WW2: Both Sides of The Wire
Prof. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander 98 episodes Nov 11, 2026
World War 2: Both Sides of the Wire is a podcast that explores the untold stories and surprising truths of the Second World War from both Allied and Axis perspectives. Hosted by Prof. Matthias Strohn and Jesse Alexander, it busts myths and unravels the complexities of the conflict. The podcast is produced by Battle Guide, a UK-based organization.
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Episode 120: 1812 vs 1941: How Napoleon’s Defeat Haunted Nazi Germany
In today’s episode, we’ll get into the Nazi understanding of history, and how they used and abused the wars of the Napoleonic era during World War II.
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Episode 119: How Good Really was Montgomery? From the Desert to the Rhine
In today’s episode, we continue our look at Bernard Montgomery, from his time in the African desert to the final victory in Europe.
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Episode 118: The Making of Monty: Britain's Most Controversial General
In today’s episode, we’ll turn to the story of one of the war’s most praised and most criticised commanders – Field Marshal Bernhard Law Montgomery.
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Episode 117: Frederick the Great and Prussia’s Rise to Power
Jesse is absent this week, so our Matthias delves deep into Frederick the Great, one of history’s most pivotal military figures. Discover a poor nation transformed into a European superpower. Frederick's revolutionary military tactics, and the surprising influence his legend had on Hitler and WWII. From the legendary Battle of Leuthen to the “Miracle of Brandenburg,” this episode explores how Fred
Episode 116: The 1941 Preventive War Theory
In today’s episode, we’ll return to our beloved theme of mythbusting – this time we’ll tackle the ideas around Soviet war planning and alleged aggressive intentions towards Germany in 1941.
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Episode 115: The Free French: Resistance, Rivalries & Liberation
In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the Free French – which, it turns out, involves more than just De Gaulle’s famous speeches.
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Episode 114: The Last President of the Third Reich: Karl Dönitz
In today’s episode, we’ll continue the story of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz and the discussion about his politics and time as last President of the German Reich.
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Episode 113: Karl Dönitz and His Rise to Power
In today’s episode, we’ll get better acquainted with one of the war’s most important commanders – Grand Admiral and short-lived President of the German Reich Karl Doenitz. His is a story of U-boats, the Nazi Party, and the Nuremberg trials.
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Episode 112: Operation Felix - The Capture of Gibraltar
Episode covers German Operation Felix: the planned 1940-41 invasion of Gibraltar. Details Hitler's strategy, Franco's refusal to enter the war, German military plans (49th Mountain Corps, Stukas, artillery bombardment), British defenses, and why this "what if" never happened.
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Episode 111: Listeners' Q&As – From Brazil's Navy to Soviet Manpower
In today’s episode, we will once again reach into our bag of questions from our supporter community – from German tank counterfactuals to South American neutrals to Soviet manpower.
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Episode 110: The Spanish Civil War: The War That Shaped Modern Spain
In today’s episode, Matthias returns to the Spanish Civil War to follow the conflict from the fighting around Madrid and the battles of Jarama and Brunete to Guernica, the Ebro offensive, and Franco’s final victory in 1939. We also explore the role of the International Brigades, German and Italian intervention, the development of combined-arms warfare, and the lasting political legacy of the war i
Episode 109: The Spanish Civil War: How It Began
In today’s episode, Matthias takes us to Spain in the 1930s to set the stage for one of the most complex conflicts of the interwar years: the Spanish Civil War. From the collapse of the monarchy and the deep political divisions of the Second Republic to Franco, the International Brigades, and intervention by Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union, we explore how Spain became a testing ground for the
Episode 108: Erwin Rommel's Politics & Legacy
In today’s episode, we’ll wrap up our journey through the life and times of Erwin Rommel by tackling thew most controversial aspects: his politics, his connection to atrocities, and his role in the Hitler assassination attempt of July 1944.
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Episode 107: Erwin Rommel: North Africa & the Desert Fox legend
In today’s episode we continue our exploration of the life and times of Erwin Rommel, as he is sent to North Africa and his reputation grows.
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Episode 106: Erwin Rommel: From Württemberg Cadet to France 1940
In today’s episode, we’ll take a closer look at one of the most famous, mythologized and lionized figures of the war – the Desert Fox, Erwin Rommel.
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Episode 105: North Africa 1941-42: Operation Crusader & Brevity
In today’s episode, we return to the Egyptian and Libyan desert, as both the British Commonwealth and the Axis gear up for several dramatic campaigns in the second half of 1941.
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Episode 104: North Africa 1940-41: A War of Tanks, Sand and Supply
In today’s episode, we’ll visit the warm and sandy expanses of the Libyan desert, for the back-and-forth campaigns of 1941 and the controversial performance of the so-called Desert Fox.
