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The messy US invasion of France in WWII with Robert Fuller

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Robert Fuller After D-Day

The messy US invasion of France in WWII with Robert Fuller

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Robert Fuller is a professor and historian who took on the task of understanding the true nature of the US presence of France in WWII. We spoke about the war and the many ways in which France did and did not cooperate with the US during WWII. After D-Day: The U.S. Army Encounters the French (LSU Press, 2021)

0:41 – Robert talks about how he got into studying the US in France.

2:16 – Robert talks about how he laid the book out.

4:00 – Robert talks about the occupation of France.

5:04 – Robert talks about what was problematic between France and the US.

9:45 – Robert goes into details about problems at the ground level.

13:58 – Robert talks about French citizens who sympathized with the Nazis.

18:07 – Robert goes into detail about what happened in France after V-E day.

20:39 – Robert talks about what happened to the Germans in southwest France.

23:04 – Robert talks about de Gaulle.

24:48 – Robert talks about the aid given to France by the US.

28:09 – Robert talks about communism in France.

33:38 – Robert talks about research that didn’t make it into the book.

36:20 – Robert talks about French colonial territories.

42:08 – Robert talks about New Caledonia.

43:47 – Robert talks about French islands in the Caribbean.

47:37 – Robert talks about what resources he used for the book including the French town archives he went to.

52:42 – Robert talks about an American riot by the 101st in France.

54:32 – Robert talks about American crime and gangs in France.

57:15 – Robert talks about the size of the black market in France.

1:02:53 – Robert talks about the Red Ball Express.

1:05:20 – Robert talks about the Nazi massacre of French school girls.

1:06:21 – Robert talks about traveling through France.

1:15:17 – Information on the book can be found at the LSU Press website.

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https://lsupress.org/books/detail/after-d-day/

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Guests: Robert Fuller

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, podcast, LSU Press, American history, WWII, United States, Germany, France, Britain,

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Why did three Dutch girls decide to became deadly spies against the Nazis with Tim Brady

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Tim Brady Three Ordinary Girls

Why did three Dutch girls decide to became deadly spies against the Nazis with Tim Brady

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Tim Brady has written on history extensively including three previous books on WWII. We spoke about what prompted him to write this book about young Dutch spies . Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes (Citadel, 2021)

The future with Ben Pring http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/802

Sci-Fi with David Arnold https://wp.me/p7CDU9-58l

Note: The recording equipment caused some sound problems through the interview.

1:05 – Tim talks about how he got into studying and writing on WWII.

2:31 – Tim talks about how he began studying these Dutch teenagers who engaged in WWII espionage.

4:23 – Tim talks about how he laid out the story.

6:39 – Tim talks about the spy cell [this] these girls worked with.

12:11 – Tim talks about what work the teenagers did.

13:38 – Tim talks about the mom’s involvement in the espionage activities.

15:49 – Tim talks about German security measures.

17:45 – Tim talks about his father having been a WWII veteran and the youth of war.

21:05 – Tim talks about what happened after D-Day.

23:57 – Tim talks about the Germans looting occupied territories.

25:27 – Tim talks about the research he did.

28:59 – Tim talks about visiting the Netherlands.

31:43- Tim talks more about enjoying the Netherlands.

32:59 – Tim talks about men working with these teenagers.

34:56 – Tim talks about the bicycle work the girls did.

37:04 – Tim talks about the difficulty of researching the subject.

38:35 – Tim talks about some of the cruelty in the book.

40:36 – Tim talks about the girls’ motivations.

47:17 – Tim’s books can be found on amazon or on the publisher’s pages.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/2NHXj9j

https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9780806540382/three-ordinary-girls/

The future with Ben Pring http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/802

Sci-Fi with David Arnold https://wp.me/p7CDU9-58l

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For more “Military History Inside Out” please follow me at www.warscholar.org, on Facebook at warscholar, on twitter at Warscholar, on youtube at warscholar1945 and on Instagram @crisalvarezswarscholar. Or subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Please see historyrabbithole.com for a list of my dozen or so blogs and podcasts. You’re sure to find something you like.

