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At the heart of the Third Reich's
reign of terror was Adolf Hitler.

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But he did not act alone.

Surrounding him was
a loyal cadre of ruthless

enforcers who turned his
twisted vision into reality.

Rudolf Hess, the devoted deputy.

Hermann Goering, the Luftwaffe's
commander and looter of Europe.

Heinrich Himmler, the cold
mastermind of the SS and the Holocaust.

Josef Goebbels, the propaganda
genius who fuelled a nation's hate.

Reinhard Heydrich, the brutal
organiser of mass murder.

Martin Bormann, the shadowy
manipulator behind Hitler's throne.

Together they built a regime
of unprecedented brutality,

leaving a legacy of
destruction that haunts history.

This is their story.

Hitler returns to a Munich
that is suffering post-war.

He believes Germany only
surrendered because of the

betrayal by left-wing
Jewish politicians, which only

fuels his hatred for the religion.

When Germany finally
capitulates, Hitler is like millions

of other servicemen and
indeed civilians who regard

the German army as being
what's called stabbed in the back.

And this becomes this
huge myth that basically

it's the people in Berlin
who are responsible

for the defeat and not really the Allies.

And the people in Berlin are members of

the left, they are Jews, they are all

these sort of quote-unquote
evil people that

Hitler and his fellow soldiers regard
as having betrayed the likes of him.

This idea that the German army would have

been victorious on the
battlefield and that this

peace treaty was signed in a way that

wasn't to Germany's
benefit and of course that

peace treaty was very punitive.

So many articles in it
making restrictions on

many things on the size of the German

army, which had to be limited
to 100,000, to the standing army,

took away land that was German,
it banned any union between

Austria and Germany
and of course Hitler had

a lot to say about that, among
many, many other harsh provisions.

Fuelled with anger and
contained rage, Hitler discovers

the German Workers'
Party, the underdog party with

only a few hundred supporters.

He is engulfed in their
extreme political views

and wants to be
involved in their manifesto.

After the war, Hitler's
actually working for a

small army intelligence
unit and he's actually tasked

with spying on extremist
small political parties in Munich.

One day Hitler, kind
of incognito, goes along

to this small party meeting and it's the

German Socialist Workers'
Party and he's meant to

be spying on them, but actually he looks

at their message and
what they're saying about

the way the world is and how Germany

should be and how they've been stabbed in

the back by their masters in Berlin and

how communism is on the rise and how

the Allies have utterly
brought Germany to her

knees with the Versailles
Treaty and those huge

reparations and Hitler
looks at the message being

promulgated by this party and goes,
you know what, I want a part of that.

Hitler joined the DAP, the
German Workers' Party,

in 1919 and it was a very small

and unremarkable party
on the radical right of

German politics and
actually one of dozens of

similar parties and quite
unremarkable until Hitler joined

and really made a difference.

The party soon notices
Hitler's passion when speaking

and ranting about his views and
appoint him as their chief of propaganda.

He shortly renames
the party to the National

Socialism German Workers' Party,
what we now know as the Nazi Party.

Hitler's initial job for the Nazi Party is

really in charge of their
propaganda and that

job will later be done famously by Joseph

Goebbels, but Hitler is
very much aware, and

this is where he's very advanced and very

sophisticated for his time,
that actually what's key

is how you get your message out there.

Some of the important ways in which he

helped the party to develop was through the

initiation of a newspaper,
so a party newspaper

called the Volkischer
Beobachter, the People's Observer.

And also what Hitler
is absolutely amazing at

is speech making and to begin to understand

Hitler, you've really got
to understand that he

was the most amazing demagogue.

He got on that stage, this little man,

and he would sort of grow in stature.

He would absolutely take over the
entire beer hall with his presence.

And he would shout and he would be
quiet and he would almost enter into a

kind of trance.

And the audiences would
be mesmerised by this.

And indeed they'd be mesmerised by it for

decades and this is key to how Hitler

gets into power because when he's
on the stage he becomes another figure.

This country, its new
mission, it corresponds to

the commandment that
one of the German settlers

from all the valleys of the old Reich,

the oldest Ostbar of
the German people, shall

from now on be the youngest bulwark of

the German nation and
thus the German Reich.

Sitting in the crowd at one of the

meetings was first Nazi
disciple, Rudolf Hess.

Young and impressionable, Hess
was inspired by Hitler's tyrannical rants.

His admiration and respect
for Hitler reached great

volumes as he instantly
dedicated himself to the Nazi party.

Rudolf Hess was a very troubled man
in many ways and you only have to look

at his somewhat uneven expressions
whenever he's captured on film.

He's got these very thick brows and he

looks like he's puzzling
about the world in general.

He was a very sort of troubled man
and he was devoted to Hitler from the

very early days.

Hitler's aim is to gain power by force,

not election, and
quickly enlists one of his

new favourite techniques, violence.

He forms a military organisation made up of

discontented ex-soldiers who display
strong patriotism, much like himself.

The SA, who become known as the
Storm Troopers, or the Brown Shirts.

They were prepared
to commit violent acts of

force and terror to scare
people into supporting

their party, no matter
the cost of their actions.

His increase in popularity is noticed
by World War I hero, Hermann Goering.

He sees the Nazi party as leverage to

gain more popularity and power for himself.

After Germany surrendered
to the Allies at the

end of World War I,
Goering became increasingly

angered with his government's
decision, believing the war

was not lost because of the Germans, but

because of cowardly left-wing
politicians, the stab -in-the-back theory.

Upon his return to Germany, he hears about

the Nazi party and
their speaker, Hitler, and

believes due to his
already heroic reputation, he

can grow the party and
become a leader within it himself.

He meets Hitler in
1921 and joins the party.

