Because we finished watching The White Rose (1982) today, we has very little time for a lecture. But we did spare nearly nine minutes for a discussion of the obstacles that the Western democracies faced in the 1930s in confronting a resurgent Germany. These numerous obstacles rewarded Hitler's expansionist foreign policies, which were reckless in the extreme, with a degree of success that they never would have had in "normal" times. But the times were far from normal. In today's lecture, we saw how.
Vodcast on Short Lecture, Background to Appeasement