation. (1995). Edited by Reinhard Rurup and translated by Pamela Selwyn.
Berlin 1945: The Final reckoning by Karl Bahm
Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov
The Fall of Berlin, 1945 by Antony Beevor
The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck by Hans Von Luck
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. Translated by Philip Boehm.
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen Fritz
SS Charlemagne: The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS by Tony Le Tissier
Soldat by Siegfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw
Berlin Soldier: The Explosive Memoir of a 12 Year-old German Boy Called Up to Fight in the Last Weeks of the Second World War by Helmut Altner.
The Bunker by James O’Donnell
Berlin, Les Offensives Géantes de L’Armée Rouge : Vistule, Oder, Elbe (12 janvier-9 mai 1945) by Jean Lopez
Un Canto per la Morte by Arturo Turula
Adolf Hitler by John Toland
The Second World War by John Keegan
History of the Second World War by B.H. Liddell Hart
Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History by Alexander Werth
Atlas of the Second World War edited by John Keegan (1989)
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by O. V. Khlevniuk
Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945 by Georgy Zhukov
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Les 30 Jours de Berlin: 8 Avril-8 Mai 1945 by André Besson
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
The End of the Third Reich by Vasiliy Chuikov
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston, Aron
On Pain by Ernst Junger
Year of Victory by Ivan Koniev
The Atlas of World War II by John Pimlott (1995)
The Road to Berlin by John Erickson
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale.
The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov
Gotterdammerung: The last days of the Wehrmacht in the East by Bob Carruthers
A Writer at War : a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Slaughter at Halbe: the Destruction of Hitler’s 9th Army, April 1945 by Tony Le Tissier
The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean Atlas (The West Point Military History Series) by Thomas Griess
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Atlas of 20th Century Warfare by Richard Natkiel (1982)
Inside Hitler’s Bunker by Joachim Fest
The War Lords: Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century by Michael Carver
The Last 100 Days by John Toland
The Order of the Death’s Head; The Story of Hitler’s SS by Heinz Hohne
German Voices; Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederick Tubac
HItler’s Enforces; The Gestapo and SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution by George Browder
The Last Days of Hitler by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski
After the Reich by Giles Macdonogh
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945 by Stephan Hamilton
Battle Lines: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Military History by J.L. Granastein and Norman Hillmer
Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich by Peter Antill (2005)
Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse
Through Hell for Hitler by Henry Metelman
Berlin, Story of a Battle by Andrew Tully
Endkampf; Soldiers, Civilians and the Death of the Third Reich by Stephen Fritz
Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
Good-bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin
He was my Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Secretary by Christa Schroeder
Hitler Youth by Michael Kater
Grandeur et Misère de L’Armée Rouge by Jean Perez and Lasha Otkhmezuri
Hitler’s Praetorians: A History of the Waffen-SS by Tim Ripley
Hitler’s Samurai: The Waffen SS in Action by Brue Quarrie
Hitler’s Second Army: The Waffen SS by Edmund Blandford
Hitler’s Volkssturm by David Yelton
Hitler’s Final Words by Greg Bradsher (not dated)
In Final Defense of the Reich, The Destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division “Nord’’ by Stephen Rusiecki
In the Service of the Reich: The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel by Willhelm Keitel
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
Les Hommes d’Hitler by Jean-Paul Bled
Last Days of the Third Reich, the Collapse of Nazi Germany by James Lucas
Leibstandarte, Hitler’s Elite Bodyguard by Michael Sharpe and Brian Davis
Master of the House Stalin and His Inner Circle by Oleg Khlevniuk
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Montefiore
(1995). Battlefield [Film]. Polygram Filmed Entertainment. No director listed.
Les Guerriers du Froid, Vie et Mort des Soldats de L’Armée Rouge, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops by Hermann Balck
Hirschbiegel, O. (Director). (2004). Downfall [Film] Constantin Films.