Although he doesn't agree with all of the

party's extremist policies,
he thinks he can become

powerful as a face for the party, therefore

dedicates his time to
campaigning with them.

On 8th November 1923, Hitler and his Storm

Troopers burst into a beer hall where the

state prime minister is
holding a meeting and

attempt to seize
power, with Hitler firing a

single gunshot into the ceiling,
declaring a national revolution.

They then march into
Munich, declaring that they

will seize power, but the state police have

been alerted and they open fire.

They were very quickly fired upon by the

police forces and the event
was a fiasco in the end.

I think that maybe the most important thing

that came out of this subsequently was that

Hitler realised that he would have to find

a way to take his power in Germany
in a legal way rather than by force.

Goering attends the putsch
alongside the party and

gets shot in the crossfire.

He finds himself badly
wounded and escapes to

Austria with his wife where
he undergoes treatment

for his injuries, becoming
addicted to morphine in the process.

When he's recuperating
from his wounds, he's given

morphine, heroin effectively, and
it's that that he becomes addicted to.

And he develops his
morphine addiction all the

way through to probably his
dying days at Nuremberg in 1946.

14 Nazis are killed.

Hitler is wounded but manages to escape.

However, three days
later, he is arrested and

charged with treason, being
sentenced to five years in prison.

This looks like the end
for the underdog extremist.

Whilst serving his
sentence, Hitler grasps at the

opportunity to turn his
extremist thoughts into literature.

During his time of
reflection behind bars, Hitler

writes Mein Kampf, a book that outlines his

ideas for a Nazi political regime.

With fellow Nazi Rudolf
Hess taking dictation, the

book becomes a manifesto
for Nazi world order.

So what we've got in Mein Kampf is

anti-Semitism, very virulent
anti-Semitism, really strong

language, and this is repeated
time and again throughout that book.

The other key enemy, of course,
was Communism or Bolshevism.

So in Mein Kampf as well, we have

many arguments and
this kind of diatribe against

this enemy of Bolshevism or Communism.

It gives you a lot of insight
into Hitler's state of mind.

It shows you that Hitler's thinking
was kind of all over the place.

He would take a theory from there, a

theory from there, cobble it together
and two and two would make six.

You know, it really was
intellectually a real mess.

The other thing that he did in Mein

Kampf was really to
create this, again, this

sort of myth or this idea of an Aryan
race in Germany, the master race or

the Herrenvolk, and
the idea that that German

race should be unpolluted or
untainted by inferior or foreign blood.

Basically, everybody who
isn't a purebred, decent German

son-of-the-soil or honest factory worker

is basically out to get him
and the German people.

In Hitler's deranged
universe, Jews are at the

bottom of the hierarchy,
referring to them as

a cancer that is eating away at Germany,

holding it back from greatness.

He wants to eliminate them
from the face of the earth.

He focuses on this idea of greatness and

how Germany should break
its agreements to reform

itself to become a superior country.

He wants to break the Treaty of Versailles.

They should be allowed
to reclaim their territory

that was lost after World War I and

rebuild the army to become
the most powerful in Europe.

He explains his ideas
behind Lebensraum, or living

space, deciphering that
Germany has the right to

reclaim land from racially
inferior people and countries.

In 1925, after Hitler's
early release from prison,

he re-establishes the Nazi Party,
using Mein Kampf as his manifesto.

He enforces this idea that he has been

chosen to save Germany, something
he intends to do by any means necessary.

After Hitler was released
from Landsberg prison in

1925, he set about
refounding the Nazi Party,

which had fallen into
disarray, and really not

just refounding it, but
really trying to bring

it back to strength and indeed
from strength to strength.

So between 1925 and 1928, he was very

much concerned to try to organise the Party

as best as possible, put a lot of

effort and energy into
canvassing, trying to get

new membership and
indeed trying to get new voters.

This shocking manifesto
resonated well with one individual

extremist who has not yet joined the Party.

Heinrich Himmler has
been struggling with his own

anger and fury towards
the current state of Germany.

His approach towards others
was very aggressive and

destructive, being somewhat of a
loner and seen as a weak individual.

Little did people know he would go on
to become one of the most brutal Nazi

leaders in history.

Himmler joins the Nazi
Party shortly after Hitler's

release from prison and rises
steadily in the Party hierarchy.

Himmler, like Hitler,
looked like the very inverse

of the kind of Aryan, blonde,
six-foot -five tall superhuman.

He was a very short man, he had a
weak jawline, very ugly, he had some

pebbled glasses, former chicken farmer.

You know, he looked
very, very unimpressive.

Wanting to gain mass
support from the German

people, Hitler wants to
reform the appearance of

the Nazi Party, focusing on
propaganda rather than violence.

The establishment of a
new propaganda system is

created by another rising figure
within the Party, Josef Goebbels.

An aspiring writer with an
inferiority complex, Josef

Goebbels becomes Hitler's
most valued person when it

comes to winning over the German public.

Goebbels proves his talent
producing mass propaganda for

the Nazi Party, gaining them
more and more public support.

Josef Goebbels joined
the Nazi Party quite early

on, as did Hitler, and he became very

much involved in those
early years with helping

the Party to develop,
and in particular with

these techniques of propaganda
and really getting these

messages across to the German nation.

So he was very astute, he was very
shrewd, in terms of trying to gain power

and trying to raise the profile of
the Nazi Party in its early years.

Part of the way that he and Hitler did
this was to use very short messages,

short slogans, but to
keep repeating them so

that everybody knew what
the Nazi Party was about.

Hitler starts to build up his power by

trying to employ and find the right people

who are going to listen to the
beat of his drum and follow it.

And so there's a lot of very patient

politicking and a lot of
persuasion, a lot of speech-making.

