Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two. Join her for incredible tales of deception, acts of resistance and courage.

Helena Bonham Carter shines light on extraordinary stories from World War Two.

Introducing... History's Secret Heroes

<description>&lt;p&gt;From the producers of Nuremberg, the story of how in just 13 years, Adolf Hitler led a fringe sect with less than a hundred members and outlandish ideas to be the dominant force in German politics. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is also about the forgotten players from these early years who played crucial roles in the Nazi Party's rise to power. This new scripted podcast takes listeners into the intrigues, the personalities, the knife-edge decisions which would ultimately lead to forty million dead in the world’s greatest catastrophe. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Starring Sir Derek Jacobi as President Hindenberg, Tom Mothersdale as Adolf Hitler and Alexander Vlahos as Joseph Goebbels. With Toby Stephens, Nancy Carroll, Laura Donnelly and Juliet Stevenson as the Narrator. Written and directed by Jonathan Myerson. Producer - Nicholas Newton. A Promenade production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The story of how Hitler led a fringe sect to be the dominant force in German politics.

From the producers of Nuremberg, the story of how in just 13 years, Adolf Hitler led a fringe sect with less than a hundred members and outlandish ideas to be the dominant force in German politics. It is also about the forgotten players from these early years who played crucial roles in the Nazi Party's rise to power. This new scripted podcast takes listeners into the intrigues, the personalities, the knife-edge decisions which would ultimately lead to forty million dead in the world’s greatest catastrophe. Starring Sir Derek Jacobi as President Hindenberg, Tom Mothersdale as Adolf Hitler and Alexander Vlahos as Joseph Goebbels. With Toby Stephens, Nancy Carroll, Laura Donnelly and Juliet Stevenson as the Narrator. Written and directed by Jonathan Myerson. Producer - Nicholas Newton. A Promenade production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Introducing Nazis: The Road to Power

<description>&lt;p&gt;On 30th September 1946, the Judges announce their verdicts. And the sentences to be imposed – death or imprisonment or freedom. But come the night of the executions, Hermann Goering has one last surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And now it’s time for the verdicts: 11 will be hanged, 7 are given prison sentences and 3 are set free. Everyone is surprised by the acquittals and at a hasty press conference, the free men trade autographs for chocolate (but are re-arrested by German authorities as soon as they leave the building). Meanwhile Sergeant Woods, the US Army’s hangman, is on site, building the gallows. The night comes but Goering has managed to hide one last cyanide capsule to evade the noose. Starring Nicholas Woodeson as Sir Geoffrey Lawrence and featuring Nathan Wiley as Master Sergeant Woods, the US Army’s executioner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Emma Schwabenland - NATALIE DORMER
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Francis Biddle - CLIVE WOOD
Iona Nikitchenko - HENRY GOODMAN
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe - FORBES MASSON
Colonel Burton Andrus - JOSEPH ALESSI
Hermann Goering - NIGEL LINDSAY
Rudolf Hess - JOSEPH MYDELL
New York Post Reporter - HARI DHILLON
Daily Express Reporter - ROSIE SHEEHY
Sir Norman Birkett and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
John Parker and other roles - NATHAN WILEY
Henri De Vabres and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
Pastor Gerecke and other roles - ILAN GOODMAN
Otto Kranzbühler and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Joachim von Ribbentrop and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds&lt;/p&gt;</description>

11 will die, 7 imprisoned, 3 acquitted. And one more surprise on the night of the hangings

On 30th September 1946, the Judges announce their verdicts. And the sentences to be imposed – death or imprisonment or freedom. But come the night of the executions, Hermann Goering has one last surprise.And now it’s time for the verdicts: 11 will be hanged, 7 are given prison sentences and 3 are set free. Everyone is surprised by the acquittals and at a hasty press conference, the free men trade autographs for chocolate (but are re-arrested by German authorities as soon as they leave the building). Meanwhile Sergeant Woods, the US Army’s hangman, is on site, building the gallows. The night comes but Goering has managed to hide one last cyanide capsule to evade the noose. Starring Nicholas Woodeson as Sir Geoffrey Lawrence and featuring Nathan Wiley as Master Sergeant Woods, the US Army’s executioner.Emma Schwabenland - NATALIE DORMER
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Francis Biddle - CLIVE WOOD
Iona Nikitchenko - HENRY GOODMAN
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe - FORBES MASSON
Colonel Burton Andrus - JOSEPH ALESSI
Hermann Goering - NIGEL LINDSAY
Rudolf Hess - JOSEPH MYDELL
New York Post Reporter - HARI DHILLON
Daily Express Reporter - ROSIE SHEEHY
Sir Norman Birkett and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
John Parker and other roles - NATHAN WILEY
Henri De Vabres and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
Pastor Gerecke and other roles - ILAN GOODMAN
Otto Kranzbühler and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Joachim von Ribbentrop and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
Titles - LEWIS MACLEODSound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTONA Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Episode 16 - No Trace Will Remain

<description>&lt;p&gt;After 216 days in the courtroom, the judges must arrive at their verdicts – the debate will be fierce. Outside, some expect all the Nazis to hang, others predict prison or even acquittal. And while they wait, the Accused are allowed visitors for the first time. And maybe the last time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the judges argue, the prisoners are allowed visitors for the first time. Emma Schwabenland, an American translator, is given the job of organising the Visitors Room, and Pastor Gerecke, an American Lutheran, is under-employed tending to their spiritual needs. And upstairs the eight judges (two from each country) debate the appropriate sentences – the Russians want everyone found guilty and hanged, the other judges take a more nuanced view...Starring Natalie Dormer as Emma Schwabenland and featuring Ilan Goodman as Pastor Henry Gerecke.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Emma Schwabenland - NATALIE DORMER
Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL
Hermann Goering - NIGEL LINDSAY
Emmy Goering - SOPHIA PETTIT
Pastor Gerecke - ILAN GOODMAN
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Iona Nikitchenko - HENRY GOODMAN
Robert Falco - HARI DHILLON
Francis Biddle - CLIVE WOOD
Sir Norman Birkett and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
Henri De Vabres and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
John Parker and other roles - NATHAN WILEY
Albert Speer and other roles - JOSEPH ALESSI
Niklas Frank and other roles - ROSIE SHEEHY
Otto Kranzbühler and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Joachim von Ribbentrop and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The Judges debate their verdicts: surely they’ll all hang?

