History Date Night: A WWII Podcast

History Date Night: A WWII Podcast

por Justin and Jennie

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Episode 41 - In the Tent

On this episode of History Date Night Justin and Jennie cover May 27th through the 29th. These might be the most important three days of the entire war so far, not just because of what happens on any battlefield, but because of a five hour argument that takes place inside the British War Cabinet, about whether Britain should try to make peace with Hitler. This episode also has two separate SS massacres of British prisoners within 24 hours of each other, King Leopold of Belgium surrendering his country without telling his allies, French, Polish, and Norwegian troops actually recapturing a town from the Germans in Norway.

Episode 40 - The Halt Order

This episode of History Date Night covers May 23rd through the 26th, 1940. As German tanks race across France with Allied forces seemingly on the verge of total disaster, the German advance suddenly comes to a halt. Why did the tanks stop when victory appeared within reach? And was this pause one of the most consequential decisions of World War II? This episode follows the chaos surrounding the northern Allied armies as their command structure begins to unravel, including a series of missed meetings and a fatal car crash that leaves the French high command struggling to coordinate its forces at the worst possible moment. Meanwhile, Britain launches a sweeping arrest of hundreds suspected of fascist sympathies, and in Mexico City, Leon Trotsky survives an assassination attempt involving bombs and machine guns.

Episode 39 - Filled Their Lungs With Sea Air

This episode of History Date Night covers May 19th through the 22nd. The German spearhead reaches the sea, cutting the Allied armies in Belgium off from the rest of France . A new French commander's grasp of the crisis is tenuous at best. Justin and Justin also cover Churchill's first radio broadcast as Prime Minister, the British counterattack at Arras that rattles Erwin Rommel, important progress at Bletchley Park against Luftwaffe Enigma traffic, and a British Parliament passing the most sweeping legislation in the country's history in less than three hours of debate.

Episode 38 - Aucune

In this episode of History Date Night, Justin and Jennie cover May 16th through 18th. This episode is short in days but enormous in consequence. The German breakthrough stops being a hole in the French line and becomes something nobody can stop. Churchill flies to Paris and learns how bad things really are. This episode also has a furious confrontation between two German generals that nearly costs Guderian his command at the exact moment he's winning the war for his country, Charles de Gaulle leading the only real French counterattack of the entire campaign, the French Prime Minister reshuffling his government, and an American spy scandal breaking open inside the London embassy.

Episode 37 - We Have Been Defeated

On this episode of History Date Night, Justin and Jennie cover May 11th through 15th. The Netherlands surrenders. Churchill gives a speech everyone still quotes eighty years later. And at a small French border town called Sedan, the war is essentially decided in about three days, though almost nobody watching it fully understands that yet. Also we see an exiled Kaiser turning down an offer of British asylum hours before his own home is overrun, the French Ninth Army coming apart in scenes of panic, the tragedy of a bombing raid that arrives after the order to cancel it, and a French Prime Minister telling Churchill over the telephone, three words: we are defeated.

Episode 36 - May 10th

In this episode of History Date Night Justin and Jennie cover the beginning of the war in the west. In the space of about eighteen hours, Germany invades four countries at once. A fortress considered the strongest in the world falls to eighty men in gliders. Paratroopers try to kidnap an entire royal family and government in a single morning. And in London, a Prime Minister resigns and is replaced by the man who will lead Britain through the rest of this war. History Date Night is going to walk through this day almost hour by hour, because it's just that kind of day.

Episode 35 - In the Name of God, Go

On this episode of History Date Night, Justin and Jennie cover the British government tearing itself apart, a Norwegian fortress finally surrendering after 25 days, a Polish destroyer's crew rescued to the sound of a battleship band playing their own national anthem, a German armored column spotted moving through the supposedly impassable Ardennes forest in broad daylight with nobody responding, and a full account of both German and allied stances along the borders of France and the Low Countries so when it all comes apart, you'll understand exactly why.

Episode 34 - They Are Simply to Leave

On This Episode of History Date Night: Norway is collapsing, and the Allies ordered to leave without telling their Norwegian partners. In this week of History Date Night (April 27–May 3, 1940), the central campaign of the German invasion of Norway ends in evacuation, bitter Allied infighting, and a final naval disaster at sea. Justin and Jennie track the retreat from Kvam through the Gudbrandsdal valley to Andalsnes, the destruction at Namsos under relentless Luftwaffe bombing, and the political fallout as Britain and France fracture over strategy, while the machinery of occupation tightens elsewhere in Europe.

Episode 33 - The Long March to Namsos

On This Episode of History Date Night: A British brigade is shattered in four days and Hitler decides Norway is going well enough to start picking a date for the invasion of France. In this episode, we cover the German invasion of Norway from April 21–26, as a disciplined German advance up the Gudbrandsdal Valley collides with Allied improvisation. You’ll follow the collapse of Britain’s 148th Brigade, a remarkable escape led by Lt. Col. H.B. Hibbert, America’s first military death of WWII while still neutral, and the tightening grip of occupation under Josef Terboven.

Episode 32 - Golden Eggs

On This Episode of History Date Night: The Allies finally land in force and instantly collide with snow, missing gear, and orders that don’t match. In this episode we cover the German invasion of Norway from April 16–20, when operational improvisation on both sides turns victory into a logistics and leadership test. Justin and Jennie trace the first major Allied troop landings at Harstad, Namsos, and Åndalsnes, the Royal Navy’s mounting losses under Luftwaffe attack, and one of the campaign’s great ironies: Bletchley Park breaks the Norway Enigma key, but Britain can’t yet deliver the intelligence where it matters.

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