Revisiting The Second World War · Episode 07 · 1:03:17

The Underground War

with Halik Kochanski, Writer and Historian

Italian women partisans in Milan, April 1945
Italian women partisans in Milan, April 1945
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The question

How did resistance really work in Nazi-occupied Europe?

Halik Kochanski, author of the award-winning Resistance, tells a far more complex story of the underground war across occupied Europe: subversion, SOE, partisans and civil war, and desperate Jewish defiance.

Key takeaways

  1. 01Resistance across occupied Europe was far more complex than the usual story.
  2. 02It encompassed subversion, SOE, partisans and civil war.
  3. 03Desperate Jewish defiance is a central part of the picture.

From the transcript

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