18 min
Nazis in New Orleans Voodoo City
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- Society & Culture
Many New Orleanians grew up hearing fragments of rumors that German U-boats patrolled the waters off Louisiana's coast during World War II. Many of them discounted those rumors as mere myth. As it turns out, though, they're not a myth at all. New Orleans did, indeed, have a Nazi problem during the war. Sonny Downs knows. He had a first-hand encounter with some of Hitler's henchmen -- and he lived to tell the tale.
Many thanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs in this episode:
Aakash Gandhi, "Forest of Fear"
The Tower of Light, "Contact"
Au.Ra, "Searching in the Mountains" and "Wandering and Floating"
Splimis, "Gone Tomorrow"
Robert Crisp, "Abstract (30 seconds)"
Many New Orleanians grew up hearing fragments of rumors that German U-boats patrolled the waters off Louisiana's coast during World War II. Many of them discounted those rumors as mere myth. As it turns out, though, they're not a myth at all. New Orleans did, indeed, have a Nazi problem during the war. Sonny Downs knows. He had a first-hand encounter with some of Hitler's henchmen -- and he lived to tell the tale.
Many thanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs in this episode:
Aakash Gandhi, "Forest of Fear"
The Tower of Light, "Contact"
Au.Ra, "Searching in the Mountains" and "Wandering and Floating"
Splimis, "Gone Tomorrow"
Robert Crisp, "Abstract (30 seconds)"
18 min