The Holocaust History Podcast Reading List

Episode 1. History, Fiction, and Truth with Omer Bartov

 

Bartov, Omer. The Butterfly and the Axe (2023)

Bartov, Omer. Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2019)

Bartov, Omer. Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022)

Bartov, Omer. Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2015)

 

Friedlander, Saul. Nazi Germany And The Jews: The Years Of Persecution: 1933-1939 (2007)

Friedlander, Saul. Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945 (2008)

 

Sebald, W.G. Austerlitz (2018)

 

 

Episode 2. Romania and the Holocaust with Grant Harward

 

Harward, Grant. Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust (2021)

 

Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992)

 

 

Episode 3. The Fourth Reich with Gavriel Rosenfeld

 

Rosenfeld, Gavriel. The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present (2019)

Rosenfeld, Gavriel and Janet Ward. Fascism in America: Past and Present (2023)

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Gurock, Jeffrey S. An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967 (2015)

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Episode 4. America's Rescue of Jews with Rebecca Erbelding

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Erbelding, Rebecca. Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (2018)

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Mendelsohn, Daniel. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2008)

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Episode 5. The Sobibor Photo Album with Martin Cüppers

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Cüppers, Martin, Anne Lepper, Jürgen Matthäus. From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor: An SS Officer's Photo Collection (2022)

Cüppers, Martin and Klaus-Michael Mallmann.  Nazi Palestine: Hitler's Plan for the Middle East and the Arab World (2009)

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Episode 6. Holocaust Archaeology with Caroline Sturdy-Colls

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Sturdy Colls, C. Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions (2015)

Sturdy Colls, C. and Kevin Colls. 'Adolf Island': The Nazi occupation of Alderney (2022)

 

Gradowski, Zalmen. From the Heart of Hell: Manuscripts of a Sonderkommando prisoner at Auschwitz 2017

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Episode 7. Holocaust Survivors in the US Military with Mike Rugel

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Cohen, Daniel. Single Handed: The Inspiring True Story of Tibor "Teddy" Rubin (2016)

 

Wyman, David. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 (2007)

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Episode 8. Topf and Sons- The Family who Engineered the Holocaust with Karen Bartlett

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Bartlett, Karen. Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Holocaust (2018)

Bartlett, Karen. The Diary That Changed the World: The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and the Diary of Anne Frank (2022)

Bartlett, Karen and Eva Schloss. After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank (2014)

 

Presser, Jacob. Ashes in the Wind: The Destruction of Dutch Jewry (2010)

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Episode 9. The Persecution of Transgender and Gay Communities during the Holocaust with Laurie Marhoefer

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Marhoefer, Laurie. Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (2015)

Marhoefer, Laurie. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love (2022)

 

Browning, Christopher. Remembering Survival – Inside a Nazi Slave–Labor Camp (2011)

Bergen, Doris. War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (2016)

Kaplan, Marion. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998)

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Episode 10. Why We Fight- The Band of Brothers Holocaust Episode with John Orloff and Ross McCall

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Stargardt, Nicholas. The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–45 (2016)

 

Frankl, Victor. Man’s Search for Meaning (2004)

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Episode 11. Hunger and Starvation in Ghettos with Helene Sinnreich

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Sinnreich, Helene J. The Atrocity of Hunger: Starvation in the Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow Ghettos during World War II (2023)

 

Cole, Tim. Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto (2003)

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Episode 12. The Auschwitz Jewish Center and Holocaust Education in Poland with Tomek Kunciewicz and Maciek Zaberowski

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Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992)

 

Perechodnik, Carel. Am I A Murderer?: Testament Of A Jewish Ghetto Policeman (1996)

 

Tuszynska, Agata. Family History of Fear: A Memoir (2016)

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Episode 13. Drunk on Genocide: Nazi Perpetrators, Alcohol, and Violence with Ed Westermann

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Westermann, Edward. Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (2021)

Westermann, Edward. Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (2010)

Westermann, Edward. Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest (2019)

 

Lower, Wendy. Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (2014)

Glazer, Richard. Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka (1995)

Isaacson, Judith Magyar. Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor (1989)

Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz (1995)

Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After (2013)

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Episode 14. The Romani Experience during the Holocaust with Ari Joskowicz

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Joskowicz, Ari. Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (2023)

 

Jablonka, Ivan . A History of the Grandparents I Never Had (2016)

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Episode 15. Holocaust Education with Irene Ann Resenly

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Resenly, I. A. (2022). Site Educators in Germany’s Perceptions of Practice: The Sense-Maker and the Storyteller. In Tour Guides at Memorial Sites and Holocaust Museums: Empirical Studies in Europe, Israel, North America and South Africa. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 33-45.

