History of the Second World War

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32: The Third Reich Pt. 18 - Rearmament Nov 04, 2020

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The Nazi leaders were planning for a war, but to fight a war they needed an army, equipment, and an economy that could support both.

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31: The Third Reich Pt. 17 - Nuremberg Laws and the Saar Oct 28, 2020

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This episode is a bit of a grab bag of topics. The Nazi government would put in place the Nuremberg Laws to further their discrimination against Jews, while also being unable to define who actually should be discriminated against. In early 1935 a small part of Germany would decide whether to join with France.

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30: The Third Reich Pt. 16 - We Live in a Society Oct 21, 2020

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The Nazi leaders had goals, and those goals required changes to be made. The people, the church, and the children would be only some of the areas effected.

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29: The Third Reich Pt. 15 - Control Oct 14, 2020

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After attaining power changes would be made to German society, but before those changes could be made control had to be guaranteed.

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28: The Third Reich Pt. 14 - Work Work Work Oct 07, 2020

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The Nazi government would come to power at the height of the worst unemployment crisis in Germany since the First World War. It was a problem that had to be addressed, and they would do so in many different ways.

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27: The Third Reich Pt. 13 - Show Me the Money Sep 30, 2020

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While not a priority for the new Nazi government, the German economy would have to be considered if it wanted to accomplish its goals.

Sources:

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

Germany and the Second World War Volume 1: The Build-Up of German Aggression by Wilhelm Deist, Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann, and Wolfram Wette

Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw

The Third Reich by Thomas Childers

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

France and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936 by Stephen A. Schuker

The 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 Sakwa

French Intelligence and Hitler's Rise to Power by Peter Jackson

Great Britain and the Saar Plebiscite of 13 January 1935 by C.J. Hill

Hitler, Intelligence and the Decision to Remilitarize the Rhine by Zach Shore

Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933 by Henry Ashby Turner Jr.

Prologue to Peacekeeping: Ireland and the Saar, 1934-35 by Michael Kennedy

Fantasy and Reality in Nazi Work-Creation Programs, 1933-1936 by Dan P. Silverman

Franz von Papen, the German Center Party, and the Failure of Catholic Conservatism in the Weimar Republic by Larry Eugene Jones

Causes and Consequences of the Plebiscite in the Saar by E.W (1955)

The Purge of the SA Reconsidered: "An Old Putschist Trick"? by Eleanor Hancock

The 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 Jablonsky

The German Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the Saar Plebiscite of 1935 by Guenter Lewy (1964)

Saar Coal After Two World Wars by O.R. Reischer

Schacht'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. Simpson

The Nazi State and German Society: A Brief History with Documents by Robert G. Moeller

Franz von Papen, Catholic Conservatives, and the Establishment of the Third Reich, 1933-1934 by Larry Eugene Jones

Franz von Papen, the German Center Party, and the Failure of Catholic Conservatism in the Weimar Republic by Larry Eugene Jones

British Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-1940 by Michael Dockrill

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26: The Third Reich Pt. 12 - Night of the Long Knives Sep 23, 2020

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After asserting power in the political realm, it was time for the Nazi party to deal with the demon that it had created, the SA.