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• Hermann Goering and the Nazi Mind | How the Nazis Were Captured, Studied & Prepared for Nuremberg | Ancient to Recent | Episode 24

  In 1945, the Allies seized the top surviving Nazi leaders and locked them inside a secret U.S. prison known as Ashcan. At the center of it all was Hermann Göring, Reichsmarschall, head of the Luftwaffe, Hitler’s chosen successor, and the highest-ranking Nazi to face justice.Inside Mondorf-les-Bains, a young U.S. Army psychiatrist, Dr. Douglas Kelley, began a groundbreaking mission: to uncover the psychology behind the men responsible for World War II, the Holocaust, and the machinery of genocide.In this episode, Joseph Parkinson explores: Göring’s dramatic capture and delusions of grandeurLife inside Ashcan: barbed wire, constant surveillance, and collapsed Nazi egosKelley’s early interviews, Rorschach tests, and attempts to decode the “Nazi mind”Shocking revelations about Göring’s drug addiction, vanity, charm and ruthlessnessHow the Allies prepared the world for the Nuremberg Trials, the most important trial in modern historyThis episode reveals the strange, chilling intimacy between a doctor seeking answers and a criminal convinced of his own greatness.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecent#HermannGoering #NurembergTrials #WorldWar2 #WW2History #Nazis #DouglasKelley #NaziLeadership #HolocaustHistory #HistoryPodcast #AncientToRecent

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• The Ukrainian Revolution Part 4 | Holodomor: Stalin’s Terror-Famine in Ukraine | Ancient to Recent | Episode 23

  In 1932–33, Ukraine faced one of the deadliest tragedies of the 20th century, the Holodomor. Stalin’s regime seized food, blacklisted entire villages, sealed Ukraine’s borders, and used starvation as a weapon to crush resistance. Millions died as the Soviet state destroyed Ukrainian culture, language, and identity.In Episode 23, Joseph Parkinson uncovers how the famine was engineered, how the OGPU enforced it, and why the Holodomor stands as a defining crime of the Soviet Union. From grain requisitions to the cultural purges, this episode reveals how Stalin turned Ukraine into a laboratory of terror.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecent#Holodomor #UkraineHistory #Stalin #SovietUnion #HistoryPodcast #UkrainianRevolution

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• The Ukrainian Revolution Part III | Stalin’s Collectivisation: The War on Ukraine’s Peasants | Ancient to Recent | Episode 22

  By the end of the 1920s, Stalin had a vision, to forge a new Soviet man and break the old peasant world forever. Across Ukraine, a war was declared on the countryside. Villages were torn apart, churches destroyed, families deported, and the proud independence of Ukraine’s farmers was crushed beneath the machinery of collectivisation.Through forced labor, quotas, and terror, millions were driven from their homes as the Soviet dream turned into a nightmare. Stalin’s campaign to “liquidate the kulaks as a class” would not only shatter rural life, it would lay the foundations for the famine to come.Join Joseph Parkinson as he tells the story of Stalin’s collectivisation, the destruction of Ukraine’s villages, and the ideological madness that reshaped an entire nation.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecent

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• The Ukrainian Revolution Part II | Lenin, Stalin, and the Seeds of the Holodomor | Ancient to Recent | Episode 21

  In the aftermath of revolution, Ukraine lies in ruins. The Bolsheviks have won the Civil War but for Lenin, victory is not enough. From the brutal terror of the Cheka to forced grain seizures and man-made famine, Ukraine becomes the testing ground for a new kind of tyranny.As millions starve and resistance is crushed, a new figure rises from the shadows: Joseph Stalin. His plan for collectivization will turn Lenin’s famine into something far darker, the Holodomor.Join Joseph Parkinson as he continues the story of Ukraine’s struggle for survival under Lenin and Stalin, the birth of Soviet power, and the seeds of one of history’s greatest tragedies.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecentSponsored by World of Whisky – Some things only get better with age. With World of Whisky, you can own a share of Scotland’s most iconic export. You must be over 18. Investing carries risks. Drink responsibly. Invest responsibly. This is not financial advice.👉 Learn more: https://tr.ee/ZaBoYD#sponsored #publication

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• The Ukrainian Revolution | Birth of a Nation, Seeds of the Holodomor | Ancient to Recent | Episode 20

  In the spring of 1917, as the Russian Empire collapses under the weight of war and revolution, Ukraine dares to dream of freedom. From the hopeful marches through Kyiv’s sunlit streets to the bitter struggle against Bolshevik armies, this is the story of how Ukraine first tried to forge its own destiny.But revolution brings chaos. Armies rise and fall, cities burn, and hunger stalks the land. The Rada’s dream of democracy gives way to dictatorship and civil war, as Lenin, Trotsky, and a young Stalin descend on Ukraine to reclaim the empire’s breadbasket at any cost. What began as a national awakening will end in terror, famine, and the iron grip of Soviet rule.Join Joseph Parkinson as he traces the birth of the modern Ukrainian nation—and the origins of the tragedy that would become the Holodomor.🎧 New episodes every Friday at 8 PM CET📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecentSponsored by World of Whisky – Some things only get better with age. With World of Whisky, you can own a share of Scotland’s most iconic export. You must be over 18. Investing carries risks. Drink responsibly. Invest responsibly. This is not financial advice.👉 Learn more: https://tr.ee/ZaBoYD#sponsored #publication

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