History of the Second World War

The middle years of the 1920s would be a challenging period for the Nazi Party as it tried to find its way.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesThe Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansGermany and the Second World War Volume 1: The Build-Up of German Aggression by Wilhelm Deist, Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann, and Wolfram WetteHitler: A Biography by Ian KershawThe Third Reich by Thomas ChildersThe Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam ToozeThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William ShirerFrance and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936 by Stephen A. SchukerThe First Capitulation: France and the Rhineland Crisis of 1936 by R.A.C. Parker (1956)France, Germany, and the Saar by A.J.P. Taylor (1952)The Franco-Polish Alliance and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland by George SakwaFrench Intelligence and Hitler's Rise to Power by Peter JacksonGreat Britain and the Saar Plebiscite of 13 January 1935 by C.J. HillHitler, Intelligence and the Decision to Remilitarize the Rhine by Zach ShoreHitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.Prologue to Peacekeeping: Ireland and the Saar, 1934-35 by Michael KennedyFantasy and Reality in Nazi Work-Creation Programs, 1933-1936 by Dan P. SilvermanFranz von Papen, the German Center Party, and the Failure of Catholic Conservatism in the Weimar Republic by Larry Eugene JonesCauses and Consequences of the Plebiscite in the Saar by E.W (1955)The Purge of the SA Reconsidered: "An Old Putschist Trick"? by Eleanor HancockThe Remilitarization of the Rhineland and its Impact on the French-Polish Alliance by Roman D. Bicki (1969)Rohm and Hitler: The Continuity of Political-Military Discord by David JablonskyThe German Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the Saar Plebiscite of 1935 by Guenter Lewy (1964)Saar Coal After Two World Wars by O.R. ReischerSchacht's Regulation of Money and the Capital Markets by Arthur Schweitzer (1948)The Myth of Chancellor Von Schleicher's Querfront Strategy by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.The Struggle for Control of the German Economy by Amos E. SimpsonThe Nazi State and German Society: A Brief History with Documents by Robert G. MoellerFranz von Papen, Catholic Conservatives, and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1933-1934 by Larry Eugene JonesFranz von Papen, the German Center Party, and the Failure of Catholic Conservatism in the Weimar Republic by Larry Eugene JonesBritish Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-1940 by Michael Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1923 the National Socialists would try to move things along by launching a putsch in Munich, it would go very poorly.Links to some Mein Kampf translations can be found here: http://historyofthesecondworldwar.com/episodes/the-third-reich-supplements/WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesThe Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansGermany and the Second World War Volume 1: The Build-Up of German Aggression by Wilhelm Deist, Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann, and Wolfram WetteHitler: A Biography by Ian KershawThe Third Reich by Thomas ChildersThe Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam ToozeThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William ShirerFrance and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936 by Stephen A. SchukerThe First Capitulation: France and the Rhineland Crisis of 1936 by R.A.C. Parker (1956)France, Germany, and the Saar by A.J.P. Taylor (1952)The Franco-Polish Alliance and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland by George SakwaFrench Intelligence and Hitler's Rise to Power by Peter JacksonGreat Britain and the Saar Plebiscite of 13 January 1935 by C.J. HillHitler, Intelligence and the Decision to Remilitarize the Rhine by Zach ShoreHitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.Prologue to Peacekeeping: Ireland and the Saar, 1934-35 by Michael KennedyFantasy and Reality in Nazi Work-Creation Programs, 1933-1936 by Dan P. SilvermanFranz von Papen, the German Center Party, and the Failure of Catholic Conservatism in the Weimar Republic by Larry Eugene JonesCauses and Consequences of the Plebiscite in the Saar by E.W (1955)The Purge of the SA Reconsidered: "An Old Putschist Trick"? by Eleanor HancockThe Remilitarization of the Rhineland and its Impact on the French-Polish Alliance by Roman D. Bicki (1969)Rohm and Hitler: The Continuity of Political-Military Discord by David JablonskyThe German Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the Saar Plebiscite of 1935 by Guenter Lewy (1964)Saar Coal After Two World Wars by O.R. ReischerSchacht's Regulation of Money and the Capital Markets by Arthur Schweitzer (1948)The Myth of Chancellor Von Schleicher's Querfront Strategy by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.The Struggle for Control of the German Economy by Amos E. SimpsonThe Nazi State and German Society: A Brief History with Documents by Robert G. MoellerFranz von Papen, Catholic