Episode 7 Pt 2 - Dr. Waitman Beorn, historian and former US cavalry officer who specializes in Holocaust studies.

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Episode 7 Pt 2 - Dr. Waitman Beorn, historian and former US cavalry officer who specializes in Holocaust studies.

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1 hour 19 minutes 33 seconds

1 year ago

Episode 7 Pt 2 - Dr. Waitman Beorn, historian and former US cavalry officer who specializes in Holocaust studies.

Today, we completed the second part of our series about the myth of the German soldier and the Wehrmacht's "clean hands" with an amazing interview with Dr. Waitman Beorn. He talked about a lot of things and even gave us some advice on how to identify possible N@zi propaganda and beyond.

It was an honor and a pleasure to learn so much with someone like Dr. Beorn:

Waitman Wade Beorn is an American historian and former US cavalry officer who specializes in Holocaust studies, focusing on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. He is currently an Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. Beorn previously served as the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha. From 2015 to 2016, he was the executive director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Beorn's first book, Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, explored the local participation of the German Army in the Holocaust, It looked at a series of case studies of units in the Generalbezirk Weißruthenien during World War II. It argued for a progression of ever-increasing complicity by the Wehrmacht in genocide. His second book, The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution, is a general survey of the Holocaust in the East. His third book is on the Janowska concentration camp. Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv will be released from Nebraska University Press in 2024. Beorn is a founding member of the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, an interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in exploring how a spatial and digital approach can better inform our understanding of the Holocaust. He is a digital humanist who integrates mapping, modeling, and social network analyses into his work. His current project is Visualizing Janowska: Creating a Digital Architectural Model of a Nazi Concentration Camp. Dr. Beorn thank you very much for dedicating your time to our show, I want to invite you all to follow him on X (@waitmanb) and subscribe on YouTube (@dr.waitmanbeorn). Plus, give us a follow on Instagram, there you'll be constantly updated about the podcast and much more (@worldwarii_daily and @samueldekorte)! We hope you all enjoy and stay tuned because there are many great things to come!

This episode is also available on YouTube: @TheWorldWarIIDailyPodcast

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