{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6939faa834867e026d55a1b2/6a1071ef80978431dafaffa3?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"WWII & Lesbian Step-Sisters: Men Wish They Knew These 4 Stories","description":"<p>You loved our first WWII episode, so we're back with MORE! This week we're covering stories that your history teacher definitely skipped: women in codebreaking, queer resistance, and psychological warfare. Think cracking Nazi spy rings from behind a desk, two lesbian stepsister artists using \"paper bullets\" to take down an occupying army, and a 21-year-old Jewish refugee who had German soldiers writing her love letters.</p><p><br></p><p>No dry lectures. Just the drama, the gossip, and the stories that actually deserved the spotlight.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Haven't listened to Part 1 yet? Start there — that's where we lay the context on the origin of and players in WWII.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Obsessed? Want more? Check our fiction &amp; nonfiction book recommendations here: https://bookshop.org/shop/SPILLED</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Research Documents:</strong></p><ul><li>BBC Future. “The Female Code Breakers Who Were Left Out of History Books.” bbc.com/future, October 9, 2017. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171009-the-female-code-breakers-who-were-left-out-of-history-books</li><li>BBC. “The Bletchley Girls: Cracking Women.” bbc.co.uk. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/Q3lFn2vTv9JMgxX98bRhL/the-bletchley-girls-cracking-women</li><li>The Art Newspaper. “How Artist Couple Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore Resisted the Nazis with Their Paper Bullets.” November 4, 2020. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/11/04/extract-or-how-artist-couple-claude-cahun-and-marcel-moore-resisted-the-nazis-with-their-paper-bullets</li><li>History Extra. “On the Same Side: Homosexuals During the Second World War.” https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/on-the-same-side-homosexuals-during-the-second-world-war/</li><li>Putnam, Jennifer, PhD. “V for Victory: A Sign of Resistance.” The National WWII Museum, February 1, 2024. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/v-victory-sign-resistance</li><li>White, April. “One of the Allies’ Secret Weapons Against the Nazis Was a 21-Year-Old Woman Armed With a Microphone and a Script of Lies.” Smithsonian Magazine, March 2026. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/allies-secret-weapons-against-nazis-woman-armed-microphone-script-lies-180988094/</li></ul><p><strong>Context Sources:</strong></p><ul><li>United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Introduction to the Holocaust.” https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/introduction-to-the-holocaust</li><li>National WWII Museum. “WWII by the Numbers.” https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war</li><li>History.com Editors. “World War II.” https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Delaney & Kendyl Florence"}