 

Schweber, S., & Resenly, I. A. (2018). Curricular Imprints or the Presence of Curricular Pasts: A Study of One Third Grader’s Holocaust Education 12 Years Later. Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward. pp. 3-18.

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Schweber, Simone.  Making Sense of the Holocaust: Lessons from Classroom Practice (2004)

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Episode 16. Eisenhower and the Holocaust with Jason Lantzer

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Lantzer, Jason. Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust: A History (2023)

 

Hilberg, Raul. Destruction of the European Jews (1961)

Goldensohn, Leon. The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses (2007)

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Episode 17. The Kindertransport(s) with Amy Williams

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Williams, Amy and William Niven. National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport: Exhibitions, Memorials, and Commemorations (2023)

 

Miley, Hanna Zack. A Garland for Ashes: World War II, the Holocaust, and One Jewish Survivor's Long Journey to Forgiveness (2013)

Julius, Lyn. Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight (2018)

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Episode 18. Treblinka with Chad Gibbs

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Gibbs, Chad S.A. “Treblinka Geography: Nazi Building, Jewish Breaking, Historical Reconstructing,” in Space in Holocaust Research: A Transdisciplinary  Approach to Spatial Thinking, Alexandra Klei, Annika Wienert, Janine Fubel, Eds. May 2024.

 

 

Grüner, Wolf.  Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany (2023)

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Episode 19. The Jasenovac Camp with Stipe Odak

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Odak, Stipe and Andriana Kuznar, Danijeila Lucic, eds. Jasenovac Concentration Camp: An Unfinished Past (2023)

 

Bylford, Jovan. Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (2011)

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Episode 20. Polish-Jewish Relations in the Holocaust with Jan Grabowski

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Grabowski, Jan. On Duty - The Polish Blue & Criminal Police in the Holocaust (2024)

Grabowski, Jan. Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland (2022)

Grabowski, Jan. Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (2013)

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Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992)

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Episode 21. The Zone of Interest with Barry Langford

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Langford, Barry and R. Eaglestone (eds). Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film (2007)

 

 

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1983)

Stone, Dan. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (2024)

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Episode 22. Nazi Perpetrators and disgust with Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic

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Munch-Jurisic, Ditte Marie. Perpetrator Disgust: The Moral Limits of Gut Feelings (2023)

 

 

Westermann, Edward. Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany (2021)

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Episode 23. The Genocide of Soviet POWs with Dallas Michelbacher

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Geoffrey P. Megargee. Volume Editors: Geoffrey P. Megargee, Rüdiger Overmans, and Wolfgang Vogt. Contributing Editor: Mel Hecker. USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol. IV: Camps and Other Detention Facilities Under the German Armed Forces (2022)

 

Geoffrey P. Megargee. Volume Editors: Geoffrey P. Megargee, Rüdiger Overmans, and Wolfgang Vogt. Contributing Editor: Mel Hecker. Volume I: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA) (2009)

 

Geoffrey P. Megargee. Volume Editors: Geoffrey P. Megargee, Rüdiger Overmans, and Wolfgang Vogt. Contributing Editor: Mel Hecker. Volume II: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe (2012)

 

Geoffrey P. Megargee. Volume Editors: Geoffrey P. Megargee, Rüdiger Overmans, and Wolfgang Vogt. Contributing Editor: Mel Hecker. Volume III: Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany (2018)

 

 

Streit, Christian. Keine Kameraden: Die Wehrmacht und die sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen 1941 – 1945 (1997)

 

Kay, Alex. Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing (2021)

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Episode 24. The Counterfeit Countess with Joanna Sliwa and Elizabeth White

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Sliwa, Joann and Elizabeth White. The Counterfeit Countes: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust (2024)

 

Hayes, Peter. Why? Explaining the Holocaust (2018)

 

Weizman Yechiel. Unsettled Heritage: Living next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust (2022)

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Episode 25. The Holocaust and the German Genocide in Namibia with Jürgen Zimmerer

Zimmerer, Jürgen. From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the colonial-Nationalsocialist nexus (2023)

Zimmerer, Jürgen. German Rule, African Subjects: State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia (2022)

 

Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust (1991)

