Europe

East Germany — the illusion of Communist prosperity 

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the smoke and mirrors that obscured the reality of a failing East Germany

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How West Germany rode the storm

Professor Jeremy Black discusses West Germany’s politics and prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s with Graham Stewart

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Dividing Germany

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the emergence of rival Germanys after the Second World War

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How Hitler became unassailable

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how Hitler entrenched his power across all aspects of German life in the 1930s

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Kaiser Wilhelm’s Reich

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Germany’s political arena in the years leading up to the First World War

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Germany in the shadow of Napoleon

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands

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Germany in the Baroque Age

Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the cultural achievements of the Baroque Age in the German states

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The Thirty Years War

Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands

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Germany’s crisis of conscience

An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war

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The roots of Germany

Jeremy Black discusses German identity in the 700 years between Charlemagne and the Reformation

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