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Guitar Special: Kalamazoo Gals, Richard Thompson Plays ‘Electric’

Soundcheck is revisiting some of our favorite segments from the past year. Today, we're presenting a "Guitar Special," featuring a Rosie the Riveter guitar mystery and an iconic folk guitar master...

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Francine Prose On Edith Piaf, Beethoven And A Cross-Dressing French...

Author Francine Prose's new novel is called Lovers At The Chameleon Club, Paris 1932– and it's a jam-packed tale about good and evil, love gone bad, racecars, Hitler, Picasso, photography, bad cops,...

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German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

Wendy Lower gives a stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front, arguing that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust. Hitler’s...

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Art Stolen by the Nazis Discovered in Munich

More than one thousand works of art stolen by the Nazi’s were discovered in a Munich apartment this week. Valued at nearly $1.35 billion, the trove includes works by Matisse, Picasso, Dix and Chagall...

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Japan 1941

Eri Hotta considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and argues that when Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, its leaders largely understood they were...

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Japan in 1941; Rhino Records; Paul Auster's Early Life; Disappearring Monarch...

Eri Hotta takes a look at the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese point of view and examines Japan’s leaders entered a war they thought they were likely to lose. Harold Bronson tells the story of...

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Mussolini, the Pope, and the Rise of Fascism

David I. Kertzer talks about the complex and secret relationship that Pope Pius XI’s had with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The two men both came to power in 1922, and together changed the course...

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A Japanese War Crimes Suspect and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II

In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged 28 Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Eric Jaffe tells the story of one of the accused, a civilian named Okawa Shumei. On the first day of...

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Life After Exoneration; "The Americans"' What's Wrong with Fraternities;...

We’ll take a look at assistance for exonerated inmates as they make the transition back to life outside. Noah Emmerich talks about starring in the FX series, "The Americans," which just began its...

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Hollywood and World War II

Legendary directors John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens played major roles in World War II. Mark Harris tells the story of how World War II changed Hollywood and how...

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Writer Stefan Zweig in Exile

By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world, and his novels, short stories, and biographies became instant best sellers. But after Hitler rose to power,...

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Exploring D-Day’s Underwater Secrets 70 Years On

It has been almost 70 years since the Allied Forces, led by the United States, Canada and Britain, stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War II to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis.The...

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FDR, Detroit, and Arming America During World War II

In 1941 President Roosevelt realized we needed weaponry to fight the Nazis—most important, airplanes—so he turned to Detroit and the auto industry for help. The Ford Motor Company went from making...

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The War That Gave Us 'Cooties'

World War I began 100 years ago, and our word maven, Patricia T. O’Conner, looks at the words that came out of that war—like blimp, doughboy, cooties. She’ll also answer questions about language and...

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The Spy Who Infiltrated NY’s Nazi Underground Before World War II

From the time Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, German spies were active in New York. As war began in Europe in 1939, a German-American was recruited by the Nazis to set up a radio transmitter and...

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A Family Memoir of Art and War

On 1940, Paul Rosenberg, one of the most famous European art dealers came to New York along with hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Vichy, France. Although he managed to save his family, he left...

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The Private Life of Heinrich Himmler

A recently discovered cache of hundreds of personal letters, diaries and photographs belonging to the Nazi Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler reveal a thoughtful, loving husband and devoted father....

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Friendship Out of Fallout

With the American History Guys

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How America Became a Safe Haven for Nazis after WWII

After World War II, thousands of Nazis—from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich—came to the United States and settled into new lives. For many, their pasts were easily...

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The Unusual Story of WWII Code-Breaker Alan Turing

This week, on Thanksgiving, movie lovers will have the chance to see one of this year's frontrunners in the race to the Oscars. "The Imitation Game" tells the story of famed World War II code-breaker...

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