The Nazis in Power: The Conquest of Austria (TRIH ep 407, part 4)
1938 · Resource
This episode examines the Anschluss — the German annexation of Austria in 1938 — tracing the political manoeuvres, key personalities and immediate consequences. Holland and Sandbrook open with cultural touchpoints (The Sound of Music) before reviewing Hitler’s strategic aims laid out to his generals in late 1937, and the purge of senior army figures that left him unopposed.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1938
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)