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Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II.

The National WWII Museum presents 1945, a six-part podcast series hosted by New York Times best-selling author Donald Miller and Playtone producer Kirk Saduski. 1945 tells the story of the most consequential year in modern history, and explores significant questions over how the war will end. Guests include Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Frank, John McManus, Rebecca Erbelding, and Stephanie Hinnershitz. The podcast also features Academy Award nominees Patricia Clarkson and Gary Sinise. Episodes available weekly starting April 17.

Making Masters of the Air Podcast available on Fridays. Masters of the Air is an Apple Original series from executive producers of Band of Brothers and The Pacific, streaming January 26 on Apple TV+. The series follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the ...

From The National WWII Museum, Antisemitism: The Fight in WWII America is a five-part podcast series exploring the battle against antisemitism in prewar America and during World War II as well as the legacy of these efforts, which continue today. We begin in 1938, examining voices who were sympathetic to Nazism, while also highlighting voices who raised public awareness of the ongoing mass murder of Europe’s Jewish populations. The first two episodes examine American groups sympathetic to the Nazi; the next two focus on organizations that countered antisemitism during the war. The fifth and ...