Conservatives, and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1933-1934 by Larry Eugene JonesFranz von Papen, the German Center Party, and the Failure of Catholic Conservatism in the Weimar Republic by Larry Eugene JonesBritish Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-1940 by Michael Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Germany would play a critical role in driving events during the interwar period, and within Germany political volatility would cause drastic changes.Roadmap and full text of 25 points can be found here: http://historyofthesecondworldwar.com/episodes/the-third-reich-supplements/WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesThe Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansGermany and the Second World War Volume 1: The Build-Up of German Aggression by Wilhelm Deist, Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann, and Wolfram WetteHitler: A Biography by Ian KershawThe Third Reich by Thomas ChildersThe Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam ToozeThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William ShirerFrance and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936 by Stephen A. SchukerThe First Capitulation: France and the Rhineland Crisis of 1936 by R.A.C. Parker (1956)France, Germany, and the Saar by A.J.P. Taylor (1952)The Franco-Polish Alliance and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland by George SakwaFrench Intelligence and Hitler's Rise to Power by Peter JacksonGreat Britain and the Saar Plebiscite of 13 January 1935 by C.J. HillHitler, Intelligence and the Decision to Remilitarize the Rhine by Zach ShoreHitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.Prologue to Peacekeeping: Ireland and the Saar, 1934-35 by Michael KennedyFantasy and Reality in Nazi Work-Creation Programs, 1933-1936 by Dan P. SilvermanFranz von Papen, the German Center Party, and the Failure of Catholic Conservatism in the Weimar Republic by Larry Eugene JonesCauses and Consequences of the Plebiscite in the Saar by E.W (1955)The Purge of the SA Reconsidered: "An Old Putschist Trick"? by Eleanor HancockThe Remilitarization of the Rhineland and its Impact on the French-Polish Alliance by Roman D. Bicki (1969)Rohm and Hitler: The Continuity of Political-Military Discord by David JablonskyThe German Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the Saar Plebiscite of 1935 by Guenter Lewy (1964)Saar Coal After Two World Wars by O.R. ReischerSchacht's Regulation of Money and the Capital Markets by Arthur Schweitzer (1948)The Myth of Chancellor Von Schleicher's Querfront Strategy by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.The Struggle for Control of the German Economy by Amos E. SimpsonThe Nazi State and German Society: A Brief History with Documents by Robert G. MoellerFranz von Papen, Catholic Conservatives, and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1933-1934 by Larry Eugene JonesFranz von Papen, the German Center Party, and the Failure of Catholic Conservatism in the Weimar Republic by Larry Eugene JonesBritish Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-1940 by Michael Dockrill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We end our series on the Great Depression by taking a deeper dive into how the German government chose to interact with rampant unemployment. WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesChina During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 by Tomoko ShiroyamaGermany and the Great Depression by Dieter PetzinaThe Global Impact of the Great Depression: 1929-1939 by Dietmar RothermundJapan and World Depression: Then and Now Edited By Ronald Dore and Radha SinhaThe Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France and the United States 1931-36 by Patricia ClavinThe Forgotten Man by Amity ShalesThe Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth GalbraithThe Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939 by Patricia ClavinThe Politics of Depression in France 1923-1936 by Julian JacksonThe Slump: Britain and the Great Depression by John Stevenson and Chris CookThe World in Depression 1929-1939 by Charles KindlebergerUnemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany Edited By Peter D. StachuraThe Gold Standard and the Great Depression by Barry Eichengreen and Peter TeminLife Expectancy during the Great Depression in Eleven European Countries by Tim A. Bruckner, Andrew Noymer, and Ralph A. CatalanoThe Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited by Barry EichengreenSocialism and Wages in the Recovery from the Great Depression in the United States and Germany by Peter Temin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Great Depression was a worldwide phenomenon, but in this episode we focus on just two states: France and Britain.