The Nazis at War: Hitler Strikes West

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What was Adolf Hitler’s next move, after occupying Czechoslovakia in March 1939, and brutally invading Poland that September? Why did the Allies fail to act, despite the Nazis shocking offensive? And, would an assassination plot from within Germany itself prove to be Hitler’s undoing?

Join Dominic and Tom as they launch into the Second World War, as Hitler and the Nazis escalate their war on Europe.

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Hive
01:48 Hitler’s Reichstag speech, October 1939
03:20 Poland conquered and Hitler’s “peace” offer to Britain and France
08:17 Invasion of Poland and the Phoney War in the West
16:06 Hitler’s sham peace proposal rejected
19:22 Germany’s fragile economy
23:03 Generals’ doubts
33:01 Case Yellow ordered then postponed by bad weather
34:45 People’s Postcode Lottery
38:34 Life on the German home front
43:26 Georg Elser’s meticulous bomb plot at the Bürgerbräukeller
57:05 The road to Blitzkrieg
1:02:26 Towards Norway, France and Blitzkrieg; radicalisation of Nazi policy & outro

Video Editor: Jack Meek
Social Producer: Harry Balden
Assistant Producer: Aaliyah Akude
Producer: Tabby Syrett
Senior Producer: Theo Young-Smith
Executive Producer: Dom Johnson