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THE FATE OF THE REICH DEPENDS
ON ME AS LONG AS I LIVE,
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I SHALL THINK ONLY OF VICTORY.
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I SHALL ANNIHILATE EVERYONE
WHO IS OPPOSED TO ME.
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ADOLF HITLER
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30th APRIL 1945
IN HIS BUNKER BENEATH THE RUINS OF BERLIN
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ADOLF HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE.
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"I die with a joyful heart,
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in the knowledge
of our infinite achievements,
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and of a contribution unique
in the history that bears my name."
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FOR TWELVE YEARS HITLER
DOMINATED THE GERMAN PEOPLE
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AND LED THEM TO THE BRINK
OF A NEW WORLD ORDER.
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HITLER STARTED A WORLD WAR
THAT COST THE LIVES OF
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50 MILLION PEOPLE.
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"This war will not come to an end
the way the Jews imagine,
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with the extermination
of the Aryan people."
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"Instead, it will see
the complete annihilation of the Jews."
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"I do not play at war."
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"I shall not allow myself
to be ordered about by generals."
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"With iron will, I shall determine
the moment to attack."
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"That is my mission."”
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USING DIARIES, LETTERS AND
NEWLY DISCOVERED COLOUR FILM.
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Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!
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COLOR OF WAR VI
ADOLF HITLER
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Sieg, Heil! Sieg, Heil!
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Since the end of the First World War,
the German people had been living
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with the consequences of
a catastrophic defeat.
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Almost half of the workforce
is unemployed.
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One of them is laborer Hans Backer.
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"Thousands of factories
closed their doors."
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"Many honest Germans
had to resort to theft to obtain food."
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"All of us yearned for better times."
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"Like many, I have lost
all my possessions."
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"So I have joined
the National Socialist Party."
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The National Socialists -
the Nazis -
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have been in power for 20 months.
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On September 15th 1934, at Buckeberg,
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three-quarters of a million Germans have
come to see their new leader,
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Adolf Hitler.
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"The misery of our people
is horrible to behold."
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"Unemployment must be overcome."
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"People of Germany, give us four years,
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and may God Almighty
give our work his blessing."
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Schoolteacher
Louise Solmitz:
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"A thrill shot through the crowd -
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The Führer is coming!"
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"The excitement of the moment
gave vent to a rousing cry."
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"So many worship him as their savior,
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their redeemer
from unbearable poverty."
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"It is our task to make certain
that the pages in German history
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that bear witness to our disintegration are
torn in half."
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"From need, misery and wretchedness
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shall arise a new German Reich."
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Hitlers rise to power
creates a new air of optimism.
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Jewish doctor Herter Natroff:
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"Hitler is Chancellor. Everyone is full
of it. Its all they talk about."
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"Many are filled with happiness.
Some have worry written in their faces."
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"But all are united in the words,
now things will change."
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Hitler gradually transforms
the lives of the German people.
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Unemployment is almost eliminated
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and workers are even given
holidays abroad,
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heavily subsidized by the state.
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Hans Bealis:
"Who would have thought,
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a German worker would one day
be able to go to the Italian Riviera?"
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"We will all return to Germany
full of thankfulness,
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and be able to work doubly hard
to realize our Fuhrers goal."
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At home in Germany,
the Nazis stamp out all political opposition.
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The police and courts
are placed under Nazi leadership.
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All power is concentrated in Adolf Hitler.
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"Not every one of you
can see me, yet I feel you."
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"And you feel me.
The miracle of our age
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is that you have found me."
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"And Germanys fortune
is that I have found you."
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September 1935.
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Hitler announces new laws that turn
Germanys Jews into second-class citizens.
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Children are given new textbooks
with lessons in racial education.
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"You can most easily tell a Jew
by his nose."
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"It looks like the number 6."
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"His lips are usually puffy."
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"You can tell by his eyes
that he is deceitful."
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"If you have a good nose,
you can smell the Jews."
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Any opposition to Hitler
is ruthlessly eradicated.
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Tens of thousands are imprisoned.
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Journalist Stefan Lorent
dared to criticize the Fuhrer.
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"I am writing in cell No.24."
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"Outside, a new Germany
is being created."
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"Many millions are rejoicing."
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"Hitler is promising everyone
precisely what they want."
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"I think that when they wake
to their sober senses,
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they will find that they have been
led by the nose and duped by lies."
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August 1st, 1936.
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Adolf Hitler arrives to open
the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin.
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Deutschland, Deutschland über alles.
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Über alles in der Welt.
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Hitler is determined these Games will
be a showpiece for his new Germany.
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Jewish professor Victor Klemperer:
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"I find the Olympics so odious."
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"The chanted slogans on the streets
have been banned."
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"Jew-baiting, war-like sentiments -
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everything offensive
has disappeared from the papers."
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"The attention of our guests
is repeatedly drawn
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to how peacefully and pleasantly
things are proceeding here."
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By the end of the Games,
the Germans top the medal table.
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It is a personal triumph for Hitler.
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"In 1940, the Olympic Games
will take place in Tokyo
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but thereafter they will take place
in Germany for all time to come.”
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Three weeks after the Olympic Games,
Hitler welcomes David Lloyd George,
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Britains former Prime Minister,
to the Berghof,
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his mountain home
in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.
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At Hitlers side is his interpreter,
Paul Schmidt.
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"Hitler was delighted with this
visit from the world-famous statesman."
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"We sat at a table near the window."
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"He began to speak with excitement
of his experiences
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as a humble soldier
during the Great War."
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"I often faced the English,” he said."
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Lloyd George
is so impressed by Hitler,
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he publishes his thoughts
in the Daily Express.
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"The idea of
a Germany intimidating Europe
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forms no part of Hitlers new vision."
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"The Germans have definitely
made up their minds
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never to quarrel with us again.”
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As Lloyd George leaves, Hitler presents
a secret memo to his ministers.
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"The world is moving towards
a new conflict."
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"Making the German Army
into the first in the world is vital."
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"If this does not happen,
then Germany will be lost."
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"We must be ready for war
in four years time."
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July 18th, 1937.
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Adolf Hitlers personal pilot,
SS-Oberführer Hans Bauer,
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accompanies him to a pageant to
celebrate 2,000 years of German culture.
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Bauer is permitted to film his Fuhrer
with his own camera.
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14-year-old Ingeborg Weber:
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"The four years the Führer asked for
to fulfill his promises are up."
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"What great things he has achieved."
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"The Communists have disappeared
from Germany."
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"There is no unemployment."
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"The Führer has given us back
our self-respect.”
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For the past six years, Adolf Hitler has
kept a secret from the German people.
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Hidden away from all
but his closest companions
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is his mistress, Eva Braun.
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"The weather is so wonderful
and I,
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the mistress of
the greatest man in the world,
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am sitting here and gazing at the sun.”
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With a camera given to her by Hitler,
Eva Braun films his private life.
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"I am so terribly happy
that he loves me so much
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and I pray that it will always be like this."
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"He has had
a head full of politics all this time
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but surely it is time he relaxed a little."
