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The History of the Twentieth Century A chronicle of the history of the twentieth century, including art, music, popular culture, science, religion, and, of course, politics and war.

Episode 400 is now available!
06/04/2025

Episode 400 is now available!

US Army graphic, explaining how strategic bombing will turn the German public against the Nazis. (At least, I think that’s what it’s trying to say.) The RAF bombing campaign against Ger…

Episode 399 is now available!
30/03/2025

Episode 399 is now available!

After two years of effort, RAF Bomber Command developed the techniques to inflict huge losses on an enemy city by means of a massive bombing attack and the creation of a firestorm. In late July, Bo…

Episode 398 is now available!
16/03/2025

Episode 398 is now available!

The participants in the Greater East Asia Conference of 1943. From left: Ba Maw, Head of State and Prime Minister of Burma, Zhang Junghui, Prime Minister of Manchukuo, Wang Jingwei, President of th…

Episode 397 is now available!
02/03/2025

Episode 397 is now available!

Japanese prime minister Tojo Hideki pays his respects before the ashes of Admiral Yamamoto Isoruku. The Japanese military reluctantly came to the conclusion that they could not hold Guadalcanal and…

Episode 395 is now available!
02/02/2025

Episode 395 is now available!

One major problem with Operation Citadel was how predictable were the points in the line where the Germans would attack. Adolf Hitler insisted on a German offensive on the Eastern Front in 1943, ev…

Episode 394 is now available!
19/01/2025

Episode 394 is now available!

The Warner Brothers studio was in fact founded by four brothers named Warner. The youngest of them, Jack L. Warner ran the studio for over forty years. The studio released the first all-talking pic…

Episode 393 is now available!
05/01/2025

Episode 393 is now available!

The above image, taken from a Japanese propaganda booklet of the period, depicts the Japanese occupation of East Asia as the Japanese wanted it to be perceived: The Japanese Army and Navy give Alli…

Episode 392 is now available!
29/12/2024

Episode 392 is now available!

This famous photograph shows women and children forced out of a bunker by the SS after the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was crushed. They were all sent away to be murdered, probably at Treblinka. As the …

Episode 391 is now available!
25/12/2024

Episode 391 is now available!

The reactor pile built at the Oak Ridge plant to produce plutonium. The US atom bomb project was little more than a research project until the US entered the war. Then it shifted into high gear. Th…

Episode 390 is now available!
22/12/2024

Episode 390 is now available!

The Western Allies invaded Sicily, though there was no small amount of friction between General Patton and the British commanders. The invasion persuaded the top civil and military leaders in Italy…

Episode 389 is now available!
22/12/2024

Episode 389 is now available!

Adolf Hitler greets Benito Mussolini upon his arrival at Salzburg station in April 1943. Despite all the effort and sacrifice the Wehrmacht gave in 1942, the Eastern Front in 1943 was barely any di…

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