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Do you have the name of that podcast?

I think we might be talking about completely different things

I believe there was a radiolab episode on this, not sure if that's the one you're referring to or if you heard it elsewhere but it was quite good coverage of all this.

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There was a case in AZ where some POWs tried to escape and float down the salt river, which was dry at the time. They were captured, and at some point one of them was murdered by the rest for being an informant. The perps were executed.

https://www.arizonahighways.com/blog/infamous-murder-phoenix-pow-camp

From one historical thing I watched a while ago I think one of the guards of Göring said how he requested a container of hair gel that he previously possessed. The guard didn't think much of it, Göring had been pleasant and so the guard got it for him, unaware of the pills hidden inside.

Help with US history.
What is the best book to go from the first European man put a foot into America to 2000?
I understand that maybe there isn't one book for all. So maybe suggest me a title and the relative period.
I prefer there also is the audiobook.
Also some documentaries.

I am not a student, I am just a European wanting to know more.

Let's also not pretend that the racism of Nazis would have been a problem in most cases in the US of the 40's. (not to mention that Nazi Germany was "inspired" by the US in regards to certain things...)

The same is true for Germans/Germany. While the NSDAP certainly fueled it but core elements of that ideology were common enough within the population, the NSDAP (and Hitler) simply managed to focus all the bad stuff.

The Nazis are sometimes made into these super villains and people are quick to say "x wasn't REALLY a Nazi" but the reality of the time was that it really didn't need much to be in line with Nazi ideology and that didn't require for you to constantly think about industrial scale genocide which is really the thing that sets apart the Nazis/NSDAP from the other reactionary/right wing groups of its time (and even that might have been down to a lack of ability/opportunity and especially scale, not like you can't find at least somewhat similar examples in the time period).

The UK forcibly limited Jewish immigration (fleeing refugees) to the middle east through immigration policies made with locals in exchange for war resources

I think that had more to do with not wanting foreigners to tell them what to do. It wasn't a matter of domestic policy (in Britain anyway), but the Brits definitely imposed segregation for no other reason than they felt like it.

In Egypt for sure. In Greece, no. And then even in Egypt it was in every day use by higher ups. Common people did not even know how to write.

There is reason why people were busy looking for alternatives. If papyrus was inexpensive every day item for most, people would not use sheets of leather laboriously made by tinning out skins of animals instead.

Papyrus, while not exactly cheap, was not expensive either. Sure, a long roll would cost you, but shorter formats would have been easily affordable to most. Most of the extant papyri fragments testify to this, as ca 90 % are letters, archival notes, records, accounts, and contracts. Every day use objects in other words. Vellum and parchment on the other hand were much more expensive.

The Army was desegregated but they had a Maori battalion?

> I think most of them were just poor kids who had been conscripted; the actual Nazi ideologues were held in much more secure prisons.

Actual nazi idealogues were rare. Those atrocities were committed by Germans for the sake of Germany. Regular Germans were pretty happy with the nazis until they ran out of countries to rob and the people they'd tried to enslave started to come after them for revenge.

That had to be quite an experience. Despite being a huge monster, I bet he was very charismatic and tried to manipulate the guards for stuff.

Small man complex. See Russia in Ukraine right now.

I'd imagine another concern was less what the prisoners would do and more what the public would do, its not much of a secret that there was a lot of misguided animosity

He didn’t know. Wasn’t his watch. All he did was have a three minute egg timer. Every time the sand ran out, he had to open a little window to observe the general eating his catered meals, reading books from his library or writing letters. As long as he’s not dying, close the little door and flip the egg timer over. Such was the life of an E-2 in the Big Red 1…after the war.

so who slipped him the suicide pills?

Really? I thought there was only one other murder of a POW by POWs and that was in Georgia.

>As incredible as America's own internment of Japanese-Americans. George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu, was actually born in one of those camps.

I would argue it's more incredible since the German Jews had a better reason to not be on their motherland's side in this war.

My grandfather has stories from the family farm in Idaho where they had German POWs work. It wasn't a terrible system, there wasn't armed guards and barbed wire, just that these farms are the middle of nowhere and the closest decent sized city is over a hundred miles away.

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>"Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry."