A history podcast dedicated to examining the global history of the 1920s and 30s in order to explain the causes of World War II, both large and small. As you might imagine, there’s a lot of ground to cover just to contextualize how the conflict got so out of control. If you love historical deep-dives and play-by-plays of nations in way over their collective heads, this is the show for you. Best niche history podcast out there! PROTIP: If you’re a new listener and are hopelessly confused by me bouncing from topic to topic, the scope of this show has kinda gotten away from me over the years. I have included an index of miniseries in the description of Episode 1 to provide a guide for what I’ve covered so far.
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Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
The mini-tour of Central Europe ends this week, and I take a look at Czechoslovakia and Poland. Nations that shared no small number of problems, and each in their own way failed to address them. For Czechoslovakia it was being unable to get their German minority to stop making eyes across the border, and for Poland it was being unable to stabilize their government enough to even begin making accommodations with their own ethnic minorities.
Bibliography for this episode:
- Berend, Ivan Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II University of California Press 1998
- Crowhurst, Patrick A History of Czechoslovakia Between the Wars: From Versailles to Hitler's Invasion I.B. Tauris 2015
- Davies, Norman God's Playground: A History of Poland, Volume II Columbia University Press 2005
- Kochanski, Halik The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War Penguin Books Ltd 2012
- Leslie, R.F. The History of Poland Since 1863 Cambridge University Press 1980
- Chu, Winson The German Minority in Interwar Poland Cambridge University Press 2012
- Prazmowska, Anita Poland: A Modern History Palgrave Macmillan 2010
- Stachura, Peter D. Poland, 1918-1945: An Interpretive and Documentary History of the Second Republic Routledge 2004
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