World War Two

Season 9 · Episode 20 · 2026-06-20

World War Two Season 9 Episode 20: How to Make War Inevitable - Q4 1937 – Watch Online

How to Make War Inevitable - Q4 1937

By late 1937, Nazi Germany’s rearmament economy had trapped itself. Autarky was failing. Hjalmar Schacht was pushed aside. Göring’s Four-Year Plan dominated economic policy. And at the secret Hossbach meeting of November 5, Hitler turned economic impossibility into an argument for territorial conquest. This episode covers Q4 1937: the Hossbach Memorandum, Schacht’s resignation, the Anti-Comintern alignment, Lord Halifax’s visit, Himmler’s police-state consolidation, the December “Preventive Crime Fighting” decree, and the antisemitic propaganda exhibition Der Ewige Jude. The argument is not that war was metaphysically inevitable. It is that the Nazi regime built an ideological, economic, and