In today’s episode of the podcast, I explore Richard Overy’s arguments in Blood and Ruins and discuss his ideas around the necessity for expansionism during the 1930s among the three Axis powers, Germany, Italy and Japan. The great depression triggered ideas of expansionism as a solution to economic hardship and eugenic beliefs about growing, vital populations taking the resources of ‘lesser’ peoples.Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and expe
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