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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:05,955 --> 00:00:08,377 Spring 1942. 2 00:00:09,947 --> 00:00:13,190 While war raged across the battlefields of Europe, 3 00:00:15,723 --> 00:00:20,198 North Africa and the Pacific, 4 00:00:25,887 --> 00:00:31,461 Adolf Hitler settled into his newest bunker - The Wolf's Lair. 5 00:00:33,485 --> 00:00:37,432 People are dying across the world because of Hitler. 6 00:00:37,779 --> 00:00:42,981 Rather than focus on that huge issue, he's focusing on a microcosm. 7 00:00:43,045 --> 00:00:47,606 He's taking a little tiny detail of control and practicing, practicing, 8 00:00:47,670 --> 00:00:52,155 practicing how perfectly can he get his dogs to do what they're told. 9 00:00:59,399 --> 00:01:01,981 He's fiddling while Rome burns. 10 00:01:09,750 --> 00:01:16,628 Hitler, who was the man behind the monster? 11 00:01:19,434 --> 00:01:22,764 There were just so many parts of this story that didn't add up. 12 00:01:23,573 --> 00:01:28,859 Teenage loner turns national hero. 13 00:01:28,923 --> 00:01:31,350 He was the Messiah for the German people. 14 00:01:31,860 --> 00:01:34,846 How was he able to achieve it? 15 00:01:35,090 --> 00:01:38,654 All of it was an act. All of it was a show. 16 00:01:38,955 --> 00:01:44,742 This is the definitive guide to the most hated man in history. 17 00:01:47,024 --> 00:01:50,538 HITLER THE MONSTER 18 00:01:51,879 --> 00:01:57,368 For almost 10 years, Hitler had reveled in his success as a leader of Germany. 19 00:01:58,727 --> 00:02:01,619 But the tides of war would soon turn against him, 20 00:02:01,733 --> 00:02:06,781 resulting in millions of deaths and marking the start of his downfall. 21 00:02:15,764 --> 00:02:19,776 Seven weeks after Hitler declared war on the United States, 22 00:02:20,876 --> 00:02:24,888 a capacity crowd gathered at Berlin Sportpalast Arena, 23 00:02:29,047 --> 00:02:31,443 eager to hear him speak. 24 00:02:32,909 --> 00:02:36,997 The Sportpalast speech represents the restatement of Hitler's prophecy 25 00:02:37,405 --> 00:02:40,335 that the Americans have forced the Germans into a World War 26 00:02:40,791 --> 00:02:45,347 and a World War will result in the annihilation of the Jews of Europe. 27 00:02:59,444 --> 00:03:04,270 We can read it as an initiation into this huge program of mass killing 28 00:03:04,334 --> 00:03:06,634 that is now about to really take off. 29 00:03:06,732 --> 00:03:10,762 So rather than a threat, as it was in Hitler's 1939 prophecy, 30 00:03:10,826 --> 00:03:13,126 this is now something that's actually happening. 31 00:03:20,073 --> 00:03:26,768 This speech was the closest Hitler ever came to publicly acknowledging the Holocaust. 32 00:03:33,860 --> 00:03:38,710 Three years earlier, Hitler endorsed a Nazi euthanasia program, 33 00:03:38,774 --> 00:03:43,638 which systematically murdered Germany's physically and mentally disabled. 34 00:03:48,041 --> 00:03:52,583 The T4 program is one of the most disturbing elements 35 00:03:52,647 --> 00:03:57,487 of the early years of the Third Reich, and Hitler was directly associated with it, 36 00:03:57,551 --> 00:04:01,107 and it stained him irrevocably. The German people reacted against it 37 00:04:01,171 --> 00:04:04,167 and they associated Hitler with it. But he had learned his lesson. 38 00:04:08,382 --> 00:04:11,495 Hitler became scrupulous when it came to keeping the blood 39 00:04:11,559 --> 00:04:14,827 of the Jewish slaughter off his hands. 40 00:04:15,951 --> 00:04:19,205 There is no paper trail linking Adolf Hitler to the Holocaust, 41 00:04:19,269 --> 00:04:23,312 and this is an extraordinary thing in such a highly bureaucratized state 42 00:04:23,376 --> 00:04:27,274 that kept meticulous records of every single minor activity. 43 00:04:28,321 --> 00:04:32,605 Great lengths were taken to ensure that there wouldn't be a written order 44 00:04:32,894 --> 00:04:35,742 to the effect of “OK, murder all the Jews in Europe.” 45 00:04:37,032 --> 00:04:40,894 Hitler demanded his world remain insulated. 46 00:04:42,726 --> 00:04:48,898 He never visited an extermination camp, nor did he ever witness an execution. 47 00:04:50,439 --> 00:04:53,308 I think the most surprising thing about Adolf Hitler is his inability 48 00:04:53,372 --> 00:04:55,621 to face up to his actions. 49 00:04:55,685 --> 00:05:00,498 He's someone who needs to be in a closed society, almost a closed world. 50 00:05:01,507 --> 00:05:04,840 But also connected with that is the fact that he believes 51 00:05:04,904 --> 00:05:10,247 that he may be killed and that his destiny would not be fulfilled. 52 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,528 He's like a kind of classic gangster. They don't want to be reminded 53 00:05:15,592 --> 00:05:19,841 of the deep immorality that absolutely mired in up to their necks. 54 00:05:19,905 --> 00:05:22,487 It is murder and it's blood soaked. 55 00:05:23,284 --> 00:05:25,584 When he's patting those small children on the head, 56 00:05:25,984 --> 00:05:28,629 there are small children, several hundred miles the East, 57 00:05:28,693 --> 00:05:31,732 having their heads smashed against the side of railroad carriages, 58 00:05:31,847 --> 00:05:34,903 but it's a reality that nobody wants to acknowledge. 