In this episode, we explore the place between diplomatic cowardice and courage. When Neville Chamberlain declared 'Peace in Our Time' after handing Czechoslovakia to Hitler in 1938 in an attempt to prevent war, was he acting out of political cowardice or was this truly the best card to play out of a doomed hand?        Music:  Lamentation by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licenseSource: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100607 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://incompetech.com/   Dreams Become Real: Music from https://filmmusic.io "Dreams Become Real" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) What Does Anybody Know About Anything by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/dtv/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Comfortable Mystery 4 - Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://incompetech.com/      

Arrow of History

To Deceive the Witch: Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement

Episode 3 traces the intellectual origins of the gas chambers in Nazi Germany. We go back... way back. And though the path is long, it is not overgrown, and we can still get a sense of how ideas that once seemed scientific and rational evolved into the not so well-oiled machinery of destruction and death.

The Seeds of the Chambers

 Before Hitler was even in power, Stalin was responsible for the death and enslavement of tens of millions. In this episode, the Arrow of History explores the murderous logic of Stalin's Soviet Union, which used food as a weapon to manufacture famine against its own people. Tune in to hear how a determined dictator and an increasingly coerced population set the precedent for the mass murder of civilians in Europe which would come to define the Second World War.    -----------------------------------------------------------------   Arrow of History is Kristina Carroll and Daniel MacDonald   Dhaka by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400003 Artist: http://incompetech.com/   Echoes of Time by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300029 Artist: http://incompetech.com/   Long Note Three by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100424Artist: http://incompetech.com/   Navajo Night by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/   Himalayan Atmosphere by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100204 Artist: http://incompetech.com/    Theme Song: 'Arrow' by Cameron MacDonald Source (https://soundcloud.com/gardii)       

Policies of Starvation - A Story of Ukraine

World War 2 started well before 1939. Its roots stretch back nearly a decade - to clashes between the Japanese and regional Chinese governments and peoples living in the hotly contested borderland of Manchuria. The terror this conflict wrought is largely disregarded by history: this is one of WWII's great tragedies. In this episode, Daniel looks at the resistance of the Chinese to Japanese aggression and occupation; how did a nation without an organized central government, modern military machine, or booming economy, stave off the merciless onslaught of the most advanced military power of the region? One word: scale. ------------------------------------------------------   Arrow of History is Kristina Carroll and Daniel MacDonald   Dhaka by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400003 Artist: http://incompetech.com/   Echoes of Time by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300029 Artist: http://incompetech.com/   Long Note Three by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100424Artist: http://incompetech.com/   Navajo Night by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/   Himalayan Atmosphere by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100204 Artist: http://incompetech.com/    Theme Song: 'Arrow' by Cameron MacDonald Source (https://soundcloud.com/gardii)               

Death's Feast - The Second Sino-Japanese War

Arrow of History is a History podcast dedicated to informative and dramatic discussion of catalytic events that shaped the world. Season 1 looks at World War II and the long-term impacts and lasting legacies of key events from the conflict.