• 1997
  • 49m
The Nazis: A Warning from History

Summary An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power. View more details

  • 1997
  • 49m

The Nazis: A Warning from History

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Samuel West Jutta Rüdiger Adolf Buchner Günther Ruschin

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8.7

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Genres : History War Documentary

Release date : Sep 9, 1997

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English German French Polish

Filming locations : Prague, Czech Republic

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) A+E Networks

Summary An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power. View more details

Details

Genres : History War Documentary

Release date : Sep 9, 1997

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English German French Polish

Filming locations : Prague, Czech Republic

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) A+E Networks

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 09, 1997
Helped into Power
Part 1 examines how Hitler was "helped into power by economic circumstance and the support and miscalculation of others," according to narrator Samuel West. The hour documents Hitler's ascendance to the chancellorship in January 1933.
Episode 2 • Sep 16, 1997
Chaos & Consent: The Nazi Rule of Germany
Part 2 looks at Hitler's regime and considers how "the system was manipulated...by lots of people for all kinds of reasons," as one historian notes. Also: "how the Gestapo actually functioned" in Germany.
Episode 3 • Sep 23, 1997
The Wrong War
Part 3 studies how Hitler wound up "fighting the country he most admired---Great Britain---and became allied to the country he most wanted to colonize---Russia," according to narrator Samuel West.
Episode 4 • Sep 30, 1997
The Wild East
Part 4 looks at the occupation of Poland, the "one country that suffered more than any other under the Nazis," according to narrator Samuel West. The hour dispels the notion that Nazi commanders who committed atrocities were "only following orders."
Episode 5 • Oct 07, 1997
The Road to Treblinka
Part 5 travels "The Road to Treblinka," examining the Holocaust and how the Nazis moved from a policy of ethnic "relocation" to one of mass murder. Included: an interview with one of the 70 known survivors of the Treblinka death camp.
Episode 6 • Oct 14, 1997
Fighting to the End
Conclusion. Examining how Hitler stayed in power and why the Nazis continued fighting long after they had any chance of winning World War II. Included: the July 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler.

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