59 00:05:38,191 --> 00:05:44,319 At his country headquarter's, the Berghof, Hitler held forth on many subjects, 60 00:05:44,383 --> 00:05:46,938 but he never mentioned the Holocaust 61 00:05:47,409 --> 00:05:51,311 and his entourage were careful never to bring it up. 62 00:05:53,377 --> 00:05:56,710 In her memoirs, Henriette von Schirach, 63 00:05:56,774 --> 00:05:59,362 the daughter of Hitler's personal photographer, 64 00:05:59,426 --> 00:06:02,310 recalled breaking the unspoken rule. 65 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,562 She's seen Jewish women being brutalized in Amsterdam, 66 00:06:07,626 --> 00:06:10,132 and she's determined to raise it with Hitler 67 00:06:10,203 --> 00:06:13,690 under the almost charmingly misguided belief 68 00:06:13,754 --> 00:06:16,558 that Hitler would be appalled in the same way as she is. 69 00:06:16,671 --> 00:06:20,325 So she goes to the Berghof, she had some tea, a slice of cake, 70 00:06:20,389 --> 00:06:24,630 and she mentions this horrible, horrible thing that she's seen in Amsterdam 71 00:06:24,702 --> 00:06:28,764 and Hitler just snaps, “Jewish women in Amsterdam. What they going to do with you?” 72 00:06:28,851 --> 00:06:32,773 Literally shout to her and just orders her out and she leaves the room in tears. 73 00:06:33,356 --> 00:06:36,250 And she's never to be seen at the Berghof ever again. 74 00:06:39,888 --> 00:06:46,083 On the 23rd of January 1942, Hitler invited SS-Chief Heinrich Himmler 75 00:06:46,147 --> 00:06:49,118 and other senior aides for a quiet meal. 76 00:06:53,622 --> 00:06:57,218 According to his staff's official memos, private moments 77 00:06:57,282 --> 00:07:00,948 like this allowed the Fuhrer to give the Holocaust his blessing 78 00:07:06,331 --> 00:07:09,497 without issuing a direct order. 79 00:07:11,721 --> 00:07:14,282 They're having a fine meal, immaculate tablecloth, 80 00:07:14,346 --> 00:07:18,576 everything just so very civilized encounter in which the conversation turns, 81 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,874 as it often does with Hitler, to the Jews. 82 00:07:22,169 --> 00:07:26,994 The talk is chilling. It's not bureaucratic, but it's Hitler saying things like, 83 00:07:27,058 --> 00:07:30,317 “If I had to say to the Jews, could you just go voluntarily?” 84 00:07:30,381 --> 00:07:34,608 And they said they didn't want to. "Then I’d see no other option, but extermination." 85 00:07:35,324 --> 00:07:41,091 Notice here how Hitler doesn't tell anyone to do something specific. 86 00:07:41,155 --> 00:07:44,457 He allows those around the table to draw their own conclusions. 87 00:07:46,225 --> 00:07:50,333 Hitler didn't need to deal with the practicalities of Jewish genocide. 88 00:07:53,900 --> 00:08:00,867 Because he knew Heinrich Himmler would a process known as working towards the Fuhrer. 89 00:08:02,915 --> 00:08:05,707 Everyone knows how Hitler feels about the Jews 90 00:08:05,771 --> 00:08:09,299 and the way to curry favor with him is to anticipate his hatred. 91 00:08:09,363 --> 00:08:16,294 The more radical solution is the one likely to be adopted in Nazi Germany as the war goes on. 92 00:08:18,278 --> 00:08:22,197 Different bodies and individuals compete to have access to Hitler 93 00:08:22,261 --> 00:08:27,229 and to have their ideas authorized by him and the SS is control over Jewish policy 94 00:08:27,293 --> 00:08:30,449 is because Himmler is, at this point, Hitler's favorite. 95 00:08:30,854 --> 00:08:34,390 If you wants to know what Hitler is thinking, you look at what Himmler is doing. 96 00:08:39,337 --> 00:08:41,823 Three days before his meal with Hitler, 97 00:08:41,887 --> 00:08:47,127 Himmler's Nazi SS met at this stately home in a Berlin suburb. 98 00:08:48,539 --> 00:08:53,054 On the agenda, the final solution to the Jewish question. 99 00:08:55,452 --> 00:08:59,737 Ever since Hitler passed antisemitic laws in 1933, 100 00:08:59,981 --> 00:09:06,097 Jews had been brutally persecuted and 1,2 million had been killed in the past year. 101 00:09:09,928 --> 00:09:14,632 Now, the Nazis aim to deport every Jew in Europe. 102 00:09:19,073 --> 00:09:25,577 Their fate was industrialized murder in new extermination camps with gas chambers. 103 00:09:27,573 --> 00:09:30,951 In Hitler's last will and testament, he makes clear 104 00:09:31,015 --> 00:09:36,004 that he is very proud of the way in which the people 105 00:09:36,068 --> 00:09:42,299 that have had to be killed for the greater Germany have been killed in a humane way. 106 00:09:43,554 --> 00:09:50,425 He thinks the whole concept of gassing is a good, clean way of killing people. 107 00:09:53,582 --> 00:09:57,031 He knows what's going on when they arrive at Treblinka, 108 00:09:57,095 --> 00:10:02,572 Sobibor, Auschwitz, when they are herded into the gas chambers. 109 00:10:04,412 --> 00:10:08,393 But for Hitler the Holocaust is something which is done by other people. 110 00:10:14,703 --> 00:10:20,668 Hitler had experienced unbridled success as leader of Germany for nearly a decade. 111 00:10:24,256 --> 00:10:27,017 But the tide was starting to turn. 112 00:10:28,927 --> 00:10:33,201 The US and Soviet Union were proving formidable enemies. 113 00:10:38,868 --> 00:10:41,650 Hitler was undeterred. 114 00:10:43,927 --> 00:10:49,392 For Hitler, this is to be a war of annihilation is a clash of civilizations. 115 00:10:49,456 --> 00:10:53,187 It is a clash of races and there will be no second place; 116 00:10:53,697 --> 00:10:58,791 either Germany or the Soviet Union will be completely destroyed. 