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Only members of Hitlers
inner circle are allowed to meet Eva.
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One of them is Hitlers close friend,
architect Albert Speer.
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"Never have I met a person
who so seldom reveals his feelings."
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"Even towards Eva he is never completely
relaxed and human."
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"Hitler and Eva avoid anything that might
suggest an intimate relationship,
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only to go upstairs
to the bedrooms together late at night."
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"Out of sympathy,
I began to feel a liking for this woman,
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who was so deeply attached to Hitler."
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25-year-old Eva
is from a traditional Catholic family.
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When Hitler provides Eva
with a flat of her own,
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her father writes a letter:
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"Your Excellency, I find myself in
the extremely unpleasant position
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of having to express to you my distress."
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"I believe the parents supervision
of the children until they get married
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is a sacred principle.
This is my code of honor."
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"Please advise her
to return to her family."
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"Yours very respectfully, Fritz Braun."
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Eva intercepts the letter.
It will never reach the Führer.
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Eva always appears happy,
the center of attention.
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But the only surviving fragments
of her diary reveal a different story.
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"When he says he loves me, it only means
he loves me at that particular moment."
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"Like his promises,
which he never keeps."
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"I am utterly miserable."
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"I shall go out
and buy some sleeping pills,
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then I wont think about it so much.”
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Eva has already made
two attempts at suicide
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but Hitler still refuses to marry her.
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"A highly intelligent man should
take a primitive and stupid woman."
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“Imagine if I had a woman
who interfered with my work."
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"In my leisure time I want to have peace."
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"I could never marry.
Its the same with a movie actor."
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"When he marries, he loses a certain
something for the women who adore him."
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"Then he is no longer their idol."
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September 28th, 1937.
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The people of Berlin are preparing
for a state visit
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from Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini.
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Hitler is building
a new military alliance in Europe.
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"We do not intend
in re-arming Germany
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to create an instrument
of military aggression,
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but, on the contrary,
exclusively for defence
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and the maintenance of peace.”
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Hitler parades his new army
in front of Mussolini.
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Accompanying the two dictators
is Hitlers interpreter, Paul Schmidt.
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"I have ample opportunity
of observing the two of them."
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"Hitlers voice was rough
and often hoarse."
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"Sometimes his eyes blazed."
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"His laugh always had
a flavor of sarcasm."
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"There was an interesting ceremony,
with Mussolini appointing Hitler
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an honorary corporal
in the Fascist Militia."
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Hitler has also signed
a pact with Japan.
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With his new Axis of Power in place,
he is ready to make his next move.
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March 12th, 1938.
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Hitler announces
the Nazi takeover of Austria.
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Born in Austria, Hitler has always dreamt
of merging his homeland
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into a greater German Reich.
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Karl Titzian is a soldier
in the Austrian Army.
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"Weve been told German troops should
not be met with any resistance."
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"God save Austria.”
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"Everywhere there are
people on the streets and swastika flags."
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"Germany has apparently saved us
from the Communists."
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"Now everyone is on
the side of the winners."
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In the town of Dornbirn,
10,000 people celebrate
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in the renamed Adolf Hitler Square.
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Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!
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"I believe that it was Gods will
to send a boy from here into Germany,
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to raise him to be leader,
to return his homeland to the Reich."
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"For me, this is the proudest hour
of my life."
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Within weeks,
the Jews of Vienna
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are feeling the real impact
of Austrias savior.
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24-year-old Jewish student,
Edith Hahn:
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"The Nazis are putting up
signs on Jewish shops,
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warning people not to buy there."
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"Anybody who resists is beaten up,
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killed, or taken away
to a concentration camp."
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"Everyone around us has gone mad."
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"They were born hating us,
raised hating us,
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and now the veneer of civilization,
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which had protected us from their hatred,
has been stripped away."
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High in the Bavarian Alps,
at his mountain hideaway,
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Hitler is already planning
his next conquest.
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The diary of Nazi propaganda chief
Joseph Goebbels:
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"Now comes Czechoslovakia."
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"The Fuhrer is wonderful.
A true genius!"
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"He sits for hours over the map
and broods."
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"The Führer is pleased
the Czechs are being so stubborn."
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"All the more
will they be torn to pieces one day."
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"And they havent the slightest idea whats
going to happen."
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"Poor fools!"
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Hitler claims that ethnic Germans living in
the Czechoslovak province of Sudetenland
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are being oppressed.
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German newspapers are full of
fabricated stories of violence and rape.
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Reports of German troop movements
convince the Western allies,
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Britain and France, that this distant
border dispute could lead to war.
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During the annual Nazi Party Rally,
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the news is announced that negotiations
with the Czech government have broken down.
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When Hitler begins his closing speech,
the whole world is listening.
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Ein Fuhrer! Sieg, Heil!
- Heil!
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Sieg, Heil!
- Sieg, Heil!
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Diese Sudetendeutschen keine Geschenke
zu bieten. Sie haben das Recht,
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ein eigenes Leben zu beanspruchen,
genauso wie jedes andere Volk.
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I demand
the right of self-determination
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for the three and a half million
Sudeten Germans.
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They themselves have a right to decide to
which country they belong.
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I demand that the oppression of these
Germans in Czechoslovakia ceases!
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Adolf Hitler, unser Fuhrer. Sieg, Heil!
Sieg, Heil!
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Two weeks later,
Czechoslovakia's fate is sealed
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when Hitler meets British Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain.
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"The agreement
signed last night
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is symbolic of the desire
of our two peoples
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never to go to war
with one another again."
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"I believe it is peace for our time."
259
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Hitlers troops are allowed
to march into the Sudetenland
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without a shot being fired.
261
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"I have made sacrifices.
And I have shown great restraint."
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"It is the last territorial demand
I shall make."
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Sieg, Heil! Sieg, Heil! Sieg, Heil!
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June 12th, 1939.
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Adolf Hitler visits his childhood home,
the small Austrian village of Fischlham.
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Son of a local customs officer,
Hitler lays flowers on his parents grave
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and then visits his old school.
268
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"It was here
that my first ideals took shape."
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"My association with the rougher boys
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made me the very opposite
of a stay-at-home."
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"Even then, my speaking talents
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were being developed in violent
arguments with my school friends."
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"Woods and meadows
were then my battlefields.”
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Hitler is now 50 years old.
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On his birthday, a woman writes
to her local newspaper:
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"My children look upon the Führer as
he who gives the orders for everything."
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"To them, the Führer
is the creator of the world."
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Schoolchildren are even
being taught a new song.
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"Adolf Hitler is
our savior, our hero."
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"Hes the noblest being
in the whole wide world."
281
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"For Hitler we live, for Hitler we die."
282
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"Our Hitler rules a Brave New World."
283
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All over Germany,
thousands of new recruits
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swear allegiance to their Fuhrer.
285
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Hitlers adjutant,
Lieutenant Colonel Schmundt:
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"The Führer says that the solution
to our problems demands courage."
287
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"It is a question of expanding in the East."