Prussian Nights by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good-bye to the Mermaid: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin by K. Finnell
German Voices: Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederic Tubach
War of our Childhood: Memories of World War II by W.W.E. Samuel
Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle From Stalingrad to Berlin by Hans Wijers
Commanding the Red Army’s Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza
To Lose a War: Memoirs of a German Girl by Regina Shelton
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45 by Fernand Kaisergruber
The Hitler Youth 1933-1945 by Alan Dearn (2006)
Hitler’s Home Guard – Volkssturmmann – Western Front, 1944-45 by David Yelton (2006)
Ostfront Hitler’s War on Russia 1941-45 by Charles Winchester
Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II by Seweryn Bialer
SS, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler: The History of the First SS Division, 1934-1945 by Rupert Butler
Stalin and Stalinism by Alan Wood
Stalin and the Soviet Union by Stephen Lee
Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky
Berlin 1933-45: avec Wilhelm Mohnke by Thomas Fischer
Stalingrad to Berlin, The German Defeat in the East by Earl Ziemke
The Hitler Youth, Origins and Development 1922-1945 by H.W. Koch
Himmler et L’empire SS by Édouard Calic
The Story of the SS by Nigel Cawthorne
The Unknown Eastern Front: Hitler’s Foreign Soldiers by Rolf-Dieter Muller
Total War by Michael Jones
Slaughter on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Knight’s Cross Panzers : The German 35th Tank Regiment in World War II by Hans Schaufler
Panzer Gunner by Bruno Friesen
Sous Uniforme Allemand: Récit Inédit by J.M. Croisile
The Death of East Prussia by Peter Clark
The French Who Fought for Hitler: Memories From the Outcasts by Philippe Carrard
Stalin by Stephen Kotkin
Hitler’s children: The Hitler Youth and the SS by Gerhard Rempel (1989)
Hitler’s Last Secretary by Traudl Junge
Le Sac de Berlin, Avril-Mai 1945 by Pierre Rocolle
The World at War by Mark Arnold-Forster
The World at War documentary video series. Thames Television. 1973.
Waffen-SS Encyclopedia by Marc Rikmenspoel
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Penalty Strike by Alexander V. Pyl’cyn
Reporting World War II: Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946 by various authors. The Library of America series. 1995.
World War II: A Military and Social History. Lecture series by Thomas Childers. The Teaching Company.
Hitler’s Vikings: The History Of The Scandinavian Waffen-SS by Johnathan Trigg
Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles by Georgi K. Zhukov. Translated by Theodore Shabad.
Les 30 Jours de Berlin by Andre Besson
The Siege of Kustin by Tony Le Tissier
Soldier’s of Destruction: The SS Death’s Head Division, 1933-1945 by Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
Twilight of the Gods by Thorolf Hillblad
The Luftwaffe: a History by John Killen
Reaping the Whirlwind: The German and Japanese Experience of World War II by Nigel Cawthorne
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Kommando: German Special Forces of World War Two by James Lucas
A Writer at War by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945 by Leon Degrelle
The contribution of Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov to the Soviet Scene: 1918-1968: An Appraisal by Otto Preston Chaney Jr. (1969). [Doctoral dissertation – The American University].
Showdown in Berlin: The American-Soviet conflict in Germany, 1945-1951 by Peter Adzuara (1982). [Master’s Thesis – University of Hawaii].
Between responsibility and rehabilitation: Austria in international politics, 1940-1950 by Gunter Bischof (1989). [Doctoral dissertation – Harvard University].
The Soviet Union through German Eyes: Wehrmacht Identity, Nazi Propaganda, and the Eastern Front War, 1941-1945 by Justin Pfiefer (2014). [Doctoral Dissertation – University of Toledo].
Leadership and command on the Eastern Front (1941-1945): The military style of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovskiy by Stphen Michael Walsh (2009). [Doctoral Dissertation – Cranfield University].
Victims, heroes, survivors: Sexual violence on the Eastern Front during World War II by Wendy Gertjejanssen (2004). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Minnesota].
Cold War Capital: The United States, the Western Allies, and the Fight for Berlin, 1945-1994 by Seth A. Givens (2018). [Doctoral dissertation – Ohio University]
The meaning of death and the making of three Berlins: A history, 1933-1961 by Monica Blank. [Doctoral dissertation – University of Virginia].
East Berlin 1945-1961: Ideology, politics, identity and the urban landscape by Paul Stagl (2001). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Texas at Austin].
The impact of military communication and leadership on the outcome of defensive battles during World War II by Karen Grimaldi (2020). [Masters thesis – Harvard University].
Nuremberg and the Waffen-SS: An analysis of the charge of organizational criminality by Richard Wiggers (1990). [Masters thesis – University of Ottawa].
Jews in Hiding in Nazi Berlin, 1941 – 1945 by Richard Newton Lutjens, Jr. (2012). [Doctoral dissertation – Northwestern University].