117 00:11:04,829 --> 00:11:07,129 Winter 1941. 118 00:11:09,661 --> 00:11:14,300 At his Wolf’s Liar HQ, 500 miles from the frontline, 119 00:11:14,615 --> 00:11:19,679 Adolf Hitler decided to take personal control of a new eastern offensive. 120 00:11:21,690 --> 00:11:24,087 You've got a man who wants to be the supreme warlord, 121 00:11:24,151 --> 00:11:28,095 but desperately also wants to be the person right there in the middle of operations 122 00:11:28,159 --> 00:11:30,459 and you can't do all that. 123 00:11:32,379 --> 00:11:36,136 But when a devastating Soviet counteroffensive let his generals 124 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:42,356 to recommend tactical withdrawals, Hitler overruled them and issued a halt order. 125 00:11:45,203 --> 00:11:48,807 His troops have to stand and fight to the death. 126 00:11:50,011 --> 00:11:54,527 In human terms this is a very, very expensive order. 127 00:11:54,591 --> 00:11:58,479 The number of men who are lost hundreds of thousands, 128 00:11:58,543 --> 00:12:01,197 but that doesn't matter because Hitler only thinks in the short term. 129 00:12:01,261 --> 00:12:03,747 As far as he's concerned, the halt order is worked. 130 00:12:04,466 --> 00:12:08,861 The idea of strategic withdrawal, which every military commander knows 131 00:12:08,925 --> 00:12:14,137 is necessary in certain circumstances; for him, is irrational, 132 00:12:14,201 --> 00:12:17,227 it's going to lower morale, and it certainly shouldn't happen. 133 00:12:17,914 --> 00:12:22,695 It draws attention in Hitler's mind to the ability of his generals. 134 00:12:22,759 --> 00:12:25,783 There's always been a fragile relationship between the two. 135 00:12:25,847 --> 00:12:29,089 While things are going well, he's prepared to let them get on with it, 136 00:12:29,153 --> 00:12:33,640 but as soon as they don't go so well, he begins to take a more hands on approach. 137 00:12:37,711 --> 00:12:43,728 On the 20th of April 1942, Hitler celebrated his 53rd birthday. 138 00:12:44,176 --> 00:12:47,847 He was so determined to tighten his grip on military command, 139 00:12:47,911 --> 00:12:50,452 he refused to leave the Wolf's Lair. 140 00:12:53,618 --> 00:12:57,934 His political and military leaders were forced to come to him. 141 00:13:00,271 --> 00:13:05,098 Hitler is, what we would now call, a control freak beyond all bounds. 142 00:13:05,281 --> 00:13:10,873 He needs to assert his dominance over other people 143 00:13:10,937 --> 00:13:14,299 without exception at all times. 144 00:13:15,649 --> 00:13:18,328 We see somebody who as a child, 145 00:13:18,392 --> 00:13:23,992 had this overbearing father beating him and humiliating him. 146 00:13:24,056 --> 00:13:29,424 So Hitler starts off from a position of extreme weakness, 147 00:13:29,488 --> 00:13:34,257 and it's something he never wants to experience again. 148 00:13:35,335 --> 00:13:39,903 What it looks like, everybody's smiling, but there are some subtle non-verbal things 149 00:13:39,967 --> 00:13:44,570 that we can identify that suggest that all is not going well here 150 00:13:44,634 --> 00:13:47,597 and there is an undertone of tension. Let's stop right here. 151 00:13:47,724 --> 00:13:50,606 This man and Hitler are shaking hands. 152 00:13:50,670 --> 00:13:55,551 One thing that's very telling here is there's personal distance 153 00:13:55,615 --> 00:14:01,858 that he wants to close because we tend to draw closer to people we like. 154 00:14:02,407 --> 00:14:06,410 So he tries to pull them in, but Hitler clearly is very reluctant. 155 00:14:07,140 --> 00:14:09,752 There it is, right there; he's pulling them in and he steps in. 156 00:14:09,816 --> 00:14:12,862 He's trying to send a non-verbal message to Hitler, 157 00:14:12,987 --> 00:14:16,478 “Let bygones be bygones, whatever problems we had in the past." 158 00:14:16,542 --> 00:14:18,896 "They're over with, let's be friends again.” 159 00:14:22,883 --> 00:14:27,199 This man was Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, 160 00:14:27,263 --> 00:14:30,968 who strongly opposed Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. 161 00:14:31,899 --> 00:14:34,752 The gentleman in the back is trying to read what's going on 162 00:14:34,816 --> 00:14:37,116 because he knows there's tension. 163 00:14:39,029 --> 00:14:41,329 This is not a happy birthday. 164 00:14:42,591 --> 00:14:46,360 There's some kind of undercurrent going on there that lets us know 165 00:14:46,424 --> 00:14:51,225 that this may be the beginning of a break with Hitler and his generals. 166 00:14:56,823 --> 00:15:01,864 Isolated at the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's controlling nature worsened. 167 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,556 His days were spent training his German Shepherd, Blondie, 168 00:15:11,669 --> 00:15:16,779 and interfering in every military decision, no matter how small. 169 00:15:20,161 --> 00:15:26,324 Hitler insists that any German soldier wanting to marry a foreign woman 170 00:15:26,388 --> 00:15:30,437 submit photographs in a resume of the foreign woman to him 171 00:15:30,501 --> 00:15:35,154 for his own personal review. This was just the madness that drove him. 172 00:15:35,218 --> 00:15:38,760 His ability to obsess about little details like that, 173 00:15:38,824 --> 00:15:42,313 even as this titanic war was raging. 