{"id":102101,"date":"2026-04-26T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102101"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:59:25","slug":"how-to-stage-and-win-an-international-crisis-death-of-democracy-13-q1-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/how-to-stage-and-win-an-international-crisis-death-of-democracy-13-q1-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stage (and Win) an International Crisis &#8211; Death of Democracy 13 &#8211; Q1 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2_hafqLCcvg?si=iYVTB0QhHWv1VzL-\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>World War Two<\/strong> and <strong>Spartacus Olsson<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 25 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>In early 1936, Adolf Hitler took one of the greatest risks of his rule \u2014 sending German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. It was a gamble that could have triggered immediate war. Instead, it became a turning point that transformed Hitler from a powerful dictator into a figure many Germans saw as a national savior.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Death of Democracy, we examine how the re-militarization of the Rhineland, combined with the propaganda spectacle of the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, helped cement Hitler&#8217;s popularity at home while exposing the paralysis of Britain and France abroad. Through contemporary voices like William L. Shirer and Victor Klemperer, we explore the uneasy mix of fear, relief, and growing enthusiasm among ordinary Germans \u2014 alongside the continued escalation of repression against Jews and political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>This quarter reveals a crucial dynamic: how foreign policy success, propaganda, and public sentiment fused to elevate Hitler into something approaching a political messiah \u2014 while simultaneously closing the space for resistance.<\/p>\n<p>History is not inevitable \u2014 but moments like this show how easily it can be shaped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two and Spartacus Olsson Published 25 Apr 2026 In early 1936, Adolf Hitler took one of the greatest risks of his rule \u2014 sending German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. It was a gamble that could have triggered immediate war. Instead, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,7],"tags":[304,457,969,1197,1262,314,269,1109],"class_list":["post-102101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","tag-antisemitism","tag-fascism","tag-hitler","tag-interwarperiod","tag-leagueofnations","tag-olympics","tag-propaganda","tag-versailles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qyN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102102,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102101\/revisions\/102102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}