RIHC: Hitler's Death, Nazi Germany's Surrender, and the End of the Second World War

*VOTE FOR THE REST IS HISTORY AT THE WEBBY AWARDS* The Rest is History has been nominated for Best History Podcast at the Webby Awards. Vote now at the link below! https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/shows/history What happened to Nazi Germany during the final months of the Second World War, and how long did they keep fighting? When and how did Soviet Russia take Berlin on the 2nd May 1945? Did this bring all fighting on the Eastern Front to an end? What was Hitler's attitude to the defeat, and when did he finally kill himself? What was the process by which the Third Reich then finally surrendered to the Allies, and how was peace subsequently brokered? When did the Allies discover the truth of Germany's terrible regime of Concentration Camps? How did the Allies retaliate against the SS following these gruesome discoveries? What would have happened if America had dropped the Atom Bomb on Berlin? How long did Japan fight on against the Allies, after Germany's surrender? And, following the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how did the Second World War at last come definitively to an end? In this week's bonus episode, Tom is joined by author, comedian and presenter of fellow Goalhanger podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, Al Murray, to discuss the process by which the Second World War came to an end, along with VE Day, and VJ Day. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett + Aaliyah Akude Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor

RIHC: Hitler's Death, Nazi Germany's Surrender, and the End of the Second World War

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