As Hitler sat in prison after the Nazi's failed putsch of Nov 1923 he wrote "My Struggle". Discover how the Nazi movement can use democracy's tolerance in Germany to achieve a comeback with agitation and violence.
In 1932 the NSDAP became the strongest party in the parliament then President Hindenburg and the conservative parties undermine the remnants of democracy.
In seemingly open elections Hitler secures the approval of the people, President Hindenburg suspends freedom of speech. Then the first concentration camps are set for Hitler's political opponents.
In mid 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union to gain living space in the east for the Germans. Meanwhile the Nazi regime gradually advances its "final solution to the Jewish problem", culminating in the Holocaust.
The Nazi murder plan, "Operation Reinhardt", took nearly two million lives within a few months in 1942/1943 of those held in Sobibor, Treblinka and Majdanek concentration camps.
The defeat at Stalingrad in 1943 was the turning point of the war and convinced the Nazi leadership to intensify their terror and propaganda campaigns, a horrific chapter of the Holocaust begins with the death marches of surviving concentration camp prisoners from the battlefields to the Reich.
When the war ends in 1945 the violence is not over. The survivors and the winners want to blame the Germans. The reckoning with National Socialism is ambivalent.
