Roger Moorhouse is a historian and author specialising in modern German and Central European history, with particular interest in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and World War Two in Europe.
On Monday, Roger, Francis and Konstantin will be sitting down to discuss his new book, ‘Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War’, which provides a fascinating insight and breakdown around the battle of the Atlantic, the brutal life inside a German submarine and the threat U-boats posed against allied shipping and particularly food supply in the early stages of the war.
According to his memoirs, the one thing that ever really frightened Winston Churchill during World War II was the U-boat threat in the Battle of the Atlantic.
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For what reason did the German high command never realise that the enigma code had been cracked?
You’ve written about the “first campaigns” of the war — Poland and the Phoney War. Norway seems to sit at the hinge point: it gave Hitler both iron ore and naval bases, which in turn made the Battle of the Atlantic deadlier. Do you see Norway as the campaign that made the U-boat war possible?
The Arctic convoys had to run under the shadow of occupied Norway — U-boats, the Tirpitz, Luftwaffe torpedo bombers. Do you think this theatre is the great overlooked strategic struggle of the war?