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Under Adolf Hitler's leadership, anti-Semitic policies escalate from discrimination to widespread genocide. The state-sponsored persecution features mobile killing squads conducting mass shootings, and then purpose-built death camps, where millions of men, women and children are murdered by poison gas.
This episode features interviews with (in order of appearance):
- Waitman Wade Beorn, assistant professor, Northumbria University
- Jadwiga Biskupska, associate professor, Sam Houston State University
- Alexandra Richie, professor, Collegium Civitas
- Daniel Greene, adjunct professor, Northwestern University
- James Bulgin, Imperial War Museum
- Rebecca Erbelding, historian and author
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, historian and author
- Robert Citino, senior historian, National WWII Museum
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