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- A City Burning: The Battle of Berlin /// 67
Imagine millions of men trying to kill each other on a front more than 30 miles long. That’s what this podcast is all about. Millions of men fought in both urban and rural settings, tens of thousands were killed and wounded on this one day. It was April 25th, 1945. This is the story. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and it’s sociopolitical impact.
This episode is part six of an ongoing series. You can find parts one through five at the following links: episode five, episode four, episode three, episode two, and episode one.
Download episode six 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:
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 25 min - A World in Flames: The Battle of Berlin /// 66
The Fall of Berlin was one of the most important battles in human history. In this ongoing series, Dr. Wolf recounts the story of the last titanic struggle between two totalitarian regimes in minute, exhaustive detail. Drawing from sources never translated into English, this is the definitive history of the Fall of Berlin and the last gasp of the Third Reich. Today’s episode covers April 24th. 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 part five of an ongoing series. You can find parts one through four at the following links: episode four, episode three, episode two, and episode one.
Download episode five 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:
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
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.
56 min - Twilight of the Idols: The Battle of Berlin /// 65
This is part four of the definitive podcast history of The Battle of Berlin. This special double episode covers April 21-23. You can find episode three here: episode three, episode two here: episode two, and episode one here: episode one. It’s one of the most exhaustive histories on the Fall of Berlin that’s ever been produced and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
download episode four 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:
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
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
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 40 min - A Military History of the Battle of Berlin /// 64
This is part three of the definitive podcast history of The Battle of Berlin. This episode covers April 20. You can find episode two here: episode two and episode one here: episode one. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
https://media.blubrry.com/429895/archive.org/download/bc-64/BC64.mp3Download episode three here: download
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
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
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 Atlas of World War II by John Pimlott (1995)
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 4 min - Der Untergang: The Fall of Berlin /// 63
This is part two of the definitive podcast history of The Battle of Berlin. This episode covers April 17 through April 19. You can find episode one here: episode one. It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 63 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:
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
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
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 Atlas of World War II by John Pimlott (1995)
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.
58 min - Downfall: The Battle of Berlin /// 62
The Battle of Berlin was one of the most important battles in human history. One of the greatest cities ever built, a city whose culture had transformed the Western world, was utterly destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of Germans were killed, wounded, or captured. Hundreds of thousands of Soviets lost their lives. Millions of women were raped. Countless lives were destroyed. The political culture of the entire Western world was changed, and it all was a direct result of this one battle. This is the definitive podcast of that battle.
It’s all here and it’s all for free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 62 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:
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
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
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 Atlas of World War II by John Pimlott (1995)
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.
2 hr 1 min - Samurai Onslaught: The Japanese Invasion of Korea /// 61
The Imjin War was one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. Hundreds of thousands were killed. Hundreds of thousands were enslaved. Entire regions were depopulated – former provincial capitals turned into ghost towns. In this episode there is weeping without end; pain without ceasing. An entire people abused and mistreated. This is the story of that conflict – The Imjin War.
It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact.
This is part four of a four part series. You can find part one here; part two here; and part three here.
Download episode 61 here
Maps and Illustrations:
The second Japanese invasion of Korea (Turnbull, 2002)An illustration of combat during the Imjin War (Turnbull, 2002)References:
Samurai invasion: Japan’s Korean war by Stephen Turnbull (2002)
Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598 by Song-Nyong Yu and Byonghyon Choi
Imjin changch’o: Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s memorials to court by Sun-sin Yi. Translated by Ha Tse-hung
Admiral Yi Sun-sin of Korea by Jong-dae Kim. Translated by Philip K Rhyu
Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin by Yi Sun-shin. Translated by Ha Tae-hung.
A history of Korea: from “Land of the Morning Calm” to states in conflict by Jinwung Kim
A concise history of Korea: from antiquity to the present by Michael Seth
A concise history of Japan by Brett Walker
The Cambridge history of Japan volumes 3 and 4 edited by Kozo Yamamura and John Whitney Hall
The Imjin War by Samuel Hawley
The samurai invasion of Korea by Stephen Turnbull
A dragon’s head and a serpent’s tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 by Swope, Kenneth M. (2009)
The Japanese experience by W.G. Beasley
The Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, translated by William Scott Wilson
Samurai wisdom by Thomas Cleary
A history of Japan by R.H.P. Mason and J.G. Caiger
1 hr 4 min - A Military History of the Imjin War /// 60
In this third episode of an ongoing series, Dr. Luke details the massive Chinese counterattack which spilled across the Chinese-Korean border in the winter of 1593. Tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers linked up with tens of thousands of Korean guerillas and warrior monks to drive the samurai across the Korean peninsula and into the bitter Korea Strait. Hundreds of thousands died in the ensuing combat. This is the story of that conflict – the Imjin War.
This is part three of an ongoing series. You can find part two here and part one here.
Download episode 60 here: download link
Maps:
From Turnbull 2002.From Turnbull 2002. Red figures show Japanese lines of attack.References:
Samurai invasion: Japan’s Korean war by Stephen Turnbull (2002)
Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598 by Song-Nyong Yu and Byonghyon Choi
Imjin changch’o: Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s memorials to court by Sun-sin Yi. Translated by Ha Tse-hung
Admiral Yi Sun-sin of Korea by Jong-dae Kim. Translated by Philip K Rhyu
Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin by Yi Sun-shin. Translated by Ha Tae-hung.
