PBS
Michael Beschloss : The Conquerors
Book: The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany
PBS
Rick Atkinson
Book: 'Bad to the Very End': Author Reflects on the Long, Deadly Road to WWII Victory
SciShow
Ancient Lake in Antarctica Reached!
Hank gets to the bottom of an exciting, and kinda weird, announcement from Russian scientists at the Vostok Research Station in Antarctica. Have they reached a 20-million-year old underground lake? Maybe! Is there a hoard of Nazi secrets...
TED-Ed
How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis | Iseult Gillespie
In 1943, Irena Sendler and Janina Grabowska froze when they heard Gestapo pounding on the front door. Knowing she was minutes from arrest, Irena tossed Janina her most dangerous possession: a glass jar containing the names of over 2,000...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The art forger who tricked the Nazis
It was one of the strangest trials in Dutch history. The defendant in a 1947 case was an art forger who had counterfeited millions of dollars worth of paintings. But he wasn’t arguing his innocence— in fact, his life depended on proving...
TED-Ed
The strange history of the world's most stolen painting | Noah Charney
Throughout six centuries, the Ghent Altarpiece, also called "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," has been burned, forged, and raided in three different wars. It is, in fact, the world's most stolen artwork— and is considered one of the...
TED Talks
TED: The biology of our best and worst selves | Robert Sapolsky
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic -- and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we do what...
SciShow
Fritz Haber: Great Minds
Hank introduces us to the brilliant and heartless Fritz Haber, a great mind who is considered "the father chemical warfare," but who also made discoveries and innovations that helped lead to the Green Revolution which is credited with...
Crash Course
Post-World War I Recovery: Crash Course European History
In which John Green looks at Europe's attempts to recover from the devastation of World War I and forge a lasting peace. The peace did not last. Today we're talking about the economic cultural recovery of the 1920s, and the economic...
Crash Course
World War II Civilians and Soldiers: Crash Course European History
Our look at World War II continues with a closer examination of just how the war impacted soldiers in the field, and the people at home. For many of the combatants, the homefront and the warfront were one and the same. The war disrupted...
Crash Course
Economic Depression and Dictators: Crash Course European History
We're still leading up to World War II, but first we gotta talk about the rise of the dictators. Today we talk about the rise of militaristic dictatorships in Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and Spain, and the economic depression that...
Crash Course
World War II: Crash Course European History
Only a couple of decades after the end of the First World War--which was supposed to be the War that Ended All Wars--another, bigger, farther-flung, more destructive, and deadlier war began. Today, you'll learn about how the war in...
Crash Course
World War II, A War for Resources: Crash Course World History
In which John Green teaches you about World War II, and some of the causes behind the war. In a lot of ways, WWII was about resources, and especially about food. The expansionist aggression of both Germany and Japan were in a lot of ways...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How did Hitler rise to power? - Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard
Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have risen to power in a democratic country. So how did...
Crash Course
The Atomic Bomb: Crash Course History of Science
The story picks up where we left off last time, with Einstein writing the president of his new homeland, the United States, urging him to build a nuclear weapon before Hitler. This is the tale of the most destructive force humans have...
Bedtime History
D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy | Operation Overlord | Simply History
New ReviewD-Day, June 6, 1944, was one of the most important turning points in World War II. On that day, Allied forces launched a massive invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France, to begin freeing Europe from Nazi control. It was the largest...
Curated Video
Project Nazi: the Conquest of "Living Space" #documentary #germany
New ReviewProject Nazi: the Conquest of "Living Space" #documentary #germany
The Daily Conversation
Rise of Japan: Greatest Revolutions, Part 3
New ReviewJapan's last shogun is ousted in a coup and a young emperor seizes power to become the supreme executive authority. Part 3 of our 2,600 year timeline of history's greatest revolutions.
Curated Video
The Holocaust
This World Cultures instructional video discusses the rise of the Holocaust
Curated Video
Fascism Rises in Europe
This World Cultures instructional video discusses rising fascism in Europe
Curated Video
Hitler's Vision for Architecture, Art and Culture
Hitler's Vision for Architecture, Art and Culture
Bedtime History
Winston Churchill for Kids
Who was Winston Churchill, and why is he one of the most famous leaders in history? In this video, we explore the life and legacy of Britain’s wartime prime minister. Learn how Churchill led the United Kingdom through World War II with...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Richard J. Evans - Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
Richard Evans, a Welsh-born historian and Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge University, developed an early interest in German history after witnessing post-WWII bomb damage in London. His academic journey led him to study the...