It's a very, very difficult rise to power.

But Hitler knows that it
can't take place through force.

It has to take place from the
ballot box and not the bullet.

Hitler's charisma excites
the German people.

His enthusiasm and dedication
to Germany are exactly

what the public are looking for.

He encourages them to believe he
can drive the country to greatness.

He is winning the support of the nation.

Then, in 1929, a
revolutionary event that will

propel Hitler's popularity off
the scale, practically making

him unstoppable.

The Wall Street Crash.

The Wall Street Crash
leading to the Great Depression.

America suffers and drags
Germany down with them.

American banks withdraw their loans,
leaving the German economy in turmoil.

This put into place a
really terrible situation

for Germany, economically,
socially and politically, because it

brought about such a crisis and none of

the governments between
1929 and the time when

Hitler came into power in 1933 seemed to

be able to deal with the economic crisis.

And so it was political
and economic turmoil.

Six million people become unemployed.

Families living in poverty.

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party are seeing

a rise in popularity, with
desperate German people

being more impressionable than ever.

Extremist politics thrives
on chaos, poverty, destitution

and want.

And what you see as a result of the
Wall Street Crash and the slump in

the late 20s, early 30s, are all those

things in this hideous
cocktail that an extremist

like Hitler, and indeed
don't forget that communists

are also trying to get into power at

the same time, and they're
seeing this as an opportunity too.

So let's not think that Hitler is unique,

but obviously he is
saying, I can solve this.

Hitler's promises for Germany and
its people see a surge in the polls.

By September 1930, the Nazi Party is the

second largest political party in Germany.

By 1933, the Nazis become the largest party

in Parliament and Hitler is
offered the chancellorship

of a coalition government.

With a God complex drilled into his mind,

Hitler sees himself as the
only leader of Germany.

He uses democracy to
build popularity, but has

every intention of destroying it.

With President Hindenburg
growing increasingly ill, he persuades

Parliament to give him
emergency powers, the Enabling

Act, and suspend the Constitution.

On the 30th of January 1933, Hitler was

appointed Chancellor of
Germany, but of a coalition

government, so there
were just three Nazi posts

in that coalition government.

It's very tempting to
think that when Hitler

comes to power in early 1933, that
his grip on power is absolutely total.

In fact, he has a very
uneven, shaky start.

He's still quite worried
about public opinion.

So what he does is a mixture of passing
various laws that give him more and

more power, like the
Enabling Act, that actually

makes him immensely powerful.

But also, he takes
advantage of various events,

like the Reichstag fire,
in which the German

Parliament building burns down.

Now, it's highly likely,
but never proven, whether

the Nazis actually
burned it down themselves.

But certainly, in a
sense, it doesn't matter.

What happens is that Hitler and the Nazis

took advantage of the
Reichstag burning down to

show that there was a
communist plot against

what the Nazis described as still
being a democratic government.

And it enabled them to seize more
power, you know, by emergency decree.

Very quickly, he turned
Germany into a one -party state.

So, first of all, he made sure to

eliminate the influence and
power of the German political left.

So the Socialist Party and the
Communist Party, for a start, were banned.

But over a short amount of time as
well, the Nazi Party was the only legal

party too.

Eventually, in January
1933, he becomes Chancellor.

Now, don't forget, Chancellor
in Germany, and this

still remains today, is not,
at the time, the head of state.

The head of state is the President.

So it's the Chancellor, though,
who has the real executive power.

The German people
have full support for Hitler,

but are clueless to the horrors that are

to follow during his reign of terror.

Hitler begins by
establishing his ideas of an

Aryan race, the pure
master race of Germans,

who are to follow strict
reproducing laws, sterilising

people who have hereditary
traits he deems unacceptable

that don't match the master race principle.

You have a lot of laws being passed,

unsurprisingly, you know,
to give the Nazis more power.

But also you've got a rise in
the apparatus of state terror.

You have a thing called the
Gestapo, now completely notorious.

But that stands for secret state police.

This is a new police force.

There's already a creeper,
the criminal police, but

this is a new type of policeman.

It's a policeman who is in plain clothes,

it's a policeman who
recruits informers, you know,

on every block, on every street, in every

block of flats, in order for the
people to effectively police themselves.

And, of course, this becomes
an incredibly important

part of the Nazi apparatus.

In May 1933, Goebbels
arranges the burning of

all un-German books at the Opera House

in Berlin, an indication that the
Nazis are taking control of everything.

He gets control of the
media entirely, controlling

all aspects of the press.

Radio, theatres, films and television,
literature, music and the fine arts.

Nazism is everywhere.

Joseph Goebbels is the
Nazi propaganda minister.

He is married to a very striking
blonde woman called Magda.

Now, Magda has been married before to a

very wealthy German
industrialist, but she eventually gets

divorced and marries Joseph Goebbels,
who was a real Casanova, actually.

Even though he was short, club-footed and

not an attractive man, he
had a lot of sexual conquests.

Magda was very good for the Nazi party,

and when Goebbels
introduced her to Hitler, Hitler

got on very well with her and could

see the advantages and
encouraged them to get married.

Adolf Hitler absolutely adored
Magda Goebbels and thought

that she was the perfect Nazi woman.

She was blonde and she was vivacious and

she was absolutely devoted to Hitler.

She absolutely adored him.

Essentially, they were
in love with each other.

She and Goebbels get married as
a way of both of them to get close to

Hitler.

So Hitler goes and visits
the Goebbels couple,

uninvited, and spends
entire evenings with them until

the small hours, chatting away.

Magda loves that attention,
Hitler loves that attention

from Magda, and Goebbels
is, of course, jealous,

but he also loves the fact that
he's got the Fuhrer in his living room.

