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How Poland was torn in half in 1939 – Interview with military history author Roger Moorhouse

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How Poland was torn in half in 1939 – Interview with military history author Roger Moorhouse

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Roger Moorhouse has been a historian for the Third Reich, Poland, and WWII for many years and has written many books on the subject. He recently published a book on the German and Soviet invasions of Poland in 1939 and we spoke about the book and this military event. Poland 1939 (Basic Books, 2020)

0:39 – Roger talks about how he got into studying Poland and WWII.

2:14 – Roger talks about the strength of the German military in 1939 and the propaganda narrative.

5:52 – Roger talks about the scope of the book from tactical to a wider scope.

8:00 – Roger talks about the reasons for Germany’s early setbacks.

11:16 – Roger talks about the terrain and weather of Poland in 1939.

13:52 – Roger talks about German General Guderian reminiscing about his ancestral lands in Poland.

15:39 – Roger compares German tactics in Poland versus the French campaign and the massacres of POWs and civilians.

19:13 – Roger talks about ethnic German attacks against Poles.

22:08 – Roger talks about German propaganda and Goebbels.

27:01 – Roger talks about a battle with a German Panzer army.

28:22 – Roger talks about the Soviet invasion of Poland.

32:12 – Roger talks about Soviet propaganda about its invasion of Poland.

34:06 – Roger discusses Soviet atrocities against upper class and middle class Poles.

36:13 – Roger talks about the Polish death toll in WWII.

37:43 – Roger talks about what materials he used to do his research.

40:20 – Roger talks about the lack of access to Soviet materials.

41:54 – Roger talks about having visited some of the battlefields he wrote about.

48:05 – Roger addresses the concentration camps in Poland.

51:39 – Roger talks about the German and Russian use of elite troops to commit atrocities.

57:30 – Roger can be found at www.rogermoorhouse.com and on twitter @roger_moorhouse

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/3eXW7Gp

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/roger-moorhouse/poland-1939/9780465095414/

https://www.rogermoorhouse.com/

https://twitter.com/Roger_Moorhouse

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Guests: Roger Moorhouse

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, Poland, WWII, Germany, 1939, September campaign, USSR, Great Britain, propaganda, espionage, air power, fortified, blitzkreig, Prussia, Guderian, Austria, liebensraum, France, massacres, Nazi, Goebbels, cavalry, tanks, class war, nationalists, Karte archives, concentration camps, NKVD, SS, Wehrmacht, Ukraine

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20th Century conflict – “The Oil Wars Myth (Cornell University Press, 2020) – Emily Meierding interview

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Emily Meierding has studied history and political science. She wrote her first book thinking she would prove that a number of wars have been started over oil and found the opposite. We spoke about the book and the research she did for it.

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0:47 – Emily talks about how she got into writing on oil and international wars.

1:33 – Emily talks about the wars she looking into including WWII and the Gulf War. She looked at conflicts from 1912 to 2010.

3:35 – Emily talks about Japan and WWII and other cases where oil was a goal versus other factors.

6:20 – Emily talks about the Falklands War.

7:59 – Emily talks about conflict in 1912 and on.

9:10 – Emily talks about how WWI affected government ideas about oil and war.

11:29 – Emily talks about peacetime activities to ensure energy security.

12:41 – Emily talks about US goals in the Iraq War.

14:56 – Emily talks about how she divided wars into four categories in relation to oil.

19:44 – Emily talks about Saddam going to war for survival.

20:30 – Emily talks about the Iran-Iraq war.

22:09 – Emily talks about Saudi Arabia and disputes with Yemen.

23:13 – Emily talks about African wars and oil.

25:01 – Emily talks about the influence of oil companies in war.

27:55 – Emily talks about why the wars for oil myth exists and persists.

31:57 – Emily talks about what she used for her research.

33:02 – Emily talks about some work she did in Africa.

34:42 – Emily talks about Iraq and the invasion of Kuwait.

39:11 – Emily talks about her strong interest in the subject matter.

43:58 – Emily talks about the [prevalence] strength of the oil myth over time.

45:37 – Emily talks about US plans to invade Saudi Arabia during the 70s oil crisis.

49:45 – Emily is on twitter @emeierding and on emilymeierding.net

 

Links of interest

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748288/the-oil-wars-myth/

http://emilymeierding.net/Welcome.html

https://twitter.com/emeierding

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Guests: Emily Meierding

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, oil, international war, WWII, world war two, gulf war, falklands war, China, Germany, Japan, coal, Great Britain, Royal Navy, Iran, Mesopotamia, Iraq, Chaco War, South China Sea, Persian Gulf War, Kuwait, Saddam Hussein, Iran-Iraq war, Africa, Nigeria, Cameroon, Iran-Contra, Russia, biofuel, Saudi Arabia, USSR

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WWII military history book – “A Satellite Empire” (Cornell University Press, 2019) – Vladimir Solonari interview

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Dr. Vladimir Solonari is a history professor at the University of Central Florida. He has written extensively on ethnic cleansing in Romania during WWII and we discussed his latest book on Romanian occupation of Transnistria in Ukraine during WWII. Check out the book here.

0:45 – Vladimir talks about why he is writing about Romanian occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

2:43 – Vladimir talks about the geography of the Ukrainian region the book focuses on.

5:58 – Vladimir talks about German post-WWII plans for this Ukrainian region had Germany won the war. Romania was trying to get Transylvania back.

8:18 – Vladimir talks about how the progress of Operation Barbarossa affected Romanian strategic plans for this region.

12:19 – Vladimir talks about how Romanian troops were deployed around the Eastern Front and used.

14:42 – Vladimir talks about Romanian elite troops known as “mountain shooters”.

15:30 – Vladimir talks about Romanian policing of the Transnistria region. He discusses Soviet created terrorist groups used to harass the Romanians. He also discusses local partisan groups.

22:35- Vladimir talks about how Romania conducted ethnic cleansing of Jews, Roma, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, and Hungarians and moved them to Transnistria. He also discusses how typhus spread through the camps.

27:05 – Vladimir talks about whether the Romanians used specialized troops to massacre ethnic prisoners.

29:55 – Vladimir talks about how some Romanian officers opposed ethnic cleansing. Ethnic German villages were willing to conduct ethnic cleansing in this region.

33:30 – Vladimir talks about how Romania wanted to show its power on the world stage and to Europe.

36:30 – Vladimir talks about German perceptions of Eastern Europe as an empty space that needed order.

38:07 – Vladimir talks about the archives he used for his research.

39:31 – Vladimir relates a story about an aspiring composer in Odessa who was living a double life and pining over a lost love.

46:05 – Vladimir talks about how the Romanian government withdrew their approval for him to use certain photographs in his book.

47:46 – Vladimir talks about visiting a museum and the catacombs of Odessa.

57:14 – Vladimir talks about the complexity of the whole situation.

59:58 – Vladimir tried to determine how much the German and Romanian occupation attitudes depended on racist ideas.

1:07:30 – Vladimir talks about the legalities that the Romanians applied to conducting their ethnic cleansing.

Links of interest

Check out the book here.

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501743184/a-satellite-empire/

https://history.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/?id=318

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Guests: Vladimir Solonari

Host: Cris Alvarez

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