World War Two · SEASON 9
How Hitler Targeted Czechoslovakia - Q2 1938
Episode 22 · 2026-07-04
- Documentary
- War & Politics
Episode overview
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 Anschluss, Hitler pressures Czechoslovakia over the Sudetenland, but the May Crisis exposes that Germany may not yet be ready for war. Humiliated, Hitler secretly issues a revised Case Green directive: Czechoslovakia is to be smashed by military action.
20 minutes
Season 9 episodes
1. How to End Democracy in 60 Days - Death of Democracy Q1 19332026-01-31
2. How Legal Immunity Becomes Absolute Power - Q2 19332026-02-07
3. How to Make the Economy Look Better Than It Is - Q3 19332026-02-14
4. How to Use a Tariff War to Disrupt the World - Q4 19332026-02-21
5. How to Not Clean up the Swamp - Q1 19342026-02-28
6. How to Serve Retribution and Become Popular - Q2 19342026-03-07
7. How to Go From President to King - Death of Democracy 07 - Q3 19342026-03-14
8. How To Indoctrinate the Children - Q4 19342026-03-21
9. How Radio Killed Democracy - Death of Democracy 09 - Q1 19352026-03-28
10. How To Distract From the Economy - Q2 19352026-04-04
11. How to Legalize Scapegoating - Q3 19352026-04-11
12. How to Tank the Economy for War - Q4 19352026-04-18
13. How to Stage (and Win) an International Crisis - Q1 19362026-04-25
14. How to Declare a Live Person Legally Dead - Q2 19362026-05-02
15. How to Make Nazi Germany Look Normal - Q3 19362026-05-09
16. How Hitler Indoctrinated a Generation - Q4 19362026-05-23
17. How the Nazis Got Rich Preparing Germany for War - Q1 19372026-05-30
18. How Hitler Tested His Next War in Spain - Q2 19372026-06-06
19. How to Make Dissent Disappear - Q3 19372026-06-13
20. How to Make War Inevitable - Q4 19372026-06-20
21. How to Steal a Country Without a European War - Q1 19382026-06-27
22. How Hitler Targeted Czechoslovakia - Q2 19382026-07-04
23. How WW2 Really Started: Appeasement! - Q3 19382026-07-11
24. How to Set a Militia Free on a Minority - Q4 19382026-07-18
25. How to Provoke a War - Q1 19392026-07-25
26. How to Make Aggression Sound Like Defense - Q2 19392026-08-01
27. How to Launch the Apocalypse - Q3 19392026-08-08
28. How Not to Be A Nazi - Epilogue2026-08-15
