Hearing Voices from NPR®:
027 Poland— A Ghost Story
Host— Art Silverman of NPR
Airdates— 9/3/2008 - 9/10/2008
Poland battles against the Germans and then the Russians at the start of the Second World War. A German foot soldier and Polish townspeople recall, differently, the first days of the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and Poland’s later battle to fight years of environmental poisoning during the Soviet era. All in a series of stories written by NPR’s Alex Chadwick and produced by host Art Silverman.
Poland (53:00 mp3):
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Living in Germany I noticed that a notion of a “Moralische Keule” (moral bat or moral beating club) is being applied all too often as a reaction when critical questions are raised about what really happened in WW2. Just remember the controversies that were roused by the Wehrmachtsausstellung (German: German Army exhibition) in the 90ies, and it was the famous German writer Martin Walser who caused controversy by introducing the phrase “using Auschwitz as a moral club” in his acceptance speech for the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Still to date the discussion about Nazism seems partly driven by a need to blur history with myth, so that the answer about “HOW could the holocaust happen, why did people turn their eyes away, etc” will never seem answerable. Programs such as yours, help giving real answers: The form of approach makes the big difference here!