Welcome to History Date Night; a World War II podcast covering the Second World War in chronological order, from the opening shots to final victory.
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This episode of History Date Night covers July 11th through the 16th. Now Britain stands alone, and Hitler begins planning an invasion. Justin and Jennie pick up after the fall of the Third Republic where Marshal Pétain makes himself like a king and Pierre Laval becomes his designated successor, while Vichy strips naturalized Jews of their French citizenship. In London, de Gaulle marks the first Bastille Day since the defeat with a wreath at the Cenotaph with a cry that France will live forever, and Churchill tells Britain and the world that he will seek no terms.
12 Oct 2026
Episode 53 - Britain Stands Alone
This episode of History Date Night covers July 6th through July 10th, 1940. For the better part of a year, Justin and Jennie have been following Germany as it knocks over one opponent after another, but this week, for the first time, there's nobody left on the continent to knock over. Hitler goes home to a hero's welcome, as Germany begins to turn its attention towards the British Isles.
Meanwhile the Royal Navy finishes some deeply unpleasant business against its former allies, a great naval battle breaks out in the Mediterranean, and on Wednesday the 10th, the first shots of what history will call the Battle of Britain are fired over the English Channel.
Finally in Vichy France this week, after seventy years, the third French republic, born after the Franco Prussian war in the 1870s, enthusiastically votes itself out of existence.
7 Oct 2026
Episode 52 - Against Yesterday's Allies
This episode of History Date Night covers June 29th through July 5th, 1940. This week the most dangerous unresolved question of the armistice between France and Germany is answered in an extremely brutal manner as the British begins the process of neutralizing the navy of its former ally, first by negotiation, then by gunfire.
This episode also has German troops landing on the British Channel Islands without a fight, Britain turning its own beaches into fortresses, and a British passenger ship carrying asylum seekers to Canada being sunk by a German submarine. And while all of that happens, Britain sends the largest transfer of wealth in human history across the Atlantic in preparation for the war to come and the possibility that their island might fall.
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