So he's right at the heart of power.

Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda are seen

as the perfect German family to set
an example for the German people.

She was very well-bred and very refined

and elegant, always
dressing very much in very

beautiful, fashionable clothes.

And this kind of image that she was
projecting then was of the image of the

mother of the Reich, because
she and Josef had six children.

She had been to a finishing school.

Her father was from quite a high echelon

of society, and so she
knew about etiquette,

she knew about table manners, she knew how

to dress, she knew about society.

Whilst the Nazis were this kind of upstart

organisation, and we've seen that a lot of

the brownshirt activities
was about violence and the

street and all of those kinds of things,

then the association
that Magda gave was this

kind of social
acceptability and the idea of

the Nazis getting an
entree into upper middle

class or even aristocratic society.

Hitler plans to eliminate all
other opposition, including

those on his own side.

He no longer wants to be seen as
a violent party and plans to wipe out

his own paramilitary organisation, the SA.

Heinrich Himmler has
established his own force of

elite bodyguards for Hitler, the SS.

They are tasked with
wiping out the SA entirely.

Heinrich Himmler is one of the most pivotal

figures in the Third Reich and he's most

famous for being the head of the SS.

Now, that is the Nazi elite armed force.

It's not part of the army.

It's originally called the
Schutzstaffel, the Protection Squad,

that's just there to protect Hitler.

And what Himmler does
from, you know, almost

from the beginning is to build the SS

up into a state within a state because

by the height of Nazi power, Himmler is

in charge of an organisation that has a

kind of civil side to it, an administrative

side to it, which is huge and has
fingers in so many pies, and also the

Waffen-SS, the armed SS,
which is there to help fight the war.

And his troops are notorious for being some

of the most sort of kind of evil and
deadly troops, you know, as part of

the war.

On the 30th of June 1934, a night
that became known as the Night of the

Long Knives, Hitler took
the opportunity to really

get rid of any opposition within the Nazi

Party, and really I think he was looking

for an opportunity to
really eliminate those who

seemed to tarnish somehow
the reputation of the party.

What he's very worried about
is his relationship with the army.

Now, the army and the
armed forces generally

do not like paramilitary
organisations, and specifically the

brownshirts, the SA, the stormtroopers.

Now, these have been kind of on
Hitler's side for a very long time in the

run-up to power, but now he's in

power, he doesn't need a
paramilitary force because

he's got this thing called the actual armed

forces, you know, he's got a navy, an

air force, an army
under his direct control,

and the generals, they
don't like the stormtroopers.

They see them as a threat to them,
they see them as a rival military force,

and they're trying to
convince Hitler, look, you

know, you've got to get rid
of the SA, the stormtroopers.

There was this idea
that the stormtroopers, so

the SA, led by Ernst Rohm, were somehow

overstepping the mark,
this idea that they were

going to have a second revolution, and this

was something that Hitler
absolutely did not want,

so he wanted the party to be much
more respectable and to really get rid of

any kind of rough and tumble, let's say,

that the stormtroopers still represented.

Becoming known as the Knight of the Long

Knives, he uses his SS
organisation, considered his

personal bodyguards,
to carry out this task.

The SS didn't have much of a reputation

at this point, therefore were no
threat to the image of the Nazi party.

This is seen as the ultimate sort of

expression of Hitler's
power, that he can even

turn upon his old allies in order to

consolidate his own power and in order to

get the army directly where he wants it.

Where's that?

Under his thumb.

This was considered a pivotal
moment in Hitler's rise to power.

Himmler proves his
worth to Hitler by carrying

out these assassinations
carefully and with ease.

He is also assisted by a man who

Hitler later nicknamed the Man with
the Iron Heart, Reinhard Heydrich.

Heydrich joined the SS in 1931,
working closely with Himmler.

He soon gets promoted to take charge of

the Gestapo and the criminal police forces.

Heydrich was one of those Nazis who truly,

even today, makes one's blood run cold.

You just have to look at
the man to see his evil.

He just looks like this nasty piece of

work and, boy, was
Heydrich a nasty piece of work.

Himmler goes, well, why don't you join this

unit, this new unit called
the Sicherheitsdienst, the

security service, which is
the SS espionage service,

if you like, that's going to spy on

enemies within the Third
Reich and enemies abroad.

And it's Heydrich who turns the SD into

one of the most redoubtable units of the

whole Nazi regime and
will gain enormous amounts

of power because it's
the SD, actually, that

ends up carrying out the Holocaust.

In August 1934, President
Hindenburg dies and Hitler

unites the chancellorship
and presidency into one role

for himself, Führer of Germany.

He's able to take on the role of

both president and
chancellor and kind of create

this new role for himself, and that is

the role of Führer, the
German word for leader.

That is a fascist
term, be in no doubt.

This is a kind of new form of
governance that Germany now has.

Other parties are banned.

The only party allowed is the Nazi Party.

This has become a
totalitarian state and Hitler

can say to the German
people, you voted for it.

It's a con and it's
a con that worked.

With his support from the
German people confirmed,

Hitler begins to enforce
some of his tyrannical policies.

In February 1935, Hitler
orders Hermann Goering to

establish the Luftwaffe,
a German air force, which

once again defies the terms
of the Treaty of Versailles.

One month later, he rearms the army with

the aim of completely
undoing the treaty, uniting

all the German people
who are delighted with

his dedication to their nation.

He does everything that the
Versailles Treaty tells him not to do.

He re-militarises and
marches into various zones

where he's not allowed to be, such as

the Rhineland, and he
also starts building up

his armed forces, secretly
at first, and then blatantly.

All this soon becomes
really blatant and the

Allies, such as the British and the French,

they just look at it
and what do they do?

They do nothing.

