WW2: Both Sides of The Wire | A Battle Guide Production

Jan 15 2025 26 ep. 65 mins 98

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World War 2: Both Sides of the Wire is the podcast that takes you beyond the familiar and dives deep into the untold stories and surprising truths of the Second World War from the Allied and Axis perspectives.

Join us as we lift the lid on one of the most pivotal periods in human history, busting myths and unraveling the complexities of a conflict that still shapes our world today.

Host: Prof. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander

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- Host: Prof. Dr. Matthias Strohn & Jesse Alexander

- Production & Editing: Linus Klaßen

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Episode 25: Pearl Harbor - Japan and the China Problem

Jan 15 2025 43 mins

In today’s episode, we’re going to put a new twist on an old favourite that is shrouded in its share of WW2 mythology: why did Japan decide to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor in 1941? Was it really only the oil embargo that tipped the balance, or is the story more complex? Join our new platform today! The steps are simple: Visit: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com/

Episode 24: D-Day, Deception, Deceit: Operation Fortitude

Jan 08 2025 53 mins

In today’s episode we’re going to go behind the scenes to unpack what might have been the most important deception Operation of the Second World War: Operation Fortitude. Was it all just smoke and mirrors or did Allied lies win the Normandy campaign? Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.co

Episode 23: End Game in Africa -Tunisgrad 1943

Jan 01 2025 67 mins

In today’s episode, we’re off to North Africa to dissect the Desert Fox’s last battle in the field and the US Army’s baptism of fire against the Wehrmacht. A campaign that sealed the fate of the Axis in Africa and that some have controversially nicknamed Tunisgrad. Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Join Our Community: https://both-s

Episode 22: U-Boats

Dec 25 2024 73 mins

In today’s episode, we’ll get our feet wet in what Winston Churchill once called the most critical battle of the war: the Battle of the Atlantic. And of course the main part of this struggle for mastery of the seas was waged on the German side by submarines - the famous U-Boats, who did their utmost to strangle Britain and win the war for Germany. Do you like our podcast? Then

Episode 21: Memory Part 2 - The Legacy of WW2 in Russia, USA and UK

Dec 18 2024 74 mins

In today’s episode we’re going to revisit a hot topic - a political topic even! That is the memory of the Second World War. Today we’re going to look at the legacy of how WW2 is remembered, commemorated, used and abused, and even enlisted on the political battlefield in the Allied Big Three - the USSR, US and UK. Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it hel

Episode 20: Memory Part 1 - Germany

Dec 10 2024 50 mins

In today’s episode we are going to visit a global battlefield of the Second World War. But this battlefield is not an operational campaign in Europe or in the Pacific – its the controversial and political battle of our collective memory of World War Two. 80 years after the war ended, what does the war mean to us and why, and how is it made to serve current political goals? Do

Episode 19: What-ifs of World War Two: the Invasion that Never Was

Dec 03 2024 70 mins

In this episode, we’ll venture into the fascinating but treacherous realm of the counterfactual, the what-ifs of the Second World War. There are endless topics among these might-have-beens, but today we’ll dig into the invasion that never was: Operation Sea Lion, the German Plan to invade Britain in 1940. Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lo

Episode 18: The Greatest Allied Victory of the War?

Nov 27 2024 65 mins

In this episode we’re going to talk about the biggest operational military defeat that Germany has ever suffered in its history, a campaign that completely destroyed an entire German Army group in a matter of weeks. Despite the massive scale of the damage inflicted and the immense operational achievement it represents, this operation gets nearly no attention in the English-speaki

Episode 17: The Forgotten Rhine Crossing. - Fuel waste or epic airborne operation?

Nov 20 2024 67 mins

In today’s episode, we are crossing the Rhine and push into the heartland of Germany. However, this is not the Rhine crossing you might have heard of, but the one that included the largest one-day airborne drop in history. Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com Become a Supporter: https://

Episode 16: The Road to the Rhine - a Forgotten Victory?

Nov 13 2024 74 mins

In today’s episode, we are crossing the Rhine and push into the heartland of Germany. However, this is not the Rhine crossing you might have heard of, but the one that included the largest one-day airborne drop in history. Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Join Our Community: https://both-sides-of-the-wire.com Become a Supporter: https://