After WWI Adolf Hitler attends the meetings of the German Workers Party, a far right political party centred around racism and anti-Semitism; the natural home for Adolf Hitler's political beliefs. He rapidly works his way up and builds a loyal following of the most brutal men in Germany. Capitalising from the broken state of Germany post WWI Hitler sets about his revolution. The infamous Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 was superficially a failure which saw...

After the Nazi Party took control of the German government in 1933, chancellor Adolf Hitler enacted the Nuremberg Racial Laws, depriving Jews of citizenship, and vowed to purge the country of all "undesirables". In 1939 Hitler instituted the "Final Solution" - the systematic killing of all European Jews. By the end of World War II in 1945, between 6 and 8 million Jews had been murdered during the Nazi Holocaust.

Large-scale gatherings in celebration of Nazi ideals were common throughout Adolf Hitler's reign of Germany. Hitler's impassioned, charismatic delivery made his enthusiasm contagious among his constituents.

Paul von Hindenburg was first elected president of Germany in 1925 at the age of 77. He successfully ran for president again in 1932 against Adolf Hitler. While his supporters hoped Hindenburg would keep Hitler and the Nazi party in check, he was eventually forced to assign Hitler the post of chancellor of the Cabinet. As chancellor, Hitler was quickly able to gain near total control of the government.

Hitler's abortive "putsch" in Munich

The Rhine valley-a treasury of medieval art, and, as this program shows, the cradle of what we now think of as distinctly German imagery. Foremost among Cologne's late-Gothic painters was Stefan Lochner, who injected drama and excitement into familiar biblical scenes. At about the same time, Johannes Gutenberg pioneered a printing revolution in the Rhine town of Mainz, leading to one of the greatest innovations in the visual arts, the reproduction,...

"Legendary occultist Aleister Crowley develops a powerful and dangerous new weapon to defend the world against Adolf Hitler's own war machine"--Provided by publisher.

In this program, eyewitnesses such as a Soviet ambassador, a Soviet journalist, and a Comintern agent reveal how Stalin's fear of a massive German invasion during his preparations for war caused him to push for an alliance with Hitler at any price-including assisting the Nazi war machine. The Borders and Friendship Treaty-long-denied by the Soviets-and previously undisclosed clauses in the Germano-Soviet Pact; Gestapo and NKVD orders to eliminate...

Behind the smokescreen of the massive Anglo-American/Soviet pincer movement that would inevitably crush the German war effort, Churchill and Stalin were locked in a grim struggle of wills to set the terms that would decide the immediate future of postwar Europe-a contest in which victory was tipped to the U.S.S.R. through the secret intervention of President Roosevelt. This program reveals the details, supported by readings from the diaries of Sir...

It was as if history had staged a morality play. Two gladiators of light and darkness, Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler, came to power within weeks of each other, faced off in a contest of global warfare, and died in the same month. In doing so, they embodied the very essences of democracy and dictatorship. Through the spellbinding appeal of decades-old film, Bill Moyers traces the childhoods and early careers of both leaders, illustrates the paths...