Hunting Stolen Nazi Art

This is the true story of the plot to kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy, and it involves an ice axe, a bloody study in Mexico City, and a betrayal years in the making.At its centre is Ramón Mercader, a Soviet-trained agent who infiltrated Leon Trotsky’s inner circle and killed him. Bu ...  Show more

Trap doors under toilets, hidden radio rooms in the back of wardrobes, secret bases behind waterfalls....Dan investigates an extraordinary network of secret resistance cells set up during Britain's "darkest hour".In the summer of 1940, Britain and its empire stood alone as the Na ...  Show more

In 2012 a stunning, secret collection of art was found in Germany. Much of it had disappeared during Nazi rule in the 1930s and 40s. It had once belonged to one of the Nazi's top art dealers, Hildebrand Gurlitt. It was found by chance in the Munich apartment of his elderly, reclu ...  Show more

Los silenciosos soldados soviéticos a caballo de los que habla Primo Levi en La Tregua bien pudieron pasar ante los ojos de Ángela Garriga y Salvador Sánchez aquel gélido 27 de enero de 1945. El matrimonio de exiliados de la Guerra Civil había acabado trabajando contra su volunta ...  Show more

It can be hard to comprehend the magnitude of historical events, with World War Two a prime example of this.

By 1945, some 3 million British people had served. As such, the rich diversity of masculinity and sexuality of those men is often reduced or hidden from the h ...

Shownotes:Zaak 13: Adolf Hitler en de kunst obsessie van de nazi’s. In bijna elke aflevering van KunstMaffia waarin we spreken over roof, diefstal of zwendel, voegen we daar vaak aan toe “sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog”. Dat bracht ons op het idee om WOII eens wat dichter onder de ...  Show more