
Seasons and episodes
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4 - 1U-Boat, the Underwater Scarecrow June 03, 2025
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4 - 2The Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy's Defeat June 03, 2025
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4 - 3The New Deal, an American Failure October 14, 2025
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4 - 4Africa, the Hotspot of the Cold War October 14, 2025
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3 - 1Vietnam - An American War? January 17, 2023
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3 - 2The Cold War - A Kremlin Instigation? January 17, 2023
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3 - 3Nazism - Made in Germany August 08, 2023
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3 - 4Occupied Europe - A Fragmented Resistance? August 08, 2023
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3 - 5Sub-Primes - Blame it on the USA? August 15, 2023
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3 - 6Israel - A Product of Holocaust? August 15, 2023
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2 - 1The Denazification of Germany: A Successful Process? January 05, 2021
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2 - 2Switzerland and WWII: An Exemplary Neutrality? January 05, 2021
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2 - 3Operation Overlord: A Massive Victory? January 12, 2021
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2 - 4The British Empire: A Model of Decolonization? January 12, 2021
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2 - 5John-Paul II: A Modern Pope January 26, 2021
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2 - 6Ronald Reagan: An Unqualified President? January 26, 2021
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1 - 1Hitler, the art of defeat January 22, 2019
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1 - 2The Marshall Plan Saved America January 22, 2019
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1 - 3Hiroshima, Stalin's Defeat January 29, 2019
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1 - 4Mao, Father of Modern China January 29, 2019
Overview
Myths die hard, and the history of the 20th century is no exception to this rule. Even today, we hold popular beliefs that we take for Evangelical truths. Thus, we believe that Hiroshima caused Japan to surrender, that the Marshall Plan saved Europe, that Adolf Hitler was a military genius, or that Mao Zedong was a necessary evil for China’s modernization. Of course, these judgements contain some truth; but, too broad-stroked to be accurate, they contradict the historical reality by denying its complexity. What if the truth was slightly different? Through an exploration of great national or international myths, this full archive documentary collection revisits the key moments of the 20th century with a new perspective in order to provide a new, smarter and more subtle interpretation, bringing elements to light that have been forgotten or sometimes overshadowed.