What Tom Holland has said about Adolf Hitler's 1940 visit to Paris
1 quote · 1 episode · May 27, 2026
Tom Holland, English actor cast as Telemachus, has been quoted on Adolf Hitler's 1940 visit to Paris once in 1 episode of The Rest Is History, most recently on May 27, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Holland argues Hitler's order to destroy Cavell's Paris monument showed how much her story still haunted Germans.
“it's a kind of amazing demonstration of how haunted by this story in the wake of the First World War, even Nazis were”
The Rest Is History: 674. The First World War: The Spy Who Took on the Germans (Part 4) (May 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:03:04
Episodes
674. The First World War: The Spy Who Took on the Germans (Part 4)The Rest Is History · May 27, 2026 · 1 h 8 min
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland recount the life, resistance work, trial and 1915 execution of British nurse Edith Cavell in German-occupied Belgium, and her posthumous legend.
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