{"id":102906,"date":"2026-06-07T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102906"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:05:42","slug":"how-hitler-tested-his-next-war-in-spain-death-of-democracy-18-q2-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/07\/how-hitler-tested-his-next-war-in-spain-death-of-democracy-18-q2-1937\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hitler Tested His Next War in Spain &#8211; Death of Democracy 18 &#8211; Q2 1937"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zsITFo61VIM?si=lhaPYo0BxaEIfTZI\" 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 6 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p>Berlin, June 30, 1937. Hitler has not staged a major diplomatic shock this quarter \u2014 but beneath the surface, Nazi Germany is preparing for war.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, the Condor Legion helps Franco&#8217;s Nationalists and the bombing of Guernica gives the world a terrifying preview of modern aerial terror. At home, the regime escalates its assault on the Catholic Church, begins the purge of &#8220;degenerate art&#8221;, tightens the link between courts and concentration camps, and hides rearmament behind spectacles of economic success.<\/p>\n<p>This episode of Death of Democracy looks at Q2 1937: the quarter when Nazi Germany normalized aggression abroad while deepening tyranny at home.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Berlin, June 30, 1937<br \/>\n00:05 No Hitler Surprise \u2014 But War Preparations Continue<br \/>\n00:51 The Hindenburg and the Shadow of Modern War<br \/>\n01:50 The &#8220;Give Me Four Years&#8221; Exhibition<br \/>\n02:25 Guernica and the Condor Legion<br \/>\n02:55 The Bombardment of Almer\u00eda<br \/>\n03:11 Case Green and Case Otto<br \/>\n03:54 Degenerate Art and Cultural Cleansing<br \/>\n04:22 The Judiciary and the Concentration Camps<br \/>\n05:13 The Nazi Assault on the Catholic Church<br \/>\n06:07 Goebbels, Propaganda, and the Morality Trials<br \/>\n07:45 Autarky, Rearmament, and Hidden Austerity<br \/>\n08:52 Mood Inside the Nazi Leadership<br \/>\n09:48 Ordinary Germans and Apathy<br \/>\n12:15 Analysis: War Abroad, Tyranny at Home<br \/>\n14:19 Conclusion: Nazi Double-Talk<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two and Spartacus Olsson Published 6 Jun 2026 Berlin, June 30, 1937. Hitler has not staged a major diplomatic shock this quarter \u2014 but beneath the surface, Nazi Germany is preparing for war. In Spain, the Condor Legion helps Franco&#8217;s Nationalists and the bombing of Guernica gives the world a terrifying preview of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1118,7,5],"tags":[304,102,650,457,1197,269,335],"class_list":["post-102906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","category-military","tag-antisemitism","tag-art","tag-civilwar","tag-fascism","tag-interwarperiod","tag-propaganda","tag-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qLM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102906","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=102906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102907,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102906\/revisions\/102907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}