A History of Korea: from “Land of the Morning Calm” to states in conflict by Jinwung Kim
A concise history of Korea: from antiquity to the present by Michael Seth
A concise history of Japan by Brett Walker
The Cambridge history of Japan volumes 3 and 4 edited by Kozo Yamamura and John Whitney Hall
The Imjin War by Samuel Hawley
The samurai invasion of Korea by Stephen Turnbull
A dragon’s head and a serpent’s tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 by Swope, Kenneth M. (2009)
The Japanese experience by W.G. Beasley
The Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, translated by William Scott Wilson
Samurai wisdom by Thomas Cleary
A history of Japan by R.H.P. Mason and J.G. Caiger
0 min - Admiral Yi Sun-sin: Military Genius and Savior of Korea /// 59
Admiral Yi Sun-sin single-handedly safeguarded the entire existence of the Korean people. Without this one man Korean culture, the Korean language, and Korean political independence would have ceased to exist. Sun-sin is one of the greatest military minds in recorded human history. This is his story.
It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast – the world’s foremost podcast on war and its sociopolitical impact. This is part two of an ongoing series on the Imjin War. You can find part one here.
Download episode 59 here: download link
Maps and Illustrations:
From Turnbull (2002).A turtle ship – warship designed and utilized by Admiral Yi Sun-sin (Turnbull, 2002)From Turnbull (2002).From Turnbull (2002).From Swope (2009).Illustrations showing the weapons, attire, and banners of the combatants during the Imjin War. From Turnbull (2002).References:
Samurai invasion: Japan’s Korean war by Stephen Turnbull (2002)
Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598 by Song-Nyong Yu and Byonghyon Choi
Imjin changch’o: Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s memorials to court by Sun-sin Yi. Translated by Ha Tse-hung
Admiral Yi Sun-sin of Korea by Jong-dae Kim. Translated by Philip K Rhyu
Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin by Yi Sun-shin. Translated by Ha Tae-hung.
A History of Korea: from “Land of the Morning Calm” to states in conflict by Jinwung Kim
A concise history of Korea: from antiquity to the present by Michael Seth
A concise history of Japan by Brett Walker
The Cambridge history of Japan volumes 3 and 4 edited by Kozo Yamamura and John Whitney Hall
The Imjin War by Samuel Hawley
The samurai invasion of Korea by Stephen Turnbull
A dragon’s head and a serpent’s tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 by Swope, Kenneth M. (2009)
The Japanese experience by W.G. Beasley
The Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, translated by William Scott Wilson
Samurai wisdom by Thomas Cleary
A history of Japan by R.H.P. Mason and J.G. Caiger
0 min - Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Japanese Invasions of Korea: The Imjin War /// 58
The Imjin War, also known as the Japanese invasions of Korea, were a series of conflicts which took place in Korea after the unification of Japan by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, were killed or enslaved by the samurai invaders. The Korean people may have ceased to exist as an unique people if it weren’t for one man: Admiral Yi Sun-sin, one of the greatest military leaders in human history. Between the death-dance fought between Hideyoshi and Sun-sin many millions would lose everything. Countless property, countless lives, countless cultural artifacts – they were all lost in this one near decade-long struggle. This is the story of the Imjin War.
It’s all here and it’s all free on Battlecast, the world’s foremost podcast on wart and its sociopolitical impact.
Download episode 58 here: download link.
Maps and Illustrations:
Japanese forces advance into Korea (Turnbull, 2002)The Battle of Ch’ungju – red lines show Japanese advances. Blue show Korean positions (Turnbull, 2002)A contemporary illustration of Toyotomi Hideyoshi – the village samurai who conquered Japan and Korea (Turnbull, 2002)(Turnbull, 2002)A contemporary illustration of a Samurai warrior (Turnbull, 2002)References:
Samurai invasion: Japan’s Korean war by Stephen Turnbull (2002)
Book of Corrections: Reflections on the National Crisis During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, 1592-1598 by Song-Nyong Yu and Byonghyon Choi
Imjin changch’o: Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s memorials to court by Sun-sin Yi. Translated by Ha Tse-hung
Admiral Yi Sun-sin of Korea by Jong-dae Kim. Translated by Philip K Rhyu
Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin by Yi Sun-shin. Translated by Ha Tae-hung.
A History of Korea: from “Land of the Morning Calm” to states in conflict by Jinwung Kim
A concise history of Korea: from antiquity to the present by Michael Seth
A concise history of Japan by Brett Walker
The Cambridge history of Japan volumes 3 and 4 edited by Kozo Yamamura and John Whitney Hall
The Imjin War by Samuel Hawley
The samurai invasion of Korea by Stephen Turnbull
A dragon’s head and a serpent’s tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592-1598 by Swope, Kenneth M. (2009)
The Japanese experience by W.G. Beasley
The Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, translated by William Scott Wilson
Samurai wisdom by Thomas Cleary
A history of Japan by R.H.P. Mason and J.G. Caiger
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