World War Two - Season 9 Episode 15 How to Make Nazi Germany Look Normal - Q3 1936
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, technology, pageantry, and athletic triumph. But behind the facade, the regime hid antisemitic persecution, rounded up Sinti and Roma, intensified police repression, intervened in the Spanish Civil War, and moved toward a massive new war economy.
In this episode, Spartacus Olsson looks back at the third quarter of 1936: the Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens’ victories, Hitler’s secret war memorandum, the Four-Year Plan, Nazi propaganda, Germany’s growing involvement in Spain, and the dictatorship’s attempt to sell peace to the world while preparing for conquest.
The Olympics gave Hitler international validation. The Four-Year Plan revealed what he truly intended.
Year: 2026
Genre: Documentary, War & Politics
Country: United States of America
Studio: YouTube
Director: Indy Neidell
Cast: Indy Neidell
Crew: Indy Neidell (Writer), Spartacus Olsson (Director), Spartacus Olsson (Editor), Astrid Deinhard-Olsson (Producer), Indy Neidell (Presenter)
First Air Date: Sep 01, 2018
Last Air date: Jun 06, 2026
Season: 9 Season
Episode: 381 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 6.00 users
Popularity: 40.8248
Language: English
Keyword : world war ii
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How Legal Immunity Becomes Absolute Power - Q2 1933
How to Make the Economy Look Better Than It Is - Q3 1933
How to Use a Tariff War to Disrupt the World - Q4 1933
How to Not Clean up the Swamp - Q1 1934
How to Serve Retribution and Become Popular - Q2 1934
How to Go From President to King - Death of Democracy 07 - Q3 1934
How To Indoctrinate the Children - Q4 1934
How Radio Killed Democracy - Death of Democracy 09 - Q1 1935
How To Distract From the Economy - Q2 1935
How to Legalize Scapegoating - Q3 1935
How to Tank the Economy for War - Q4 1935
How to Stage (and Win) an International Crisis - Q1 1936
How to Declare a Live Person Legally Dead - Q2 1936
How to Make Nazi Germany Look Normal - Q3 1936
How Hitler Indoctrinated a Generation - Q4 1936
How the Nazis Got Rich Preparing Germany for War - Q1 1937
How Hitler Tested His Next War in Spain - Q2 1937
How to Make Dissent Disappear - Q3 1937
How to Make War Inevitable - Q4 1937
How to Steal a Country Without a European War - Q1 1938
How Hitler Targeted Czechoslovakia - Q2 1938
How WW2 Really Started: Appeasement! - Q3 1938
How to Set a Militia Free on a Minority - Q4 1938
How to Provoke a War - Q1 1939
How to Make Aggression Sound Like Defense - Q2 1939
How to Launch the Apocalypse - Q3 1939
How Not to Be A Nazi - Epilogue