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Join Brendan Simms as he examines the intense days between the attack on Pearl Harbour and Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States.

It is now a hundred years since the Irish Free State and the Weimar Republic established the first diplomatic relations between the Dublin government and Germany. Both were new states, which were still in the shadow of Britain, a principal victor power in the World War.

The tumultuous events of the last year in Belarus have spilled over into the Baltic. 

The history of Germany’s relations with the Baltic States is both a history of violence as well as of flourishing commercial, economic and cultural links. The knights of the Teutonic Order and German soldiers occupied and plundered the region in the medieval ages and during the two world wars of the 20th century.