{"id":103859,"date":"2026-07-26T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103859"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:42:17","slug":"how-to-provoke-a-war-death-of-democracy-25-q1-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/26\/how-to-provoke-a-war-death-of-democracy-25-q1-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Provoke a War &#8211; Death of Democracy 25 &#8211; Q1 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/af4i00kCiGg?si=ZrikYbDrMKtETTqG\" 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><br \/>\nPublished 25 Jul 2026 <\/p>\n<p>By March 1939, appeasement has failed.<\/p>\n<p>Hitler&#8217;s Germany has moved from threats and persecution inside the <em>Reich<\/em> to the destruction of Czechoslovakia, the seizure of Memel, and renewed pressure on Poland. No shots have yet been fired between the great powers \u2014 but Europe is now locked on a course toward war.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Death of Democracy, Spartacus Olsson reports from Berlin at the end of Q1 1939: the &#8220;Israel&#8221; and &#8220;Sara&#8221; decree, Schacht&#8217;s dismissal, G\u00f6ring&#8217;s Central Office for Jewish Emigration, Hitler&#8217;s genocidal <em>Reichstag<\/em> threat, the launch of <em>Bismarck<\/em>, the coerced occupation of Prague, the Memel ultimatum, and Britain&#8217;s guarantee to Poland.<\/p>\n<p>This is the moment when the Munich illusion collapses. Hitler is no longer pretending to unite Germans. He is dismantling states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two Published 25 Jul 2026 By March 1939, appeasement has failed. Hitler&#8217;s Germany has moved from threats and persecution inside the Reich to the destruction of Czechoslovakia, the seizure of Memel, and renewed pressure on Poland. No shots have yet been fired between the great powers \u2014 but Europe is now locked on [&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":[304,534,457,969,1197,808,228],"class_list":["post-103859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-military","tag-antisemitism","tag-czechoslovakia","tag-fascism","tag-hitler","tag-interwarperiod","tag-lithuania","tag-poland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-r19","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103859","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=103859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103860,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103859\/revisions\/103860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}