The Spider in the Web: The Hans Globke Story (Pt 1)

Who was Hans Globke? In part one of this two-part investigation, we meet the German lawyer in the Nazi regime who helped to lay the legal basis for the Holocaust and then came back to build the foundations of modern Germany.

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Guests: 

-Dr. Nadine Freund, historian at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.

-Dr. Gunnar Take, historian at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich.

-Manfred Lahnstein, former politician for the SDP in Germany. 

Host: Oliver Moody, the Berlin correspondent at The Times.

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