{"id":103295,"date":"2026-06-28T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103295"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T20:48:21","slug":"how-to-steal-a-country-without-a-european-war-death-of-democracy-21-q1-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/28\/how-to-steal-a-country-without-a-european-war-death-of-democracy-21-q1-1938\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Steal a Country Without a European War &#8211; Death of Democracy 21 &#8211; Q1 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aEG2iVYEwwQ?si=sW8Xxu09eTUZoVbF\" 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 27 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p>In early 1938, Adolf Hitler turned a military scandal into personal control over the <em>Wehrmacht<\/em> \u2014 and within weeks used that power to pressure, invade, and annex Austria in the <em>Anschluss<\/em>. This episode follows the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis, Hitler&#8217;s February 4 command takeover, the Berchtesgaden ultimatum, Schuschnigg&#8217;s failed plebiscite gamble, the German invasion of March 12, and the terror that followed in Vienna.  <\/p>\n<p>This was not just a border crisis. It was the moment Nazi Germany moved from internal dictatorship to open territorial expansion. Britain and France did not intervene, Austria was erased as a sovereign state, and Hitler&#8217;s next target \u2014 Czechoslovakia \u2014 was already coming into view.<\/p>\n<p>This historical documentary examines Nazi Germany, the <em>Anschluss<\/em> of Austria, the <em>Wehrmacht<\/em>, appeasement, antisemitic terror, propaganda, and the collapse of the post-1919 European order.<\/p>\n<p>Educational documentary. Nazi symbols and imagery are shown only in a historical, critical, and anti-fascist context.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two and Spartacus Olsson Published 27 Jun 2026 In early 1938, Adolf Hitler turned a military scandal into personal control over the Wehrmacht \u2014 and within weeks used that power to pressure, invade, and annex Austria in the Anschluss. This episode follows the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis, Hitler&#8217;s February 4 command takeover, the Berchtesgaden ultimatum, [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,1118,7,5],"tags":[304,31,418,534,457,1197,269,413,1279],"class_list":["post-103295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-military","tag-antisemitism","tag-army","tag-austria","tag-czechoslovakia","tag-fascism","tag-interwarperiod","tag-propaganda","tag-scandal","tag-vienna"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qS3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103295","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=103295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103296,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103295\/revisions\/103296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}