21 Dec 2023
One Life
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.
Television Under the Swastika
A history of Nazi television programming and technology, from 1935 to 1944.
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Peter Buchholz Self - Narrator (voice)
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