Those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat its mistakes. Join historian Simon J. James for a biweekly documentary podcast and delve into famous and forgotten moments of the past. Explore the rise and the fall of Nazi Germany, resistance within the Third Reich, discover war criminals in West German politics, Prussia's Glory and the tyrannical characters of the German Empire, coming to you every other Monday.
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Hitler's Swiss Enclave - The Story of Wilhelm Gustloff (01:03:06)
As the Third Reich rises in Germany, Switzerland suffers with its own problems with National Socialism, and its own identity. Overshadowed by its neighbours, fractured by its cantons, the nation has t...
Resistance: The Edelweißpiraten (01:11:56)
In this episode of Achtung! History Simon J. James returns to the tales of resistance to the National Socialist regime of Germany.
It is a common perception that the National Socialist regime of Germ...
The Man with a Thousand Faces Act II (00:54:54)
He was one of the greatest conmen of the 20th century, but after the failed Kapp Putsch in Berlin 1920 he was persona non grata in most European nations. So how did Ignatius Trebitsch continue to stri...
The Week that Was - Episode 1 - 25th October 1926 (00:25:23)
Achtung! Achtung! Journey back to the events of a city long lost, Berlin in 1926. With music and real events from the Welthauptstadt Berlin.
This is a trial episode.
The Man With A Thousand Faces Act I (01:00:16)
Discover the incredible, true story, of possibly the 20th centuries greatest con man, a man who defrauded the Church of England, and wiggled his way not only into British Government but also into two ...
The First Soldier of the Third Reich - Schlageter (00:59:14)
His name became infamous, his story legend. But today the name Schlageter has faded into history, so who was Schlageter and why did Adolf Hitler proclaim him to be 'The First Soldier of the Third Reic...
The Battle of Großbeeren (00:39:42)
A small victory or the turning point in the Napoleonic wars? Find out about the oft forgotten Battle of Großbeeren in this weeks episode of Achtung! History.
A special thanks to Katja Hoyer for her i...
Death in the Landwehr (00:34:42)
How did the discovery of the body of a man in the Landwehrkanal in Berlin in August 1919 lead to the exposing of and the collapse of the much of the Police Informant ring. And what did one man have to...
Tunnel, Traitor, King, Gold (2/2) (01:02:57)
It was the most audacious plan of the West in the Cold War, to tunnel beneath the boundary between East and West and steal information from the Soviet's own telephone line. In this concluding episode,...
Tunnel, Traitor, King, Gold (00:48:18)
Discover one of the most audacious and incredible forgotten tales from the Cold War. A story following the CIA and British SIS as they attempt to understand the intentions of the Soviets and gain an u...
No Man's Land 1945: The Republic of Schwarzenberg (00:50:36)
The Second World War is over yet East has not met West everywhere. Nestled in the Ore mountains a region centred around the town of Schwarzenberg remains strangely empty of Allied Occupying Forces. It...
In the Shadow of the Swastika: May Day and the Quashing of the Unions (01:09:07)
May Day, famously the day of the international worker. It was a day used by Unions and by the parties, especially in Germany, to unite their workers in putting down tools as a demonstration of interna...
The Reichstag: The Coming Storm - 04 (00:56:00)
In this, the final episode of The Reichstag for now, the German parliament building lays smouldering but the persecution of those considered enemies of Hitler and the NSDAP continues. How does Hitler ...
The Reichstag: Retribution - 03 (00:44:28)
The Reichstag is in flames. Inside the burning parliament Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and von Papen gather together on a balcony overlooking the fire and discuss how to go forward. At the Brandenburger T...
The Reichstag: Fire! - 02 (00:42:29)
A cold night in Berlin turns into a night that will change the course of the 20th century itself. A young theology student wandering home from his studies at the Staatsbibliothek on Unter den Linden w...
The Reichstag: Fanning Flames - 01 (00:49:22)
Welcome to the new series by Achtung! History and Simon J. James. This time we take a look at the Reichstag, the German parliament building famous for the fire that gutted the building on the 27th of ...
Resistance: The Moral Fight (00:54:33)
What does resistance to tyranny mean? Is it fighting with guns on the streets, distributing pamphlets, trying to organise a coup. In this episode Simon takes a deep dive into an event that occurred in...
Wheels of Revolution - Lenin's Sealed Train to Petrograd (00:54:20)
Discover, in this latest episode, the events leading up to the infamous journey of Lenin, Russian leader in the making, from Switzerland to a Russia in the midst of Revolution. Unearth a brief biograp...
Monarch of the Forest - The Kaiser's Forgotten Domain (01:03:44)
Rominten is a forgotten domain. Once ruled over by Electors, Kings, Kaisers and Reichsmarshalls, discover the forgotten history of what was once the last Kaiser's favourite hunting ground and how it b...
Christmas: In the Shadow of the Swastika (01:20:07)
When Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP came to power in 1933 they quickly set about changing all aspects of the German state, even Christmas. In this episode, Christmas: In the Shadow of the Swastika, discov...
04 - Murder on the Tracks - The Drop (01:13:03)
Franz Müller aboard the sail ship Victoria has no idea that steaming across the Atlantic are the Metropolitan Police and those that can point the finger toward him for the murder of Thomas Briggs on t...
03 - Murder on the Tracks - The Chase (00:36:02)
Inspector Tanner and the London Metropolitan Police are faced with a difficult predicament. It has come to light that the man of most interest in the murder of Thomas Briggs, the first person to be mu...
02 - Murder on the Tracks - The Chain (00:35:48)
Thomas Briggs was found unconscious on the tracks of London's Northern Railway in 1864, a short time after he died. In this second episode of Murder on the Tracks, delve into the early history of Lond...
01 - Murder on the tracks - Thomas Briggs (00:37:49)
Come on a journey, a journey into the past. Travel to a time when Britain ruled much of the world and London was its beating financial heart, Join Simon J. James in the discovery of the incredible and...
The Hunt for Hitler's Horses - Un-covered (00:49:10)
In 1986 a young punk and underground artist within the DDR (East Germany) travels, with his super 8mm Russian made camera through a forest north of Berlin. There, glinting against the white of the sno...
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