288
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"No other openings
can be seen in Europe."
289
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"We are left with no alternative but to
attack Poland at the first opportunity."
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This time,
Britain and France warn Hitler
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if he attacks Poland
they are prepared to go to war.
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Nazi propaganda chief
Joseph Goebbels:
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"We know for sure that the British
are too weak and too cowardly
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to get in our way."
295
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"The Führer says that Britain now has
the most rotten government imaginable."
296
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"Believe me, were going to see things
develop just like the last time."
297
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"A war of nerves,
but they'll end up giving in."
298
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Hitler must remove one vital threat before
he can launch his attack on Poland.
299
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He sends a secret telegram
to the Soviet leader.
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"Herr Stalin, the tension between
Germany and Poland
301
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has become intolerable.
A crisis may arise any day."
302
00:28:31,482 --> 00:28:35,894
"It is desirable to enter into
a new relationship with each other."
303
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"I should be glad to receive
your early answer. Adolf Hitler."
304
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48 hours later, Stalin agrees not
to interfere with Hitlers plans.
305
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More than two million men
await their Fuhrers orders.
306
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"No one will ever again have the
confidence of the whole German people."
307
00:29:13,772 --> 00:29:20,088
"All depends on me. Our enemies have
leaders who are second-rate."
308
00:29:20,152 --> 00:29:24,585
"I saw them in Munich.
They are little worms."
309
00:29:26,226 --> 00:29:30,897
"Close your hearts to pity.
Act brutally."
310
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"When starting a war,
it is not right that matters but victory!"
311
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Early on the morning
of September 1st, 1939,
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the German Army invades Poland.
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The news is broadcast throughout
Germany by Adolf Hitler himself.
314
00:30:06,053 --> 00:30:08,662
Werner Harz is in Berlin.
315
00:30:09,955 --> 00:30:13,954
"The streets are empty
and there are no troops to be seen."
316
00:30:14,451 --> 00:30:19,055
"There are no cheering people, such
as we had at the start of the Great War."
317
00:30:20,104 --> 00:30:24,941
"War has broken out quietly,
as if under a cloud."
318
00:30:27,838 --> 00:30:33,466
Two days later, Britain
and France declare war on Germany.
319
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Adolf Hitler has started
a second world war.
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POLAND, SEPTEMBER 1939
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A captured airfield
on the outskirts of Warsaw.
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The Nazi invasion
is only three weeks old
323
00:30:57,834 --> 00:31:00,844
but already the Poles are facing defeat.
324
00:31:01,685 --> 00:31:06,355
A jubilant Hitler arrives
to congratulate his troops.
325
00:31:08,068 --> 00:31:13,019
"Endless columns of the Polish
Army have become prisoners of war."
326
00:31:13,605 --> 00:31:18,573
"Whatever remains must surrender
and lay down its arms,
327
00:31:18,755 --> 00:31:21,055
or it will be destroyed."
328
00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:29,220
As part of the secret pact with Stalin,
the Red Army invades Eastern Poland.
329
00:31:32,868 --> 00:31:39,546
When the Poles still refuse to surrender,
the city of Warsaw is devastated.
330
00:31:46,023 --> 00:31:49,262
Panzer Grenadier Gerhardt Meier:
331
00:31:50,802 --> 00:31:57,181
"We encountered masses of refugees in carts.
People are leaving town."
332
00:31:58,704 --> 00:32:03,537
"Our artillery has had a field day.
Everything has collapsed."
333
00:32:05,412 --> 00:32:10,931
"There are people standing at the side
of the road watching us with hatred."
334
00:32:15,725 --> 00:32:20,262
Hitlers defeat of Poland
leaves 70,000 dead.
335
00:32:23,672 --> 00:32:27,654
As a nation, Poland ceases to exist.
336
00:32:33,055 --> 00:32:35,820
Hitler hopes
that his destruction of Poland
337
00:32:35,884 --> 00:32:39,066
will serve as a warning
to Britain and France.
338
00:32:39,406 --> 00:32:41,706
He makes them an offer of peace.
339
00:32:42,141 --> 00:32:45,536
When it is dismissed, he is enraged.
340
00:32:45,661 --> 00:32:47,961
Joseph Goebbels:
341
00:32:48,743 --> 00:32:52,894
"The Führer believes
England has to get a knockout blow."
342
00:32:53,416 --> 00:32:58,483
"Englands power is now simply a myth,
not a reality any longer."
343
00:32:58,894 --> 00:33:02,154
"All the more reason
why it must be smashed."
344
00:33:02,806 --> 00:33:06,251
"Before then, there will be
no peace in the world."
345
00:33:18,390 --> 00:33:20,925
May 10th, 1940.
346
00:33:21,291 --> 00:33:24,652
Hitler launches Blitzkrieg in the West.
347
00:33:27,775 --> 00:33:31,123
He catches the Allies
by complete surprise.
348
00:33:34,473 --> 00:33:36,773
Private Hans Gotthard:
349
00:33:37,110 --> 00:33:41,470
"My darling wife, how can
I start to describe this experience?"
350
00:33:42,133 --> 00:33:45,307
"From all sides,
we can feel the march of thousands."
351
00:33:46,597 --> 00:33:51,314
"The thunder of artillery never ceases
and we just follow its echo."
352
00:33:57,429 --> 00:34:02,662
In just two weeks, the
German Army has the Allies on the run.
353
00:34:08,943 --> 00:34:14,558
At Dunkerque, more than 340,000 men
of the British and French armies
354
00:34:14,622 --> 00:34:17,511
are forced to abandon France.
355
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,962
Peter Suff is one of the first
German soldier's on the beach.
356
00:34:27,104 --> 00:34:29,768
"It is hard to describe
the panic of the English."
357
00:34:31,299 --> 00:34:34,565
"Imagine a picture of absolute chaos
on the beaches."
358
00:34:38,050 --> 00:34:43,228
"Thrown-away weapons and guns,
and lots of vehicles and tanks."
359
00:34:45,269 --> 00:34:50,039
"With the fall of Dunkerque, the whole
of the Belgian and French coast
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is in our hands."
361
00:34:57,563 --> 00:35:02,638
With the British Army beaten,
France is now alone.
362
00:35:06,664 --> 00:35:12,815
Hans Bauer, Hitlers pilot, films the
Fuhrers triumphant arrival in France.
363
00:35:14,076 --> 00:35:18,683
"Soldiers of the Western Front, you
have not disappointed me."
364
00:35:18,747 --> 00:35:23,053
"The most daring plan
in the history of war was realized
365
00:35:23,117 --> 00:35:26,372
thanks to your unequalled valor."
366
00:35:28,374 --> 00:35:34,232
"Our victory shall teach our enemies
an historic lesson."
367
00:35:37,106 --> 00:35:39,862
June 22nd, 1940.
368
00:35:40,074 --> 00:35:43,069
The French formally surrender.
369
00:35:44,314 --> 00:35:49,349
Yet for some German soldiers
the price of victory is too high.
