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269. Battleground '45 - Your Questions Answered

Battleground

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode of Battleground '45 Saul is joined by Roger Moorhouse to take a deep dive into a host of fascinating listeners questions on the second world war. These include a look into Switzerland's stance during the war, why the allies sent back soviet prisoners to Stalin, and a look into whether Japan would have surrendered if there were no atomic bombs. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X (Twitter): @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.9

Hello and welcome to this special episode of Battleground 45 with me, Saul David and Roger Morehouse. Well, today Patrick is not with us, and we're trying to catch up on some of the many

1:23.5

varied and excellent questions that have been coming in for both Battleground 44 and 45 over the last few months that we haven't had a chance to deal with.

1:32.5

And we should just add that there's a health warning to this episode. There are descriptions of sexual violence.

1:39.4

But we should just mention, Roger, that today we've got news. That's today we're recording Tuesday. We've

1:44.6

got news of the death of the last Battle of Britain pilot, a character called John Paddy Hemingway.

1:50.6

And it's pretty remarkable to think, isn't it? That actually any of them are still alive.

1:55.1

Yeah, indeed. I mean, that was my first thought, you know, astonishing. You know, we think

1:59.0

that that generation really has gone. And then something like in a chat like that, I think he was know, astonishing. You know, we think that that generation really has gone.

2:06.3

And then something like in a chat like that, I think he was 104, 105. Remarkable life,

2:10.6

remarkable life. So yeah, we should, we should spare a thought for him. Well, listeners to the podcast will remember when we were doing the special charity episode last November, when

2:16.2

we were on the big red bus in London. We were actually speaking

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