WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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What were Britain’s ‘shadow factories’? Why did the allies plan to intervene in the Finno-Soviet Winter War? How did Germany hope to meet it’s desperate need for resources?
Join Al Murray and James Holland for part 4 of this new series on the ‘Phoney War’, and how complacency and hubris led to the shock fall of Western Europe to the Nazi German war machine in Spring 1940.
0:00 Britain Settles Into the Phoney War
2:08 Economic Warfare and Britain’s Metal Stockpiles
8:00 Germany’s Critical Shortage of Iron Ore
10:22 Churchill Targets the Norwegian Supply Route
13:08 The Allied Plan to Intervene in Scandinavia
18:44 World of Warships
19:53 Germany’s Economy Under Blockade
24:14 Hitler’s Need for a Short War
26:19 The French Army Grows Restless
31:53 Churchill Pushes France to Take the Initiative
33:44 France’s Political Crisis Deepens
36:30 German U-boats Prepare for Norway
38:05 Disunity Across Europe
40:09 Why Germany Had to Strike Now
Produced by James Regan
Editor: Charlie Rodwell
Assistant Producer: Alfie Norris
Social Producer: Harry Balden
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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