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The Molotov Von Ribbentrop Pact

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An exploration of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact and its implications for European Jewry.

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  1. 0:00Yehuda Gabber with Jewish history sound bites and this episode is about the Mullet von Ribbentrop…
  2. 5:11that's how the countries of the former Soviet Union view this war and it's called the…
  3. 10:49received the news of the signing which was secret. No one even knew that these things…
  4. 16:33on August 24th and backdated to August 23rd. And that's what the pact is called. And…
  5. 22:12your entire officer core, your entire leadership of your military and you cannot fight a war…
  6. 27:53that the Soviet Union should partner with England and France. That was his approach to foreign…
  7. 33:34had been in the 19th century when the Polish kingdom came to an end. And now…
  8. 39:12better. So there's hundreds of thousands fleeing into Soviet territory to eastern Poland and later on…
  9. 44:52Japanese needed. That would be more of a job of the Japanese Navy. They would also…
  10. 50:32as two halves of the same hole. As persecution from Soviets, as persecution from Nazis at…

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