A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 5

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1943-1949

• The arrests and executions of German communists such as Hamburg city councilor, Franz Jacob

• The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

• The boatlift of the Danish Jews to Sweden

• The Dutch resistance and the killing of Henk Streefkerk

• The Normandy landings

• The liberation of Katharina Jacob and other Ravensbruck prisoners by the Red Army

• The US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from Palestine, the Naqba

• The Berlin Airlift of 1948-49