17 episodes
WW2 War Crimes Trials J L Gabbott
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3.0 • 8 Ratings
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Were the war crimes held by the Allies in Europe and the Far East after the Second Word War fair and just? We look at the trials: the law, the charges and the evidence. Be prepared to be surprised.
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The Trial of Lord Haw Haw
William Joyce – Lord Haw Haw – broadcast propaganda from Germany to Britain. Everyone thought he was British and wanted him to be hanged. He was in fact American, but that did not save him.
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The Trial of John Demjanjuk
The trial of John Demjanjuk, suspected of being the guard known as ‘Ivan the Terrible’, ended in failure. But that was only the start …
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The Trial of SS Oberscharführer Calesson
Did Otto Calesson commit a series of heinous war crimes, or was he framed? You decide.
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The Trial of Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann was tried in his absence. How fair was that?
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The Trial of SS Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer was known as the 'Beast of Belsen'. Did he deserve that name, or was he in fact a pleasant fellow?
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Belsen: The False Testimony of the British Brigadier
Brigadier Glyn Hughes gave the Belsen court evidence which was false and misleading.
Customer Reviews
Hard to hear words
I don’t have any issue with anything else but the audio needs to be clearer and audio is the main thing for a podcast
Misleading
Besides the quality of the audio sounding like it’s spoken into a tin can in a gymnasium, the subject matter is approached with the thinnest of disguises for denialism and excusing the inhumanity committed during WW2 as just doing your job and chalks up the conditions to systemic banality of evil.
I expected a degree of the host playing devil’s advocate when discussing evidence presented in the trials. What is presented here is information meant to persuade the listener that the convictions were a miscarriage of justice because the evidence did not fit the exact crime. Having thought that surely it was just the one episode, I listened to three more just to make sure my impression was not wrong. They were more of the same.
War crimes are not the “First 48” or the “Forensic Files”. You don’t get DNA and security cam footage to prove that a genocidal manic killed their victims 75 years ago in a camp or forest. The only reason the few witnesses that were available and were not victims is because they weren’t seen.