A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 4

This Week with David Rovics

1933-1941. Listen to everything from the beginning at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just start with this one!

• The rise to power in Germany of Adolf Hitler
• The International Brigades and the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War
• Anti-immigration laws and sentiment in the west and the turning back of Jewish refugees
• The kindertransports — rescuing Jewish children while leaving their parents to die
• The SS Winnipeg and Pablo Neruda’s rescue of the Spanish refugees in France in 1939
• Henry Ford and the popularity of fascism in the US
• Ram Mohamed Singh Azad and resistance to colonialism in India
• The US-imposed oil blockade on the Japanese Empire
• The internment of Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans in the western US
• Chiune Sugihara and the rescue of thousands of European Jews by “the Japanese Schindler”