Black's History Week

The Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands finally got its chance at power again in the late 90s — historian Jeremy Black joins Critic deputy editor Graham Stewart to discuss the rise and fall of Gerhard Schröder's government.  

Professor Jeremy Black joins the Critic's deputy editor Graham Stewart to discuss why the fall of East Germany was far from inevitable.

In this Critic podcast recorded whilst Britain and the Commonwealth prepare for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, the historian, Professor Jeremy Black, talks with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Queen's place in British history.

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the smoke and mirrors that obscured the reality of a failing East Germany.

(Photo shows East Berliners rioting against Soviet occupation, 1953.)

How exceptional was West Germany's politics and prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s compared to other western European countries and what became of its Far Right? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black discusses German exceptionalism with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart.

Photo shows a newsstand in West Berlin's Kurfuerstendamm during night time, 1955. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Were there realistic alternatives to dividing post-war Germany along ideological lines and were West German politics an Anglo-American creation or the response of Germans to the circumstances in which they found themselves? In this episode of Black's History Week, The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, talks to Professor Jeremy Black about the emergence of rival Germanys. 

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black continues his series on German history and talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about Germany's home front during the Second World War and what ordinary Germans knew about Jewish persecution and the Holocaust.

In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Nazi foreign policy differed from the traditional objectives of German nationalism.

(Photo credit: AFP via Getty Images)

Continuing the series on German history, in this episode of Black's History Week Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how Hitler entrenched his power across all aspects of German life in the 1930s.

Did the Nazis win power in 1933 because of the popular appeal of their message or through the divisions and miscalculations of their opponents? In this episode of Black's History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about how the Nazis won with only a third of the vote.

Picture: Adolf Hitler is welcomed by supporters at Nuremberg in 1933 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)