World War Two

Temporada 9 · Capítulo 24 · 2026-07-18

World War Two Temporada 9 Capítulo 24: How to Set a Militia Free on a Minority - Q4 1938 – Ver Online

How to Set a Militia Free on a Minority - Q4 1938

In this episode of Death of Democracy, Spartacus Olsson examines Germany in Q4 1938 — the quarter in which Nazi persecution exploded from exclusion and intimidation into open, state-sponsored terror. From the occupation of the Sudetenland and the Polenaktion, to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, the orchestrated violence of Kristallnacht, the mass arrest of 30,000 Jewish men, the acceleration of Aryanization, and the first Kindertransport, this episode traces how the Nazi regime turned antisemitic hatred into systematic plunder, social death, and mass fear. It is also the quarter in which the illusion of “peace in our time” began to unravel. While Britain and France clung to the hope that