1935 sees the introduction
of the Nuremberg Laws.

Hitler is beginning to
convince the German people

that the Jews are to blame for
Germany's previous struggles.

Marriage between Jews and
German people becomes illegal.

Jewish people are stripped of their
citizenship and all their civil rights.

So we know that from as early as

Hitler's writings in Mein Kampf
that he was personally anti-Semitic.

And what we see once the Third Reich

comes into power is his
personal anti-Semitism

translated into state policy.

So from the very earliest days and months

of the Third Reich,
there were many different

measures, legal measures,
taken against the Jews, and

also illegal measures as well.

Just as he had promised in Mein Kampf,

Hitler is treating the Jews in
Germany as an internal enemy.

So what you see are laws stripping
Jews of their German citizenship.

You see awful things like Jews not being

allowed to go to swimming pools because if

a Jew swam in a public swimming pool,

the water would have to be drained
because the Jew had dirtied the water.

So you can see that you've got this

awful, awful, both political
and cultural exclusion of

the Jewish community.

And if it wasn't enough
to completely demoralise

the Jewish population, Hitler
takes things one step further.

The Night of Broken Glass in 1938 sees

the destruction of over 7,000 Jewish shops

and 400 synagogues are burnt to the ground.

When we get to 1938, we come to
quite a key moment in the history of

Nazi anti-Semitism.

We come to the night of the 9th to
10th of November 1938, to a night

known as Reichskristallnacht.

Reichskristallnacht, Kristallnacht,
or the Night of the Broken Glass.

The Nazis just literally
set fire to synagogues

everywhere and they smash up
Jewish shops and Jews are killed.

Near on 100 people were killed in the

course of the night and between 20,000

and 30,000 German Jews were
taken to concentration camps.

This absolutely horrific destruction,
slaughter, violence carried out

by the state against its own people.

It showed the world what Hitler was.

He was effectively a
gangster and a murderer.

Himmler and Heydrich
bring their evil minds together

once more to orchestrate
this terrible night of violence.

Heydrich orders the
arrests of thousands of Jews

by the Gestapo and, with
Himmler's influence, has

them all sent to concentration camps.

Himmler established the first
Nazi concentration camp in

Dachau, indicating he
had no issues with bringing

harm to the Jews as he considers
them a vermin within Germany.

Heydrich is already establishing
the idea of murdering all Jews.

It's the SS men doing not only the

exterminations, but they're
also the ones who are

appropriating wealth
from the Jews and all the

other slaves being used
and appropriating all the

stuff that they own and also selling this

workforce to big German
industries who are paying

for its use and all that is
going to the pockets of the SS.

So the SS becomes incredibly rich as an

organisation and it's
also running police forces.

You name it, as I say, it's the
state within the state and the man at

the top of it is Heydrich Himmler.

30,000 Jews are arrested and sent to

concentration camps
where they will see out the

rest of their lives in torture
and unlawful conditions.

The German people are
unaware of the inhumane

treatment that will take
place in these camps

but are beginning to realise the
severity of Hitler's anti-Semitism.

After the Night of the Broken Glass, the

situation for Germany's
Jews just got worse and

worse from then until the war and,
of course, during the war as well.

They were impoverished, they were
made to pay a big atonement fine.

Money was taken from them in order to

pay for this calamity that they'd
allegedly brought upon themselves.

There's no doubt about
the centrality of anti

-Semitism to Hitler's world view,
there's absolutely no doubt about that.

But what he seemed to be trying to
do was sort of stay in the shadows

so that when we get a pogrom like

this, that the public,
the German public and

the population were quite affronted by it.

I think he managed to maintain
his popularity during this time.

First of all, because he was staying in

the shadows of more unpopular policies.

And there was certainly
that sentiment among the

German population because of
this myth that surrounded the Fuhrer.

But, well, if there were
unpleasant things going

on or policies that they didn't like, all

of those sort of more difficult aspects of

the Third Reich, then
somehow that Hitler couldn't

know about it, that he wasn't associated
with it, that it had to be one of

the other leaders, it can't have been him.

If only the Fuhrer knew,
this wouldn't be happening.

Alongside this, Hitler is keeping to
his promises made in Mein Kampf.

Factories are helping
to build up the German

army to become the most advanced in Europe.

This will all support Hitler's
plans for Lebensraum,

taking back the land
he claims they deserve.

With each area they take back,
Britain and France are still all talk.

Nobody is opposing Hitler's army
and their storm on attaining land.

More farsighted people
in Britain and France are

sort of going, well,
where's this going to end?

You know, because if
you keep giving someone

something, they're going to
keep wanting more, because

that's human nature and
that's what you're going to do.

However, learning of his
plans to invade Poland,

the Allied countries
make it clear they will

declare war, but Hitler
ignores their threat, as

they've never acted before.

On September 1st, 1939,
Hitler launches an attack

on Poland, underestimating
the start of World War II.

For the first time, foreign
leaders become aware

of how insane Hitler really is.

Hitler divulges this concept
of Blitzkrieg, a lightning

war, to his German public.

In September 1939, Hitler
invades Poland, along with Stalin.

Stalin also, and Soviet Russia also
invades Poland at the same time.

But what the world remembers is the fact

that Hitler invaded Poland and a couple of

days later, the British
declare war on Germany.

Hitler himself claims it to
be a war of racial annihilation.

No mercy is to be upheld.

Within just six weeks, Poland is crushed by

the German army and tens of
thousands of Poles executed.

The German population,
because of Hitler's popularity, and

even though they had
experienced the horrors of

the First World War and the trench warfare

of the First World War and all of

the shell shock and
everything that went with

it, because he was so popular, they might

not have been delighted to go to war

in September 1939, but
they went along with it.

