{"id":103578,"date":"2026-07-12T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103578"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:46:23","slug":"how-ww2-really-started-appeasement-death-of-democracy-23-q3-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/12\/how-ww2-really-started-appeasement-death-of-democracy-23-q3-1938\/","title":{"rendered":"How WW2 Really Started: Appeasement! &#8211; Death of Democracy 23 &#8211; Q3 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1wzIQmHsA0?si=n8sZi3kg1m4svvxo\" 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 11 Jul 2026 <\/p>\n<p>On September 30, 1938, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich promising &#8220;peace for our time&#8221;. Adolf Hitler returned to Berlin with the Sudetenland.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of &#8220;Death of Democracy&#8221;, Spartacus Olsson reports from Berlin as Nazi Germany escalates on two fronts: terror against Jewish citizens at home, and diplomatic blackmail against Czechoslovakia abroad.<\/p>\n<p>While the Evian Conference fails to open the world&#8217;s doors to Jewish refugees, the Nazi regime tightens the trap with identity cards, forced names, professional bans, the opening of Mauthausen, and Eichmann&#8217;s machinery of forced emigration in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Hitler manufactures the Sudeten Crisis, threatens war, breaks Czechoslovakia&#8217;s defenses through the Munich Agreement, and convinces much of Europe that surrendering another country&#8217;s territory is the price of peace.<\/p>\n<p>This is Germany in Q3 1938: the lie that Hitler would not start another war \u2014 and the world&#8217;s decision to believe him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two and Spartacus Olsson Published 11 Jul 2026 On September 30, 1938, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich promising &#8220;peace for our time&#8221;. Adolf Hitler returned to Berlin with the Sudetenland. In this episode of &#8220;Death of Democracy&#8221;, Spartacus Olsson reports from Berlin as Nazi Germany escalates on two fronts: terror against Jewish citizens [&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":[4,62,1117,1118,7,5],"tags":[304,534,432,457,969,1197,1331,1229,269],"class_list":["post-103578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","tag-antisemitism","tag-czechoslovakia","tag-diplomacy","tag-fascism","tag-hitler","tag-interwarperiod","tag-munich","tag-nevillechamberlain","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qWC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103578","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=103578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103579,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103578\/revisions\/103579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}