370
00:35:49,949 --> 00:35:52,249
Private Hans Gotthard:
371
00:35:52,658 --> 00:35:56,707
"My darling wife,
I am completely shaken inside."
372
00:35:57,473 --> 00:36:00,813
"Our soldiers have become
childlike and cruel."
373
00:36:02,544 --> 00:36:04,797
"When we have won this war,
I can imagine
374
00:36:04,861 --> 00:36:08,455
all the enthusiastic speeches
at home about our leadership,
375
00:36:09,032 --> 00:36:11,332
and the spirit of the troops."
376
00:36:13,057 --> 00:36:15,357
"I have to say, it is untrue."
377
00:36:16,228 --> 00:36:19,620
"We have only won
due to our wickedness."
378
00:36:28,587 --> 00:36:31,816
6am, June 28th.
379
00:36:32,308 --> 00:36:35,529
Hitler enters
the defeated French capital.
380
00:36:36,698 --> 00:36:40,047
"Within barely six weeks
of heroic struggle,
381
00:36:40,111 --> 00:36:43,238
our soldiers have ended
the war in the West."
382
00:36:44,734 --> 00:36:51,124
"Their deeds will enter into history
as the most glorious victory of all time."
383
00:36:52,965 --> 00:36:56,637
"I order flags to be flown
throughout the Reich
384
00:36:56,701 --> 00:36:59,878
and bells to ring for seven days."
385
00:37:03,894 --> 00:37:09,442
Only Britain now stands in the
way of Hitlers total mastery of Europe.
386
00:37:11,205 --> 00:37:14,192
BERLIN, JULY 1940
387
00:37:14,256 --> 00:37:17,001
A week later,
he returns to Berlin.
388
00:37:17,664 --> 00:37:21,208
Hundreds of thousands of people
line the streets to greet him.
389
00:37:21,906 --> 00:37:24,853
He makes yet another
offer of peace to Britain.
390
00:37:25,484 --> 00:37:29,852
"Mr. Churchill
should place his trust in me."
391
00:37:29,981 --> 00:37:34,579
"The continuation of this war
will end in the complete destruction
392
00:37:34,643 --> 00:37:36,943
of one of our two nations."
393
00:37:38,087 --> 00:37:40,685
"I know it will be Britain."
394
00:37:41,035 --> 00:37:44,740
"I direct yet another appeal to reason."
395
00:37:47,808 --> 00:37:51,376
Winston Churchill refuses the offer.
396
00:37:59,032 --> 00:38:02,126
The battle for Britain has begun.
397
00:38:13,638 --> 00:38:17,552
Hitler believes his pilots must eliminate
the Royal Air Force
398
00:38:17,616 --> 00:38:20,375
before an invasion can take place.
399
00:38:23,031 --> 00:38:26,980
This time, they encounter
a more formidable enemy.
400
00:38:33,591 --> 00:38:37,199
Messerschmitt pilot Ulrich Steinhilper:
401
00:38:38,206 --> 00:38:41,645
"I can report
I've now shot down my fourth Spitfire."
402
00:38:42,304 --> 00:38:44,604
"But it cost me an excellent pilot."
403
00:38:46,756 --> 00:38:49,591
"The day before,
we had three more losses."
404
00:38:49,655 --> 00:38:51,955
"My wingman was also caught."
405
00:38:53,845 --> 00:38:56,297
"There are only 12 left from the old crew."
406
00:38:57,137 --> 00:38:59,411
"The British have a new engine
in their Spitfires
407
00:38:59,475 --> 00:39:01,775
and we can hardly keep up with it."
408
00:39:08,179 --> 00:39:13,156
A week later, Ulrich Steinhilper
is shot down over Britain.
409
00:39:20,686 --> 00:39:24,318
When Churchill orders
the bombing of German cities,
410
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:29,747
Hitler switches his attack
from the RAF to the British people.
411
00:39:30,790 --> 00:39:36,423
"If the Royal Air Force
should drop 2,000 or 4,000 bombs,
412
00:39:36,588 --> 00:39:40,531
then we will drop 200,000 or 400,000,
413
00:39:40,595 --> 00:39:44,185
even 1,000,000 bombs, in a single night."
414
00:39:44,868 --> 00:39:50,602
"If they then increase their attacks,
we will obliterate their cities."
415
00:39:58,810 --> 00:40:03,212
Hitlers pilots
blitz Britain day and night.
416
00:40:12,639 --> 00:40:17,473
Over the next nine months,
more than 40,000 people are killed.
417
00:40:18,881 --> 00:40:22,226
But the British still refuse to give in.
418
00:40:25,735 --> 00:40:30,036
The Luftwaffe is starting
to suffer heavy losses.
419
00:40:31,110 --> 00:40:33,727
Bomber Pilot Peter Stahl:
420
00:40:34,266 --> 00:40:39,558
"16th October. Our losses amount
to four bombers and their crews."
421
00:40:40,321 --> 00:40:45,734
"This is a heavy blow. And tomorrow
the official communique will state
422
00:40:45,798 --> 00:40:51,421
that our brave aircrews have inflicted
devastating damage on vital targets
423
00:40:52,157 --> 00:40:55,410
and our own losses were only minimal."
424
00:40:57,495 --> 00:41:00,356
"Our crews are reaching
the limits of their nerves."
425
00:41:03,409 --> 00:41:08,726
By May 1941,
Hitler has lost the battle for Britain.
426
00:41:09,621 --> 00:41:13,172
For the first time, he has met his match.
427
00:41:15,645 --> 00:41:20,082
"I am not a man
to abandon a fight, once begun."
428
00:41:20,278 --> 00:41:25,852
"Ive proved this in my life,
and I will prove this to Churchill."
429
00:41:33,348 --> 00:41:35,606
POLAND 1941
430
00:41:35,670 --> 00:41:42,039
In Hitlers new Eastern provinces,
victory has brought a brutal new regime.
431
00:41:45,065 --> 00:41:48,513
"The Poles
have a thin Germanic layer."
432
00:41:48,764 --> 00:41:52,015
"Below that is foul material."
433
00:41:52,175 --> 00:41:57,556
"The Jews.
The most disgusting thing imaginable."
434
00:41:59,393 --> 00:42:04,482
"If Poland had lasted any longer,
everything would be lice-ridden."
435
00:42:05,181 --> 00:42:09,369
"A clear, masterful hand
is now needed here."
436
00:42:15,468 --> 00:42:20,208
Hitler requires all Jews
to be marked with a special armband.
437
00:42:21,815 --> 00:42:25,529
They are rounded up
and forced to live in ghettoes.
438
00:42:33,018 --> 00:42:38,285
The largest ghetto is
in Polands old capital, Warsaw.
439
00:42:43,131 --> 00:42:47,544
400,000 Jews
are confined within its walls.
440
00:42:50,676 --> 00:42:54,139
17-year-old Marie Berg:
441
00:42:55,045 --> 00:42:58,402
"The ghetto is becoming
more and more crowded."
442
00:42:59,068 --> 00:43:02,387
"There is a constant stream
of new refugees."
