Prof. Greg Jackson

I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'm pleased to be joined by my executive editor, Riley Neubauer.

So today we are going to have what I think is just a real honor of an interview.

We'll be speaking with the director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Sarah Bloomfield.

We'll get to her intro and just how unique of an opportunity this truly is.

But before we dive into setting up the Holocaust, which is the real point of this episode, I do want to take just one second and kind of epilogue a little bit

to use that as a verb in the HTDS sense on World War II because we are so deep into this thing and yet we are not even close to being through it.

This is just such a massive, massive tapestry with so many things to weave together.

Yes.

And, you know, it's the same thing that I've felt in the classroom teaching World War II my entire career as a university professor.

You have to make a choice between whether it is frustrating to miss some context as you stick to one theater and just plow through the Pacific and then plow through Europe or vice versa.

You're missing crucial context.

You don't get to Europe without Pearl Harbor from the American perspective.

Right.

And that's exactly what we're about here, obviously, on HTDS.

So or you move chronologically and it does mean that there's a little bit of a pause here.

you know, in these stories.

To me, the latter is the better course.

I think it's important to have that context.

And we are very intentionally grouping together several pieces of an episode.

I'm very opposed to one episode in Europe, one episode in the Pacific, one episode in Europe.