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Trapped by the Extremes: Europe in the 1930s History 104 / April 12, 2013. Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. “ Fellow travellers ” : Cambridge & Oxford students. (these three later became spies for the Soviet Union).
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Trapped by the Extremes: Europe in the 1930sHistory 104 / April 12, 2013
“Fellow travellers”:Cambridge & Oxford students (these three later became spies for the Soviet Union)
Anti-government riots in Paris, February 1934(far-right movements attack the parliament& democracy in general)
Leon Blum (socialist, on left)and Maurice Thorez (communist, center)
The “cult of personality” surrounding Stalin“Under the leadership of the Great Stalin –forward to communism!”
Stalin’s henchman purges “Old Bolsheviks”and the leadership of the Red Army
Mussolini promises Italian support for Franco;Hitler sends the “Legion Condor”
Exiled German communists fight alongside the Spanish Republicans(other volunteers:the “Lincoln Brigade”from the U.S.)
The Anschluss:Germany’s army marches into Austria,March 1938
Anti-Semitic outbursts in Vienna:Jews forced to clean streets by hand
Hitler’s next target: the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia
When Hitler threatens war, British Prime MinisterNeville Chamberlain (1869-1940) comes to visit
The Sudetenland, Oct. 1938:Troops greeted fanatically –Jews and socialists rounded up
March 1939:German soldiers seize Prague and the remainder of Bohemia