Show Notes
The fighting has ended in Europe—but with millions of displaced people surging in all directions across Europe, it cannot be called peace. While millions of POWs look forward to going home, forced labourers and people of eastern Europe know they have no home to return to. And try to escape the communist yoke. Hosted on Audioboom. See Beyond Barbarossa’s privacy policy for more information.
More from Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2
From 1940 to 1945, steady traffic across the North Sea from the Shetland Islands to the west coast of Norway evacuated civilians and brought in agents, weapons, arms and intelligence. Author J.L. Oakley joins the podcast again to describe this under-appreciated part of World War 2. Map: The Shetland Bus route Links Books
The nazis thought they would find a brethren Nordic race in Norway. The people's resistance to their occupation brought about an even more brutal occupation. Part 2 of the conversation with author J.L. Oakley Hosted on Audioboom. See Beyond Barbarossa’s privacy policy for more information.
A conversation with J.L. Oakley, author of three historical novels set in Norway during the German occupation of 1940 to 1945 Like the Eastern Front, Norway’s experience during the Second World War is not well known in the English-speaking world. Author Janet Oakley is helping correct that.
In this special episode of the podcast on the Eastern Front of World War Two, we go beyond Beyond Barbarossa and beyond the end of the Second World War.
Historian and author of Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito and the Descent into Total War