443
00:43:04,709 --> 00:43:07,202
"People are ragged and barefoot,
444
00:43:08,856 --> 00:43:11,892
with the tragic eyes
of those who are starving."
445
00:43:15,406 --> 00:43:19,929
"Starvation alone is killing
40-50 people each day."
446
00:43:22,871 --> 00:43:25,234
"I saw a little girl crying."
447
00:43:25,738 --> 00:43:30,294
"She looked at me with her blue eyes
and said, I'm hungry."
448
00:43:32,971 --> 00:43:35,729
"Why does no one come to our aid?"
449
00:43:36,748 --> 00:43:39,709
"How long are we going
to be kept here?"
450
00:43:44,534 --> 00:43:46,898
Joseph Goebbels:
451
00:43:47,538 --> 00:43:52,820
"The Führer prophesied that if the Jews
brought about another World War,
452
00:43:53,537 --> 00:43:56,558
they would experience annihilation."
453
00:43:57,916 --> 00:44:00,216
"The World War is here."
454
00:44:00,952 --> 00:44:05,894
"The extermination of the Jews
is the necessary consequence."
455
00:44:11,248 --> 00:44:17,574
By the end of 1942,
almost 300,000 men, women and children
456
00:44:17,638 --> 00:44:23,260
have been taken from the Warsaw ghetto
to the death camp at Treblinka.
457
00:44:26,149 --> 00:44:29,914
Hitlers Final Solution has begun.
458
00:44:38,115 --> 00:44:41,036
BERCHTESGADEN 1941
459
00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:44,027
After his defeat at the hands of the RAF,
460
00:44:44,091 --> 00:44:48,062
Hitler has abandoned his plans
for an invasion of Britain.
461
00:44:49,799 --> 00:44:52,348
He prepares orders for a new war,
462
00:44:52,460 --> 00:44:55,710
this time against his ally,
the Soviet Union.
463
00:44:57,303 --> 00:44:59,799
Chief of Staff, General Halder:
464
00:45:00,748 --> 00:45:06,934
"The Fuhrer says that if we can defeat
Russia, Britains last hope will be gone."
465
00:45:07,803 --> 00:45:12,291
"He believes a campaign against
the Soviet Union will be childs play."
466
00:45:14,422 --> 00:45:19,042
Some of Hitlers generals
are beginning to doubt his leadership.
467
00:45:20,333 --> 00:45:24,245
Deputy Chief of Operations,
General Warlimont:
468
00:45:25,025 --> 00:45:29,623
"This means we are bringing on ourselves
a war on two fronts
469
00:45:30,357 --> 00:45:33,500
that up till now
we have been lucky to avoid."
470
00:45:35,801 --> 00:45:41,559
"What we need is someone to oppose
the Führer. But there is no one."
471
00:45:42,566 --> 00:45:48,703
A war to destroy Communism has been
Hitlers dream for the last 20 years.
472
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:54,115
"Communism is
an enormous danger for our future."
473
00:45:54,179 --> 00:45:58,502
"We must forget any idea
of comradeship between soldiers."
474
00:45:58,752 --> 00:46:02,405
"This will be a war of annihilation."
475
00:46:16,849 --> 00:46:21,541
Dawn, June 22nd, 1941.
476
00:46:21,929 --> 00:46:28,088
More than 3,000,000 German soldiers
cross the border into the Soviet Union.
477
00:46:28,509 --> 00:46:34,404
Hitlers treaty with Stalin is over.
Operation Barbarossa has begun.
478
00:46:37,194 --> 00:46:40,872
Karl Fuchs is a gunner
in the 7th Panzer Division:
479
00:46:42,303 --> 00:46:44,770
"War isnt half as bad as it sounds."
480
00:46:45,095 --> 00:46:47,747
"The Russians are fleeing everywhere."
481
00:46:48,084 --> 00:46:50,613
"Yesterday I shot up a Russian tank."
482
00:46:51,341 --> 00:46:54,913
"If I get another one,
I'll get my first battle stripes."
483
00:46:56,606 --> 00:47:00,397
"Were going to show those
Bolshevik pigs whos who around here."
484
00:47:01,398 --> 00:47:04,987
"I wish you could see me now,
all tanned by the sun."
485
00:47:06,172 --> 00:47:09,412
"We all believe in an early victory."
486
00:47:16,037 --> 00:47:20,666
An officer in
the 105th Police Battalion writes home:
487
00:47:22,060 --> 00:47:28,094
"Dear Hannah, the number of prisoners
we take increases day by day."
488
00:47:30,140 --> 00:47:32,759
"Our battalion has to take care of them."
489
00:47:33,910 --> 00:47:36,210
"We shoot them there and then."
490
00:47:38,522 --> 00:47:41,705
"When you know that these men
have killed German soldiers,
491
00:47:41,769 --> 00:47:44,705
it is not such a difficult job
to shoot them."
492
00:47:47,331 --> 00:47:49,631
"Please don't read this to our son."
493
00:47:59,794 --> 00:48:04,740
By the wars end more than
3,000,000 Soviet prisoners of war
494
00:48:04,861 --> 00:48:07,161
will have been killed.
495
00:48:14,150 --> 00:48:17,213
August 26th, 1941.
496
00:48:17,615 --> 00:48:23,014
Hitler visits the Eastern Front.
With the Red Army in full retreat
497
00:48:23,209 --> 00:48:26,644
and large parts of
the Soviet heartland in his grasp,
498
00:48:26,806 --> 00:48:31,498
his plans for an Eastern Empire
are beginning to take shape.
499
00:48:32,805 --> 00:48:37,221
"What India is for Britain,
Russia will be for us."
500
00:48:37,622 --> 00:48:41,119
"If only I could make
the German people understand
501
00:48:41,183 --> 00:48:44,348
what this space means for our future."
502
00:48:45,199 --> 00:48:47,515
"Lets learn from the British."
503
00:48:47,681 --> 00:48:50,703
"It is just a matter of dividing up
a giant cake,
504
00:48:51,790 --> 00:48:55,597
so that at first we rule it,
then administer it,
505
00:48:55,904 --> 00:48:58,514
and, finally, exploit it."
506
00:49:00,410 --> 00:49:04,365
But Hitler and his generals
fail to defeat the Red Army
507
00:49:04,429 --> 00:49:07,715
before the start of
the severe Russian winter.
508
00:49:09,005 --> 00:49:12,872
They are forced to call a halt
to Operation Barbarossa.
509
00:49:14,785 --> 00:49:19,976
Then, on December 7th,
Hitler receives the news that his allies,
510
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,545
the Japanese,
have bombed Pearl Harbor.
511
00:49:24,255 --> 00:49:29,023
Adolf Hitler is faced by a new enemy -
the United States.
512
00:49:29,757 --> 00:49:32,500
"No power can shake us."
513
00:49:32,699 --> 00:49:37,902
"I am Führer of a Reich
that will last for a thousand years."
514
00:49:39,858 --> 00:49:45,149
"Churchill and Roosevelt are sitting over
there in their plutocratic little world."