174 00:15:47,573 --> 00:15:53,552 On the 28th of June 1942, Hitler launched his new Eastern offensive, 175 00:15:54,790 --> 00:15:58,455 demanding the final say on all military strategy. 176 00:16:03,035 --> 00:16:07,948 He decided to send over a million troops towards the southern Soviet Union. 177 00:16:09,225 --> 00:16:13,098 Instead of heading for Moscow, which is where most of his generals want to go, 178 00:16:13,162 --> 00:16:18,430 he now redirects the efforts south of that, towards the Caucasus, 179 00:16:18,494 --> 00:16:22,306 the oilfields of the Caucasus, but also this symbolic prize, 180 00:16:22,370 --> 00:16:25,310 which is Stalingrad on the Volga River. The city, of course, 181 00:16:25,374 --> 00:16:28,709 named after his great foe and the leader of Russia. 182 00:16:28,773 --> 00:16:31,387 He's going to capture that city because if he does it, 183 00:16:31,451 --> 00:16:34,362 it's is going to be huge humiliation for Stalin. 184 00:16:36,166 --> 00:16:42,665 These private photographs show Hitler imposing his will on seasoned commanders. 185 00:16:49,695 --> 00:16:54,653 It's command by remote control. There's Hitler sweeping his hand 186 00:16:54,717 --> 00:16:58,672 across vast maps of the USSR and that's where the problems come, 187 00:16:58,736 --> 00:17:01,674 because the German generals are consummate professionals. 188 00:17:02,714 --> 00:17:05,295 They would have done what was militarily most effective. 189 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,550 They would have withdrawn before Moscow, regrouped in order 190 00:17:08,614 --> 00:17:11,884 to attack from a more favorable position at a better time. 191 00:17:11,965 --> 00:17:14,839 They would not have sidetracked themselves 192 00:17:14,903 --> 00:17:17,981 to fight for this symbolic city that had no real significance. 193 00:17:18,045 --> 00:17:22,159 They know about logistics. They know about the twin tyrannies of time and space. 194 00:17:22,223 --> 00:17:25,326 Hitler is not. He goes with his intuition. 195 00:17:31,405 --> 00:17:34,713 Eleven days into the new Eastern offensive, 196 00:17:34,908 --> 00:17:37,971 Hitler ignored the objections of his Generals 197 00:17:40,229 --> 00:17:43,790 and split one of his army group’s to attack Stalingrad. 198 00:17:45,184 --> 00:17:50,383 The decision weakened his forces in the South, and they struggled to gain ground. 199 00:17:54,029 --> 00:18:00,179 At a forward command based in the Ukraine Hitler's frustration boiled over. 200 00:18:04,916 --> 00:18:10,316 “It's hot, it's humid. The news from the front is increasingly bad.” 201 00:18:11,059 --> 00:18:14,698 He turns to his Chief of the General Staff, General Franz Halder, 202 00:18:14,762 --> 00:18:17,031 and says, “You don't know anything about making war." 203 00:18:17,095 --> 00:18:20,988 "I was a soldier on the front in World War One. I know more than you do." 204 00:18:21,052 --> 00:18:24,333 "What did you do in World War One? You sat there on that same stool 205 00:18:24,397 --> 00:18:28,923 in front of that same table, drawing on your maps. You don't have a wound badge.” 206 00:18:30,381 --> 00:18:35,619 In an unprecedented move, Hitler fired General Wilhelm List 207 00:18:36,763 --> 00:18:40,145 and took personal command of his army group. 208 00:18:41,077 --> 00:18:45,062 Germany's supreme leader was now micromanaging 209 00:18:45,126 --> 00:18:49,801 the day to day logistics of 300.000 men. 210 00:18:51,848 --> 00:18:54,144 We have Hitler calling up front commanders and saying, 211 00:18:54,208 --> 00:18:57,306 "Where are your anti-tank guns in placed," calling up the Air Force 212 00:18:57,370 --> 00:19:02,545 and saying, "Send three JU-52 transport aircraft to such and such an airbase." 213 00:19:02,609 --> 00:19:04,949 These are things that should be done by the men on the spot, 214 00:19:05,013 --> 00:19:07,291 men who have the technical expertise. 215 00:19:07,355 --> 00:19:11,985 The thing that made the Germans better than anybody else in Europe at war 216 00:19:12,307 --> 00:19:16,491 was the clean, crisp communications between all arms. 217 00:19:16,555 --> 00:19:20,200 Along comes Adolf Hitler, who throws all that stuff in the dustbin. 218 00:19:21,381 --> 00:19:26,409 Under Hitler's command, the eastern offensive stuttered to a halt. 219 00:19:30,867 --> 00:19:35,494 As winter descended on Stalingrad, exhausted German troops 220 00:19:35,558 --> 00:19:40,721 asked their Commander in Chief to let them retreat for warmth and supplies. 221 00:19:46,623 --> 00:19:52,439 He's sitting in the Fuhrer-train, the dining car, the rosewood paneled dining car. 222 00:19:53,151 --> 00:19:57,104 When another train pulls up alongside, a boxcar, 223 00:19:57,168 --> 00:20:01,140 carrying German soldiers, bedraggled, demoralized, 224 00:20:01,204 --> 00:20:05,619 some grievously wounded. These are troops from Stalingrad 225 00:20:05,901 --> 00:20:09,554 as those ragged scarecrows peer into the window of his dining car, 226 00:20:09,790 --> 00:20:13,617 he reaches across the table and pulls down the shade. 227 00:20:18,996 --> 00:20:23,785 In January 1943, news from the Eastern Front 228 00:20:23,849 --> 00:20:26,815 had gone from bad to worse for Hitler. 229 00:20:38,668 --> 00:20:42,962 After five months of bitter fighting for control of Stalingrad, 230 00:20:44,033 --> 00:20:46,762 the Soviets had surrounded his troops. 