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesChina During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 by Tomoko ShiroyamaGermany and the Great Depression by Dieter PetzinaThe Global Impact of the Great Depression: 1929-1939 by Dietmar RothermundJapan and World Depression: Then and Now Edited By Ronald Dore and Radha SinhaThe Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France and the United States 1931-36 by Patricia ClavinThe Forgotten Man by Amity ShalesThe Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth GalbraithThe Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939 by Patricia ClavinThe Politics of Depression in France 1923-1936 by Julian JacksonThe Slump: Britain and the Great Depression by John Stevenson and Chris CookThe World in Depression 1929-1939 by Charles KindlebergerUnemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany Edited By Peter D. StachuraThe Gold Standard and the Great Depression by Barry Eichengreen and Peter TeminLife Expectancy during the Great Depression in Eleven European Countries by Tim A. Bruckner, Andrew Noymer, and Ralph A. CatalanoThe Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited by Barry EichengreenSocialism and Wages in the Recovery from the Great Depression in the United States and Germany by Peter Temin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the early 1930s the depression would spread around the globe. WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesChina During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 by Tomoko ShiroyamaGermany and the Great Depression by Dieter PetzinaThe Global Impact of the Great Depression: 1929-1939 by Dietmar RothermundJapan and World Depression: Then and Now Edited By Ronald Dore and Radha SinhaThe Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France and the United States 1931-36 by Patricia ClavinThe Forgotten Man by Amity ShalesThe Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth GalbraithThe Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939 by Patricia ClavinThe Politics of Depression in France 1923-1936 by Julian JacksonThe Slump: Britain and the Great Depression by John Stevenson and Chris CookThe World in Depression 1929-1939 by Charles KindlebergerUnemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany Edited By Peter D. StachuraThe Gold Standard and the Great Depression by Barry Eichengreen and Peter TeminLife Expectancy during the Great Depression in Eleven European Countries by Tim A. Bruckner, Andrew Noymer, and Ralph A. CatalanoThe Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited by Barry EichengreenSocialism and Wages in the Recovery from the Great Depression in the United States and Germany by Peter Temin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Great Depression would have many causes, this episode discusses two of them.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesChina During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 by Tomoko ShiroyamaGermany and the Great Depression by Dieter PetzinaThe Global Impact of the Great Depression: 1929-1939 by Dietmar RothermundJapan and World Depression: Then and Now Edited By Ronald Dore and Radha SinhaThe Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France and the United States 1931-36 by Patricia ClavinThe Forgotten Man by Amity ShalesThe Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth GalbraithThe Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939 by Patricia ClavinThe Politics of Depression in France 1923-1936 by Julian JacksonThe Slump: Britain and the Great Depression by John Stevenson and Chris CookThe World in Depression 1929-1939 by Charles KindlebergerUnemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany Edited By Peter D. StachuraThe Gold Standard and the Great Depression by Barry Eichengreen and Peter TeminLife Expectancy during the Great Depression in Eleven European Countries by Tim A. Bruckner, Andrew Noymer, and Ralph A. CatalanoThe Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited by Barry EichengreenSocialism and Wages in the Recovery from the Great Depression in the United States and Germany by Peter Temin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Italy represented the first nation to come under the control of a Fascist government, and they would do everything in their power to keep it that way.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesFascism in Italian Historiography: In Search of an Individual Historical Identity by Emilio GentileFascism, Industrialism, and Socialism: The Case of Italy by Albert SzymanskiThe Fascist Revolution in Italy: A Brief History in Documents by Marla StoneThe Fiftieth year of the "March on Rome": Recent Interpretations of Fascism by Charles KeserichItalian Intellectuals Under Fascism by Emiliana P. NoetherThe Meaning of Fascism in Italy: Fifty Years After the Fall by Philip V. Cannestraro, Claudio G. Segre, Alexander De Grand, and Furo ColumboMussolini's Italy by R.J.B. BosworthThe Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher DugganThe Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 by Adrian LytteltonAustro-Marxist Interpretation of Fascism by Gerhard BotzThe British Labour Press and Italian Fascism, 1922-25 by Charles KeserichCommunist Theories of Fascism, 1920-1935 by John M. CammettFascinating Fascism by Jeffrey T. SchnappFascism and the French Revolution by George L. MosseFascism from below? A Comparative Perspective on the Japanese Right, 1931-1936 by Gregory J. KaszaFascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945: Issues for