Hitler in History (In Our Time)
1933 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how history has struggled to explain the enormity of the crimes committed in Germany under Adolf Hitler: we have had theories of ‘totalitarianism’, and of ‘distorted modernity’, debates between ‘intentionalists’ and their opponents the ‘structuralists’. The great political philosopher Hannah Arendt said, “Under conditions of t
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Around 1933
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)