After 216 days in the courtroom, the judges must arrive at their verdicts – the debate will be fierce. Outside, some expect all the Nazis to hang, others predict prison or even acquittal. And while they wait, the Accused are allowed visitors for the first time. And maybe the last time.As the judges argue, the prisoners are allowed visitors for the first time. Emma Schwabenland, an American translator, is given the job of organising the Visitors Room, and Pastor Gerecke, an American Lutheran, is under-employed tending to their spiritual needs. And upstairs the eight judges (two from each country) debate the appropriate sentences – the Russians want everyone found guilty and hanged, the other judges take a more nuanced view...Starring Natalie Dormer as Emma Schwabenland and featuring Ilan Goodman as Pastor Henry Gerecke.Emma Schwabenland - NATALIE DORMER
Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL
Hermann Goering - NIGEL LINDSAY
Emmy Goering - SOPHIA PETTIT
Pastor Gerecke - ILAN GOODMAN
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Iona Nikitchenko - HENRY GOODMAN
Robert Falco - HARI DHILLON
Francis Biddle - CLIVE WOOD
Sir Norman Birkett and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
Henri De Vabres and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
John Parker and other roles - NATHAN WILEY
Albert Speer and other roles - JOSEPH ALESSI
Niklas Frank and other roles - ROSIE SHEEHY
Otto Kranzbühler and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Joachim von Ribbentrop and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
Titles - LEWIS MACLEODSound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTONA Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Episode 15 - Guilty or Not?

<description>&lt;p&gt;As more evidence emerges of Nazi Crimes – the camps, the slave labour ministry, the euthanasia programme – all Germans must come to terms with their own individual guilt. They can no longer pretend they didn’t know.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Accused Men employ a range of limp excuses for their behaviour, claiming they knew nothing, that it was all done by Himmler (now conveniently dead), that they had no choice. But the testimony of Hermann Graebe, a German engineer working in occupied Ukraine, who stumbled across a mass shooting, silences the courtroom and brings home to Christa, a German civilian working at the Court, the enormity of the Nazi crimes. (Graebe was later named one of the Righteous Among Nations at the Yad Vashem Memorial). Starring Rosie Sheehy as Christa and featuring Henry Goodman as Hermann Graebe, witness to a mass execution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Madeleine Jacob - ALEX KINGSTON
Christa - ROSIE SHEEHY
Hermann Graebe - HENRY GOODMAN
Herald Tribune Reporter - CLIVE WOOD
Daily Mirror Reporter - ANDREW WOODALL
New York Post Reporter - HARI DHILLON
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON
John Amen - JOSEPH ALESSI
Roman Rudenko - NIGEL LINDSAY
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe - FORBES MASSON
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier - KATE PHILLIPS
Rudolf Hoess - JASPER BRITTON
Wilhelm Keitel - JONATHAN CULLEN
Walther Funk and other roles - ILAN GOODMAN
Fritz Sauckel and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds&lt;/p&gt;</description>

What does it take to get ordinary German people to acknowledge their guilt?

As more evidence emerges of Nazi Crimes – the camps, the slave labour ministry, the euthanasia programme – all Germans must come to terms with their own individual guilt. They can no longer pretend they didn’t know.The Accused Men employ a range of limp excuses for their behaviour, claiming they knew nothing, that it was all done by Himmler (now conveniently dead), that they had no choice. But the testimony of Hermann Graebe, a German engineer working in occupied Ukraine, who stumbled across a mass shooting, silences the courtroom and brings home to Christa, a German civilian working at the Court, the enormity of the Nazi crimes. (Graebe was later named one of the Righteous Among Nations at the Yad Vashem Memorial). Starring Rosie Sheehy as Christa and featuring Henry Goodman as Hermann Graebe, witness to a mass execution.Madeleine Jacob - ALEX KINGSTON
Christa - ROSIE SHEEHY
Hermann Graebe - HENRY GOODMAN
Herald Tribune Reporter - CLIVE WOOD
Daily Mirror Reporter - ANDREW WOODALL
New York Post Reporter - HARI DHILLON
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence - NICHOLAS WOODESON
John Amen - JOSEPH ALESSI
Roman Rudenko - NIGEL LINDSAY
Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe - FORBES MASSON
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier - KATE PHILLIPS
Rudolf Hoess - JASPER BRITTON
Wilhelm Keitel - JONATHAN CULLEN
Walther Funk and other roles - ILAN GOODMAN
Fritz Sauckel and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Titles - LEWIS MACLEODSound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTONA Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Episode 14 - Everyone Knew

The story of the trial of the most notorious Nazi war criminals through dramatic reconstruction, telling it from ground-level up, through the eyes of a Russian interpreter, the American prison psychologist, a French reporter, the British Court Liaison Officer and others from the thousands of individuals tasked with fighting 'the last battle of WWII'. Starring Natalie Dormer, Freddie Fox, Kate Phillips, Alex Kingston, Ed Stoppard and Henry Goodman.

Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals

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