231 00:20:49,184 --> 00:20:53,221 As the Battle of Stalingrad begins to go badly 232 00:20:53,285 --> 00:20:56,884 and as the German army there is cut off, 233 00:20:57,567 --> 00:21:01,115 Hitler begins to think in terms of German honor, 234 00:21:01,179 --> 00:21:04,295 German strength, German racial superiority. 235 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,803 Germans wouldn't be taken by mere Slavs, that sort of thing. 236 00:21:07,867 --> 00:21:10,652 As far as Hitler's concerned, this is now ideological. 237 00:21:10,716 --> 00:21:14,651 This is an end game to deal with Bolshevism and to deal with the Slavs. 238 00:21:14,715 --> 00:21:20,585 And so this racialist nonsense that forms Hitler then comes to drive his decisions. 239 00:21:39,539 --> 00:21:45,160 So far, 50.000 soldiers had died in the siege of Stalingrad. 240 00:21:47,313 --> 00:21:51,977 But Hitler once again refused to let his army withdraw. 241 00:21:55,102 --> 00:21:59,096 There's a complete lack of reality at the Fuhrer's headquarter. 242 00:21:59,938 --> 00:22:03,941 In Stalingrad, men are starving, they've seen their comrades killed, 243 00:22:04,005 --> 00:22:08,185 the freezing subzero temperatures. It's a cataclysmic scene, 244 00:22:08,249 --> 00:22:12,217 but Hitler doesn't want to face up to the realities on the ground. 245 00:22:13,709 --> 00:22:16,724 The image of Hitler is that he spent four years 246 00:22:16,788 --> 00:22:19,088 during the First World War in the front line in the trenches, 247 00:22:19,152 --> 00:22:22,333 and this is partly because he gives that impression in Mein Kampf. 248 00:22:22,397 --> 00:22:25,872 The truth is very different because he's given the job dispatch runner, 249 00:22:25,936 --> 00:22:28,236 quite a long way behind the front lines. 250 00:22:28,610 --> 00:22:31,796 He's not aware of the sacrifice of the troops in quite the same way 251 00:22:31,860 --> 00:22:34,160 as if he was sharing the experience with them. 252 00:22:34,761 --> 00:22:37,427 It's ironic because during the siege of Stalingrad, 253 00:22:37,491 --> 00:22:40,919 Hitler berates his generals for not having been frontline soldiers 254 00:22:40,983 --> 00:22:46,633 during the First World War and yet Hitler didn't actually understand what it was like. 255 00:22:47,848 --> 00:22:52,062 He's created this kind of fantasy world, I think about what German soldiers can do, 256 00:22:52,126 --> 00:22:55,033 which bears no reality, in fact, to the extraordinary conditions 257 00:22:55,097 --> 00:22:57,397 they had to face on the Eastern Front. 258 00:22:58,287 --> 00:23:01,679 On the 22nd of January 1943, 259 00:23:01,878 --> 00:23:06,877 Hitler received a desperate appeal from the German commander inside Stalingrad. 260 00:23:09,737 --> 00:23:16,032 His men were surrounded, out of ammunition, and forced to eat their horses to survive. 261 00:23:17,446 --> 00:23:21,442 General Friedrich Paulus wanted permission to surrender. 262 00:23:23,398 --> 00:23:26,786 It's a completely logical request from a military commander. 263 00:23:26,860 --> 00:23:30,187 Hitler won't allow it because he's still fixated with this idea, 264 00:23:30,251 --> 00:23:34,295 “You're going to go down in history if you make the Russians know 265 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,659 that the Germans will never give in.” 266 00:23:36,833 --> 00:23:40,470 He insisted that the troops would never surrender, 267 00:23:40,534 --> 00:23:45,313 however big a hole they were in and often they would not withdraw from situations 268 00:23:45,852 --> 00:23:49,868 from which they could escape simply as a matter of principle. 269 00:23:49,932 --> 00:23:54,590 And that's in more general terms and over the course of the war was a disaster. 270 00:23:56,138 --> 00:23:59,655 He promotes Paulus to Generalfeldmarshall, because he expects these generals 271 00:23:59,719 --> 00:24:03,183 and Feldmarshals to fight to the last man and the last cartridge; 272 00:24:03,247 --> 00:24:05,911 if not, he expects them to commit suicide. 273 00:24:06,286 --> 00:24:10,803 Hitler thinks of his soldiers are ideological warriors for a great idea. 274 00:24:11,768 --> 00:24:15,415 But they're the ones stuck out in a frozen waste 275 00:24:15,613 --> 00:24:18,968 thousand miles from home trying to eat a frozen horse. 276 00:24:23,824 --> 00:24:29,380 A few days later, General Paulus and the troops in Stalingrad surrendered. 277 00:24:32,205 --> 00:24:37,636 The German army had lost almost a quarter of a million men during the battle. 278 00:24:38,365 --> 00:24:43,134 To Hitler, this is the ultimate betrayal, the worst cowardice any of his generals 279 00:24:43,198 --> 00:24:48,480 could actually perpetrate is surrendering to the arch enemy, the Bolsheviks. 280 00:24:48,819 --> 00:24:53,324 Hitler is distraught and shocked that he didn't just put a bullet in his own brain. 281 00:24:53,865 --> 00:24:56,830 Hitler says that the remains of Sixth Army should gather round in a circle 282 00:24:56,894 --> 00:24:59,302 and shot each other with their last bullet. 283 00:25:03,956 --> 00:25:09,150 At the Wolf's Lair, Hitler struggled to deal with the reality of defeat. 284 00:25:10,939 --> 00:25:14,157 Privately, Hitler is in a really, really bad place. 285 00:25:15,294 --> 00:25:18,334 Anything he has a company is one of his Alsatians. 