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Between 2 Wars
Season 1 · Episode 36
Germany Never Elected Hitler - The Machtergreifung | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1933 Part 1 of 3
0.025mOctober 10, 2019
Hitlers rise to power, also known as the Machtergreifung, was riddled with physical and mental manipulation, political games and an exploitation of the Democratic system. It documents the sequence of occurrences that preceded Germany's Nazi takeover.
Episodes
- Episode 1Rise of the Nations I BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1918 1 of 2
- Episode 2Disease, War and The Lost Generation: 1918 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 3Planes, Guns and Automobiles: 1919 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 4Russian Civil War and Russian Wars: 1919 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 5Peace, Revolution and the Treaty of Versailles: 1919 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 6Enter ADOLF HITLER stage left: 1919 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 7Miracle on the Vistula - Polish Soviet War: 1920 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 8The German People Oppose the Right Wing Extremists: 1920 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 9Carving up the Middle East: 1920 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 10Sex, Drugs, and the Right to Vote: 1920 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 11The US Turns Away from the World to Prohibition and Crime: 1921 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 12Poland Rises in the East: 1921 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 13Rise of Fascism and Mussolini's March on Rome: 1922 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 14The Greco-Turkish War and Legalisation of Ethnic Cleansing: 1922 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 15Hitler's Beer Hall Disaster: 1923
- Episode 16Lenin's Death and Stalin's Rise to Power: 1924
- Episode 17Smashing China to Pieces, the Background: 1925 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 18Glueing back together the shards of China: 1925 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 19Fake News in the Radio Age: 1926 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 20How Hollywood Helped Hitler | Between 2 Wars | 1926 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 21Chiang Kai-shek Plays it Like Stalin | Between 2 Wars | 1926 Part 3 of 3
- Episode 22Making America Great Again - The Roaring Twenties | Between 2 Wars | 1927 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 23From Aerobatics to Terror Bombing - Civil Aviation | Between 2 Wars | 1927 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 24A Bankrupt Germany Didn't Create the Nazis - Weimar's Golden Era | Between 2 Wars | 1928 Part 1 of 1
- Episode 25The US Economy is About to Crash Hard - The Wall Street Crash | Between 2 Wars | 1929 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 26Enter Yugoslavia Part 1 | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1929 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 27Enter Yugoslavia Part 2 | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1929 Part 3 of 3
- Episode 28Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Salt - The British Empire | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1930 Part 1 of 1
- Episode 29Italy's African Destiny - The Colonisation of Libya | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1931 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 30Japan, the Bureaucratic War Machine | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1931 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 31Germany Commits Suicide by Cancelling War Reparations | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1931 Part 3 of 3
- Episode 32Stalin's 5 Year Plan for Economic Mass Murder | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 33Most Germans Reject Hitler - Politics in Weimar Germany | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 34The Holodomor - the Communists' Holocaust | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 35Rise of Evil - From Populism to Fascism | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 36Germany Never Elected Hitler - The Machtergreifung | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1933 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 37The State of the US is Depressing - The Great Depression | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1933 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 38The World Takes Advantage of American Isolationism | BETWEEN 2 WARS | 1933 part 3 of 3
- Episode 39Why "All Germans Were Nazis" - How Hitler Created the 3rd Reich | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 40"Not all Fascists Are Nazis - Civil War in Austria | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 2 of 4"
- Episode 41Murder and Fascism - Rise of the Ustaše | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 42The Far Right French Revolution - The 6 February Crisis | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 43Czechoslovakia - the Last Bastion of Democracy | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1935 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 44The End of Polish Democracy - Pilsudski and the Sanacja Regime | BETWEEN 2 WARS | 1935 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 45Communist Boots Are Made For Walking - Mao's Long March | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1935 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 46One More Scramble in Africa - The Second Italo-Abyssinian War | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1935 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 47Zionism, Arabism & Colonialism in the Middle East | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1936 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 48How Left/Right Partisanship Starts a Civil War in Spain | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1936 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 49How Hitler Won the Olympic Games - The Berlin Olympics | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1936 Part 3 of 3
- Episode 50Did WW2 Start in 1937? - The Rape of China | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1937 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 51Why the Nazis Weren't Socialists - 'The Good Hitler Years' | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1937 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 52Appeasement - How the West Helped Hitler Start WW2 | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 53Chain Your Woman to the Stove - Feminism in the 1930s | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 54The Road to the Holocaust - Kristallnacht | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 55Stalin's Paranoid Military Purges - The Great Terror | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 56The Deadly Dry Run for WW2 - The Spanish Civil War | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 57A Soviet-Nazi Alliance - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 58The True Story of How WW2 Began | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 3 of 3