In 1940, Hitler's
all-powerful army rules over

Denmark, Norway, Holland and
Belgium, and eventually crushes

France with their number of tanks.

Germany is untouchable.

Really one of the high points of Hitler's

popularity was the image of
the Nazis taking over Paris.

All of these attacks were very quick and

easy victories for the Nazis and they just

fed Hitler's success and popularity.

These successes are only
fuelling Hitler's ego, which

leaves him with no
hesitation to invade Stalin's

Russia, despite their previous peace pact.

Hitler enthuses his
army with these ideas that

nobody is superior to the Aryan race.

Therefore all means of violence
and mass murder will be tolerated.

With the German people
feeling positive and patriotic,

focusing on the war, Hitler can now enforce

his most brutal horrors of the Third Reich.

The Nazi regime absolutely
hated the Jews and

wanted to get rid of them
from the very beginning.

So we see that with some of the
earlier policies, but as we get into the

wartime period, of course
the policies become more

and more radicalised,
more and more extreme.

So essentially the
Nazis created this idea of

a Jewish question or a Jewish
problem that needed a solution.

And throughout the
course of the Third Reich

they put into place a variety of different

measures to try to deal with
their so -called Jewish problem.

Hitler's plans for the Jews and when he

decided to slaughter
them still remain a topic

of a lot of historical
controversy because there

is no piece of paper that
says kill all Jews, signed A.

Hitler.

But I think that what is absolutely clear

is that in conversation he would have said

to his top leaders we need
to start killing these people.

Hitler was smart enough to know
this shouldn't be on a piece of paper.

The initial idea is that the Jews are

rounded up into ghettos
and from those ghettos

they can then be sent
to concentration camps

where they can be worked
and worked to death.

And you see these camps all over occupied

Poland and all over Germany itself.

Suddenly around the
time of Barbarossa, 1941, it

starts to get actually
eliminations and you have

what's called Action
Reinhardt in which you've got

the establishment of four actual death
camps in what was occupied Poland.

Special death squads are sent in to murder

the Jews, the victims being made to dig

a trench then forced to stand
inside, waiting to be shot.

Groups are continuously
sent into the trench to

die until it is full of bodies.

With a shocking 1.5 million Jews shot

in this process, with
Hitler's focus being turned

towards the extermination of the
racially impure, war efforts are lacking.

Rudolf Hess notices the
Führer is preoccupied and

decides to take matters into his own hands.

He has been losing his influence on Hitler.

Once being known as the Deputy Führer,
he has now been pushed so far out of

the circle, he goes by unnoticed.

In a last drastic attempt to get back

into the circle, he decides to bring the

continuing military struggle
between Germany and the Allies

to an end by means
of a peace pact.

He carries out this absolutely
extraordinary mission, takes

off from a Messerschmitt
110 in Augsburg and

flies to Scotland, obviously,
where he parachutes out

to land on the land of the Duke of
Hamilton, who he thinks is a friend

of his.

And he says, you know, I'm here to

basically forge a peace
deal, that, you know,

if you allow Nazi Germany to have a

free hand in Europe,
we'll allow the British

Empire and British colonies a free hand and

for Britain to maintain her
influence all over the world.

And, of course, this is
just complete nonsense.

You know, Churchill, by this stage, is in

no mood to start listening to what
is clearly a semi-deranged individual.

And, indeed, he just remains in prison.

Once Hitler hears of his plan and capture

in Britain, he declares
Hess has committed treason

and he is rejected from the Nazis.

The exile of Hess opened doors for
a shadowy figure in the inner circle.

Martin Bormann was
initially chief of staff to

Rudolf Hess, but after
his capture in Britain,

Hitler promotes him to
head of the party chancellery.

Bormann is seen as a
secretive but extremely

powerful presence in
the Third Reich, having the

most access and contact with Hitler.

He controlled all acts
of legislation and party

promotions, as well as
drawing up the Führer's

schedule and appointments calendar.

Bormann had the power to decide
who was allowed to see Hitler and when.

This caused him to be hated by fellow

members of the inner circle, but they knew

they had to maintain
a civil relationship with

him in order to get access to Hitler.

Martin Bormann is one of the most enigmatic

and cryptic figures of the Third Reich.

He was one of the old
fighters, as it was called.

He was there from the very early days,

very loyal Nazi, but always in the shadows.

He was head of what was called the

chancellery, and as a
result, he actually had

the keys to Hitler, if you like.

If you want to go and speak to Hitler,
you've got to go through Bormann.

It doesn't matter who you are,
everyone's got to go through Bormann.

And so that gives him enormous power,
because if he can say you can and you

can't, you've got to carry favour with him.

And, of course, in any
dictatorship, whoever's the

nearest to the dictator is
going to have the most power.

In secret, Hitler's inner
circle are experimenting with

other forms of mass murder
to be deemed more efficient.

This is known as the Final Solution.

Reinhard Heydrich chairs
a meeting known as the

Wannsee Conference, in
which leading Nazis discuss ways

in which the Jews can be
eliminated economically and efficiently.

The Wannsee Conference
really was that moment, a

kind of very important
moment in the evolution

of Nazi anti-Semitic policy and in what

we call the Final
Solution, because this was

the moment that both
retrospectively sanctioned what had

already been going on,
these experiments at the

end of 1941, and really set in place

then the momentum for the establishment
and running of these death camps.

And there were six of those, all of

them on Polish soil
through the height of the war.

A secret department,
known as T4, is instructed

to find a way to kill as many as
possible, quickly and quietly, out of the

knowledge of the German public.

By the time we get to the end of
1941, the Nazis had already put into

place this Action T4,
which was actually the

extermination of the
German asylum population.