Comparativists by Carl LevyFascist Ideology: Territory and expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945 by Aristotle A. KallisFascists by Michael MannThe Five Stages of Fascism by Robert O. PaxtonThe Foreign Office and Fascism 1924-1929 by P.G. EdwardsIntroduction: The Genesis of Fascism by George L. MosseHow Not to Think about Fascism and Ideology, Intellectual Antecedents and Historical Meaning by David D. RobertsInterpretations of the Origins of Fascism by Roberto VivarelliItalian Fascism: Whatever Happened to Dictatorship? by Paul CornerNational Socialism: Totalitarianism or Fascism? by Wolfgang SauerThe Nature of Fascism by Roger GriffinThe Origins and Nature of Fascism and Nazism in Europe by John HornePacifism, Feminism, and Fascism in Inter-War France by Sandi E. Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the March on Rome Mussolini would be made Prime Minister.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesFascism in Italian Historiography: In Search of an Individual Historical Identity by Emilio GentileFascism, Industrialism, and Socialism: The Case of Italy by Albert SzymanskiThe Fascist Revolution in Italy: A Brief History in Documents by Marla StoneThe Fiftieth year of the "March on Rome": Recent Interpretations of Fascism by Charles KeserichItalian Intellectuals Under Fascism by Emiliana P. NoetherThe Meaning of Fascism in Italy: Fifty Years After the Fall by Philip V. Cannestraro, Claudio G. Segre, Alexander De Grand, and Furo ColumboMussolini's Italy by R.J.B. BosworthThe Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher DugganThe Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 by Adrian LytteltonAustro-Marxist Interpretation of Fascism by Gerhard BotzThe British Labour Press and Italian Fascism, 1922-25 by Charles KeserichCommunist Theories of Fascism, 1920-1935 by John M. CammettFascinating Fascism by Jeffrey T. SchnappFascism and the French Revolution by George L. MosseFascism from below? A Comparative Perspective on the Japanese Right, 1931-1936 by Gregory J. KaszaFascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945: Issues for Comparativists by Carl LevyFascist Ideology: Territory and expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945 by Aristotle A. KallisFascists by Michael MannThe Five Stages of Fascism by Robert O. PaxtonThe Foreign Office and Fascism 1924-1929 by P.G. EdwardsIntroduction: The Genesis of Fascism by George L. MosseHow Not to Think about Fascism and Ideology, Intellectual Antecedents and Historical Meaning by David D. RobertsInterpretations of the Origins of Fascism by Roberto VivarelliItalian Fascism: Whatever Happened to Dictatorship? by Paul CornerNational Socialism: Totalitarianism or Fascism? by Wolfgang SauerThe Nature of Fascism by Roger GriffinThe Origins and Nature of Fascism and Nazism in Europe by John HornePacifism, Feminism, and Fascism in Inter-War France by Sandi E. Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In October 1922 the Fascists would take an important step, and they would stage a March on Rome. The results were as good as they could have possibly imagined.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesFascism in Italian Historiography: In Search of an Individual Historical Identity by Emilio GentileFascism, Industrialism, and Socialism: The Case of Italy by Albert SzymanskiThe Fascist Revolution in Italy: A Brief History in Documents by Marla StoneThe Fiftieth year of the "March on Rome": Recent Interpretations of Fascism by Charles KeserichItalian Intellectuals Under Fascism by Emiliana P. NoetherThe Meaning of Fascism in Italy: Fifty Years After the Fall by Philip V. Cannestraro, Claudio G. Segre, Alexander De Grand, and Furo ColumboMussolini's Italy by R.J.B. BosworthThe Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher DugganThe Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 by Adrian LytteltonAustro-Marxist Interpretation of Fascism by Gerhard BotzThe British Labour Press and Italian Fascism, 1922-25 by Charles KeserichCommunist Theories of Fascism, 1920-1935 by John M. CammettFascinating Fascism by Jeffrey T. SchnappFascism and the French Revolution by George L. MosseFascism from below? A Comparative Perspective on the Japanese Right, 1931-1936 by Gregory J. KaszaFascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945: Issues for Comparativists by Carl LevyFascist Ideology: Territory and expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945 by Aristotle A. KallisFascists by Michael MannThe Five Stages of Fascism by Robert O. PaxtonThe Foreign Office and Fascism 1924-1929 by P.G. EdwardsIntroduction: The Genesis of Fascism by George L. MosseHow Not to Think about Fascism and Ideology, Intellectual Antecedents and Historical Meaning by David D. RobertsInterpretations of the Origins of Fascism by Roberto VivarelliItalian Fascism: Whatever Happened to Dictatorship? by Paul CornerNational Socialism: Totalitarianism or Fascism? by Wolfgang SauerThe Nature of Fascism by Roger GriffinThe Origins and Nature of Fascism and Nazism in Europe by John HornePacifism, Feminism, and Fascism in Inter-War France by Sandi E. Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices