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In the mountains of Southern Bavaria,
on the slopes of the Obersalzberg,
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Adolf Hitler built his retreat - the Berghof.
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He would relax by watching feature films,
on one subject in particular.
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- So it's war.
- Unless we're quick.
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From China to Afghanistan,
they're making one great confederacy.
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Good Lord! A machine gun!
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(HEAVY GUNFIRE)
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To Hitler, British rule of India
was perfect proof of Aryan superiority.
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Later, in 1941, he said,
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''Let's learn from the English,
who, with 250,000 men in all,
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''including 50,000 soldiers,
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''governed 400 million Indians.
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''What India was for England,
the territories of Russia will be for us.''
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Yet, in 1939, Hitler ended up at war
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with the country he most admired -
Great Britain -
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and allied to the country
he most wanted to colonise - Russia.
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How did he end up fighting what was,
from his point of view, the wrong war?
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(SINGING)
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On 30th January, 1933,
the same day Hitler became Chancellor,
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the Nazis paraded by torchlight in Berlin.
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After the years of unemployment,
inflation and political uncertainty,
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Hitler promised Germany would be
reborn, national pride restored.
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Germany would be a world power again,
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her foreign policy decided in a new way -
by the desires of one man.
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Every true German,
especially the Nazi Storm Troopers,
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now had to be obedient to the will of their F�hrer.
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- Alles ist Reich!
- (CHEERING)
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- Sieg!
- Heil!
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- Sieg!
- Heil!
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(SINGING BEGINS)
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Under Hitler,
the German armed forces would have
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all the guns, tanks and planes
they needed - and more besides.
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These armaments were paid for
by a series of sophisticated loans
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which mortgaged Germany's future.
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The plan was masterminded by Reich
Minister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht.
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Hitler wasn't interested in how Schacht
worked this apparent economic miracle.
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In a typical example
of how he dealt with subordinates,
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he simply told Schacht to get on with
the job any way he liked. He later said,
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''I never had a conference with Schacht
to see what means were at our disposal.
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''I restricted myself to saying this is
what I require and what I must have.''
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Hitler was obsessed with the survival
of the fittest. Goebbels' propaganda films
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reflected this obsession. Hitler believed
human beings were simply animals
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and that the strongest animal would always win.
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If his subordinates were strong enough,
they would succeed without his help.
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Just as it was with animals, so it was
with great men and whole countries.
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Hitler believed the entire world was
locked in a permanent struggle
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in which the stronger must prevail.
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This was the theory he developed
in ''Mein Kampf'', the book he wrote in 1924.
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In it he also wrote that the Germans
were a nation who needed to expand.
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Like the British, they needed colonies.
He was clear where they should find them.
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''We are putting an end to the perpetual
German march south and west
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''and turning our eyes towards the east.
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''And when we speak
of a new land in Europe today,
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''we must principally bear in mind Russia
and the border states subject to her.
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''Destiny itself seems to wish
to point the way for us here.''
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In the years immediately after
he became Chancellor,
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though he never publicly said
he wanted to conquer the East,
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Hitler repeated his country's central problem -
Germany wasn't big enough.
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Deutschland, Sieg Heil!
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Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!
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Hitler did openly announce one foreign policy goal.
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He wanted, as he saw it,
to ''right the wrong of the Versailles Treaty''
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by which Germany had lost territory
at the end of World War One
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and was restricted to an army of 100,000.
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At that time, young people were
enthusiastic and optimistic
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and believed in Hitler
and thought it was wonderful
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to overcome the consequences of Versailles.
We were in a very high mood.
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To help overcome Versailles,
the Germans looked to the English.
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England and Englishmen were widely
admired by the German ruling classes.
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They embraced what they took to be
the ideals of the English gentleman -
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country estates and fox hunting.
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I always hoped...I always hoped that England -
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I'm talking to you as an Englishman -
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that England would see
what Germany was planning to do,
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was building up too much, and would
agree in sharing Europe, or whatever.
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Whilst the English may not have wanted
to share Europe with the Germans,
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they did think some accommodation
should be reached with their former enemy.
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The general view in Britain was
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that the French had imposed, and we
had obviously been connected with it,
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too harsh a settlement on Germany in 1918
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and that this should be rectified.
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And to that extent there was a slight
feeling we ought to have done better.
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If you call that a sentiment of guilt,
all right. I'm not sure it was guilt, quite.
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The first fruits of Hitler's attempt
to woo the British came in June, 1935,
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when a naval agreement was signed
between Germany and Britain
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allowing Germany to rebuild her fleet
beyond the level permitted by Versailles.
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Hitler said the day the agreement was
signed was the happiest of his life.
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Hitler sought to capitalise by sending
the Nazi who negotiated the deal,
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Joachim von Ribbentrop,
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to London as German Ambassador
in the summer of 1936.
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The task was 100%
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to find a German-British alliance,
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because he had arranged before,
quite well, the naval agreement.
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And that should be crowned
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by a German-English entente, agreement.
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And he...
At the beginning, he worked on this.
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Ribbentrop was not a success in Britain.
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Not only did the British not want
a treaty of alliance with Nazi Germany,
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Ribbentrop himself committed faux pas,
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like giving a Nazi salute to King George VI.
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No, Ribbentrop was regarded
as not a gentleman, you know.
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And he wanted to be considered
a gentleman. He was VON Ribbentrop,
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not just one of the rough Nazis.
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But I don't think that went down
at all well even in circles which,
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on the whole,
felt we must get on with the Germans.
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His mission was rather disastrous.
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Sometimes he shouted,sometimes he was furious,
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he threw pencils at the secretaries.
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So, privately, he behaved
very simple and stupidly
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and very pompous. And the British
don't like this - pompous people -
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and he was very outspoken and very loud voice.
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Goebbels said of Ribbentrop,
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''He bought his name, he married his
money and swindled his way into office.''
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Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister,
revealed that Mussolini had remarked,
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''You only have to look at his head
to see that he has a small brain.''
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Ribbentrop was loathed
by almost all the other leading Nazis.
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They thought him a humourless upstart.
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And yet Hitler supported him.
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Hitler one day said,when Ribbentrop wasn't present,
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''With Ribbentrop it is so easy.
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''He's always radical.
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''Meanwhile, all the other people I have,
they come here, they have problems,
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''they are afraid,
they think we should take care,
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''and then I have to blow them up, to get strong.
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''And Ribbentrop was blowing
the whole day and I had to do nothing,
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''I had to brake, give brakes there.
Much better.''
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(NARRATOR) Ribbentrop had a great
insight into how to deal with Hitler.
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He knew that Hitler always smiled kindly
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on a person who came to him
with a radical solution to any problem.
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Even if he didn't adopt the suggestion,
he still praised the person who made it.
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This was an insight a more intelligent
member of Hitler's regime didn't have.
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Hjalmar Schacht thought Hitler would
listen to reason when he told him
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the German economy was overheating
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and armament production should be scaled down.
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Instead, Hitler was furious
with his Economics Minister.
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Schacht was sidelined.
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The economy was now put
in the hands of a man who,
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though ignorant of economic theory,
was certainly a proven radical...
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Herman G�ring.
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(CHEERING)
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He was, you would say,a jolly good fellow. Ajolly good fellow.
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Loved to show off.
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And loved rings and diamonds
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and had had funny hobbies.
Loved paintings.
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And loved to live in luxury
in Karinhall, which was near Berlin
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in the Schorfeide,
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where he built some kind of castlefor hunting purposes.
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That was more than a castle, just wonderful.
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And, upstairs in the attic, he had
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an electric train built,
various trains running around.
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He played there like a child.
Loved, loved to be there.
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So therefore, besides being
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a true, dependable vassal to Hitler,
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he was a big child.
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What did Hitler want his new army for?
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At first it seemed the answer might be
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just to overturn
the worst consequences of Versailles.
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In 1936, Hitler moved his troops
into the demilitarised Rhineland.
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There was little international protest.
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Then at a secret meeting in November,
1937, he told his generals
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that Germany must expand to survive
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and announced that Germany's problem
could be solved only by the use of force.
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Austria and Czechoslovakia
were named by Hitler as the first targets.
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Leading generals were not enthusiastic.
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They offered sober objections to Hitler's ideas,
not the applause he wanted.
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In three months, the War Minister
and Commander of the Army were removed
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after personal scandals.
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Hitler took the opportunity
to appoint the most radical Nazi of all
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as Commander-in-Chief
of the German armed forces - himself.
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It was in the mountains
above Berchtesgaden in Southern Bavaria
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that Hitler liked to dream
of Germany's forthcoming greatness.
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He later said that his greatest ideas
came to him in these mountains.
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In the afternoon he would go on walks
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between the great peaks of the Obersalzberg.
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He would return to the Berghof,
a house run for him by Herbert D�hring,
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a member of Hitler's own personal guard,
the SS Leibstandarte.
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At the Berghof, Hitler indulged himself
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by planning the great cities
he would build in his new Germany.
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Herbert D�hring would constantly be
folding and unfolding huge building plans
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so his master could dream his dreams.
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Sometimes it seemed Hitler did little else.
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When not dreaming of future
German cities or of German expansion,
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Hitler would watch feature films -
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at the Berghof, always two a night.
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He preferred escapist entertainment
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and Goebbels always made sure
there was plenty on hand.
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At the Berghof in the spring of 1938,
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Hitler saw an opportunity to take the first step
in achieving a cherished dream -
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to bring other German-speaking people
under his rule.
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He capitalised on political instability
in neighbouring Austria,
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a country which had already come
hugely under Nazi influence.
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After checking that no foreign power
would interfere,
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he ordered German troops to cross the border.
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(CHEERING)
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(BAND PLAYS)
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The majority of Austrians welcomed
the Germans into their country.
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They too had suffered as their empire
was dismantled at the end of WWI.
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Now, united with Germany,
they were a power once again.
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It was one of the nicest days of my lifewhen we entered Austria.
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I was with Hitler in the sixth car.
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I had tears in my eyes.
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All my dreams of reuniting Austria with Germany.
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Don't forget, Austria was
ruling Germany during 600 years.
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So for me, after the defeat
of the year '18 and Versailles,
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for us it was a dream.
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I suppose a lot of people in Englandwould say, ''They are Germans after all. ''
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You know, if that's what they really want.
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But it was, after all,
a pretty nasty sort of takeover.
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(CHANTING) Sieg Heil!
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I think we cried.
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Tears were running down our cheeks.
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When we looked to our neighbours,
it was the same.
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And when Hitler came to me,
I nearly forgot to give him the hand.
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I just looked at him...
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..and I saw good eyes.
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And in my heart I promised him,
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''I always will be faithful to you.''
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I kept my promise.
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All my free time, besides school,
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I gave to the work
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because he had called us.
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''You all...'' He had said that to us.
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''You all shall help me build up my empire
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''to be a good empire
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''with happy people
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''who are thinking
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''and promising to be good people.''
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(NARRATOR) But this was not
going to be a ''good empire''.
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Heinrich Himmler, Commander of the SS,
was one of the first Nazis into Austria.
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Like Hitler, Himmler thought
himself a radical and a visionary.
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This former Bavarian chicken farmer
made Wevelsburg Castle
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the spiritual home of the SS -
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the �lite group which had emerged
from Hitler's own personal bodyguard.
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(SOLDIERS SINGING)
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Himmler believed these were the superior beings
who would crush Germany's enemies.
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Himmler fantasised that the leaders
of the SS would meet in this room,
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like the Knights of the Round Table,
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subordinate only
to their own King Arthur - Adolf Hitler.
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Here they would plan
how to rule over their own empire.
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Himmler said in 1938,
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''Germany's future is either a greater
Germanic empire or a nothing.
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''I believe that
if we in the SS are doing our duty
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''the F�hrer will create this greater
Germanic empire, this Germanic Reich,
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''the biggest empire
ever created by mankind on Earth.''
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In Austria, the first territory
of this new Greater Germany,
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the SS and the other Nazis revealed
how they intended to rule -
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with intolerance and cruelty.
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Just as in Germany, the Nazis
made the Jews their scapegoats.
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You were completely outlawed,no protection anywhere.
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Anybody could come up to you
and do what they want, and that's it.
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Austrian Jews were forced to perform
a variety of tasks to humiliate them,
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like scrubbing the streets clean.
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I once had to scrub the streets as well.
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Can't remember anythingexcept that I saw in the crowd
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a well-dressed young woman
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and she was holding up a little girl -
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a blonde, lovely girl, you know, with these curls,
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and she was smiling, so that
she could see better how that, maybe,
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a 20-year-old kicked an old Jew who fell down.
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They all laughed and she laughed as well.
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Sort of, how happy,
that was a wonderful entertainment.
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The Austrian Jews were so persecuted
that many simply fled,
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after, of course, the SS had
robbed them of most of their money.
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17-year-old Walter Kammerling
was seen off at Vienna Station
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by his parents.
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It's a nightmare situation.
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I remember leaving Austria. It was like in a haze.
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It was only days after that it struck me,
when I wanted to talk to my parents
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and they weren't here.
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After the Nazi takeover of Austria,
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Adolf Hitler returned to Berlin
to a tumultuous welcome.
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He was more popular now
than he had ever been before.
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His new Reich contained
over 80 million Germans.
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The humiliations of Versailles
were almost forgotten, but not quite.
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In this euphoric mood, Hitler turned
his eyes towards Czechoslovakia.
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He focused his demands on the Sudeten
Germans in the border areas,
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proclaiming that they too,
as Germans, should be under his rule.
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But not all German generals went along
with Hitler's ambitious expansion plans.
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Some, like General Beck, were
frightened that he was leading Germany
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into another world war.
They secretly communicated this to the British.
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From then on, of course,
Beck and that group of generals -
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they didn't represent all the generals -
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kept in touch with us by underground means.
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They used to come through me
and it was the sort of thing of,
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''If only you and the French will stand up
to Hitler, then we'll do something.''
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And we said, ''Hadn't you better start
doing something and we can help?''
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But as Hitler went on
having success after success,
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the possibility of this group of generals
getting rid of him became less and less.
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As Germany threatened Czechoslovakia,
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the British Prime Minister,
Neville Chamberlain, tried to prevent war.
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The crisis grew as twice he met Hitler
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and on each occasion
Hitler increased his demands.
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Finally, Chamberlain left for one last meeting
on 29th September, 1938.
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When I was a little boy,
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I used to repeat,
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''If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.''
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That's what I am doing.
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When I come back,
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I hope I may be able to say,
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as Hotspur says in ''Henry IV'',
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''Out of this nettle danger,
we pluck this flower safety.''
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(CHEERING)
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Chamberlain sat alongside Ribbentrop,
now German Foreign Minister,
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as the motorcade made its way
to the conference hall in Munich.
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Finally, an agreement was reached,
brokered by Mussolini and G�ring.
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Hitler could have the Sudetenland
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as long as he promised
this was his final territorial demand.
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Chamberlain, naturally,
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knew public opinion in Britain.
That's not the Foreign Office's job.
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He knew public opinion in the Dominions,
which mattered a good deal,
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and felt, I think quite rightly, really,
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that public opinion would not understand
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getting involved as an ally of France,
so to speak, in a war with Germany
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in Europe, to prevent Germans
being attached to other Germans.
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But Hitler was still disgruntled.
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Shortly after the agreement was signed,
he was saying he had been tricked.
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I heard that...say...
the day after the Munich conference,
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by some people who had been
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in the same hotel with Hitler
or with his surrounding people,
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adjutants and so on, and Ribbentrop and so on,
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and they said that Hitler had the idea
that he had failed to get his war,
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that he had taken...
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One German soldier took a home movie camera
as he entered the Sudetenland
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and filmed scenes reminiscent
of the victorious German entry into Austria
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just six months previously.
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German army officers were ecstatic, too.
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They now controlled the Czech
border defences - the barbed wire,
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pillboxes and minefields with which
the Czechs had sought to defend their country.
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The rest of Czechoslovakia now lay naked
in front of the German Army
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and their Commander-in-Chief, Adolf Hitler.
