Warsaw Ghetto – The Unfinished Film: The Warsaw Ghetto housed 440,000 Polish Jews and Roma during World War II. Typhus, starvation and random murders killed over 100,000 of the ghetto’s residents even before the Nazis began the massive deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp. Yet the Nazis created a mysterious propaganda film that juxtaposed meticulously staged scenes of Jews enjoying […]
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Rise of the Nazis episode 6: Facing defeat on the Eastern Front, Hitler retreats. Deep rifts emerge, and his inner circle vies for power. The resistance gets a student voice, and an enemy within plots to kill Hitler. A fresh perspective on how Hitler brutally seized and kept power – and the missed chances that could have stopped
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Rise of the Nazis episode 5: The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies – with no-one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has met his match – it’s now a fight to the death. A fresh perspective on how Hitler brutally seized and kept power – and the missed chances
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Rise of the Nazis episode 4: At the peak of his power, Hitler now faces fellow ruthless dictator Stalin. He tries to deceive Stalin with a plan to invade Britain, all while preparing an attack on the Soviet Union. A fresh perspective on how Hitler brutally seized and kept power – and the missed chances that could have
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Rise of the Nazis episode 3 – Night of the Long Knives: Adolf Hitler has been chancellor of Germany for just under a year. It is a challenging balancing act. On the one hand, the Nazis must be mindful of President Paul von Hindenburg and Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, who are members of Germany’s traditional aristocratic ruling elite. On
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Rise of the Nazis episode 2 – The First Six Months in Power: At the start of 1933, Hitler is the chancellor of Germany but he does not have absolute power – there is still a democratic parliament beneath him, a head of state above him and the rule of law hanging over him. Hitler sets his sights on dismantling
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Rise of the Nazis episode 1 – Politics: This episode takes us into the corridors of power where Germany’s top political mastermind sees an opportunity to use the sudden popularity of the Nazis for his own ends. This sets off a chain of miscalculations, backroom deals and power grabs that will propel Hitler from the fringes of political activism into
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Hermann Goering: Ambition Without Conscience – He was the “Number One Nazi,” one of Hitler’s oldest friends and second in command. Yet perhaps more than any other advisor, he was responsible for the collapse of the Nazi regime. Hermann Goering was a man of many contradictions; a decorated war hero whose strategic decisions proved disastrous, an elitist with a common
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Adolf Hitler the Itinerary episode 2 – The War Leader: Harald Sandner continues his study of Adolf Hitler as he seizes control of Germany and plunges the European continent into the bloodiest conflict the world has ever seen. Harald meticulously notes every success and failure as the world’s powers come together to put an end to this chapter in history.
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Adolf Hitler the Itinerary episode 1 – Assent of a Criminal: For 25 years, Harald Sandner, a history enthusiast, has traced the Fuhrer’s itinerary from his childhood to the end of his life. Harald Sandner, a history enthusiast, has traced Adolf Hitler’s early life. From his childhood home, through his relationship with his family, the challenges he endured
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Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany episode 2: Amateur footage of frontline and civilian stories that offers new insights into life and atrocities in WWII Germany and the occupied territories, as Hitler’s dreams crumble. Christmas in Germany 1941 is an unsettling time. Food is scarce, the weather is freezing and news from the front line in Russia is
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Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany episode 1: A candid look at what life was really like for those living in, and under Hitler’s Swastika – at home – and abroad, a record not only of what they saw, but of what they knew. Recently discovered home movie footage from 1936 offers a unique and novel insight into
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