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Episode 26. Josef Mengele with David Marwell

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Marwell, David. Mengele: Unmasking the "Angel of Death" (2021)

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Hilberg, Raul. Destruction of the European Jews (1961)

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1983)

Douglas, Lawrence. The Right Wrong Man – John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial (2016)

Sands, Philippe. East Street, West Street. (2017)

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Episode 27. The Catholic Church and the Holocaust with David Kertzer

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Kertzer, David, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler (2022)

 

Zachotti, Susan. Under his Very Windows – The Vatican & the Holocaust in Italy: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy (2002)

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Episode 28. The International Tracing Service with Dan Stone​

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Stone, Dan.  Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (2023)

Link to the International Tracing Service Website

 

Spiegel, Isaiah. Ghetto Kingdom: Tales of the Lodz Ghetto (1998)

Spiegel, Isaiah. Flames from the Earth: A Novel from the Lódz Ghetto (1966)

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Episode 29. German Resistance with Mark Roseman

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Roseman, Mark. Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany (2020)

 

Haffner, Sebastian. Defying Hitler: A Memoir (2003)

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Episode 30. Nazi Eugenics with Marius Turda

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Turda, Marius. Modernism and Eugenics (2010)

Turda, Marius. Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014)

 

Harward, Grant. Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust (2021)

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Episode 31. The Holocaust Codes with Christian Jennings

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Jennings, Christian. The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution (2024)

 

Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (2019)

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Episode 32. Claude Lanzmann's Shoah with Dominic Williams

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Williams, Dominic and Nicholas Chare. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando: Testimonies, Histories, Representations (2019)

Williams, Dominic and Nicholas Chare. Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (2016)

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Pollin-Gallay, Hannah. Occupied Words: What the Holocaust did to Yiddish (2024)

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Episode 33. The Bełżec Extermination Camp with Chris Webb

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Webb, Chris. The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (2016)

Webb, Chris. The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (2017)

Webb, Chris. The Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (2014)

 

Reder, Rudolf. Bełżec (1946)

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Episode 34. The Holocaust in Belarus with Franzisak Exeler

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Exeler, Franziska. Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus (2022)

 

Bornstein-Bielicka, Chasia.  One of the Few: A Resistance Fighter & Educater, 1939-1947 (2009)

Rabin, Julia. Against the tide: The story of an unknown partisan (1980)

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Episode 35. The Trials of Ilse Koch with Tomaz Jardim

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Jardim, Tomaz. Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the “Bitch of Buchenwald” (2024)

 

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1983)

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Episode 36. Visiting Holocaust sites with Stuart Bertie, Mary Brazier, and Lesley Moore

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Son of Saul (2015)

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1983)

Stone, Dan. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (2024)

Venezia, Shlomo. Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz (2011)​​

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Episode 37. The Nazis and Christianity with Richard Steigmann-Gall

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Steigmann-Gall, Richard. The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 (2009)

 

Stone, Dan.  Histories of the Holocaust (2010)

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Episode 38. The Einsatzgruppen with Jürgen Matthäus

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Matthäus, Jürgen, Jochen Böhler, and Klaus-Michael Mallmann. War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland (2014)

 

Lower, Wendy.  The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia (2011)

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Episode 39. Philosophy and the Holocaust with John K. Roth

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Roth, John. The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities (2015)

Roth, John. Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau (2005)

 

 

Camus, Albert. The Plague (1947)

Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After (1965)

Amery, Jean. At the Mind’s Limits (1966)

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Episode 40. The Spatial History of Treblinka with Jacob Flaws

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Flaws, Jacob. Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (2024)

 

Gigliotti, Simone. The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (2010)

Colls, Caroline Sturdy and Kevin Simon Colls. 'Adolf Island': The Nazi occupation of Alderney (2022)

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Episode 41. Nazi Euthanasia and its aftermath with Dagmar Herzog

 

Herzog, Dagmar. The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century (2024)

 

Bartov, Omer. The Butterfly and the Axe (2023)

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Episode 42. Interviewing Survivors with Henry Greenspan

 

Greenspan, Henry. On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony (2010)

 

Kassow, Sam.  Who will write our history? (2009

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Episode 43. Geographies of the Holocaust with Anne Kelly Knowles and Tim Cole

 

Knowles, Anne Kelly, Tim Cole, and Paul Jaskot. Geographies of the Holocaust (2014)

 

Cole, Tim. Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto (2003)

 

 

