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The Day Capitalism Broke: The Wall Street Crash of 1929 & the Road to Hitler
On 29 October 1929, the world changed forever.
As share prices collapsed, panic ripped through Wall Street, fortunes vanished in hours, and confidence in capitalism itself cracked. What began as a stock market crash in New York spiralled into the Great Depression, reshaped global politics, radicalised Europe – and helped pave the way for Hitler, Stalin, and the extremes of the 1930s.
In this episode of Days That Changed the World, historians Antonia Senior and Roger Moorhouse take you inside the human drama of the Wall Street Crash:
– exhausted traders sleeping on cots
– terrified small…
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