286 00:25:20,169 --> 00:25:25,251 It's emotionally very, very dark and gloomy places inhabiting. 287 00:25:27,490 --> 00:25:32,540 Up to that point during the war, he has been having lunch every day 288 00:25:32,604 --> 00:25:38,513 with his adjutants and discussing military progress and so on. 289 00:25:38,577 --> 00:25:43,769 But he can't bear the reality of this defeat 290 00:25:43,833 --> 00:25:48,672 and so from then on, he eats only with women, 291 00:25:48,736 --> 00:25:53,473 usually his secretaries and those women are under orders 292 00:25:53,537 --> 00:25:58,937 to keep the conversation light and cheerful. 293 00:25:59,340 --> 00:26:02,212 You couldn't bring him bad news. If you brought him bad news, 294 00:26:02,276 --> 00:26:05,015 you'd be exiled, demoted, executed. 295 00:26:06,823 --> 00:26:10,642 Even when a brave subordinate would give him the real estimates, 296 00:26:10,706 --> 00:26:15,541 Hitler would often respond, “Well, he'd write in the margin. This just can't be true.” 297 00:26:15,847 --> 00:26:21,107 And so Hitler's defeat is written in this inability to wrestle with reality. 298 00:26:33,780 --> 00:26:39,031 The extent of Hitler's self-delusion was captured on a secret audiotape, 299 00:26:41,584 --> 00:26:44,762 made without his knowledge by a sound engineer. 300 00:26:45,078 --> 00:26:50,273 It's the only known recording of him speaking in private and off the record. 301 00:26:55,403 --> 00:27:00,324 Hitler can be heard explaining to Finnish Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, 302 00:27:00,463 --> 00:27:03,645 why the assault on Russia wasn't going to plan. 303 00:27:12,971 --> 00:27:15,876 Hitler admits he was not properly prepared. 304 00:27:15,940 --> 00:27:19,486 He underestimated Russia, but he can't admit he's wrong. 305 00:27:19,685 --> 00:27:24,220 So the way for him to kind of justify or rationalize his mistake, 306 00:27:24,364 --> 00:27:27,105 he says, “I would have done it anyway.” 307 00:27:30,453 --> 00:27:34,286 When Hitler says, “The Russians had 35.000 tanks,” 308 00:27:37,418 --> 00:27:39,886 is clearly an exaggeration. 309 00:27:40,746 --> 00:27:47,348 In truth, that maximum strength the Soviet Army only had around 23.000 tanks. 310 00:27:48,935 --> 00:27:53,889 Even in trusted private company Hitler was manipulating the facts. 311 00:27:55,590 --> 00:27:59,403 These are bald faced lies. He states them with such confidence 312 00:27:59,467 --> 00:28:03,787 that people in the background go: “Yes, 35.000, yes, 35.000.” 313 00:28:06,801 --> 00:28:09,876 What he does then, is he has the audacity to say, 314 00:28:09,940 --> 00:28:15,758 “Nonetheless, we knocked out 34.000 of those 35.000 thanks.” 315 00:28:20,145 --> 00:28:24,772 When in fact, that's a fantasy. He's in a fantasy world. 316 00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:41,905 In summer 1943, Hitler's state of denial was setting the tone for his entire regime. 317 00:28:44,244 --> 00:28:48,433 Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had released films, 318 00:28:48,497 --> 00:28:52,963 showing German women on the home front enjoying the good life. 319 00:28:55,049 --> 00:29:00,551 But when Hamburg was carpet-bombed, Hitler could no longer hide the truth. 320 00:29:13,212 --> 00:29:17,823 As the city burned Hitler was unmoved. 321 00:29:20,541 --> 00:29:24,435 On the one hand, he has feelings for animals and children, 322 00:29:24,499 --> 00:29:29,589 but on the other, he has absolute indifference to the suffering of human beings. 323 00:29:29,721 --> 00:29:31,928 He believes that these hardships are 324 00:29:31,992 --> 00:29:35,441 what the German people have to go through for final victory. 325 00:29:36,301 --> 00:29:40,450 Hitler does not make a gesture toward his public that, 326 00:29:40,514 --> 00:29:43,512 “I'm with you, still, I'm one of you.” 327 00:29:45,410 --> 00:29:52,089 Instead, he buys 3000 paintings that are going to be housed in a new Museum of Art. 328 00:29:53,226 --> 00:29:56,662 In 1943-1944 the last thing you want to do 329 00:29:56,726 --> 00:30:00,847 is spend an exorbitant amount of money on artworks, and yet he does it. 330 00:30:00,911 --> 00:30:05,373 Not exactly a man who's staying with his people to the bitter end 331 00:30:05,437 --> 00:30:08,032 in the most horrible of conditions. 332 00:30:08,121 --> 00:30:12,105 One of the funny things, well, funny in a very sick way is 333 00:30:12,169 --> 00:30:17,761 that Hitler hopes that the allied bombs will destroy the Berlin Town Hall, 334 00:30:17,825 --> 00:30:20,935 which he sees as an execrable form of architecture. 335 00:30:20,999 --> 00:30:24,175 Had he been in charge, he would have built a better Town Hall. 336 00:30:24,239 --> 00:30:27,792 And so he keeps looking, “Have they bombed it yet? Have they destroyed it yet?" 337 00:30:27,856 --> 00:30:32,976 "And if they don't bomb it, I'll be really disappointed. I might even bomb it myself.” 338 00:30:34,233 --> 00:30:39,320 Privately, Hitler was defiant, but as the destruction mounted, 339 00:30:39,441 --> 00:30:42,469 he lost his appetite for public appearances. 340 00:30:42,643 --> 00:30:46,280 The sense that Hitler has retreated doesn't go unnoticed 341 00:30:46,344 --> 00:30:50,113 and you even find graffiti smeared around parts of the cities 342 00:30:50,177 --> 00:30:53,921 that are critical of the government; quickly erased, of course. 