240. The Second World War along the Elbe River

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this episode of Battleground '45, Saul is joined by historian Keith Lowe to discuss their upcoming history tour along the Elbe. The Elbe river runs down from Czechia right through the heart of Germany, together they map out some of the remarkable and sobering tales of history that happened in many of the locations they will be visiting on the tour, including Operation Anthropoid, the bombing of Dresden, and a remarkable escape story from Königstein Castle. To find out more visit www.ww2museumtours.org or email [email protected] If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X: @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.6	Today I'm joined by historian Keithlow to look ahead to the end of the Second World War and in particular to discuss a tour we're jointly
0:55.4	leading called Victory in Europe the End of the War in the Elba. It's organized by the excellent
1:01.6	National World War II Museum in New Orleans and runs from the 6th to the 13th of May with an option
1:07.9	for two-day extensions on both ends. So we'll come to a bit more of the detail of the tour in a moment.
1:13.7	This is going to be my first one, Keith.
1:15.7	You've done tours for the National World War II Museum before.
1:20.3	Give us a kind of sense of the sort of conditions
1:23.1	that the tourists are likely to enjoy on these tours.
1:26.7	Conditions.
1:27.4	Well, you won't be digging your own latrines.
1:31.0	Let's put it that way.
1:32.0	Good to hear.
1:32.8	It's lovely, actually.
1:33.8	It's, you know, I've done a couple of these things before and it's, they really look
1:37.1	after you.
1:37.7	There's wonderful hotels you stay in.
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