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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…
8 years 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 …
8 years 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…
8 years 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 becam…
8 years, 1 month 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 capacit…
8 years, 1 month 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 …
8 years, 1 month 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 populati…
8 years, 1 month 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 Ger…
8 years, 1 month ago
Hitler and Hjalmar Schacht
In 1933 Hitler appointed Hjalmar Schacht as the president of the Reichsbank. Hitler had little understanding about economics and relied on the financ…
8 years, 1 month ago
Barbarossa Pt 4: Stalin's ultimatum June-July 1941
As Germany armies surges across western Russia in the summer of 1941, Stalin seemed to lose his nerve and suffer a breakdown. This podcast explores h…
8 years, 1 month ago