The History of the Twentieth Century
by Mark PainterA chronicle of the history of the twentieth century, including art, music, popular culture, science, religion, and, of course, politics and war.
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Episodes
348 Five Minutes to Midnight
41m · PublishedAt the end of the rasputitsa, the mud season, the German Army had one final, narrow opportunity, to win the war against the USSR before winter.
347 The Green Folder
48m · PublishedEven before the first German soldier crossed the frontier into the USSR, the Nazi government in Berlin had a plan for administering occupied Russia.
346 The Battle of Smolensk
44m · PublishedThe German invasion of the USSR went brilliantly for the first 2-3 weeks, but instead of collapsing as expected, the Red Army only got stronger.
345 Operation Barbarossa
44m · PublishedOn June 22, 1941, Germany began an invasion of its erstwhile trade partner, the USSR.
344 America First
55m · PublishedThe Dust Bowl ravages the central United States, Charles Lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped, the America First movement opposes US involvement in the war.
343 The Balkan Detour
54m · PublishedGermany executes its invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece, and the Axis encourages an anti-British coup in Iraq.
342 Operation Marita
42m · PublishedAs Germany made preparations to assist its ally Italy in the war against Greece, a coup in Yugoslavia prompted Adolf Hitler to order the invasion of that country as well.
341 A Crime against the Future
38m · PublishedIn summer of 1940, even as the Battle of Britain was just getting started, Adolf Hitler was already laying plans for war with the Soviet Union.
340 The ULTRA Secret
50m · PublishedAfter the fall of Poland, British Intelligence's codebreaking operation at Bletchley Park became the center of efforts to decrypt messages from the Germans' supposedly unbreakable Enigma machine.
339 The Enigma Machine
43m · PublishedThe British had been hugely successful at breaking German codes in the First World War. The Germans were determined not to let that happen again. This time they had Enigma, a code machine that produced messages that could not be decrypted. Or so the Germans believed.
The History of the Twentieth Century has 410 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 303:32:35. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on June 8th, 2024 08:43.