So Action T4, between 1939 and 1941, had

used poisonous gas to
kill Germany's mentally and

physically ill population.

That was something like 70,000 adults and

maybe up to 6,000 children and teenagers.

It really was the most repellent form of

kind of Nazi quote-unquote
medicine that you can imagine.

It is basically chopping
people out of life.

You're killing them.

You're killing children with epilepsy.

You're killing people who've
got mild spinal deformities.

You're killing people who've
even got stutters because

you're saying they're
genetically weak and we don't

want them if we're going to make this

strong, blonde Aryan race
full of perfect superhumans.

When the truth about the
killing emerges, German

people become distressed
that their friends and family

members may be targeted.

They begin to protest
and express their dismay

towards the horrors
they have just uncovered.

Hitler quickly withdraws the
programme, realising he may

have gone too far, realising the limit of

what the German people would accept.

It happened in secret, in these
kind of horrific hospitals and castles.

And these are the sites of some of

the worst murders carried out by the Nazis.

So it was a repellent programme, and the

German people knew it
when they found out about it.

And when it was really appreciated
by the public, it was stopped.

So it shows you that Hitler was sensitive

to public opinion and would go with
public opinion when it went to end him.

He depicts that future
killings needed to be

well hidden and he
shouldn't be associated with it.

He must fool the German people to portray

a kind and caring persona as their Fuhrer,

not wanting to lose
support from his country.

He never personally
signs a document for these

killings again, keeping
his own image in the clear.

However, all the other Nazis act in his

name, organising this
destruction themselves.

Hitler keeps his public image very clean.

People are aware that
bad things are happening

to Jews and they're being deported,
but they're not precisely sure.

But you do see glimpses of it, because

sometimes you get German
parents telling their children,

if you don't behave, you'll
go up the chimney like Jews.

So clearly that suggests there was a sort

of kind of knowledge that maybe
something like that was going on.

But also a lot of German families were

more worried about the fate of their own

sons, fathers and uncles
fighting, especially on the

Eastern Front, which is
turning into a bloody bloodbath.

Hitler moves the killings
from Germany, with the

idea they must happen
as far away as possible.

Building a network of
death camps in Poland,

this was the beginning
of the final solution.

The Germans were involved
in their own experience

of the war, preoccupied
with their own difficulties,

and in a sense then once the Jews

weren't there anymore,
they were sort of out

of their frame of reference
and just not in their thoughts.

Heinrich Himmler is tasked
with creating death camps,

elimination rooms where
thousands can be executed at once.

He becomes responsible for
the murders and slaughtering

of millions of Jews, a total atrocity.

He was responsible for
the Holocaust, because, you

know, it was the SS
largely who carried it out.

And when he went to go and kind

of witness a slaughter,
you know, some brains

were splattered upon his
coat, and it caused him to vomit.

He never, you know...

This is the man responsible
for it, and he can't cope with it.

I'm not saying it's
desirable that he should

have coped with it, but it just shows

you that he didn't
actually have the personal

appetite for butchering people
himself and got other people to do it.

In many ways, he was a coward.

Jews from all over
Europe are transported to

these camps, unaware of the inhumane
scenarios they are about to face.

Horror.

Screams.

Mass murder.

An unimaginable scene
of death and destruction.

Millions of Jews were
murdered because of one

man's horrific desire
for a racially pure nation.

Death camps, all of those were on Polish

soil, so they were out of the immediate

frame of sight or reference of the Germans.

So, again, in some way, they were happening

elsewhere and not really in
their immediate field of vision.

These are places that are places of deep,

deep horror because you didn't go
there to work, you went there to die.

And you would arrive, and
within 30 minutes, you'd be dead.

Treblinka, for example,
is no bigger, if you

visit it, than a football stadium,
the size of a football pitch.

And in that very small area, around 850

,000 men, women and children were gassed.

It's just the most horrific thought
if you ever visit a place like that.

Auschwitz, again, a very
huge, iconic place associated

with the Holocaust, of
course, famously where a

million Jews were put to death, many of

whom were gassed on arrival, but it also

was a concentration camp rather
than just an extermination camp.

So it has these two horrific roles.

And don't forget, Auschwitz
and places like this, they're huge.

Auschwitz is three camps
spread over about ten miles.

I mean, these are factories of
death, there's no doubt about it.

Reinhard Heydrich, the man
who would have murdered

millions if he had not been stopped.

Operation Anthropoid,
two men trained in Britain to

carry out the planned
assassination of Heydrich.

On May 27th, 1942, the men approached the

car taking Heydrich through
Prague's Kobylice district, in

which he was travelling
without an armed escort.

Unfortunately, the operation
didn't quite go as planned,

as the gun jammed
within meters of the car.

Quick thinking led to a
grenade being thrown

towards the vehicle and exploding
inside, wounding Heydrich badly.

He was taken to
hospital, but after refusing

to let any non-German surgeon operate on

him, he died several
days later of septicemia.

All members of the Nazi party were required

to be a part of the final solution,
as it was genocide on a mass scale,

therefore needed mass participation.

By the end of 1944, six million Jews

have been murdered
upon his approval, due to

his own horrific ideals and regime.

Hitler is absorbed with the
focus on creating a pure race.

He is losing the war he created.

The inferior nations around him
are now closing in on his territory.

The war is closing in on Berlin, reducing

Hitler and a circle of his closest, most

trusted Nazis into a bunker
under the ruins of his chancellery.

Hitler's image of an
all-powerful dictator is

slowly decreasing, as
his tremor gets worse.

Once the Red Army
came into German territory

in 1945, then Hitler's
position as this infallible

ruler and leader really not only became to

be called into question, but really came to

its end, because the
Soviet troops were very

vengeful, they were
retaliating for all the terrible

brutalities and atrocities
that the Nazis and the

German army had put
into place in Soviet territory.

