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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, 2 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 capacit…
8 years, 2 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 …
8 years, 2 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 populati…
8 years, 2 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 Ger…
8 years, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago
The Butler Education Act 1944
In the last years of the Second World War, a new education act designed to create a school system for post war Britain was established. It was instru…
8 years, 2 months ago
Book Review: Babuska's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps by Marcel Krueger
A review of Babushka's Journey and a discussion of the field of Gulag memoir literature (listen to the end for details on how to get your free copy).…
8 years, 2 months ago
Nixon, Reagan and the crisis years of the 1970s
How did the decline of Richard Nixon and the humiliations heaped upon America in the 1970s lead to the rise in popularity of a once marginal Republic…
8 years, 3 months ago