The Nazis at War: Churchill’s Finest Hour (TRIH ep 623, part 4)
1940 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook conclude a four-part series on Nazi Germany in 1939–1940 by examining the German perspective on Britain in mid-to-late 1940. The episode covers Hitler's indecision after the fall of France, British resistance after Dunkirk, and the strategic debates in the Nazi high command about invading Britain (Operation Sea Lion) versus turning east against the Soviet Union.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1940
- World War II (1939)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Korean War (1950)
- The Holocaust (1933)