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World War Two: Season 09 - Death of Democracy

28 episodes · premiered Jan 31, 2026

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  1. Episode 1: How to End Democracy in 60 Days - Death of Democracy Q1 1933 Jan 31, 2026 · 17m This episode of the history documentary series “Death of Democracy" covers Q1 1933 with Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, the Reichstag Fire, Reichstag Fire Decree, Enabling Act, rise of…
  2. Episode 2: How Legal Immunity Becomes Absolute Power - Q2 1933 Feb 7, 2026 · 17m In spring 1933, Nazi Germany shows how dictatorship becomes normal. This episode of Death of Democracy follows the regime’s second quarter in power, from the first state-organized…
  3. Episode 3: How to Make the Economy Look Better Than It Is - Q3 1933 Feb 14, 2026 · 18m Death of Democracy returns to Nazi Germany in Q3 1933. See Hitler enforce one‑party rule, sign the Reichskonkordat, tighten propaganda and press control, and expand work programs that feed…
  4. Episode 4: How to Use a Tariff War to Disrupt the World - Q4 1933 Feb 21, 2026 · 15m In Q4 1933 Hitler pivots Nazi Germany from internal takeover to outward defiance. The London Economic Conference collapses and the tariff truce unravels, Hitler withdraws from the…
  5. Episode 5: How to Not Clean up the Swamp - Q1 1934 Feb 28, 2026 · 18m In Q1 1934, Nazi Germany reaches a breaking point. In this episode of Death of Democracy, Hitler codifies central control with the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich, crushing what…
  6. Episode 6: How to Serve Retribution and Become Popular - Q2 1934 Mar 7, 2026 · 17m In the spring of 1934, Nazi Germany stands on the edge of internal collapse. In this episode of Death of Democracy, we follow the escalating conflict between Adolf Hitler, the SA…
  7. Episode 7: How to Go From President to King - Death of Democracy 07 - Q3 1934 Mar 14, 2026 · 17m In Q3 1934, Adolf Hitler completed the transformation of Nazi Germany from a dictatorship into an absolute Führer state. In this episode of Death of Democracy, we examine the aftermath of…
  8. Episode 8: How To Indoctrinate the Children - Q4 1934 Mar 21, 2026 · 16m In this episode of Death of Democracy, we examine Germany in the final quarter of 1934, as Adolf Hitler tightens his grip on power after Hindenburg’s death and prepares the Reich for the…
  9. Episode 9: How Radio Killed Democracy - Death of Democracy 09 - Q1 1935 Mar 28, 2026 · 16m Radio did not just spread Nazi propaganda — it helped make dictatorship feel normal. This episode of Death of Democracy follows the decisive first quarter of 1935: the Saar vote, Göring’s…
  10. Episode 10: How To Distract From the Economy - Q2 1935 Apr 4, 2026 · 16m June 1935: Adolf Hitler reassures the world with promises of peace - while secretly accelerating Germany’s path to war. in this episode of Death of Democracy, we examine how Hitler…
  11. Episode 11: How to Legalize Scapegoating - Q3 1935 Apr 11, 2026 · 18m Nuremberg Laws explained: how Nazi Germany turned antisemitic street violence into state policy in 1935. In this episode, Spartacus Olsson reports from Berlin on the third quarter of 1935…
  12. Episode 12: How to Tank the Economy for War - Q4 1935 Apr 18, 2026 · 17m Nazi Germany in late 1935 was becoming more ruthless, more militarized, and more dangerous. In this episode, Spartacus Olsson reports from Berlin on the final months of 1935, when Hitler’s…
  13. Episode 13: How to Stage (and Win) an International Crisis - Q1 1936 Apr 25, 2026 · 17m In early 1936, Adolf Hitler took one of the greatest risks of his rule—sending German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the…
