The Rise of the Nazis (TRIH eps 295-298)
1933 · Resource
This episode examines the rapid consolidation of Nazi power in Germany across early 1933. Using primary accounts (notably Joseph Goebbels' diary) and the work of historians such as Richard J. Evans and Ian Kershaw, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the steps from Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor (30 January 1933) through the Reichstag fire (27 February) and the Reichstag Fire Decree, to the March election and the Enabling Act that allowed Hitler to rule by decree. They describe how th...
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Around 1933
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)