“The Russians,” by Marha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“A giant whirlpool of destruction,” by Virginia Irwin (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Das Deutsches Volk,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Freed captives fill roads,” by Marguerite Higgns (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Letters from Cologne” by Janet Flanner (Genet) (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“The war in Europe is ended,” by Edward Kennedy (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“33,000 Dachau captives freed by 7th army,” by Marguerite Higgins (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Dachau,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“For most of it I have no words,” by Edward R. Murrow (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
51 min
September 22, 2022 Sexual Violence and Mass Rape in War: The Berlin Case /// 69
“Historically speaking, investigating sexual violence in war has been taboo. Nonetheless, sexual violence in armed conflict has been part of the spoils of war since time immemorial. Sexual violence takes many forms in armed conflicts across time and cultures. Sexual violence in war is often accompanied by torture, mutilation, and cannibalism. However, sexual violence is a runaway norm in warfare. It is a weapon and strategy of war aimed at domination, humiliation, expulsion, and extermination of the targeted group. In the history of sexual violence, there are no taboos untouched” (Leatherman, 2011, pp. 1; 3; 32).
The Battle of Berlin and the fall of the Reich was accompanied by wide-spread sexual abuse rivaled by few events in modern history. And yet, this complete and total humiliation of a people is rarely reported, and, even more rarely, understood. This is the story.
Since this is a double episode, the podcast also includes a detailed description of the Battle of Halbe, which took place twenty miles south of Berlin, and the show is accompanied by an exhaustive retelling of the battle within Berlin itself on April 27. It’s rape. It’s mass suicide. It’s mass abortions. It’s mass orphans. It’s little known. It’s on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 69 here: download link
This episode is part eight of an ongoing series. You can find parts one through seven at the following links: episode seven, episode six, episode five, episode four, episode three, episode two, and episode one.
Maps and Illustrations are located on the Definitive Atlas of the Battle of Berlin page linked here: Definitive Atlas of the Fall of Berlin
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict. (2011) by Janie Leatherman. Polity.
Berlin 1945: A Documentation. (1995). Edited by Reinhard Rurup and translated by Pamela Selwyn.
Berlin 1945: The Final reckoning by Karl Bahm
Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov
The Fall of Berlin, 1945 by Antony Beevor
The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck by Hans Von Luck
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. Translated by Philip Boehm.
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen Fritz
SS Charlemagne: The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS by Tony Le Tissier
Soldat by Siegfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw
Berlin Soldier: The Explosive Memoir of a 12 Year-old German Boy Called Up to Fight in the Last Weeks of the Second World War by Helmut Altner.
The Bunker by James O’Donnell
Berlin, Les Offensives Géantes de L’Armée Rouge : Vistule, Oder, Elbe (12 janvier-9 mai 1945) by Jean Lopez
Un Canto per la Morte by Arturo Turula
Adolf Hitler by John Toland
The Second World War by John Keegan
History of the Second World War by B.H. Liddell Hart
Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History by Alexander Werth
Atlas of the Second World War edited by John Keegan (1989)
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by O. V. Khlevniuk
Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945 by Georgy Zhukov
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Les 30 Jours de Berlin: 8 Avril-8 Mai 1945 by André Besson
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
The End of the Third Reich by Vasiliy Chuikov
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston, Aron
On Pain by Ernst Junger
Year of Victory by Ivan Koniev
The Atlas of World War II by John Pimlott (1995)
The Road to Berlin by John Erickson
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale.
