The concluding part of the documentary begins with the German economic crisis of 1929, which provided an unexpected opportunity for Hitler. He and Joseph Goebbels orchestrated an ingenious election campaign, while his storm troopers created violent disorder and bloody confrontations with communists. Germany's political elite, eager for the demise of the Republic, allowed the Fuehrer's rapid rise to continue, thinking they could control him, but he obtained a vote giving him full powers. The country's first concentration camps were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933.