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Darkness Falls

World War II with Tom Hanks

The HISTORY Channel | Back Pocket Studios | Audacy

June 9, 2026

Show Notes

Under Adolf Hitler's leadership, anti-Semitic policies escalate from discrimination to widespread genocide. The state-sponsored persecution features mobile killing squads conducting mass shootings, and then purpose-built death camps, where millions of men, women and children are murdered by poison gas.

This episode features interviews with (in order of appearance):

  • Waitman Wade Beorn, assistant professor, Northumbria University
  • Jadwiga Biskupska, associate professor, Sam Houston State University
  • Alexandra Richie, professor, Collegium Civitas
  • Daniel Greene, adjunct professor, Northwestern University
  • James Bulgin, Imperial War Museum
  • Rebecca Erbelding, historian and author
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore, historian and author
  • Robert Citino, senior historian, National WWII Museum
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