515
00:49:45,510 --> 00:49:49,518
"Behind the scenes,
the Jews run their show."
516
00:49:50,453 --> 00:49:53,812
"I have my people behind me."
517
00:50:05,561 --> 00:50:09,803
With winter over,
Hitler launches a new offensive.
518
00:50:10,454 --> 00:50:14,896
He is convinced that the Red Army
is on the brink of destruction.
519
00:50:16,125 --> 00:50:18,896
Lieutenant Wilhelm Brühler:
520
00:50:19,836 --> 00:50:22,394
"At last, were in our element again."
521
00:50:23,304 --> 00:50:26,817
"It is we who are taking
the initiative, Mr. Stalin."
522
00:50:27,041 --> 00:50:30,319
"And neither you nor your beasts
can stop us."
523
00:50:41,651 --> 00:50:45,011
"All about is an ear-splitting,
gigantic racket."
524
00:50:45,390 --> 00:50:49,161
"Shot after shot.
A never-ending inferno."
525
00:50:51,879 --> 00:50:54,645
"The land is bathed in a thick fog."
526
00:50:55,628 --> 00:51:00,358
"We thank God that this war
is not being fought on German soil."
527
00:51:04,922 --> 00:51:08,117
When the German Army
reaches the river Volga,
528
00:51:08,230 --> 00:51:11,599
Hitler orders the capture of Stalingrad.
529
00:51:16,347 --> 00:51:22,601
His soldiers are now over 1,000 miles from
home, and dangerously exposed.
530
00:51:25,456 --> 00:51:29,691
When his generals suggest a retreat,
Hitler confronts them.
531
00:51:31,026 --> 00:51:35,975
"Do you think that you can teach
me what the man at the front is thinking?"
532
00:51:36,039 --> 00:51:38,892
"Where were you in the First World War?"
533
00:51:38,956 --> 00:51:44,568
"I demand from you the same toughness
as from the frontline soldiers."
534
00:51:46,949 --> 00:51:50,107
Hitler orders "no retreat".
535
00:51:55,161 --> 00:51:59,281
Three months later,
the Red Army surrounds and traps
536
00:51:59,345 --> 00:52:03,152
a quarter of a million German soldiers
in Stalingrad.
537
00:52:07,567 --> 00:52:10,505
Auf Posten in einsamer Nacht
538
00:52:10,569 --> 00:52:13,448
Da steht ein Soldat und hält Wacht
539
00:52:13,512 --> 00:52:16,657
Träumt von Hanne und dem Glück...
540
00:52:16,935 --> 00:52:20,983
On the home front, the people of
Germany are preparing for Christmas.
541
00:52:24,189 --> 00:52:27,324
Some of the families of soldiers
trapped in Stalingrad
542
00:52:27,388 --> 00:52:29,688
have letters brought out by air.
543
00:52:32,439 --> 00:52:34,739
Private Werner Bunnemann:
544
00:52:35,306 --> 00:52:39,376
"My dear son,
I hope that this is the last Christmas
545
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:44,544
that you celebrate without me.
The Russians have dealt us a nasty blow."
546
00:52:44,939 --> 00:52:47,889
"It is now minus 30 degrees here."
547
00:52:49,605 --> 00:52:52,678
"How nice it must be, in warm rooms."
548
00:52:53,664 --> 00:52:56,042
"Next year, I will hopefully
be back with you."
549
00:52:56,553 --> 00:52:58,853
"Love from your father, Werner."
550
00:53:03,063 --> 00:53:09,793
Five weeks later, 90,000 surviving
German soldiers in Stalingrad surrender.
551
00:53:12,036 --> 00:53:15,438
80,000 will die in Soviet captivity.
552
00:53:18,474 --> 00:53:21,477
Private Werner Bunnemann
is one of them.
553
00:53:32,460 --> 00:53:35,925
With Hitlers war claiming
more and more German lives,
554
00:53:35,989 --> 00:53:40,729
even old men and boys are now
called up to fight for the Fatherland.
555
00:53:41,645 --> 00:53:45,779
The diary of 15-year-old
Wolfgang Findeisen:
556
00:53:46,414 --> 00:53:49,963
"We have replaced the men,
so that they can go to the Front."
557
00:53:50,246 --> 00:53:52,946
"Soldiers have manned these guns
until now."
558
00:53:53,636 --> 00:53:58,197
"Its very exciting.
I like this much more than school."
559
00:54:00,290 --> 00:54:03,366
"We are now on duty 24 hours a day."
560
00:54:05,243 --> 00:54:08,533
"We are boys no longer -
now we are men."
561
00:54:19,466 --> 00:54:22,867
Hitlers homeland
is under attack from the air.
562
00:54:23,442 --> 00:54:27,561
The Allies have begun
fire-bombing Germanys cities.
563
00:54:29,937 --> 00:54:35,383
On July 27th,
700 British bombers target Hamburg.
564
00:54:40,326 --> 00:54:42,988
HAMBURG, JULY 1943
565
00:54:43,052 --> 00:54:48,256
The firestorm is filmed by
Hamburg fireman Hans Runswig.
566
00:54:48,918 --> 00:54:51,971
"The fire is like
a thunderstorm without rain."
567
00:54:52,846 --> 00:54:58,594
"The heat is unbearable.
I see people lying in the street."
568
00:54:59,472 --> 00:55:04,628
"I try to help them
but they are already dead."
569
00:55:09,149 --> 00:55:11,953
"Hamburgs streets
are littered with bodies,
570
00:55:12,408 --> 00:55:15,947
some of them so burnt
that they are only skeletons."
571
00:55:16,861 --> 00:55:21,420
"Some are reduced
to small heaps of ash."
572
00:55:23,673 --> 00:55:28,080
In Hamburg alone,
more than 40,000 people are killed.
573
00:55:32,367 --> 00:55:37,916
Hitlers advisors want him to tour the ruins
and raise the morale of his people.
574
00:55:38,711 --> 00:55:41,928
Minister of Supplies, Albert Speer:
575
00:55:42,839 --> 00:55:45,409
"I tried a few times to persuade Hitler."
576
00:55:46,523 --> 00:55:49,830
"Goebbels had tried to put over
the same idea, but in vain,
577
00:55:50,009 --> 00:55:53,227
and referred enviously
to the conduct of Churchill."
578
00:55:54,611 --> 00:55:59,313
"When I think of the propaganda value
I could make of such a visit," he'd say.
579
00:56:00,812 --> 00:56:06,791
Hitler remains hidden away in his
command bunker on the Eastern Front.
580
00:56:07,653 --> 00:56:13,028
"If the German people are no longer
so strong and ready for sacrifice,
581
00:56:13,161 --> 00:56:16,928
that they will not stake
their own blood on their existence,
582
00:56:17,391 --> 00:56:23,883
they deserve to pass away and be
annihilated by another stronger power."
583
00:56:24,959 --> 00:56:29,835
"If that is the case,
I would not shed a tear for them."