343 00:30:56,768 --> 00:30:59,068 Once a prolific orator, 344 00:31:01,299 --> 00:31:05,304 Hitler only made two speeches in 1943. 345 00:31:06,131 --> 00:31:10,020 One of them shortly after the defeat at Stalingrad. 346 00:31:14,433 --> 00:31:18,494 It's really an issue for Goebbels to try to coax Hitler to speak 347 00:31:18,558 --> 00:31:23,636 to his people when he does speak Hitler is himself dejected. 348 00:31:47,262 --> 00:31:50,368 It's monotone compared to his normal speeches. 349 00:31:50,432 --> 00:31:53,242 He no longer brings people to that crescendo. 350 00:31:54,619 --> 00:32:00,517 Once Hitler loses his ability to move the German people by his oratory, 351 00:32:03,490 --> 00:32:07,216 he's losing the very thing that brought him to power. 352 00:32:18,143 --> 00:32:23,184 On the 9th of July 1943, the allies invaded Sicily 353 00:32:24,618 --> 00:32:27,330 opening up a new Western Front. 354 00:32:29,978 --> 00:32:36,198 16 days later, Adolf Hitler's closest axis ally, Benito Mussolini, 355 00:32:36,312 --> 00:32:39,449 was taken into custody by his own government. 356 00:32:41,518 --> 00:32:45,201 The Fuhrer began to hatch a daring rescue plan. 357 00:32:48,444 --> 00:32:52,361 The idea of rescuing Mussolini terrifically exciting for Hitler. 358 00:32:52,425 --> 00:32:55,692 It's like a piece of boyish escapism while the rest of the war is going badly 359 00:32:55,756 --> 00:32:58,056 he could prove himself. 360 00:32:58,401 --> 00:33:00,701 Ultimately, Hitler is a child. 361 00:33:01,266 --> 00:33:04,514 He's someone who thinks that getting Mussolini back 362 00:33:04,578 --> 00:33:10,227 and putting him back atop a fascist state will somehow turn things around for the axis, 363 00:33:10,291 --> 00:33:13,416 and Hitler has a very curious relationship with Mussolini. 364 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,132 1930s Hitler is very much an acolyte of Benito Mussolini 365 00:33:17,196 --> 00:33:21,534 and admirer his prized possessions as signed photograph from the Il Duce. 366 00:33:23,193 --> 00:33:26,806 I think there's a genuine fondness that Hitler feels for Mussolini. 367 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,957 Why? Because he's the only other man on the planet 368 00:33:31,021 --> 00:33:35,803 who has any idea of what it's like to be a jackbooted dictator 369 00:33:35,867 --> 00:33:39,808 of a European fascist state, but of course, the relationship falters 370 00:33:39,872 --> 00:33:43,471 as Mussolini's political and military campaigns falter. 371 00:33:43,535 --> 00:33:47,550 And so therefore it's Hitler who has to end up bailing them out. 372 00:33:51,115 --> 00:33:56,284 German intelligence informed Hitler, intercepted messages had revealed Mussolini 373 00:33:56,348 --> 00:33:59,046 was being held in the Italian Alps. 374 00:34:04,827 --> 00:34:08,858 SS-Commander Unit Crash Land, a load of gliders on the side of a mountain 375 00:34:08,922 --> 00:34:15,209 and storm a hotel, rescue Mussolini in a tiny, little featureless stork aircraft 376 00:34:15,273 --> 00:34:18,447 and back in time for tea and medals. 377 00:34:19,745 --> 00:34:24,248 Hitler is completely delighted because it's a great coup. 378 00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:27,731 It's done under great cloak and dagger and daring do. 379 00:34:27,795 --> 00:34:30,393 It's a fantastic story. He's ecstatic. 380 00:34:30,457 --> 00:34:35,357 He wants the details repeated again and again, over and over again, savoring them. 381 00:34:35,433 --> 00:34:39,365 Perhaps it is a reminder to him of the sweetness of victory, 382 00:34:39,429 --> 00:34:41,673 but of course it is far from that. 383 00:34:41,737 --> 00:34:44,007 It's the rescue of one man and one man 384 00:34:44,071 --> 00:34:46,446 who can no longer play an active role in the war. 385 00:34:47,936 --> 00:34:51,406 When Mussolini is brought before Hitler, the Fuhrer is distraught 386 00:34:51,470 --> 00:34:53,875 to see the state he is. 387 00:34:54,575 --> 00:34:56,893 He is no longer the once great warlord of Italy. 388 00:34:56,957 --> 00:35:00,670 He is an old man in a shabby coat. He's broken. 389 00:35:01,168 --> 00:35:03,870 The glow of Mussolini's rescue quickly wears off 390 00:35:03,934 --> 00:35:07,897 and within hours he is treating Mussolini as a nobody. 391 00:35:12,039 --> 00:35:17,328 In September 1943, Hitler's forces occupied most of Italy, 392 00:35:17,392 --> 00:35:22,243 and despite Mussolini's condition, put him in charge of a puppet government. 393 00:35:26,065 --> 00:35:31,736 Meanwhile, on the Eastern front, German troops were being overwhelmed by the Red Army. 394 00:35:34,799 --> 00:35:39,171 Two months earlier, a German offensive called Operation Citadel 395 00:35:39,235 --> 00:35:42,195 was smashed by a Soviet counterattack. 396 00:35:44,268 --> 00:35:47,597 50.000 troops were killed or injured. 397 00:35:51,463 --> 00:35:55,233 When German army units, army groups, generals, countenance withdrawal, 398 00:35:55,297 --> 00:35:57,680 he believes that they're not worthy. And he said, 399 00:35:57,744 --> 00:36:01,048 “Those men with their purple stripes down the trousers make me sick." 400 00:36:01,112 --> 00:36:03,357 "They're worse than Jews.” 401 00:36:03,421 --> 00:36:06,809 That is how strong Hitler feels about the German General Staff. 