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Hitler asked the ageing President Hacha
of Czechoslovakia to Berlin in 1939 for talks.
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Hitler humiliated Hacha by keeping him waiting.
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He was busy that evening watching
one of Goebbels' romantic comedies -
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''A Hopeless Case''.
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- Papa, Papa!
- Jenny!
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(SHIP'S HORN BLOWS)
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Hitler eventually saw Hacha
at 1.15 in the morning.
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He announced that in a few hours' time
German troops would invade his country.
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At 4 a.m., the distraught Hacha signed
over the Czech people into Hitler's ''care''.
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As dawn broke, Hitler held a celebration.
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Manfred von Schroeder was there.
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That was a sort of private party
and a sort of victory party with champagne.
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Hitler had his mineral water.
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It was amazing to see how he behaved
when he was among his friends, alone,
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and hadn't to behave like a statesman.
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So he was sitting first of all like this.
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Everything here open, hair's like this.
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Drinking his mineral water.
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And then the interesting thing -
talking like this the whole time.
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In the meantime, he dictated to two secretaries
a proclamation to Germany
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and another proclamation
to the Czechoslovak people
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and a letter to Benito Mussolini
to be transmitted by the Prince of Hesse.
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All at the same time.
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I was a youngster of 24, so that's how
a genius looks at home, you know?
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The German troops who assembled
to cross into the Czech Republic
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were about to take a momentous step.
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This boundary post marks the old border
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between the Sudetenland
and the rest of Czechoslovakia.
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By crossing this line, Hitler showed
that his claim that he wanted only
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to unite German speakers was a sham.
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This country had never been German
and had no German-speaking majority.
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This was an invasion.
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Gone were the cheering faces
of Austria and the Sudetenland.
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This time the German military parade
was watched by a silent crowd.
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Hitler visited Prague and its castle,
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the old residence of the Czech kings,
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less than 24 hours after he had first
made his demands to President Hacha.
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Looking over Prague, Hitler was full of joy.
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But not all Nazi supporters
were as pleased as their F�hrer.
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That changed the whole history.
It was clear Hitler was an imperialist
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and wanted to conquerwhatever he wanted to conquer.
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It had nothing more to do
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with the self-determination of the German people.
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That was the sort of task one could accept,
but this was really terrible.
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And, of course, this cameas a great shock to Chamberlain
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because he thought at least Hitlerwould consult him before doing anything.
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It opened Chamberlain's eyes.
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It was rather like Saul
on the road to Damascus, in some ways.
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The British knew
that Hitler's next demand would be
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for the return of former German territory
in Poland. Chamberlain pledged to resist.
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If an attempt were made
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to change the situation by force,
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in such a way
as to threaten Polish independence,
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why, then,
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that would inevitably start a general conflagration
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in which this country would be involved.
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Hitler demanded
the return of Danzig to Germany,
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a city that sat
in the so-called Polish corridor of land
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between East Prussia and Germany.
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As the crisis intensified,
Hitler retreated to the Berghof.
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Hitler's dream of a grand alliance
with Britain lay in ruins.
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In its place he faced war with Britain
and France if he invaded Poland.
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He needed a radical solution to his problems.
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(NEWSREEL) Von Ribbentropleaving Berlin for Moscow ushers in
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a new, incomprehensible chapterin German diplomacy.
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What can Russia have in commonwith Germany to throw over the peace front?
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Since spring 1939, on the back of trade
negotiations with the Soviet Union,
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the Nazis had been making
tentative moves towards an alliance.
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On 23rd August, 1939, Ribbentrop
signed a non-aggression pact
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with the Soviet Union, which protected
Hitler from fighting a war on two fronts.
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A secret part of the pact guaranteed
Stalin a share in the spoils
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once Hitler invaded Poland.
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Hitler was now allied to his ideological enemy.
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At the same moment as the pact
was being signed in Moscow,
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Hitler stood with his guests
on the Berghof terrace and stared at the sky.
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A Hungarian woman in Hitler's entourage
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looked at the sky and spoke to her F�hrer.
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On 1st September, 1939,
Germany invaded Poland.
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