584
00:56:38,833 --> 00:56:42,462
RASTENBURG, 1943
585
00:56:42,526 --> 00:56:47,863
Hidden in the forests of Eastern
Germany is Hitlers secret headquarters.
586
00:56:49,651 --> 00:56:56,221
The Wolfs Lair is a huge complex of
camouflage buildings and underground bunkers.
587
00:56:59,236 --> 00:57:02,668
From here, Hitler directs his war.
588
00:57:05,374 --> 00:57:07,654
His health is now failing.
589
00:57:07,718 --> 00:57:12,564
He has a heart condition and
the early signs of Parkinsons disease.
590
00:57:13,735 --> 00:57:16,093
General Heinz Guderian:
591
00:57:17,414 --> 00:57:21,842
"Since I last saw Hitler,
he has aged greatly."
592
00:57:23,003 --> 00:57:27,225
"His back was bent,
his hand trembled."
593
00:57:28,221 --> 00:57:31,892
"His eyes lacked their former luster."
594
00:57:33,854 --> 00:57:38,679
"He easily lost his temper
and was then unpredictable
595
00:57:38,743 --> 00:57:41,743
in what he said and did."
596
00:57:47,822 --> 00:57:53,435
Hitlers ally, the Fascist dictator
of Romania, Marshal Antonescu,
597
00:57:53,674 --> 00:57:56,986
is here to discuss
the worsening war situation.
598
00:58:02,689 --> 00:58:06,341
Hitlers Adjutant, Nicolaus von Below:
599
00:58:07,375 --> 00:58:10,497
"I had the impression
that Hitler now believed
600
00:58:10,561 --> 00:58:15,482
that the war against both the Russians
and the Allies, on two fronts,
601
00:58:16,297 --> 00:58:18,597
could no longer be won."
602
00:58:35,087 --> 00:58:39,520
NORMANDY, 1944
Dawn, June 6th.
603
00:58:40,583 --> 00:58:44,715
The Allies begin an invasion
of Nazi-controlled France.
604
00:58:45,782 --> 00:58:48,082
D-day.
605
00:58:56,992 --> 00:59:00,670
When Hitler is informed, he is delighted.
606
00:59:02,387 --> 00:59:05,308
"The news could not be
any better."
607
00:59:05,875 --> 00:59:09,887
"As long as they were in Britain,
we could not get at them."
608
00:59:11,353 --> 00:59:14,981
"Now we have them
where we can destroy them."
609
00:59:19,329 --> 00:59:21,616
But, by the end
of the first day,
610
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:27,128
the Allies have overwhelmed the German
soldiers and fought their way inland.
611
00:59:32,290 --> 00:59:34,628
Private Robert Vogt:
612
00:59:35,259 --> 00:59:40,076
"We only had infantry weapons.
We didn't even have a bazooka."
613
00:59:41,562 --> 00:59:43,862
"And we were even short of ammunition."
614
00:59:44,852 --> 00:59:48,829
"The Americans were right -
they dropped leaflets in German
615
00:59:48,893 --> 00:59:54,104
which read, "Attacked from the front,
cut off from behind,
616
00:59:55,184 --> 00:59:57,484
written off by Hitler"."
617
01:00:02,878 --> 01:00:05,177
In Germany,
the news is announced
618
01:00:05,241 --> 01:00:09,962
that a bomb has exploded in
Hitlers Wolfs Lair headquarters.
619
01:00:12,613 --> 01:00:17,037
A group of Army officers has been secretly
plotting his downfall.
620
01:00:17,653 --> 01:00:19,953
Hitler has a lucky escape.
621
01:00:21,046 --> 01:00:27,783
"Now I have proof.
The entire General Staff is contaminated!"
622
01:00:28,326 --> 01:00:33,784
"Now I have the swine who have been
sabotaging my work for years!"
623
01:00:35,058 --> 01:00:39,050
"Now I know why my great plans failed."
624
01:00:40,186 --> 01:00:42,486
"It was treason."
625
01:00:45,623 --> 01:00:48,987
Hitler orders
the arrest of 5,000 people.
626
01:00:52,198 --> 01:00:54,498
200 are executed.
627
01:00:59,563 --> 01:01:02,835
With his Empire under attack
from all sides,
628
01:01:03,031 --> 01:01:06,521
Hitler puts his faith in a new weapon.
629
01:01:15,866 --> 01:01:20,269
For more than 12 years,
at a secret location in Northern Germany,
630
01:01:20,333 --> 01:01:26,210
a team of Nazi scientists have been testing
a long-range ballistic missile.
631
01:01:36,216 --> 01:01:41,497
They make a special color film
of their first successful launch.
632
01:01:43,889 --> 01:01:47,928
Head of the research team, Major-General
Walter Dornberger,
633
01:01:48,048 --> 01:01:50,348
shows it to Hitler.
634
01:01:50,523 --> 01:01:54,287
"A strange, fanatical light
flared in Hitlers eyes."
635
01:01:55,108 --> 01:01:58,920
"What I want is annihilation!" he raged.
636
01:01:59,939 --> 01:02:02,705
"I realized that
he expected this new weapon
637
01:02:02,769 --> 01:02:05,374
to produce a turning point in the war."
638
01:02:07,063 --> 01:02:10,360
"Our missile has been renamed the V-2."
639
01:02:11,432 --> 01:02:13,765
"Vengeance Weapon No.2."
640
01:02:19,258 --> 01:02:26,220
1,300 V-2 rockets are fired
on London, killing almost 3,000 people.
641
01:02:27,674 --> 01:02:31,062
Not the annihilation
Hitler has demanded.
642
01:02:40,089 --> 01:02:43,939
The Allies are closing in
on the Fatherland itself.
643
01:02:44,498 --> 01:02:48,479
Hitler is still telling his people
that the war can be won.
644
01:02:51,215 --> 01:02:54,305
But, in private, he is a changed man.
645
01:02:55,730 --> 01:03:01,061
"I know the war is lost.
The enemys superiority is too great."
646
01:03:01,997 --> 01:03:06,276
"I have been betrayed.
I ought to put a bullet in my head."
647
01:03:07,105 --> 01:03:10,594
"But we will not capitulate, ever!"
648
01:03:11,016 --> 01:03:16,183
"We may go down
but we will take the world with us."
649
01:03:24,189 --> 01:03:27,110
April 11th, 1945.
650
01:03:27,849 --> 01:03:30,636
The Allies arrive at Buchenwald.
651
01:03:33,610 --> 01:03:37,739
It is one of over 1,000
of Hitlers concentration camps.
652
01:03:40,418 --> 01:03:43,995
Udo Dietmar is one of the few survivors.
653
01:03:45,919 --> 01:03:51,261
"The conditions in Buchenwald
had reached the height of horror."
654
01:03:52,739 --> 01:03:55,039
"People were starving."
655
01:03:59,501 --> 01:04:05,617
"A few of those who could still move
broke down and died."
656
01:04:07,146 --> 01:04:09,994
"There were mountains of corpses."
657
01:04:10,865 --> 01:04:16,593
"The crematorium and the courtyard, they
are overcrowded with skeletons."
