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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War.

Episode 80, Germany prepares for war running on fumes.

This week, a big thank you goes out to James and Bradley for the donation,

and to Johan, Jordan, and Edwin for choosing to support the podcast by becoming a member.

Members get access to ad-free versions of all of the podcast episodes, plus special member-only

episodes released roughly every month. Head on over to History of the Second World War.com

slash members to find out more. As we move closer to the end of the interwar content for the

podcast, I thought this would be a good time to start asking about a question and answer episode.

It will probably not happen until around mid-year, but now is a great time to start

sending in your questions. I think the topic of these Q&A episodes will be anything pre-September 1st,

1939, so basically anything the podcast has or has not covered during the interwar period.

The one exclusion to that will be events in the Soviet Union, which have been pushed

until after the Polish campaign, primarily for research reasons.

So send those questions to History of the Second World War at Outlook.com or via any other

method of contact.

The sooner questions come in, the more I'm able to organize them into reasonable groups

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