🎧 Interwar Germany’s Secret Ally: The USSR
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit
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23m
After the First World War the German Army was in crisis. Limited in the size and its equipment by the Versailles Treaty which ended the war, it was a shadow of the mighty force it had been in 1914. Help came from a surprising source. Soviet Russia. Historian Ian Johnson explains to Dan how it was the Soviets who helped rebuild the German military machine before WW2.
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