Axis History Podcast : A History of Tyranny in the 20th Century

Jan 19 2021 6 ep. 56 mins 245

Axis History Podcast : A History of Tyranny in the 20th Century artwork

In this podcast we bring you the unfiltered history of the regimes that made up the Axis Powers of the Second World War from the Third Reich, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and their complicated and often complicit allies including Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland and many more, while also taking the time to investigate other complicated regimes such as Franoist Spain, the USSR and a variety of other dictatorships throughout the 20th Century.

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