The Rise Of The Nazi Party - Adolf Hitler [DVD]

The Rise of the Nazi Party reveals step by step how the National Sots exploited the economic turmoil of their time, got into power in Germany in 1933 and then led their nation into a nightmare of everyday brutality, genocide and defeat. THE MISFITS GATHER: Adolf Hitler finds his political destiny in the post-war turmoil of Munich. He quickly dominates a fringe party & builds it into the Nazi Party. He recruits infamous men including Herman Goering & Heinrich Himmler andthey plot to seize power in a dramatic coup known as the hall Putsch. BECOMING RESPECTABLE: After his failed coup and trial in 1923 Hitler realises he will not gain power through violence alone. He must become respectable. Along with his new propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels he starts creating the illusion that the Nazis are a mainstream democratic political party. SEIZING POWER: Hitler seizes his chance to turn the German population against the democratic Weimar government by promising a brighter future during the Great Depression. IN POWER: Adolf Hitler wins power by promising jobs and economic recovery. But he has another secret agenda: to rid Germany of the Jews and prepare the nation for war. On April 1st 1933, a boycott of Jewish-owned shops is launched by the Nazis. PREPARING FOR WAR: In November 1937, Adolf Hitler summons his generals and unveils his plans. Germany will annex Austria and the German-speaking lands in Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland. HITLER'S BIGGEST BLUNDER: Spring 1941 and Adolf Hitler is at the height of his power. He's conquered most of Europe. Yet the war is about to change and the German people will soon discover that much of what they re being told about it is a tissue of lies. THE FINAL SOLUTION: Hitler and the Nazis groom the German nation, making them complicit in the worst genocide in human history: the slaughter of some six million Jews. PLOTS AND DELUSIONS: By 1944, everything is going badly for Adolf Hitler. With defeat after defeat, his public image as an all-wise genius who is leading the German people to victory is no longer believable. In addition, the German people don't know that he is secretly cracking up. END GAME: By January 1945, the writing is on the wall for Nazi Germany. Allied armies are advancing from all sides penetrating deep into the heart of the one thousand year Reich. They can't win and the man who has taken them to war is finished. AFTERMATH: In the closing months of the war, as the Allies advance through Germany, they make a gruesome discovery; they discover the concentration and death camps that are proof of the systematic wholesale murder of millions of people by sing and by forced labour under starvation conditions.

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