Modiano, Patrick. The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder (2014)

Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space (1991)

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Episode 44. The Fate of Jewish Sites in Poland with Yechiel Weizman

 

Weizman, Yechiel. Unsettled Heritage: Living next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust (2022)

 

Pollin-Galay, Hannah. Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (2024)

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Episode 45. Jewish Resistance in Germany with Wolf Gruner

 

Grüner, Wolf.  Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler's Germany (2023)

 

Hajkova, Anna. The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (2023)

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Episode 46. Nazi Architecture with Paul Jaskot

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Jaskot, Paul. The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy (1999)

 

Did-Hubermann, Georges. Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz (2012)

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Episode 47. A Nazi in the Family with Kai Hoess

Hoess, Rudolf. Commandant of Auschwitz (2000)

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Episode 48. War Criminals in Australia with Jayne Persian

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Persian, Jayne. Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia (2023)

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Gross, Jan. Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust (2016)

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Episode 49. Reframing Holocaust Testimony with Noah Shenker

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Shenker, Noah. Reframing Holocaust Testimony (2015)

 

Roth, Philip. The Plot against America (2005)

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Episode 50. Digital Holocaust Studies with Todd Presner

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Presner, Todd. Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory (2024)

 

Rosen, Alan. The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder (2010)

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Episode 51. Klaus Barbie and his Trial with Richard Golsan

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Golsan, Richard J. Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes against Humanity (2022)

 

Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)

Bauer, Yehuda. Rethinking the Holocaust (2002)

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Episode 52. Mengele in South America with Betina Anton

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Anton, Betina.  Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death (2025)

 

Rees, Laurence. The Holocaust: A New History (2017)

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Episode 53. Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the Holocaust with Michael S. Bryand and John J. Michalczyk

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Michalczyk, John J, Michael S. Bryant, and Susan A. Michalzyk. Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide (2022)

 

Mazower, Mark. Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (2009)

Longerich, Peter. Hitler: A Life (2019)

Fulbrook, Mary. Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (2020)

Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste (2023)

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Episode 54. Early Violence against Jews in 1933 with Hermann Beck

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Beck, Hermann. Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover (2022)

 

Gay, Peter. My German Question – Growing up in Nazi Berlin (1998)

Nathorff, Hertha. Das Tagebuch der Hertha Nathorff: Berlin-New York; Aufzeichnungen 1933 bis 1945 (2010)

Tausk, Walter. Breslauer Tagebuch (1988)

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Episode 55. Holocaust Photographs with Valerie Hébert and Hilary Earl

 

Hébert, Valerie (ed). Framing the Holocaust (2025)

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Kinsler, Linda. Come to This Court and Cry: Secrets and Survival at the Last Nazi Trials (2023)

Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved (1986)

Levi, Primo. If this is a Man (1947)

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Episode 56. The Holocaust in Bulgaria with Nadège Ragaru

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Ragaru, Nadége.  Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust: On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative (2023)

 

Kulka, Otto Dov. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination (2014)

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Episode 57. Magnus Hirschfeld, the trans community, and the Nazis with Brandy Schillace

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Schillace, Brandy. The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story (2025)

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Blankfeld, Keren. Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story (2025)

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Episode 58. Evolution of Genocide with Benjamin Meiches

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Meiches, Benjamin.  The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide (2019)

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Novick, Peter. The Holocaust in American Life (2000)

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Episode 59. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando with Dominic Williams

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Williams, Dominic and Nicholas, Chare. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando: Testimonies, Histories, Representations (2019)

Williams, Dominic and Nicholas, Chare. Testimonies of Resistance: Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando (2019)

Williams, Dominic and Nicholas, Chare. Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (2015)

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Greif, Gideon. We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz (2005)

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Episode 60. Perpetrators of Mass Violence with Alette Smeulers

 

Smeulers, Alette. Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal? (2023)

 

Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992)

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Episode 61. Writng about Holocaust Perpetrators with Erin McGlothlin

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McGlothlin, Erin. The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (2021)

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Gigliotti, Simone. The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (2010)

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Episode 62. Dehumanization and Genocide with David Livingstone Smith

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Smith, David Livingstone. Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization (2021)

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Chapoutot, Johann.  The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi (2018)

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Episode 63. Yiddish and the Holocaust with Hannah Pollin-Galay

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Pollin-Galay, Hannah.  Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (2024)

 

Rose, Sven Erik. Making and Unmaking Literature in Vilna Ghetto (2025)

