The Nazis at War: Hitler Strikes West (TRIH ep 620, part 1)
1939 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a new, fourth Rest Is History series on the Nazis by examining the critical months of 1939–1940. They set the scene after the conquest of Poland and Hitler's October 1939 Reichstag address, and explain Hitler's strategic urgency to defeat Britain and France before their economies and rearmament made Germany’s position untenable.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1939
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)