The Holocaust History Podcast

Waitman Wade Beorn is a Holocaust scholar who clearly loves the long conversation format. His episodes regularly stretch past 90 minutes, and honestly, they need to -- he brings on an incredible rotating cast of academics and specialists who each bring something different. One week you might hear about women's experiences during the Holocaust, the next about the role of Yiddish culture, and then a deep examination of how we define genocide itself. The show has about 73 episodes so far and maintains a 4.7-star rating with listeners consistently praising the fact that it feels academic without being stuffy. Beorn knows how to ask the right follow-up questions and let his guests actually talk, which sounds obvious but is rarer than you would think in podcast interviews. The breadth of topics is remarkable -- queer perspectives during the Nazi era, the psychology of perpetrators, the politics of Holocaust memory today. It is not a chronological march through events. Instead, it treats the Holocaust as a complex historical phenomenon that demands examination from dozens of angles. Sensitive topics get handled with care and respect throughout. This is probably the single best podcast if you want to seriously understand the Holocaust beyond the basics.