Guests: Tim Brady

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, podcast, Citadel, WWII, Germany,

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How the OSS supported Yugoslavia independence movements in WWII – Interview with Blaz Torkar

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Blaz Torkar Mission Yugoslavia OSS

How the OSS supported Yugoslavia independence movements in WWII – Interview with Blaz Torkar

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Blaž Torkar is an assistant professor of history at the Military Schools Centre of the Slovenian Armed forces. He researches the history of intelligence services, Allied military missions in Yugoslavia during WWII, the Yugoslav People’s Army and Territorial Defense, and the Slovenian War of Independence in 1991. He wrote a book on the OSS in Yugoslavia during WWII and we spoke about the book, the OSS, and Yugoslavian resistance movements. Mission Yugoslavia (McFarland, 2020)

K. Lyn Wurth talks about her novel about Calamity Jane https://wp.me/p7CDU9-56U

Laird Thompson talks about how he helped discover cosmic voids http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/748

1:05 – Blaz talks about his interest in the OSS in Yugoslavia.

2:18 – Blaz describes the OSS and SOE.

4:12 – Blaz talks about the resistance movements in Yugoslavia.

5:56 – Blaz talks about Churchill’s ULTRA reports.

8:54 – Blaz talks about OSS support to the Yugoslavian resistance movements.

11:11 – Blaz talks about problems between the US and the movements they supported.

12:54 – Blaz talks how the OSS did some fighting in Yugoslavia.

14:06 – Blaz talks about Soviet advisors in Yugoslavia in 1944.

14:36 – Blaz talks about the physical security used for the operations

16:03 – Blaz goes into details about how operations were run.

18:15 – Blaz talks about the Yugoslavs who worked for OSS.

20:39 – Blaz talks about prisoner exchanges for OSS members.

22:10 – Blaz talks about Americans captured by the Germans.

23:22 – Blaz talks about partisans who killed Americans.

23:52 – Blaz talks about the resistance in Serbian areas. [Note: Blaz noted later that he accidentally neglected to mention the first Serbian resistance at the start of the country and region’s occupation.  He states by email that at the beginning of the occupation of Serbia in 1941 the resistance largely spread but it it was brutally suppressed by the Germans.  Then resistance continued in Serbia in 1944.]

25:18 – Blaz talks about the impact the OSS had.

27:18 – Blaz talks about the archives he used.

28:38 – Blaz talks about speaking with OSS and SOE veterans.

29:39 – Blaz talks about the airfields used to fly OSS and Soe into Yugoslavia.

30:26 – Blaz talks about how the partisans kept these airfields secret.

34:56 – Blaz talks about the Americans picked for these missions.

35:24 – Blaz talks about some of the exceptions to whom the OSS recruited.

36:00 – Blaz talks about how OSS and MI-6 were treated in Yugoslavia.

36:55 – Blaz talks about how many missions were working in Yugoslavia but they refused to send troops there.

39:55 – Blaz talks about the OSS sending people into the wrong areas of Yugoslavia.

41:23 – Blaz talks about German spies among the partisans.

42:42 – Blaz talks about how he focused on northern Yugoslavia missions.

43:41 – Blaz talks about the strongly preserved memory of this fighting even today.

45:49 – Blaz talks about the memorials to US and British soldiers.

46:42 – Blaz talks about Yugoslav preservation of allied memorials.

48:28 – Blaz talks about the discussions of the Yugoslavia post-war regimes.

49:30 – Blaz talks about Yugoslav history books highlighted Soviet help.

51:24 – Blaz talks about the so called betrayal of Churchill by Tito.

54:13 – Blaz talks about the recruited Yugoslavs and what they did after the war.

59:26 – Blaz is currently working on a book on WWI in Slovenia and Italy.

1:02:08 – Blaz be found on Amazon and McFarland.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/2ZDmiwM

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/mission-yugoslavia/

K. Lyn Wurth talks about her novel about Calamity Jane https://wp.me/p7CDU9-56U

Laird Thompson talks about how he helped discover cosmic voids http://spacewalksmoneytalks.com/p/748

Contact Information

For more “Military History Inside Out” please follow me at www.warscholar.org, on Facebook at warscholar, on twitter at Warscholar, on youtube at warscholar and on Instagram @crisalvarezwarscholar. Or subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Please see historyrabbithole.com for a list of my dozen or so blogs and podcasts. You’re sure to find something you like.

Guests: Blaz Torkar

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, academic, podcast, McFarland, Espionage, WWII, United States, Germany, Russia, Britain,

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