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The Beginning
A prestige podcast premiere that traces the compressed catastrophe of September 1939 — from Hitler's invasion of Poland to the secret Soviet stab in the back — with the authority of lived testimony and the weight of what came next.
- Poland has always been dangerous on both sides of you — and now, to see these two people working together, to see that Poland once again disappears, you had to feel like there's no help close by.
- He pointed at the utter destruction and told the officers with him: this is the real meaning of war.
- The two dictatorships had been pouring excrement over each other in the media for five years, calling each other every name under the sun — and then suddenly Ribbentrop is flying to Moscow.
- It's not simply about the German invasion of Poland. They're two men united in their belief that Adolf Hitler is perhaps the most dangerous man on the planet.
- Although the statement given to the world's press was one of wholehearted support, Poland was essentially cast to the four winds.