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Hiding Wine from the Nazis: How French Winemakers Outsmarted the Reich | Don & Petie Kladstrup

Podcast: The Vintage Passport · Noah Tetzner

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

In June 1940, France fell to Nazi Germany, and the occupiers quickly set their sights on one of the country's greatest treasures: its wine. Award-winning journalists Don and Petie Kladstrup, authors of Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure, join host Noah Tetzner to tell the story of the winemakers who hid, smuggled, and sabotaged their wine to keep it out of German hands. Don and Petie explain who the weinführers were: German wine merchants the Reich sent into France to buy up its best bottles, many of whom ended u...