Podcast Overview
The National WWII Museum is more than a world-renowned physical attraction—it is a research institution filled with historians and experts that are constantly producing best-in-their-field content on a variety of WWII topics. From webinars and lectures to round-table discussions and meet-the-author events, the Museum continues to provide a global audience with engaging ways to connect with WWII history.
But it’s a lot, and keeping up with the latest research on the war that changed the world isn’t everyone’s full-time job. That’s why, in our commitment to being the world’s most accessible resource on WWII history, we’ve developed the new World War II On Topic podcast, which will highlight a curated selection of some of our best content. Airing weekly in an easily digestible format, On Topic will allow you to rediscover your favorite lectures and events or catch up on great content that you might have missed.
Learn more about each of the first season’s episodes below, and don’t forget to subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform!
Join The National WWII Museum for a New Weekly Podcast called the World War II On Topic. Learn more about each of our episodes below, and don’t forget to subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform!
Subscribe now via Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or Spotify.
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Season 5 Episode 1 – Racing for the Bomb: Author Robert Norris on General Leslie Groves
Welcome to a season 5 of World War II on Topic, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
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Season 5 Episode 2 – Oppenheimer: The Movie and the Man
Welcome to a season 5 of World War II on Topic, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
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Season 5 Episode 3 – Eyewitness to Hiroshima, and the Enola Gay
Welcome to a season 5 of World War II on Topic, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
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Season 5 Episode 4 – Atom Bomb: “The Destroyer of Worlds”
Welcome to a season 5 of World War II on Topic, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
Subscribe now via Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or Spotify.
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Season 4 Episode 1 – “Masters of the Air, The Bloody 100th, and John “Lucky” Luckadoo"
Welcome to a special season of World War II on Topic: Veteran Voices, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
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Season 4 Episode 2 – “An Interview with WWII Veteran Steve Ellis"
Welcome to a special season of World War II on Topic: Veteran Voices, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
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Season 4 Episode 3 – A French Teenager in the Resistance with Nicole Spangenberg
Welcome to a special season of World War II on Topic: Veteran Voices, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
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Season 4 Episode 4 – An Interview with Medal of Honor Recipient Woody Williams
Welcome to a special season of World War II on Topic: Veteran Voices, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
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Season 4 Episode 5 – A Conversation with WWII Veteran Alan Moskin
Welcome to a special season of World War II on Topic: Veteran Voices, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
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Season 4 Episode 6 – Voices of the War: Fighting in the Desert” with Walt Ehlers and Gerhard Hennes
Welcome to a special season of World War II on Topic: Veteran Voices, where we listen to firsthand accounts from those who lived through the war.
Subscribe now via Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or Spotify.
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Season 3 Episode 1 – “Patriots From the Barrio with Dave Gutierrez"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
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Season 3 Episode 2 – “Defining Patriotism: Native Military Figures & the Long Fight for Equality with Dr. Zachary Isenhower"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
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Season 3 Episode 3 – “Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis with Dr. Jeffery H. Jackson"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
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Season 3 Episode 4 – “She's Helping to Win! Women in the US Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard with Kali Martin"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
Subscribe now via Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or Spotify.
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Season 2 Episode 1 – “Rebuilding the Shattered Worlds of 1918 and 1945 with Dr. Michael Neiberg"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
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Season 2 Episode 2 – “The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, & Morality in Mussolini's Italy with Dr. Victoria de Grazia"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
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Season 2 Episode 3 – “Guadalcanal: The First Offensive with Richard Frank"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
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Season 2 Episode 4 – “FDR, Harry Truman, & the Manhattan Project with Clifton Truman Daniel and Paul Sparrow"
Today’s episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and The Media & Education Center.
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Season 2 Episode 5 – “Decade after Defeat: Japan 1945-1955 with Dr. Yoshikuni Igarashi"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
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Season 2 Episode 6 – “Life and Death Between Hitler and Stalin: Mass Murder and Memory in Eastern Europe with Dr. Omer Bartov and Dr. Alexandra Richie"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War & Democracy and the WWII Media & Education Center.
Subscribe now via Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or Spotify.
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Episode 1 – “Victory in Europe: One Year Later with Dr. Rob Citino"
Welcome to a new podcast series where we revisit some of our most riveting and educational discussions on World War II. This episode, titled Victory in Europe: One Year Later, is brought to you by the Jenny Craig’s Institute for War and Democracy at The National WWII Museum.
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Episode 2 – “Master and Commander—Winston Churchill at War with Anthony Tucker-Jones"
This episode is brought to you by the Museum’s Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. Today we are listening to Dr. Rob Citino, the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian here at the Museum, and author/ historian Anthony Tucker-Jones.
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Episode 3 – “Ship of Ghosts: USS Houston at the Battle of Java Sea with James Hornfischer"
Today we are traveling back to February 27, 2012. Where we had the pleasure of hosting best-selling author James (Jim) Hornfischer, so he could discuss his book, “Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston.” For which earned Jim the United States Maritime Literature Award.
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Episode 4 – "Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture with Joshua Levine"
This week we are going back to June 29, 2020, when Museum Librarian Wesley Lucas led a discussion with author Joshua Levine on his book: “Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture.”
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Episode 5 – "Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration with Shirley Ann Higuchi"
On February 22, 2021, Dr. Rob Citino, the Museum’s Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian, had a conversation with Shirley Ann Higuchi, the Chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation.
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Episode 6 – "The Meaning of D-Day"
On June 2, 2020, we had a roundtable discussion on the significance of D-Day and its legacy. Led by Dawn Hammatt, Director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, the roundtable features historians Dr. Allyson Stanton instructor at Gogebic community college, Dr. Benjamin Schneider instructor at George Mason University and Dr. Tyler Bamford, the National WWII Museum’s inaugural Sherry and Alan Leventhal Research Fellow.
Jeremy Collins
As a student pursuing his history degree at the University of Missouri, Jeremy joined The National WWII Museum in 2001 as an intern with the Collections & Exhibits Department. There, he immersed himself in the artifacts and stories that made up the Museum’s collection. He was involved with many of the Museum’s special exhibitions and co-curated the special exhibition When Baseball Went to War. In 2008, he moved to the Travel & Conference Department, and was involved with most aspects of the travel program, including tour design, development, and content. This saw him scout, lead, or manage tours all over the world including the Philippines, the Mediterranean, England, and Northwest Europe. Jeremy also oversees the creation, planning, marketing, and execution of many of the Museum marquee public programs, including book launches, distinguished lectures, symposia, and the Museum’s annual International Conference on World War II. As a member of The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, Jeremy provides public programming of the highest caliber to the Museum’s audience, both physical and digital.

Rob Citino, PhD
Robert Citino, PhD, is the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. Dr. Citino is an award-winning military historian and scholar who has published ten books including The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, and The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich, as well as numerous articles covering World War II and twentieth-century military history. He speaks widely and contributes regularly to general readership magazines such as World War II. Dr. Citino enjoys close ties with the US military establishment and taught one year at the US Military Academy at West Point and two years at the US Army War College.

World War II On Topic is made possible by The Herzstein Foundation.