Send us a text Despite some popular perception, Holocaust perpetrators are rarely cartoonish pure evil characters. In fact, many of them understood their guilt and actively sought to weave false narratives to exonerate themselves or avoid prosecution. The story of Franz Lucas is one such narrative. In this episode, I talk with Andrew Wisely about Lucas, an SS doctor at multiple concentration camps. We discuss his complicity in the Holocaust as well as his attempts to ...
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Send us a text Despite some popular perception, Holocaust perpetrators are rarely cartoonish pure evil characters. In fact, many of them understood their guilt and actively sought to weave false narratives to exonerate themselves or avoid prosecution. The story of Franz Lucas is one such narrative. In this episode, I talk with Andrew Wisely about Lucas, an SS doctor at multiple concentration camps. We discuss his complicity in the Holocaust as well as his attempts to ...
Ep. 59- The Auschwitz Sonderkommando with Dominic Williams
The Holocaust History Podcast
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4 months ago
Ep. 59- The Auschwitz Sonderkommando with Dominic Williams
Send us a text Arguably, one of the worst places for prisoners to work during the Holocaust was the Sonderkommando—the group of prisoners forced to work in and around the gas chambers, disposing of corpses. Yet they also managed to create a number of texts that survived the Holocaust even if they did not. In this episode, I talk with Dominic Williams about the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, its place in the Holocaust, and the documents it left behind. Dominic Williams is an assist...
The Holocaust History Podcast
Send us a text Despite some popular perception, Holocaust perpetrators are rarely cartoonish pure evil characters. In fact, many of them understood their guilt and actively sought to weave false narratives to exonerate themselves or avoid prosecution. The story of Franz Lucas is one such narrative. In this episode, I talk with Andrew Wisely about Lucas, an SS doctor at multiple concentration camps. We discuss his complicity in the Holocaust as well as his attempts to ...
