Sep 29, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
March 8, 1945. Allen Dulles, the Bern station chief of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (a forerunner of the CIA), met in secret with Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff, the former head of Heinrich Himmler’s secretariat, who in the last years of the war became the...
Sep 15, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
On February 13, 1945, U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius and his staff were invited to a reception hosted by Vyshinsky in the commissariat’s guesthouse in Moscow. Little did the Americans know that one member of their staff was a Soviet spy.
Sep 8, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
What does Dracula have to do with the Cold War? The next issue to drive a wedge between the Big Three was the government of Romania.
Aug 25, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Our first post-Yalta episode! Churchill and Roosevelt go home and give big speeches about how well Yalta went and how the Big Three really get each other. And then it all fell apart.
Aug 18, 2017 | Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
The last day of Yalta! We’re out, baby! Churchill fell asleep in the middle of an important debate and then woke up ranting about the wrong things. Iran wants everyone to leave their oil alone but no-one cares. Stalin wanted access to the Black Sea Straits. And...
Aug 4, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Just when I thought I was out… they pulled me back in! To Yalta! Before the Big Three left Yalta, they signed a document that promised to allow the people of Europe “to create democratic institutions of their own choice”. Of course, at the time, the...
