great in-depth investigation and very compelling story, made even more captivating by how personally and emotionally invested the journalist sounds, and the very passionate research and storytelling that results from that. i found some bits quite intense and emotional, even as someone who was hearing about this topic for the first time. the work is an essay, in the sense that it isn't a fully objective piece, but a more personal telling of history that included the author's perspective and feelings towards the historical facts it presents; which in a way makes it more interesting and thought-provoking regardless of whether one shares the journalist's point of view or not. (the whole objective of the podcast is to finally put the focus on the 3M victims of this terrible period, and that results in, at times, showing a shallow and kind of unidimensional picture of the perpetrators. by chance i happened to watch in between podcast episodes the documentary "Ordinary Men," which ended up being a very rough but fascinating pairing as the documentary focuses on the mind of the victimizer).