Season 15, Episode 8: The International Realignment, Part 2
A photograph of Ernst Rohm in the German state of Bavaria in 1931. He had been a longtime member of the Nazi Party but was assassinated among thousands of others during the Night of Long Knives because he became inconvenient to Hitler’s reign. Source: Public Domain
A Soviet propaganda poster encouraging those who worked on collective farms to police their fellow farmworkers and prevent hoarding, which was blamed for the shortcomings on these farms. Source: Public Domain
The front page of the Chicago American Newspaper, which shows the harsh realities of Soviet collectivization: underproduction, starvation, and mass death. Source: Public Domain
A photograph from Ukraine in 1933, at the height of the Great Famine, showing peasants starving to death on the sidewalk. Source: Public Domain
A map showing the areas most deeply affected by the famine- darker shade means more starvation cases. Most are in Ukraine. Source: Public Domain
A photograph of Leon Trotsky, a rival of Stalin’s who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929, around when this picture was taken. Living in exile in Mexico City, he would be accused of attempting to overthrow the Soviet government through his allies who remained in Russia, though there remains no evidence he ever planned such an action. Source: Public Domain
A photograph of Austrians celebrating the Anschluss, during which Austria and Germany were merged into the single state of “Greater Germany.” Source: Public Domain
A map of Europe in 1939 with Nazi Germany in green. German expansion would not end with the annexation of Sudetenland nor the partitioning of Poland. Source: DIREKTOR’s modification to Goran tek-en’s map., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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