What it meant was that they were coming

closer and closer on
their journey westwards to

Berlin, and eventually
Hitler and a very small

inner circle around him had to retreat to

his bunker, his underground bunker.

During the last days of his life, Hitler

is seen as a demented dictator, battling to

rule what had become a phantom Reich, with

an army who were no longer
listening to his requests.

He believed Germany had failed him and no

longer deserved his power or ruling.

He wanted the whole country
to be torn down with him.

This is a war brought about by
Hitler, and this is a war that Hitler has

fought for too long, and he's fighting it

to the death, and he's fighting it to

the death of the people who he supposedly

loves, and he no longer loves them
by the end of the war, and he says

that basically the German
people don't deserve him,

the German people don't
deserve Germany, and everybody

should fight to the death
because basically, you

know, they don't deserve to
be alive because they failed him.

Classic narcissistic thinking.

The world is for him, you know,
and he's not there for the world.

One by one, his inner circle begin to

abandon him as they realise what will
happen to them at the end of the war.

Goering has already retired as much as he

has permitted, retreating
to his estate with his wife.

He was also framed in a scandal, claiming

he was attempting to take over the Fuhrer's

powers in the final days of the war.

He became this kind
of drug-addled, alcoholic

whale of a man who other Nazis would

laugh at and not take seriously
and saw him as an impediment.

So, actually, by the end of
the war, he's this joke figure.

Goering wrote a letter
to Hitler, offering to

relieve Hitler of his duties and act in

his place as he had believed the Fuhrer

was encircled and helpless in Berlin.

This was a reasonable
act, seemingly as Hitler

had named him to be the political heir.

However, scheming Martin
Bormann saw this as an

opportunity to wipe out another one
of his threats within the inner circle.

He intercepted the letter
before it reached Hitler himself.

He presented the letter to the Fuhrer as

though Goering was
attempting to commit treason.

Hitler issued a telegram
to Goering and told

him that he had committed high treason and

gave him the option to resign
his offices in exchange for his life.

Rumours are indicating
that Himmler has plans to

succeed Hitler and continue
running the Nazi Party.

He has already made
negotiations with the enemies

to release Jewish prisoners
from the concentration camps

to freedom via Switzerland.

Once Hitler finds out about
Himmler's independent plans,

he strips him of all offices
and orders his arrest.

Only his loyal mistress
Eva Braun stands beside

him, continuing to fuel
his demented fantasy that

he is still the greatest
man in the world.

Eva Braun was Hitler's best kept secret.

Meeting him aged 17, she was
young, impressionable and easily lead.

Eva was a very mysterious
character, always being

in the background of all
affairs and rarely seen in public.

The normality of their
relationship was unclear.

The 30th of April, 1945.

Hitler comes to terms with the fact that

Germany is losing the
war and is beyond repair.

He hadn't made a public
appearance or speech in months.

His victories are long gone, needing
a mixture of drugs to keep him sane.

Hitler's last days in the
Führerbunker under the

Reich Chancellery in
the centre of Berlin are

a kind of terrible end of a Shakespearean

tragedy, as the thunder
of Russian artillery all

around them, and they're
deep, deep inside this

sort of concrete underground fortress.

Everybody's sort of kind of
going mad, and especially Hitler.

On this day, he finally agrees to marry

Eva Braun, just hours before their suicide.

The pair tie the knot with what's left

of Hitler's loyal advisers as witness.

Finally, after many years of
being Hitler's long -term partner,

Hitler married Eva Braun that night.

It was to be a very short-lived

marriage because two days later
they both committed suicide together.

He hands her a cyanide
capsule and he holds his pistol.

The pair commit suicide
together, leaving Germany in ruins.

Hitler would rather die than flee
Germany and be seen as weak.

Their bodies are burnt.

I mean, this great kind of almost like

a Viking pyre, like a
Viking longship going up.

Europe's most evil dictator is dead.

Just over a week later, Germany surrenders.

As the death camps are
uncovered, everyone learns

the horrors of the Nazi regime.

On 7th May 1945, Germany
surrendered, and once

that had happened,
the atrocities of the Nazi

regime came to popular attention.

Ultimately, when it was
shown quite how evil

Nazism was, and the German
people fully appreciated

it, then, yes, the opinion of
Hitler was not quite so positive.

Joseph and Magda
Goebbels are devastated at the

suicide of their beloved Fuhrer.

Magda does not want to raise her children

in a world without Hitler
and the Third Reich.

And if you want to see the ultimate

expression of this twisted,
bizarre, dark, horrific love,

if you like, it's the fact that they

both killed themselves to
follow Hitler into the afterlife.

And they kill their own children in the

bunker, poison all six
children, because a world

without Hitler and a world without
Nazism is no place for their kids.

That's how much they adored Hitler.

After the discovery of
the horrific secrets of

the Nazi regime, remaining
important party members were

arrested and set to face the
judge in the Nuremberg trials.

Rudolf Hess was brought
back to Germany after

his prison sentence in
Britain and found guilty

at the trials, being given a life sentence.

Heinrich Himmler was captured
but committed suicide before

he could be tried.

Hermann Goering was
sentenced to the death penalty

but committed suicide
in his cell by cyanide

the night his execution was
ordered, cheating the hangman.

As for Martin Bormann, he
disappeared shortly after Hitler's death.

There were rumours that he had escaped and

was living in hiding
somewhere in the world.

He was indicted at the
Nuremberg trials and found guilty.

The downfall of the Third Reich was the

inevitable end of Hitler's inner circle.

And although many of
these monsters evaded trial

for their horrendous
crimes, there is no doubt

the ultimate justice awaited them all.