658
01:04:18,413 --> 01:04:21,388
"I can still hear my dead friends."
659
01:04:22,166 --> 01:04:29,097
"If you should survive, dont forget
to tell the world of our destiny."
660
01:04:30,893 --> 01:04:33,812
"I will never forget."
661
01:04:40,907 --> 01:04:44,272
The Americans round up people
from the nearby town
662
01:04:44,671 --> 01:04:49,447
and force them to witness the horrors that
have been committed in their name.
663
01:04:50,493 --> 01:04:53,462
18-year-old Renate Simone:
664
01:04:54,698 --> 01:04:57,616
"I could hardly believe what I was seeing."
665
01:04:58,555 --> 01:05:02,366
"They had piled up
the corpses of people who had died."
666
01:05:06,008 --> 01:05:08,762
"The smell was just too much."
667
01:05:11,176 --> 01:05:13,476
"I couldnt take it anymore."
668
01:05:16,043 --> 01:05:21,369
"But the GI shouted at me,
"You, Hitler Fraulein!
669
01:05:22,122 --> 01:05:24,422
Here, look! Look!"."
670
01:05:29,085 --> 01:05:32,905
The Nazis have murdered
six million Jews.
671
01:05:42,268 --> 01:05:44,647
January 1945.
672
01:05:44,912 --> 01:05:49,702
The Red Army has reached
the Oder river, just 50 miles from Berlin.
673
01:05:50,796 --> 01:05:53,265
From his bunker
beneath the center of the city,
674
01:05:53,329 --> 01:05:57,866
Hitler orders every able-bodied male
to defend Berlin.
675
01:06:01,864 --> 01:06:05,788
"Every soldier
must fulfill his duty."
676
01:06:05,874 --> 01:06:08,751
"Whoever does not is a traitor."
677
01:06:09,656 --> 01:06:14,285
"Anyone who gives you an order
to retreat must be arrested
678
01:06:14,353 --> 01:06:16,891
and executed immediately."
679
01:06:21,683 --> 01:06:26,305
Outnumbered more than five to one,
the German cause is hopeless.
680
01:06:27,505 --> 01:06:31,613
On April 21st, the Russians enter Berlin.
681
01:06:40,540 --> 01:06:44,790
With more than 20 million Soviets already
killed in the war,
682
01:06:45,141 --> 01:06:49,789
the Red Army allows
its soldiers to celebrate.
683
01:06:51,464 --> 01:06:55,183
24-year-old Hildegard Christoph:
684
01:06:56,714 --> 01:07:02,302
"The Russians came.
We werent allowed to lock our doors."
685
01:07:03,573 --> 01:07:08,559
"Holding machine guns,
they herded us into an empty house."
686
01:07:09,826 --> 01:07:13,151
"Other young women
had also been dragged in."
687
01:07:15,773 --> 01:07:21,601
"The beasts pounced on us,
again and again, the entire night."
688
01:07:22,114 --> 01:07:24,414
"The whole mob of them."
689
01:07:27,214 --> 01:07:33,213
"At dawn, they disappeared.
We crept back to our family."
690
01:07:34,498 --> 01:07:37,115
"Many committed suicide."
691
01:07:44,503 --> 01:07:48,472
As many as
two million German women are raped.
692
01:07:54,816 --> 01:07:57,268
In the ruins of the Nazi Chancellery,
693
01:07:57,607 --> 01:08:00,470
Hitlers underground bunker
is discovered.
694
01:08:03,198 --> 01:08:05,498
It is deserted.
695
01:08:06,203 --> 01:08:09,767
After finally marrying
his mistress, Eva Braun,
696
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:12,882
Adolf Hitler has committed suicide.
697
01:08:14,495 --> 01:08:20,625
"In order to escape the disgrace of
surrender, my wife and I choose death."
698
01:08:23,503 --> 01:08:26,871
"It is our wish to be burnt immediately."
699
01:08:30,718 --> 01:08:33,917
All that is found
are a few charred bones.
700
01:08:37,306 --> 01:08:40,329
Hitlers war is finally over.
701
01:08:45,361 --> 01:08:49,576
17-year-old schoolgirl, Edelgard Seidel:
702
01:08:50,641 --> 01:08:55,840
"We believed in victory,
and now this is the end."
703
01:08:56,352 --> 01:09:00,309
"Hitler is responsible
for destroying our nation."
704
01:09:00,791 --> 01:09:04,492
"We will always have to live
under this shame."
705
01:09:09,834 --> 01:09:13,597
Across Europe,
50 million people are dead.
706
01:09:18,785 --> 01:09:23,224
Before killing himself,
Hitler wrote this last testament.
707
01:09:24,695 --> 01:09:31,408
"It is untrue that I or anyone else in
Germany wanted war."
708
01:09:31,472 --> 01:09:34,951
"It was provoked solely by the Jews."
709
01:09:37,070 --> 01:09:43,237
"I die with a joyful heart, in the
knowledge of our infinite achievements,
710
01:09:43,361 --> 01:09:49,371
and of a contribution unique in
the history that bears my name."
711
01:10:42,695 --> 01:10:47,065
HITLER'S LEGACY
712
01:10:48,619 --> 01:10:52,165
IN HIS "NERO COMMAND"
OF MARCH 1945 HITLER ORDERED
713
01:10:52,229 --> 01:10:57,144
THAT EVERYTHING REQUIRED FOR THE
MAINTENANCE OF LIFE BE DEMOLISHED.
714
01:10:57,208 --> 01:11:01,644
SO THAT NOTHING BUT A "DESERT,
VOID OF CIVILISATION"
715
01:11:01,708 --> 01:11:04,979
WOULD FALL INTO THE ENEMY HANDS.
716
01:11:14,990 --> 01:11:21,965
MASSIVE ALLIED AIR STRIKES
CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVASTATION.
717
01:13:09,508 --> 01:13:16,452
AS THE ALLIES ADVANCED,
THE DEFEATED GERMAN SOLIDERS WERE ROUNDED UP
718
01:13:16,516 --> 01:13:20,955
AND HELD IN MAKESHIFT PRISON CAMPS.
719
01:14:46,663 --> 01:14:52,435
ALL ACROSS GERMANY,
ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR WERE RELEASED
720
01:14:52,499 --> 01:14:55,991
AND BEGAN THEIR JOURNEY HOME.
721
01:15:35,757 --> 01:15:43,056
IN THE TOWNS AND CITIES, GERMAN PEOPLE
AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF THE ALLIED FORCES.
722
01:17:59,206 --> 01:18:04,124
AFTER SIX YEARS OF WAR,
THERE WERE SO FEW GERMAN MEN,
723
01:18:04,188 --> 01:18:09,979
IT WAS LEFT TO THE WOMEN TO
BEGIN CLEARING THE WRECKAGE.
724
01:19:42,815 --> 01:19:49,772
HITLER'S MOUNTAIN HIDEAWAY,
THE BERGHOF, WAS LEFT IN RUINS.
725
01:19:53,772 --> 01:20:09,772
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