The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov
Gotterdammerung: The last days of the Wehrmacht in the East by Bob Carruthers
A Writer at War : a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Slaughter at Halbe: the Destruction of Hitler’s 9th Army, April 1945 by Tony Le Tissier
The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean Atlas (The West Point Military History Series) by Thomas Griess
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Atlas of 20th Century Warfare by Richard Natkiel (1982)
Inside Hitler’s Bunker by Joachim Fest
The War Lords: Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century by Michael Carver
The Last 100 Days by John Toland
The Order of the Death’s Head; The Story of Hitler’s SS by Heinz Hohne
German Voices; Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederick Tubac
HItler’s Enforces; The Gestapo and SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution by George Browder
The Last Days of Hitler by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski
After the Reich by Giles Macdonogh
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945 by Stephan Hamilton
Battle Lines: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Military History by J.L. Granastein and Norman Hillmer
Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich by Peter Antill (2005)
Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse
Through Hell for Hitler by Henry Metelman
Berlin, Story of a Battle by Andrew Tully
Endkampf; Soldiers, Civilians and the Death of the Third Reich by Stephen Fritz
Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
Good-bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin
He was my Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Secretary by Christa Schroeder
Hitler Youth by Michael Kater
Grandeur et Misère de L’Armée Rouge by Jean Perez and Lasha Otkhmezuri
Hitler’s Praetorians: A History of the Waffen-SS by Tim Ripley
Hitler’s Samurai: The Waffen SS in Action by Brue Quarrie
Hitler’s Second Army: The Waffen SS by Edmund Blandford
Hitler’s Volkssturm by David Yelton
Hitler’s Final Words by Greg Bradsher (not dated)
In Final Defense of the Reich, The Destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division “Nord’’ by Stephen Rusiecki
In the Service of the Reich: The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel by Willhelm Keitel
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
Les Hommes d’Hitler by Jean-Paul Bled
Last Days of the Third Reich, the Collapse of Nazi Germany by James Lucas
Leibstandarte, Hitler’s Elite Bodyguard by Michael Sharpe and Brian Davis
Master of the House Stalin and His Inner Circle by Oleg Khlevniuk
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Montefiore
(1995). Battlefield [Film]. Polygram Filmed Entertainment. No director listed.
Les Guerriers du Froid, Vie et Mort des Soldats de L’Armée Rouge, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops by Hermann Balck
Hirschbiegel, O. (Director). (2004). Downfall [Film] Constantin Films.
Prussian Nights by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good-bye to the Mermaid: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin by K. Finnell
German Voices: Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederic Tubach
War of our Childhood: Memories of World War II by W.W.E. Samuel
Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle From Stalingrad to Berlin by Hans Wijers
Commanding the Red Army’s Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza
To Lose a War: Memoirs of a German Girl by Regina Shelton
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45 by Fernand Kaisergruber
The Hitler Youth 1933-1945 by Alan Dearn (2006)
Hitler’s Home Guard – Volkssturmmann – Western Front, 1944-45 by David Yelton (2006)
Ostfront Hitler’s War on Russia 1941-45 by Charles Winchester
Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II by Seweryn Bialer
SS, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler: The History of the First SS Division, 1934-1945 by Rupert Butler
Stalin and Stalinism by Alan Wood
Stalin and the Soviet Union by Stephen Lee
Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky
Berlin 1933-45: avec Wilhelm Mohnke by Thomas Fischer
Stalingrad to Berlin, The German Defeat in the East by Earl Ziemke
The Hitler Youth, Origins and Development 1922-1945 by H.W. Koch
Himmler et L’empire SS by Édouard Calic
The Story of the SS by Nigel Cawthorne
The Unknown Eastern Front: Hitler’s Foreign Soldiers by Rolf-Dieter Muller
Total War by Michael Jones
Slaughter on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Knight’s Cross Panzers : The German 35th Tank Regiment in World War II by Hans Schaufler
Panzer Gunner by Bruno Friesen
Sous Uniforme Allemand: Récit Inédit by J.M. Croisile
The Death of East Prussia by Peter Clark
The French Who Fought for Hitler: Memories From the Outcasts by Philippe Carrard
Stalin by Stephen Kotkin
Hitler’s children: The Hitler Youth and the SS by Gerhard Rempel (1989)
Hitler’s Last Secretary by Traudl Junge
Le Sac de Berlin, Avril-Mai 1945 by Pierre Rocolle
The World at War by Mark Arnold-Forster
The World at War documentary video series. Thames Television. 1973.
Waffen-SS Encyclopedia by Marc Rikmenspoel
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Penalty Strike by Alexander V. Pyl’cyn
Reporting World War II: Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946 by various authors. The Library of America series. 1995.
World War II: A Military and Social History. Lecture series by Thomas Childers. The Teaching Company.
Hitler’s Vikings: The History Of The Scandinavian Waffen-SS by Johnathan Trigg
Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles by Georgi K. Zhukov. Translated by Theodore Shabad.
Les 30 Jours de Berlin by Andre Besson
The Siege of Kustin by Tony Le Tissier
Soldier’s of Destruction: The SS Death’s Head Division, 1933-1945 by Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
Twilight of the Gods by Thorolf Hillblad
The Luftwaffe: a History by John Killen
Reaping the Whirlwind: The German and Japanese Experience of World War II by Nigel Cawthorne
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Kommando: German Special Forces of World War Two by James Lucas
A Writer at War by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945 by Leon Degrelle
The contribution of Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov to the Soviet Scene: 1918-1968: An Appraisal by Otto Preston Chaney Jr. (1969). [Doctoral dissertation – The American University].
