Barbara Stelzl-Marx, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War (BIK), talks with Andrea Pető about how to get access to Russian archives; the surprise moment when she wrote her book: Stalin’s Soldiers in Austria; the ethical concerns surrounding doing research on children born from rape; and new ways of researching the history of the Second World War.This podcast series,  produced in cooperation with the subcommittee of history of Second World War of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Central European University, introduces cutting edge publications by the members of the subcommittee and other authors. It's aim is to change the ways we talk about the history of the Second World War.