Podcast on Germany

It is time to move off the Italian peninsula.  Tribes are trying to settle in Spain and Gaul and make deals with the Roman empire or the rebel leaders who keep popping up. But how can you expect things to go easy if your leader can't even take a bath without being killed?

Join in as we look at the culminating event of the decade!  The highlight of these past few episodes we have been hinting at!  It is going to be epic! It is the highlight of the century! I am lying!  But listen to the episode to find out why.

Hello everyone!  To signify our return to normal episodes we are doing a special episode on Bertha von Suttner's Lay Down Your Arms.  Join in as we explore the book that was considered the championship of the pacifist movement, one of the greatest works in the late 1800s and attacked every fiber of a society that was built around war.  

Olympius is now on top!  Olympius now needs to pay the piper and deal with three groups who he owes for his rise to power.  Join in as we look at the disaster that befalls the divided empire as Olympius releases his own secret agenda.

Hey everyone so Stilicho the man the vandal the legend is about to leave our story.  Join in as we discuss the fall of the man who dreamed of uniting the empire under his rule and the rise of a man who would see Rome sacked for the first time in 800 years.

Hey everyone welcome to our special episode where we discuss the creation of one of the largest Jewish communities in modern day Europe, Germany.  Brad Pomerance from Jewish Life TV shares the stories of those who have started a new life in central Europe and why Germany, despite its past under the Nazis and the Holocaust, has now become a major center for Jewish settlement.  Explore with us the history of Jewish life in Germany.

Brad Pomerance's show Air, Land, and Sea looks at the past and present for Jewish communities throughout the world and can be found on Jewish Life TV. http://jltv.tv/page.php?id=141&play=29

Stilicho goes from things are bad to things are worse to can I get a break!  Highlights include the Spanish collapse, the Senate gaining power, Emperor of the East is dead and oh yeah Alaric decides it is time for Stilicho to pay up for abandoning him in Illyricum when he shows up with an army in Northern Italy once again. Stilicho is in for a terrible year.

Join us as we look as Stilicho at the height of his power suddenly get the wind knocked out of him when his planned Civil war falls flat and another unplanned one losses him half the empire.  Chaos ensues as German tribes take over Gaul and news leaks that Alaric, King of the Goths, is dead....or is he?

In today's shorter episode we look at the two invasions that shook Italy and Rome to its core in the first few years of the 400s. The first by Alaric who had enough of the shenanigans of the East and decided to move westward.  The second was a clear sign that Rome was the lesser of two evils now that the Hunnic empire had appeared on the scene.

Join in as we talk with Dr. Gennari about the role of one of Europe's great powers in Germany, Sweden!  Dr. Gennari provides us amazing insight into how this Scandinavian nation became a major power that dominated northern Germany and how it came to pass that the small upstart of Brandenburg became Sweden's major rival within Prussia.