Backstory with Larry Potash
Hosted by Larry Potash · WGN-TV
4.9from 149 ratings
- 132
- Episodes
- 22
- Transcribed
- 149
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Backstory with Larry Potash
Explore the BACKSTORY behind some of the most intriguing tales in history, culture, religion and science from Chicago and beyond.
- Publisher
- WGN-TV
- Category
- history · news · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Feb 2019
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
22 of 132 episodes have a transcript.
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The Nazis’ Legal Reckoning
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And when he got into the prison, the physicians there, their job was to keep everyone alive to face justice. And he really is the biggest villain in that story. Yeah, he was Hitler's designated successor almost to the end, and the kingpin for sure. He was flamboyant, he was greedy, but he was a family man. He loved his wife, he had a young daughter. Just like anybody else, Mike. Like anyone else. Eighty years after the Nuremberg trials, we are still talking about anti-Semitism today. There was a lot of anti-Semitism then and now, obviously, and it's growing. To be only 20 and 21 years old and be confronted with the worst criminals with crimes, unimaginable crimes. […]
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