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History Date Night: A WWII Podcast

History Date Night: A WWII Podcast

di Justin and Jennie

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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.

Episode 31 - Maud Ray Kent

On This Episode of History Date Night: Norway is already under attack and now the real scramble begins. In these pivotal days of the Norwegian campaign (April 10–15, 1940), the war at sea turns brutal, the first Allied troops hit Norwegian soil, and Quisling’s “government” collapses almost as fast as it appeared. Picking up immediately after Germany’s lightning invasion of Norway and Denmark, Jennie and Justin follow the next week’s turning points: two ferocious Battles of Narvik in the same fjord, a landmark air attack that sinks the Königsberg, and the early shape of resistance, from king and cabinet to volunteers in a forgotten fortress.

Episode 30 - The Phoney War End

On this episode of History Date Night, the Phoney War ends in a four day collision at sea and on the Norwegian coast. In episode 30 we cover the days before the German invasion of Norway:cwhen Britain mines Norwegian waters, Germany sails an audacious warship borne invasion, and Norway is caught fatally off guard.

Episode 29 - Missed The Bus

In Episode 29 of History Date Night, Jennie and Justin cover March 30–April 5, 1940: the tense week before Operation Weserübung. Allied reconnaissance flights quietly photograph Soviet oil targets in preparation for Operation Pike, the Katyn killings begin, and Britain’s move to mine Norwegian waters accelerates the collision course in Scandinavia. We also step back for a check in on where the war and the “Phoney War”actually stands. It all builds to one of history's great examples of terrible timing: four days before the war fully wakes up, the British Prime Minister tells his own party that Hitler has "missed the bus."

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