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By J L Gabbott
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The podcast currently has 17 episodes available.
William Joyce – Lord Haw Haw – broadcast propaganda from Germany to Britain. Everyone thought he was British and wanted him to be hanged. He was in fact American, but that did not save him.
The trial of John Demjanjuk, suspected of being the guard known as ‘Ivan the Terrible’, ended in failure. But that was only the start …
Did Otto Calesson commit a series of heinous war crimes, or was he framed? You decide.
Martin Bormann was tried in his absence. How fair was that?
Josef Kramer was known as the 'Beast of Belsen'. Did he deserve that name, or was he in fact a pleasant fellow?
Brigadier Glyn Hughes gave the Belsen court evidence which was false and misleading.
General Masaharu Homma and the Bataan Death March: war criminal or outstanding soldier?
Oscar Schmitz was charged with committing war crimes while a guard at Belsen. But he was innocent.
Karl Egersdorf worked at the Belsen Concentration Camp. Why did the British put him on trial?
The Nuremberg Trials have acquired the reputation of being a great exercise of justice by the Allies. Is that reputation really deserved?
The podcast currently has 17 episodes available.
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