Showdown in Berlin: The American-Soviet conflict in Germany, 1945-1951 by Peter Adzuara (1982). [Master’s Thesis – University of Hawaii].
Between responsibility and rehabilitation: Austria in international politics, 1940-1950 by Gunter Bischof (1989). [Doctoral dissertation – Harvard University].
The Soviet Union through German Eyes: Wehrmacht Identity, Nazi Propaganda, and the Eastern Front War, 1941-1945 by Justin Pfiefer (2014). [Doctoral Dissertation – University of Toledo].
Leadership and command on the Eastern Front (1941-1945): The military style of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovskiy by Stphen Michael Walsh (2009). [Doctoral Dissertation – Cranfield University].
Victims, heroes, survivors: Sexual violence on the Eastern Front during World War II by Wendy Gertjejanssen (2004). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Minnesota].
Cold War Capital: The United States, the Western Allies, and the Fight for Berlin, 1945-1994 by Seth A. Givens (2018). [Doctoral dissertation – Ohio University]
The meaning of death and the making of three Berlins: A history, 1933-1961 by Monica Blank. [Doctoral dissertation – University of Virginia].
East Berlin 1945-1961: Ideology, politics, identity and the urban landscape by Paul Stagl (2001). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Texas at Austin].
The impact of military communication and leadership on the outcome of defensive battles during World War II by Karen Grimaldi (2020). [Masters thesis – Harvard University].
Nuremberg and the Waffen-SS: An analysis of the charge of organizational criminality by Richard Wiggers (1990). [Masters thesis – University of Ottawa].
Jews in Hiding in Nazi Berlin, 1941 – 1945 by Richard Newton Lutjens, Jr. (2012). [Doctoral dissertation – Northwestern University].
“The Russians,” by Marha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“A giant whirlpool of destruction,” by Virginia Irwin (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Das Deutsches Volk,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Freed captives fill roads,” by Marguerite Higgns (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Letters from Cologne” by Janet Flanner (Genet) (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“The war in Europe is ended,” by Edward Kennedy (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“33,000 Dachau captives freed by 7th army,” by Marguerite Higgins (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Dachau,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“For most of it I have no words,” by Edward R. Murrow (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
1 hr 44 min
August 21, 2022 House to House: Street Fighting in the Battle of Berlin /// 68
April 26, 1945. Berlin is almost totally surrounded. The Soviets are pouring into the city. Small squads of German soldiers and Hitler Youth, often operating in groups of two or four, vainly attempt to stem the Russian tide. They fail, but they kill many in their downfall. This is the story.
This episode is part seven of an ongoing series. You can find parts one through six at the following links: episode six, episode five, episode four, episode three, episode two, and episode one.
Download episode 68: here
Maps and Illustrations are located on the Definitive Atlas of the Battle of Berlin page linked here: Definitive Atlas of the Fall of Berlin
Music Source:
Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio /// website: karlcasey.bandcamp.com
References:
Berlin 1945: A Documentation. (1995). Edited by Reinhard Rurup and translated by Pamela Selwyn.
Berlin 1945: The Final reckoning by Karl Bahm
Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov
The Fall of Berlin, 1945 by Antony Beevor
The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans Von Luck by Hans Von Luck
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. Translated by Philip Boehm.
Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen Fritz
SS Charlemagne: The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS by Tony Le Tissier
Soldat by Siegfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw
Berlin Soldier: The Explosive Memoir of a 12 Year-old German Boy Called Up to Fight in the Last Weeks of the Second World War by Helmut Altner.
The Bunker by James O’Donnell
Berlin, Les Offensives Géantes de L’Armée Rouge : Vistule, Oder, Elbe (12 janvier-9 mai 1945) by Jean Lopez
Un Canto per la Morte by Arturo Turula
Adolf Hitler by John Toland
The Second World War by John Keegan
History of the Second World War by B.H. Liddell Hart
Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History by Alexander Werth
Atlas of the Second World War edited by John Keegan (1989)
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by O. V. Khlevniuk
Marshal of Victory: The WWII Memoirs of Soviet General Georgy Zhukov, 1941-1945 by Georgy Zhukov
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Les 30 Jours de Berlin: 8 Avril-8 Mai 1945 by André Besson
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
The End of the Third Reich by Vasiliy Chuikov
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston, Aron
On Pain by Ernst Junger
Year of Victory by Ivan Koniev
The Atlas of World War II by John Pimlott (1995)
The Road to Berlin by John Erickson
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche. Translated by R. J. Hollingdale.
