3. The Priest (Season 2)

<p>A Nazi spy is tasked with uncovering underground Allied resistance networks. He was favored by the SS as a top hunter. Robert Alesh was a Luxembourger priest better known in France by his alias: "Father Robert Ackuin." The raids, arrests, and executions that Alesh’s treacherous work made possible set British intelligence back months. Alesh’s time as a priest served him well in his search for Jews and the Allied spies. Alesh begins working for one of the most evil men in history: the head of the Nazi Gestapo in Lyon, France: Klaus Barbie. Alesh receives his first hard evidence of the existence of “The Limping Lady,” the Allied spy running prison breaks and sabotage operations. So Robert Alesh and Virginia Hall begin a game of cat and mouse.</p> <p>This episode contains interviews with:<br><br>• <a href="https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/broch-ludivine">Dr. Ludivine Broch</a>: A scholar of World War II French history and lecturer at the University of Westminster, UK; Editor of <em><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/volume/9E8D2E2953C49F95CC7D4D3553CCB108">Contemporary European History</a></em>, associate fellow of the <a href="https://bisa.bbk.ac.uk">Birbeck Institute for the study of Antisemitism</a>; co-founder of the <a href="http://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/blog/">French History Network</a><br><br>• <a href="https://www.spymuseum.org/host-an-event/spy-speaker-series/chris-costa/">Chris Costa</a>: Executive Director of the International Spy Museum, a 34-year veteran of the Department of Defense, and he served 25 years in the United States Army working in counterintelligence, human intelligence and with special operations forces in Central America, Europe, and the Middle East.<br><br>• <a href="https://cepl.cps.gwu.edu/karen-m-schaefer">Karen Schaefer</a>: worked for the CIA for 26 years on assignments overseas in Latin America, Europe, Afghanistan and Iraq, where she was Chief of Base and holding several different leadership positions inc