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David Lloyd George and Adolf Hitler: 1936
As Lloyd George's political career ebbed away and he became increasingly marginalised in British politics, his sympathies for Germany and his positive view of Hitler led him to visit the Nazi dictato…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
Barbarossa Part Six: The end of the offensive
Despite Germany's spectacular advances and the devastating defeats inflicted on the Red Army, Hitler failed to capture Moscow. In late October 1941 the first snows fell, his dreams of a final victory…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
Anti Communism and America's Trade Unions 1945-49
In the half decade after the Second World War, the fortunes of America's trade union movement declined and communist led trade unions were ostracised by the AFL and CIO. This was consistent with the …
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
The Ottoman Empire and the July Crisis
In July 1914 as the final desperate negotiations to avoid war failed, the Ottoman Empire engaged in secret diplomacy with both Germany and Russia to gain as much from the forthcoming conflict as poss…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
The Origins of MI5 1903-1909
Britain had a very limited internal security and overseas intelligence capability before the Boer War. However, a government and public obsessed with fears of subversion led to pressures to create a …
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
SS Training and the Nazi Camp System
The training of a ruthless fraternity who's sadism was encouraged and given free reign - this was the training role of the Nazi camp system. It became the proving ground for a generation of SS men wh…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
American War Production and Finance 1917-18
A war of historically unprecedented size and ferocity needed the industrial productivity all belligerent powers. However, American productive capacity dwarfed its European neighbours, as did America'…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
The Creation of Yugoslavia 1919 (Part One)
In the aftermath of the First World War a federation of Balkan states that had emerged from the collapsed Austro Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, each with conflicting agendas, created a new South Slav…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
Zero Hour: The Soviet Occupation of Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw 1945
The devastation of Germany and Eastern Europe by Hitler created the perfect environment for Soviet rule. Shattered, bewildered and destitute populations had little choice but to accept the domination…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
Franco's diplomacy and the defeat of fascism 1941-45
Francoist Spain avoided direct conflict with Britain and America, but waged war against the USSR. By 1943 the tide of war had turned against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, but Franco's survival inst…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago