261. Race To Berlin 1945: A Devastated City Divided (Ep 1)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnon. And me, William De Rumpel. Don't pretend that's how you talk. That is not how you talk. Just explain.

I should explain this to turn my volume down that I was booming. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Unbelievable. And on a sound check, William will suddenly assume the aspect of whispering Bob Harris, as if we any of us believe that's how he talks.

And then lank up his volume. Uh anyway, look, last time we were with you, we went into some may say excruciating detail of the Yalta conference, the psychodrama that was Yalta. But honestly, I hope I hope you got some impression of how Just that image of unity in that photograph that everybody's come to know from Yalta is just not what was going on around the table as the big three went behind each other's backs, issued nebulous statements which would be questioned and then ripped to shreds in no time at all, and how this whole idea that Roosevelt had of winning the war, yes, but also winning the peace is built. on straw.

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