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German and Austro-Hungarian military planning 1906-1914
Germany and Austria were outnumbered in terms of troops and cavalry by nearly 2:1 in 1914 and desperately needed to win a rapid war on the western fr…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Origins of Fascism: Part Two
This is the second in a series on the development of fascism in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In this podcast we examine the legacy of raci…
6 years, 8 months ago
Spain's state of emergency and the Falange Party - 1934
In 1934 a new interior minister in the right wing government that took power in late 1933, Salazar Alonzo, declared a state of emergency and the righ…
6 years, 8 months ago
Britain, America and Palestine 1939-42
During the Second World War, the fate of British and French mandates in the Middle East was a constant pressure on war time diplomacy and on American…
6 years, 8 months ago
Exile and deportation in Stalinist Russia 1928-41
Administrative exile had been used by the Tsarist regime against political dissidents and the revolutionary intelligentsia, however the mass deportat…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Nazi Quarry Camps 1938-40
Hitler's vision of a new Germany, built in vast neoclassical grandeur, required stone to be quarried and bricks to be manufactured in vast quantities…
6 years, 8 months ago
The origins of fascism: part one
In the late 19th Century a series of intellectual and ideological movements coalesced into the beginnings of fascist thought. Romanticism, nationalis…
6 years, 9 months ago
Truman and Congress 1945-46
In 1945 Truman inherited from Roosevelt a more prosperous America, but one which had moved politically to the right. Rising living standards and the …
6 years, 9 months ago
Forced labour and the Nazi camp system
During the 1930s the Nazi regime attempted to exploit prisoners for their labour but there were few examples of successful profiteering and as the de…
6 years, 9 months ago
Building Mao's police state 1949
Initially, Mao proceeded with caution against the social enemies of the Communist Party, using the tools of state repression left behind by Chiang Ka…
6 years, 9 months ago