Adolf Hitler's 1940 visit to Paris
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Adolf Hitler's 1940 visit to Paris has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Tom HollandEnglish actor cast as Telemachus
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
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- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
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.