The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov
Gotterdammerung: The last days of the Wehrmacht in the East by Bob Carruthers
A Writer at War : a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Slaughter at Halbe: the Destruction of Hitler’s 9th Army, April 1945 by Tony Le Tissier
The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean Atlas (The West Point Military History Series) by Thomas Griess
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
Atlas of 20th Century Warfare by Richard Natkiel (1982)
Inside Hitler’s Bunker by Joachim Fest
The War Lords: Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century by Michael Carver
The Last 100 Days by John Toland
The Order of the Death’s Head; The Story of Hitler’s SS by Heinz Hohne
German Voices; Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederick Tubac
HItler’s Enforces; The Gestapo and SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution by George Browder
The Last Days of Hitler by H.R. Trevor-Roper
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski
After the Reich by Giles Macdonogh
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945 by Stephan Hamilton
Battle Lines: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Military History by J.L. Granastein and Norman Hillmer
Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich by Peter Antill (2005)
Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse
Through Hell for Hitler by Henry Metelman
Berlin, Story of a Battle by Andrew Tully
Endkampf; Soldiers, Civilians and the Death of the Third Reich by Stephen Fritz
Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
Good-bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin
He was my Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Secretary by Christa Schroeder
Hitler Youth by Michael Kater
Grandeur et Misère de L’Armée Rouge by Jean Perez and Lasha Otkhmezuri
Hitler’s Praetorians: A History of the Waffen-SS by Tim Ripley
Hitler’s Samurai: The Waffen SS in Action by Brue Quarrie
Hitler’s Second Army: The Waffen SS by Edmund Blandford
Hitler’s Volkssturm by David Yelton
Hitler’s Final Words by Greg Bradsher (not dated)
In Final Defense of the Reich, The Destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division “Nord’’ by Stephen Rusiecki
In the Service of the Reich: The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel by Willhelm Keitel
Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
Les Hommes d’Hitler by Jean-Paul Bled
Last Days of the Third Reich, the Collapse of Nazi Germany by James Lucas
Leibstandarte, Hitler’s Elite Bodyguard by Michael Sharpe and Brian Davis
Master of the House Stalin and His Inner Circle by Oleg Khlevniuk
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Montefiore
(1995). Battlefield [Film]. Polygram Filmed Entertainment. No director listed.
Les Guerriers du Froid, Vie et Mort des Soldats de L’Armée Rouge, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale
Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops by Hermann Balck
Hirschbiegel, O. (Director). (2004). Downfall [Film] Constantin Films.
Prussian Nights by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good-bye to the Mermaid: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin by K. Finnell
German Voices: Memories of Life During Hitler’s Third Reich by Frederic Tubach
War of our Childhood: Memories of World War II by W.W.E. Samuel
Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle From Stalingrad to Berlin by Hans Wijers
Commanding the Red Army’s Sherman Tanks by Dmitriy Loza
To Lose a War: Memoirs of a German Girl by Regina Shelton
We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45 by Fernand Kaisergruber
The Hitler Youth 1933-1945 by Alan Dearn (2006)
Hitler’s Home Guard – Volkssturmmann – Western Front, 1944-45 by David Yelton (2006)
Ostfront Hitler’s War on Russia 1941-45 by Charles Winchester
Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II by Seweryn Bialer
SS, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler: The History of the First SS Division, 1934-1945 by Rupert Butler
Stalin and Stalinism by Alan Wood
Stalin and the Soviet Union by Stephen Lee
Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky
Berlin 1933-45: avec Wilhelm Mohnke by Thomas Fischer
Stalingrad to Berlin, The German Defeat in the East by Earl Ziemke
The Hitler Youth, Origins and Development 1922-1945 by H.W. Koch
Himmler et L’empire SS by Édouard Calic
The Story of the SS by Nigel Cawthorne
The Unknown Eastern Front: Hitler’s Foreign Soldiers by Rolf-Dieter Muller
Total War by Michael Jones
Slaughter on the Eastern Front by Anthony Tucker-Jones
Knight’s Cross Panzers : The German 35th Tank Regiment in World War II by Hans Schaufler
Panzer Gunner by Bruno Friesen
Sous Uniforme Allemand: Récit Inédit by J.M. Croisile
The Death of East Prussia by Peter Clark
The French Who Fought for Hitler: Memories From the Outcasts by Philippe Carrard
Stalin by Stephen Kotkin
Hitler’s children: The Hitler Youth and the SS by Gerhard Rempel (1989)
Hitler’s Last Secretary by Traudl Junge
Le Sac de Berlin, Avril-Mai 1945 by Pierre Rocolle
The World at War by Mark Arnold-Forster
The World at War documentary video series. Thames Television. 1973.
