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During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:35
  • Purchases: 1
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During WWII Diet Eman acted heroically to save Jews from extinction in the Netherlands. These are 2 conversations with her that originally aired o...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 56:39
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In the middle of a warzone, in a battle for holy ground, some soldiers heard a pregnant woman in distress and ran to help their enemy. More than ha...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 41:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Peat Bog Soldiers / Moorsoldaten
During the Third Reich two German songs were written and became world famous: The Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten) and Lili Marleen. This show tell...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
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In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day war, a Palestinian lawyer and two Israeli army reservists nearly brokered a peace agreement that could ha...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 05, 2018
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Inspired by the documentary THE VIETNAM WAR, we return to an archive interview with the poet John Balaban, who served as a conscientious objector i...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: German POW Otto Schwingel and Linda Anderson on Anderson's farm near Florence, S.C., Credit: courtesy of Ingebourg Schwingel
During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps dotted across the U.S. Suddenly the ene...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBBI Alaska, WVTF, RadioStPete Florida, Angelica Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 87
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In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:03
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This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 26:31
Caption: Tim Hetherington, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Photojournalist and war correspondent Tim Hetherington was killed wednesday, April 20, 2011 along with two other journalists while covering the fig...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 14:01
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When he finally went home to Viet Nam, he began using a name from an I.D. card he had purchased: Ho Chi Minh ... which means "bringer of light." An...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
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Peace Advocacy discussed from generational perspectives

  • Added: May 31, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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President Obama defended his vow to close Guantanamo prison in the marble rotunda of the National Archives on Thursday May 21st, 2009.

  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 48:05
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During WWII about 11.000 German immigrants living in the US were interned. Still today, they are waiting for a recognition of this injustice.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2009
  • Length: 29:52