New podcast miniseries "The Ends of War" launched by Max Weber Stiftung
April 4, 2025
The new miniseries features GHI researchers Anna Carolin Augustin and Simone Lässig along with other MWS researchers to discuss the aftermath(s) of World War II and its global ramifications.
In the three-part mini-series "The Ends of War", researchers from the Max Weber Foundation shed light on various regional aspects of the end of the Second World War: What flight and migration movements shaped the post-war period? How is the end of the war remembered in Egypt or Japan? And what convoluted paths did Jewish ritual objects take during and after the war?
Episode 1: Remembering the Holocaust
The first episode of the mini-series focuses on the memory of the Holocaust. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska from the German Historical Institute (DHI) Warsaw and Anna-Carolin Augustin from the GHI Washington discuss places and objects continue to provide reminders of the Holocaust today.
Episode 2: Emigration and war refugees
The second episode of the mini-series looks at global migration movements before, during and after the Second World War. Simone Lässig from the GHI Washington and Richard Wittmann from the Orient-Institut Istanbul talk about escape routes that led from Nazi Germany, but also from other parts of Europe.
Episode 3: East Asia and the Middle East
The third episode looks at two often overlooked theaters of war: the German campaign in Africa and the war in the Pacific. Torsten Weber from the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo and Thomas Würtz from the Orient Institute (OI) Beirut help examine how these regions experienced the war and how the events are remembered today.