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6 days ago

CODE WARS (3/5) - Die Hagelin-Maschine

Den schwedische Ingenieur Boris Hagelin kann man als Steve Jobs der Chiffriermaschinen bezeichnen. Seine Krypto-Technik wird zum Welterfolg und bildet die Basis für einen transatlantischen Geheimdienstcoup.
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CODE WARS (5/5) - Belauschte Freunde

1945 wird in San Francisco die Charta der Vereinten Nationen verabschiedet. Während der langen, schwierigen Gründungsverhandlungen der UNO werden fast alle teilnehmenden Staaten abgehört.
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CODE WARS (4/5) - Der Feind meines Feindes ist mein Freund

Gegen Ende des 2. Weltkrieges suchen britische und amerikanische Geheimdienstoffiziere nach deutschen Kryptologen und ihren Maschinen. Diese sollen gegen den neuen Feind, die Sowjetunion eingesetzt werden.
22/05/2022

Episode 67 – Wardoctor Nxele begins to see visions as he synthesises amaXhosa religion with Christianity

Graham’s war in the Eastern Cape had sent the amaXhosa hurrying eastwards over the Great Fish River, with Ndlambe settling near where East London is today. Not surprisingly, however, the 1812 explusions caused an increase in cattle raiding rather than more stability because the power of the chiefs had been removed from the area. While the British were putting their faith into the Rharhabe chief Ngqika, he was now a weak leader and no longer appeared to represent the views of the amaXhosa. By now, the local ladndrost Cuyler and all British officials had preconceived notions of good Ngqika, bad Ndlambe to put it simply. They were going to be obstinate in their dislike of the latter despite his repeated attempts at making a separate peace with the Colony. The war of 1811 and 12 was brief but of unprecedented ferocity. The amaXhosa chiefs request to stay on until the summer crops were fully harvested was deliberately turned down “We chose the season of corn being on the ground…” said Graham. In the years immediately following 1812, political leadership passed from the hands of the chiefs into the hands of prophet-figures. As we know from contemporary politics, popularists are bit like prophets, they lead with a simple message and have enablers that spread the message. It was now the time of wardoctors – traditional medicine men and some women. These wardoctors were ancient, they’d been credited over time with the ability to turn spears into water, and the people were searching for a solution to the colonists guns.
29/05/2022

Episode 68 – Stockenström’s anguish, Dingiswayo and the beginning of the era of blood, power and iron

We heard last episode how the fourth Frontier War of 1811/12 had been a short sharp affair and the anger bubbling away amongst amaXhosa leadership about the brutal emptying of the Albany district, so recently called the Zuurveld. We need to close a chapter here for a while to return to the incredible happenings further north east as Shaka began to impose himself along with Dingiswayo on the people of the region north of the amaThukela – that part of the country which goes by the name of Zululand. Before doing so, that commando which had been created to force the straggling amaXhosa out of the Albany district led by Lieutenant Colonel John Graham’s fellow Cape Regiment officer, Captain George Fraser. Cattle raiding was increasing sharply by the end of 1812 despite the amaXhosa being removed, or mostly removed, from the district, but the drought which really began to bite in 1813 had forced many back into the green pastures. The harsh landscape seemed to evince more brutality from both sides, a country thorny and unwelcome, prickly with succulents, stubby bush that tripped up the fleetest footed horse, dark moody ravines, rocky unproductive mountains, almost surly with looming geological sedimentary brows. By now, the Boers had developed a real fear about what the British intentions were in their land. Many believed that Governor Cradock had called them out simply to press them into military action, they were expendable in his English eyes. While the Khoekhoe, amaXhosa, English and Boer were slugging it out in the Cape, the powerful centralized kingdoms were beginning to build a name for themselves further north east. In the years between 1800 and 1810, there is a curious gap in the knowledge of what happened between the Thukela and Pongola river catchment areas. While we have a great deal of oral history before this period, and afterwards, the ten years saw a combination of world events affected documentary evidence output for this region.
05/06/2022

Episode 69 – Senzangakhona’s “Jerusalem of the Zulus”, his beautiful wife Bhibhi and a bit of Delagoa Bay

This is episode 69 and we’re hunting the origins of Shaka. Throughout the area north of the Thukela River the main medium of exchange in terms of goods was no longer cattle by 1810 – it was beads. These glass objects manufactured in Europe had flowed through southern Africa starting in the first days of contact between Europe and Africa – way back in 1480s. More than 300 years later, these beads could be found in every corner of the continent. And one of those corners was Zululand. By the time of Shaka’s rise, starting in the second decade of the 19th Century, beads had become one the main medium of exchange paticularly when a man acquired a wife – lobolo, in conjunction with cattle. But beads were not the only trade item, things like copper and iron were mined locally and traded as well, while the people along the coast were expert at salvaging these metals from the numerous ship wrecks that dotted the Indian Ocean sands from north of Mozambique to Cape. Metals were directly linked to status. As you’ve heard in our earliest podcasts, African people were using iron and copper as ornaments – and the metals were worn by warriors as a sign of bravery. So trade with Europeans was therefore directly associated with the stratification of society from the earliest days with the most important members owning the most copper and brass, gold and even iron. However, there was not enough trade with Delagoa Bay to say with certainty that trade in these kinds of products alone drove the amaNdwandwe and the amaMthethwa, then the AmaZulu, to rise as powerful centralized kingdoms. Major trading emanated from Delagoa Bay, and the Dutch took advantage of this. Ivory was the main product, not slaves, with beads exchanged in return. Gold dust was also traded from far in the interior. Tsonga traders from around Delagoa Bay pitched up as far south as the Mfolozi River. Some made it 1500km into the interior!
15 May

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9 Oct

IM BAUCH DER GROßSTADT - Wiens neue Wohnwelt

Tausende neuer Wohnungen, Luxussteuer, eine Reform der Gesundheitsversorgung: Kurz nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg konnte die Wiener Arbeiterpartei ihre Stadt umgestalten. Das "Rote Wien" wollte anderen Städten ein Vorbild sein. Heute wird es bewundert - und verklärt. Ein Podcast von Hans Böhringer (BR 2026)
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CODE WARS (2/5) - Codes knacken

In den 1920er Jahren beginnt ein globaler Wettlauf: Nachrichten effektiv zu verschlüsseln und gleichzeitig immer schneller die Codes von Freund und Feind zu knacken. Der Auftakt eines Schattenkriegs.
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CODE WARS (1/5) - Das Treffen am Teufelsberg

Dem Investigativjournalist Peter F. Müller wird die Geheimakte "MINERVA" zugespielt, sie dokumentiert eine der folgenreichsten Abhöroperationen von CIA und BND. Ein Tiefenblick in das Jahrhundert der Geheimdienste.

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