Waffen-SS Encyclopedia by Marc Rikmenspoel
With our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Penalty Strike by Alexander V. Pyl’cyn
Reporting World War II: Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946 by various authors. The Library of America series. 1995.
World War II: A Military and Social History. Lecture series by Thomas Childers. The Teaching Company.
Hitler’s Vikings: The History Of The Scandinavian Waffen-SS by Johnathan Trigg
Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles by Georgi K. Zhukov. Translated by Theodore Shabad.
Les 30 Jours de Berlin by Andre Besson
The Siege of Kustin by Tony Le Tissier
Soldier’s of Destruction: The SS Death’s Head Division, 1933-1945 by Charles W. Sydnor, Jr.
Twilight of the Gods by Thorolf Hillblad
The Luftwaffe: a History by John Killen
Reaping the Whirlwind: The German and Japanese Experience of World War II by Nigel Cawthorne
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Kommando: German Special Forces of World War Two by James Lucas
A Writer at War by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman
The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945 by Leon Degrelle
The contribution of Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov to the Soviet Scene: 1918-1968: An Appraisal by Otto Preston Chaney Jr. (1969). [Doctoral dissertation – The American University].
Showdown in Berlin: The American-Soviet conflict in Germany, 1945-1951 by Peter Adzuara (1982). [Master’s Thesis – University of Hawaii].
Between responsibility and rehabilitation: Austria in international politics, 1940-1950 by Gunter Bischof (1989). [Doctoral dissertation – Harvard University].
The Soviet Union through German Eyes: Wehrmacht Identity, Nazi Propaganda, and the Eastern Front War, 1941-1945 by Justin Pfiefer (2014). [Doctoral Dissertation – University of Toledo].
Leadership and command on the Eastern Front (1941-1945): The military style of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovskiy by Stphen Michael Walsh (2009). [Doctoral Dissertation – Cranfield University].
Victims, heroes, survivors: Sexual violence on the Eastern Front during World War II by Wendy Gertjejanssen (2004). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Minnesota].
Cold War Capital: The United States, the Western Allies, and the Fight for Berlin, 1945-1994 by Seth A. Givens (2018). [Doctoral dissertation – Ohio University]
The meaning of death and the making of three Berlins: A history, 1933-1961 by Monica Blank. [Doctoral dissertation – University of Virginia].
East Berlin 1945-1961: Ideology, politics, identity and the urban landscape by Paul Stagl (2001). [Doctoral dissertation – University of Texas at Austin].
The impact of military communication and leadership on the outcome of defensive battles during World War II by Karen Grimaldi (2020). [Masters thesis – Harvard University].
Nuremberg and the Waffen-SS: An analysis of the charge of organizational criminality by Richard Wiggers (1990). [Masters thesis – University of Ottawa].
Jews in Hiding in Nazi Berlin, 1941 – 1945 by Richard Newton Lutjens, Jr. (2012). [Doctoral dissertation – Northwestern University].
“The Russians,” by Marha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“A giant whirlpool of destruction,” by Virginia Irwin (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Das Deutsches Volk,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Freed captives fill roads,” by Marguerite Higgns (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Letters from Cologne” by Janet Flanner (Genet) (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“The war in Europe is ended,” by Edward Kennedy (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“33,000 Dachau captives freed by 7th army,” by Marguerite Higgins (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“Dachau,” by Martha Gellhorn (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
“For most of it I have no words,” by Edward R. Murrow (1995). In S. Hynes, A. Matthews, N.C. Sorel, & R.J. Spiller (Eds.) Reporting World War II: Part two: American journalism 1944-1946. The Library of America.
1 hr 1 min

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