In this episode of the Explaining History podcast, we delve into the intellectual climate of 1930s Europe, as detailed in Richard Overy’s illuminating work, “The Morbid Age.” The episode seeks to uncover the complex web of fears, anxieties, and escalating tensions that pervaded Britain and the broader European landscape, leading many to view the outbreak of war as an inevitability by the late 1930s.The 1930s, marked by economic turmoil, political instability, and the rise of totalitarian ideolog
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