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Sachsenhausen, Dachau and the later Nazi Camps 1936-39
After the initial chaotic phase of the development of the camp system, by 1936 new purpose build camp complexes that dwarfed their predecessors emerg…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Crisis of American Labor Unions 1945-50
In the post war years a rise in union militancy was matched by an increase in anti union hostility by the federal government and a decline in union p…
8 years, 5 months ago
Mussolini's War in Greece: 1940-41
The impulsive decision by Mussolini to invade Greece dragged the Balkans into the Second World War, with terrible consequences for Greece, Albania, Y…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Politics of Stalinism Part Two
More on the inner workings of the Soviet Communist Party after 1928
Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical convers…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Bolsheviks and the Peacemakers 1919
Continuing from a previous podcast on the complications of the Russian Revolution to the attempts to create a European peace in 1919, this episode fo…
8 years, 5 months ago
American Labour Militancy 1945-46
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War a strong, organised American working class movement faced an uncertain future of stagnating wages …
8 years, 6 months ago
Eisenhower, the CIA and the death of Stalin
The cold war certainties that existed up until March 1953 were thrown into doubt when Stalin died, leaving Eisenhower and his spy chief Alan Dulles w…
8 years, 6 months ago
Hitler's Civil Service
In 1933 Hitler sought to extend his power over the German Civil Service and to politicise it by purging non Nazis. However, he hoped to achieve this …
8 years, 6 months ago
Britain's early victories in the desert war 1940-41
Despite being vastly outnumbered in Egypt, a small British Empire force inflicted devastating losses on a vast Italian Army. Mussolini's poorly led a…
8 years, 6 months ago
The rights of American Women 1945-55
In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, women left war industries in huge numbers and some entered the domestic sphere. However the view that wo…
8 years, 6 months ago