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Episode 103: Was Stalingrad the Real Turning Point?
In today’s episode, we’ll return to mythbusting, to take on one of the sacred cows of popular military history discussions: was Stalingrad the turning point in WW2?
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Episode 102: Walking Through Berlin’s History
In today's episode, we'll go for a stroll through Berlin and Brandenburg and take you with us on the ground to some of the most interesting spots in a city layered in history.
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Episode 101: The Last Stand on Okinawa
In today’s episode, we follow the fighting on southern Okinawa to its bitter conclusion, as US forces face their toughest challenge against a series of imposing ridges, and an enemy determined to fight to the last.
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Episode 100: Hitler’s Orders, His Generals and Neutral Portugal
In this week’s episode, we celebrate our 100th show by answering listener questions on the German Army’s lack of winter equipment in 1941, Hitler’s “no retreat” orders, Portugal’s role as a neutral power, and the relationship between Hitler and his generals.
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Episode 99: Battles That Shaped the 20th Century
In this week’s episode and in a long overdue collaboration between Not So Quite on the Western Front and WW2 Both Sides of the Wire, four of us sit down to explore what we feel are the battles that, for one reason or another, shaped the course of the 20th century.
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Episode 98: Okinawa: Kamikazes and the Yamato
In today’s episode, we hit the beaches at Okinawa, as American forces begin a grinding 82-day campaign to capture the island from determined and dug-in Japanese defenders.
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Episode 97: Okinawa Begins: Operation Iceberg
In today’s episode, we’re off to the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean, to the small but strategically important island of Okinawa. The US invasion of the island in 1945 would be the largest amphibious landings in the Pacific theatre, and set the stage for the final phase of the war against Japan.
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Episode 96: The Real General Patton: Hero, Showman, or Myth?
In today’s episode, we tackle the legendary, controversial, and much mythologized US General George S. Patton – was he really as good as his reputation in popular memory?
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Episode 95: The Last Hours of Hitler’s Berlin 1945
In today’s episode, we examine the final phase of the Battle of Berlin, as Soviet troops conquer the city and Hitler meets his end.
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Episode 94: Trapped in the Ruins of Berlin
In today's episode, we begin the end of the story of the Battle of Berlin, as for the fighting reaches the city itself
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Episode 93: Closing the Ring - Berlin 1945
In today’s episode, we jump into the action in April 1945, as Soviet forces race towards Berlin and close the ring around the Nazi capital.
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Episode 92: The Last Line of Defence - Berlin 1945
In today's episode, we start the story with the launch of the Berlin Operation in April 1945, and the bitter struggle for Berlin that started on the high ground at Seelow.
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Episode 91: Why the Germans Fought to the Bitter End
In today's episode, we pick up the story of the Battle of Berlin 1945, drilling down on the German side of the wire as the Berlin Operation begins.
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Episode 90: Prelude to the Downfall: The Red Army at the Gates of Berlin
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Episode 89: Battle of the Bulge - Bastogne, Skorzeny, and Germany’s Failure
In today’s episode, we once again take up the story of the Battle of the Bulge after the initial German breakthrough, and consider how the Allies turned the tide.
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Episode 88: Battle of the Bulge - Day One: When the Allies Were Caught Off Guard
In today’s episode, we return to the Battle of the Bulge and take up the action with the first chaotic days of the German offensive – when no one was sure how things would turn out.
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Episode 87: The Battle of the Bulge Begins: Germany’s Final Offensive in the West
In today’s episode, we’ll tackle Germany’s last-ditch offensive in the West to win the war in the west: the Battle of the Bulge.
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Episode Bonus: The 1913 Redl Spy Case
This bonus episode features a special guest appearance on the Untitled History Podcast with Gareth Edwards, where we dive into the espionage case of Alfred Redl, an Austro-Hungarian officer who spied for Russia before World War I.
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Episode 86: Normandy’s Forgotten Battle with Paul Woodadge
In today's episode, we'll drill down to a relatively unknown battle from July 1944 that reveals much about the fierce fighting in the Normandy campaign — the Battle of La Haye-du-Puits.
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Episode 85: Should France have fought on in 1940?
In today's episode, we'll test the waters of a historical counterfactual. Could or should France have fought on in 1940?
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Episode 84: From Clash to Total War: Japan vs China (1937)
In today’s episode, we’ll begin the story of the full-scale war between China and Japan, which started with the so-called China Incident in 1937.
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Episode 83: 900,000 vs 90,000: The Fight That Should’ve Ended Mao
In today's episode, we'll continue the story of China's civil war and war of Resistance against Japan, including the debate around the long march that has become the stuff of legend in China today.
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Episode 82: How Manchuria Lit the Fuse of World War II in Asia
In today’s episode, we’ll continue the epic story of the long fuse to the Second World War in Asia, where the Chinese Civil War spills over into a clash with Japan in Manchuria.
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Episode 81: Operation Anthropoid - The Escape & The Betrayal
In this week’s episode, we continue and bring to an end the fascinating and also gruesome story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
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Episode 80: Operation Anthropoid - The Assassination Attempt That Nearly Failed
In today’s episode, we drop into Prague in May 1942 and explore the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the terrible aftermath.
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Episode 79: Operation Anthropoid: The Attack Plan on Reinhard Heydrich
In today’s episode, we’ll explore one of the Second World War’s most dramatic and daring special operations: the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi ruler in occupied Czechoslovakia.
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Episode 78: How the US Ended Up in Greenland in WW2
In today’s episode, we’re going to take on the Second World War story of one of today’s geopolitical hotspots – the mostly forgotten story of Greenland in WW2.
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Episode 77: Imperial Powers in China: The Eight-Nation Alliance
In today’s episode, we’re turning our attention to East Asia, and the origins of the 14-year struggle between Japan and China that some say marked the real start of the Second World War.
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Episode 76: Behind the Eastern Front: Sabotage, Terror, and Retreat - 1943/44
In today’s episode we’ll dive into the peak of the partisan war in the Soviet Union – the massive campaign against German logistics and rear areas in 1943 and 1944, and the violent German response.
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Episode 75: Behind the Eastern Front: The Partisan War Escalates - 1942
In today’s episode, we’re continue the story of the Soviet partisan war against the Germans from 1941 to 1945 – how did the partisans fight, and how did the Germans try to stop them?
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Episode 74: Behind the Front Line: Soviet Partisans on the Eastern Front
In today’s episode, we’re losing ourselves in the forests and swamps deep inside the Soviet Union – where Soviet partisans waged an irregular campaign against the Germans that is still relatively unknown to outsiders.
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Episode 73: Why Crete Fell: Airborne Shock, Naval Disaster, and a Fatal Decision
In today’s episode, we’ll jump into the action at Crete in 1941 – from the air vs naval battle to the shock of the German airborne assault and the missed opportunities of the Allied defence.
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Episode 72: The Battle for Crete – Hitler’s Airborne Gamble!
In today’s episode, we’ll head to one of the prettiest vacation spots in Europe - the Greek island of Crete. In May 1941, this key to the eastern Mediterranean witnessed the biggest German airborne operation in history, one that had far-reaching consequences.
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Episode 71: The 1941 Battle for Greece
In today’s episode, we’ll take up the story of the Balkan campaign in 1941 and follow the fighting as it spilled into Greece and witnessed dramatic fighting around storied places like Mount Olympus and Thermopylae.
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Episode 70: The Fall of Yugoslavia: How the Axis Broke a Kingdom in 12 Days
In today’s episode, we’ll follow one of Germany’s lesser known so-called Blitzkrieg victories, the campaign in the Balkans in 1941 – a victory that has given rise to heated debates about its impact on the future course of the war.
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Episode 69: Mussolini’s Disaster in the Balkans
In today’s episode, we’ll dig into a sometimes overlooked moment in the second world war - Italy’s expansion into the Balkans in 1939 and 1940. What might seem like a minor campaign to some at first glance was actually loaded with political significance and military consequences.
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Episode 68: Escape from East Prussia 1945
In today’s episode, we’ll round off our coverage of East Prussia in the Second World War by exploring the painful experiences of the German civilian population there - both during the fighting and in the aftermath.
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Episode 67: Königsberg 1945: The End of a German City
In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the Red Army’s second – and this time successful – offensive into East Prussia in 1945. It’s a campaign that saw a bitter, months-long siege and resulted in the disappearance of a historic German region.
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Episode 66: The Moment the War Reached Germany | East Prussia 1944
In today’s episode, we’ll head to a place that no longer exists – East Prussia. In 1944 and 1945, this region saw some of the fiercest fighting of the late war, and was the scene of widespread war crimes.
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Episode 65: Could the Nazis Have Surrendered Earlier?
In today’s episode, we’re going to continue our hindsight-fuelled discussion of the Second World War’s possible mistakes - today, it’s the Allied policy of unconditional surrender.
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Episode 64: How Germany Secretly Rebuilt Its Military After WWI | Between the Wars
In this episode we take a look the German plans and actions for secret rearmament during the inter-war period. Were these steps justified by a weak country or did they pave the way to World War 2?
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Episode 63: Soviet occupation of Poland
In today’s episode, we’re headed to eastern Poland in 1939 and 1940, to discuss the Soviet occupation of the country and its impact on the people there.
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Episode 62: German occupation of Poland
In today’s episode, we’re going to explore the dark consequences of the German conquest of Poland – what did the Germans want to achieve with their newly conquered territories, and what did that mean for the people there?
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Episode 61: Soviet invasion of Poland 1939
In today’s episode, we’ll sink our teeth into the other invasion of Poland in 1939 - the one carried out by the Soviet Union, which still generates spirited debates today, both online and in the arena of international politics.
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Episode 60: German invasion of Poland 1939 Part 3
In today’s episode, we follow the action on the ground in September 1939 as the German army smashes into Poland and the Poles try to hold their ground and hope for help from Britain and France.
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Episode 59: German invasion of Poland 1939 Part 2
In today’s episode, we continue the story of the Polish campaign in 1939 - from the Nazi-Soviet Pact to Germany’s so-called Blitzkrieg.
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Episode 58: German invasion of Poland 1939 Part 1
In today's episode, we are marking a very important anniversary. In September, 1939, Germany invades Poland and the Second World War begins. The six week campaign would change the course of world history and even help set the stage for some of Europe's most difficult political problems today.
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Episode 57: Appeasement: The Biggest Mistake Before WWII?
In today’s episode, we’re going to take a page from the armchair generals and Monday morning quarterbacks and look at what might have been one of the Second World War’s great mistakes - the appeasement of Germany in the 1930s.
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Episode 56: The Malta Mistake: Operation Hercules That Wasn’t
In today’s epsiode, we take up the story of Malta again, and dip our toes into the dangerous waters of historical counterfactuals: could the Axis have taken Malta, and if so, how?
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Episode 55: The Malta Mistake: Why Hitler Never Took the Island
In today’s episode, we’re going to investigate what some consider a major strategic mistake of WW2 - the Axis failure to capture the Mediterranean island of Malta.
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Episode 54: The Secret to Military Success? German Doctrine During WWII
In today's session we are going to explore what made the Germans fight well in the Second World War. This is linked to doctrine and we will therefore analyse the most important German doctrine, the so-called Truppenführung, and we will shed light on how this influenced the "German way of war".
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Episode 53: Listeners’ Q&As – From Jet Fighters to Rommel’s Missed Opportunity
In today’s episode, we’re diving back into your questions—ranging from myths that outlived empires to the nuts and bolts of battlefield logistics—because, once again, you've sent us more great ones than we could possibly ignore.
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Episode 52: Occupied Norway: Resistance, Raids & the Final Surrender| Norway in WWII — Part 3
In today's episode, we'll round off the story of Norway in World War II by exploring what happened in the country after the German conquered it from raids to resistance to liberation.
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Episode 51: Narvik 1940: Germany's Arctic Disaster? | Norway in WWII — Part 2
In today's episode, we continue the story of the invasion of Norway in 1940.
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Episode 50: Why Hitler Invaded | Norway in WWII — Part 1
In today’s episode, we’ll take on a topic that you, our supporters and listeners, requested us to discuss. And that is the story of Norway in WW2 - from invasion to occupation to liberation.
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Episode 49: Killing Hitler: The July Bomb Plot (Part 2)
In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the plan everyone wishes had worked: the July 20 plot to kill Hitler.
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Episode 48: Killing Hitler: The July Bomb Plot (Part 1)
In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the plan everyone wishes had worked: the July 20 plot to kill Hitler.
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Episode 47: German Resistance
In today’s episode, we’re going to explore the diverse and tragic story of Germans who resisted the Nazi regime.
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Episode 46: Listeners’ Q&As - From Hitler To The Merchant Navy
In today’s episode, we answer more questions from our community and touch on topics from Hitler to the merchant navy.
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Episode 45: Listeners’ Q&As - From SS Generals to Calculating Casualties
In today’s episode, we’re going to answer questions posed to us by our supporters – so buckle up for a bit of everything from SS generals to calculating casualties.
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Episode 44: Grandfathers - Part 3
Today's episode, we're going to once again continue the story of our grandfather's experiences on both sides of the wire during the second World War.
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Episode 43: Grandfathers - Part 2
In today’s episode we’re going to continue the story of our grandfathers’ experiences on both sides of the wire during the second world war.
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Episode 42: Grandfathers - Part 1
Today’s episode is a family matter – we’re going to tell the stories of two young men at war: one German, and one Canadian. Those two young men went on to become our very own grandfathers and this is their story.
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