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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP150—001: Easter Sunday 1944—Cracks In the Nazi Foundation and Invitation To Learning
Description: Saturday April 8th, 1944. New York City. It’s a rainy day before Easter and World War II news is dominating consciousness.
There are cracks in Germany’s foundation. On Tuesday April 4th, allied surveillance aircrafts photographed the Auschwitz concentration camp. Knowing this, the Nazis will spend the next four months using the gas chambers and incinerators to their full capacity. Twenty-thousand people could be murdered each day.
The Germans have lost five u-boats in three days on both fronts while simultaneously facing heavy fighting against the Soviets in Ukraine. They’ve been repeatedly forced to retreat.
On Good Friday, April 7th, Ad...