  14. Episode 14: How to Declare a Live Person Legally Dead - Q2 1936 May 2, 2026 · 17m In Q2 1936, Adolf Hitler consolidated power after the Rhineland gamble, tightening the machinery of dictatorship while projecting strength abroad. As Hermann Göring took control of…
  15. Episode 15: How to Make Nazi Germany Look Normal - Q3 1936 May 9, 2026 · 17m Berlin, September 30, 1936. Under the Olympic flame, Nazi Germany staged one of the most successful propaganda spectacles of the twentieth century. Foreign visitors saw order, ceremony…
  16. Episode 16: How Hitler Indoctrinated a Generation - Q4 1936 May 23, 2026 · 17m How did Nazi Germany seize control of its youth by the end of 1936? In this Q4 1936 episode, Spartacus Olsson traces the Hitler Youth Law, the Four-Year Plan, Winterhilfswerk, the…
  17. Episode 17: How the Nazis Got Rich Preparing Germany for War - Q1 1937 May 30, 2026 · 19m Berlin, March 31, 1937. Adolf Hitler’s regime appears stronger than ever. The Enabling Act is extended for another four years, the civil service is bound more tightly to Hitler personally…
  18. Episode 18: How Hitler Tested His Next War in Spain - Q2 1937 Jun 6, 2026 · 16m In Spain, the Condor Legion helps Franco’s Nationalists and the bombing of Guernica gives the world a terrifying preview of modern aerial terror. At home, the regime escalates its assault…
  19. Episode 19: How to Make Dissent Disappear - Q3 1937 Jun 13, 2026 · 18m In 1937, Nazi Germany moved from controlling politics to controlling thought itself. Churches, artists, workers, and dissenters all came under attack. Berlin, September 1937. From the…
  20. Episode 20: How to Make War Inevitable - Q4 1937 Jun 20, 2026 · 19m By late 1937, Nazi Germany’s rearmament economy had trapped itself. Autarky was failing. Hjalmar Schacht was pushed aside. Göring’s Four-Year Plan dominated economic policy. And at the…
  21. Episode 21: How to Steal a Country Without a European War - Q1 1938 Jun 27, 2026 · 20m In early 1938, Adolf Hitler turned a military scandal into personal control over the Wehrmacht — and within weeks used that power to pressure, invade, and annex Austria in the Anschluss…
  22. Episode 22: How Hitler Targeted Czechoslovakia - Q2 1938 Jul 4, 2026 · 20m In this episode of Death of Democracy, Spartacus Olsson reports from Berlin at the end of Q2 1938, as the Nazi regime fuses foreign-policy intimidation with domestic repression. After the…
  23. Episode 23: How WW2 Really Started: Appeasement! - Q3 1938 Jul 11, 2026 · 20m On September 30, 1938, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich promising “peace for our time.” Adolf Hitler returned to Berlin with the Sudetenland. In this episode of Death of Democracy…
  24. Episode 24: How to Set a Militia Free on a Minority - Q4 1938 Jul 18, 2026 · 20m In this episode of Death of Democracy, Spartacus Olsson examines Germany in Q4 1938 — the quarter in which Nazi persecution exploded from exclusion and intimidation into open…
  25. Episode 25: How to Provoke a War - Q1 1939 Jul 25, 2026 · 16m Hitler’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…
  26. Episode 26: How to Make Aggression Sound Like Defense - Q2 1939 Aug 1, 2026 · 18m By the spring of 1939, Hitler’s Germany is no longer merely threatening war, it is preparing to launch one while insisting that every act of aggression is really self-defense. In this…
  27. Episode 27: How to Launch the Apocalypse - Q3 1939 Aug 8, 2026 · 27m The moment when the collapse of democracy, diplomacy, and collective security culminated in an attack that would engulf the world. In July and August 1939, Adolf Hitler turned the…
  28. Episode 28: How Not to Be A Nazi - Epilogue Aug 15, 2026 · 27m Nazi Germany destroyed democracy in weeks, launched a war that killed tens of millions, and carried racial persecution to industrialized mass murder. But after 1945, Germans and Europeans…