Dean, Carolyn J. The Fragility of Empathy After the Holocaust (2004)

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Episode 64. The Birdman of Auschwitz with Nicholas Milton

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Milton, Nicholas. The Birdman of Auschwitz: The Life of Günther Niethammer, the Ornithologist Seduced by the Nazis (2025)

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Frankl, Victor. Man’s Search for Meaning (1946)

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Episode 65. A Nazi doctor and Post-war Justice with Andrew Wisely

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Wisely, Andrew.  The Trial of a Nazi Doctor: Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver (2024)

Stone, Dan. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (2024)

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Episode 66. Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish Diaries with Amy Shapiro Simon

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Simon, Amy Shapiro.  Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity (2024)

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Kaplan, Marion. Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (2020)

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Episode 67. Nuremberg Trials with Jack El-Hai

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El-Hai, Jack. The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (2013)

 

Schmidt, Ulf. Justice at Nuremberg: Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors' Trial (2006)

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Episode 68. Babi Yar: History, Memory, and Literature with Shay Pilnik

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Pilnik, Shay.  The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War (2025)

 

Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany And The Jews: The Years Of Persecution: 1933-1939 (2007)

Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945 (2008)

Khiterer, Victoria. Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration (2025)

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Episode 69. Wehrmacht Chaplains and the Holocaust with Doris Bergen

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Bergen, Doris. Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany (2025)

 

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1983)

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Episode 70. Women in the Holocaust with Elissa Bemporad

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Bemporad, Elissa and Joyce W. Warren, eds. Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators (2018)

 

Bemporad, Elissa. Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (2020)

 

Hajkova, Anna. People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (2025)

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Episode 71. Queering the Holocaust iwth Anna Hájková

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Hájková, Anna. People without History are Dust- Queer Desire in the Holocaust (2025)

 

Garbarini, Alexandra. Numbered Days – Diaries and the Holocaust (2006)

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Episode 72. Empathy, Witnessing, and the Challenge of the Holocaust with Carolyn Dean

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Dean, Carolyn. The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust (2004)

Dean, Carolyn. The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (2019)

 

Frenkel, Francoise. A Bookshop in Berlin: One Woman's Flight from the Nazis (2024)

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Episode 73. Babi Yar History and Memory with Victoria Khiterer

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Khiterer, Victoria. Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration (2025)

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Kuznetsov, Anatoli. Babi Yar: The Story of Ukraine's Holocaust (2024)

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Episode 74. The Global History of Concentration Camps with Andrea Pitzer

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Pitzer, Andrea. One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps (2018)

 

Wachsmann, Nikolaus. KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (2016)

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Episode 75. Guilt and the Postwar Lives of Nazi Perpetrators with Katherina von Kellenbach

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von Kellenbach, Katharina. The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Lives of Nazi Perpetrators (2013)

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Krüger, Ruth. Weiterleben. Eine Jugend (1992)

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Episode 76. The Janowska Camp with Waitman Wade Beorn

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Beorn, Waitman Wade. Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (2024)

 

Sereny, Gitta. Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1983)

Hershman, Marcie. Tales of the Master Race: A Novel (1991)

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Episode 77. The Clemency and Paroling of Nazi War Criminals with Robert Hutchinson

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Hutchinson, Robert W. After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals (2022)

 

 

Westermann, Edward. Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi German  (2021)

Breitman, Richard. A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust (2025)

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Episode 78- Polish Mayors and the Holocaust with Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

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Rossoliński-Liebe, Grzegorz.  Polnische Bürgermeister und der Holocaust. Besatzung, Verwaltung und Kollaboration (2024)

 

Friedlander, Saul. Nazi Germany And The Jews: The Years Of Persecution: 1933-1939 (2007)

Friedlander, Saul. Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945 (2008)

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Episode 79- The Nazi Occult with Eric Kurlander

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Kurlander, Eric.  Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2018)

 

Confino, Alon.  A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (2015)

Moses, Dirk. The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021)

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Episode 80- Jewish Revenge and the Holocaust with Laura Jockusch

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Jockusch, Laura. Jewish Revenge and the Holocaust: History, Memory, and Imagination (2026)

 

Gradowski, Zalman.  The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz (2024)

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Episode 81- Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums with Julie Golding

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Golding, Julie J. Unseen Scars:: Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums, Exhibitions, and Memorial Sites (2026)

 

Fishman, David.  The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis (2017)