402 00:36:10,908 --> 00:36:15,271 For one of Hitler's most senior commanders, the feeling was mutual. 403 00:36:16,889 --> 00:36:23,166 Field Marshal Eric von Manstein was openly critical of the Fuhrer’s aggressive tactics, 404 00:36:27,598 --> 00:36:30,917 earning him several visits from Hitler himself. 405 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:37,071 This is a rich piece of footage, historical context. 406 00:36:37,135 --> 00:36:43,105 Hitler, after winning so many battles, now is losing, and his general von Manstein, 407 00:36:43,169 --> 00:36:47,150 is trying to get this message across to Hitler, and he's trying to say, 408 00:36:47,214 --> 00:36:49,561 “Hey, occasionally we need to do a tactical retreat.” 409 00:36:49,625 --> 00:36:53,406 But Hitler is not about retreat at all. He's forward, forward, forward thinking. 410 00:36:53,470 --> 00:36:56,210 And so, you know the relationship here - 411 00:36:56,274 --> 00:36:59,912 the General is not pleased, "I don't like what's happening here." 412 00:37:00,365 --> 00:37:04,441 And Hitler is not interested at all. In fact, for most of this footage, 413 00:37:04,505 --> 00:37:09,696 he's actually disengaged. You can see that he’s not even really listening. 414 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,201 He doesn't really even care about all these passionate details 415 00:37:13,265 --> 00:37:18,419 that the general is giving him. Instead, he wants to gain power over the situation. 416 00:37:18,483 --> 00:37:22,707 He's trying his hands on his hips to look powerful, but the hands go up high, 417 00:37:22,771 --> 00:37:26,796 so he looks like he has little chicken wings and he's clucking about this situation. 418 00:37:27,492 --> 00:37:33,420 Then there's the big reveal, the handshake. This is the not “let go” handshake. 419 00:37:33,484 --> 00:37:36,322 In this handshake is not the normal three to five seconds. 420 00:37:36,386 --> 00:37:39,624 In fact, it last for over 30 seconds. 421 00:37:39,688 --> 00:37:43,976 It goes on and finally, finally, it disengages, 422 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:49,367 but it tells me, Hitler is saying, “I am done with you." 423 00:37:49,477 --> 00:37:52,815 "You have no power. I am the one with the power.” 424 00:37:57,715 --> 00:38:00,444 Hitler later fired Manstein. 425 00:38:02,487 --> 00:38:06,802 He was determined to cleanse the army of anyone who disagreed with him, 426 00:38:06,932 --> 00:38:09,232 even his best men. 427 00:38:09,790 --> 00:38:13,381 Generals Halder, Guderian and Runstedt, 428 00:38:13,450 --> 00:38:17,317 heroes from the French campaign, were also dismissed. 429 00:38:19,218 --> 00:38:24,049 Hitler replaced them with inexperienced men, who would do as they were told. 430 00:38:25,618 --> 00:38:29,489 There are generals who are being paid by Hitler under the table 431 00:38:29,580 --> 00:38:33,251 outside of their normal salaries, large sums of money to supporting him. 432 00:38:34,224 --> 00:38:36,524 He's paying them for loyalty. 433 00:38:36,708 --> 00:38:39,068 He's paying them just shut up and do their job. 434 00:38:42,538 --> 00:38:47,552 In May 1944, enemy forces converged on the Reich. 435 00:38:50,522 --> 00:38:54,396 The Red Army was less than 400 miles from Vienna. 436 00:38:55,090 --> 00:39:01,390 The allies were closing in on Rome and preparing a huge invasion force in England. 437 00:39:05,650 --> 00:39:10,007 But Hitler was back at his Alpine HQ, the Berghof 438 00:39:12,353 --> 00:39:15,979 and relaxing with his mistress, Eva Braun. 439 00:39:18,838 --> 00:39:23,499 Eva Braun says, "It reminds her of the good old days.” 440 00:39:23,733 --> 00:39:28,889 "Short walks with the dogs, films in the evening, sitting by the fire, 441 00:39:28,953 --> 00:39:32,594 cake in the tea house, guests staying, 442 00:39:32,658 --> 00:39:35,564 people out on the terrace, on the lounges." 443 00:39:35,662 --> 00:39:41,049 However, we know that in his relationship with Eva Braun, 444 00:39:41,113 --> 00:39:45,175 as in so many other areas of his life, Hitler resorted to drugs. 445 00:39:45,866 --> 00:39:50,745 He was injected with testosterone, cocaine eye drops, everything. 446 00:39:53,368 --> 00:39:58,120 As his health worsened, Hitler's leg was shaking uncontrollably. 447 00:39:59,699 --> 00:40:04,937 His personal physician, Dr. Theodore Morrell, noted in his diary, 448 00:40:05,001 --> 00:40:07,393 “It was probably stress related.” 449 00:40:08,404 --> 00:40:13,103 The treatment was an injection, believed to contain methamphetamine. 450 00:40:17,747 --> 00:40:20,200 One of the things that we know more about today 451 00:40:20,264 --> 00:40:23,582 than we did in the past is Hitler's drug use. 452 00:40:25,119 --> 00:40:31,240 He was on a cocktail of something like 74 drugs and so this clearly clouds the mind. 453 00:40:33,356 --> 00:40:36,742 It'll keep you up, It'll keep you going, but it really robs you 454 00:40:36,806 --> 00:40:39,106 of a great deal of perspective. 455 00:40:40,180 --> 00:40:44,540 He’s an addicted leader and so all of the flaws that he brings to the table 456 00:40:44,604 --> 00:40:49,746 before he gets into drugs become very much amplified by that drug use. 457 00:40:53,831 --> 00:40:57,081 Eva took advantage of Hitler's detached mood 458 00:40:59,349 --> 00:41:04,034 and hosted her sister's wedding reception at the Eagle's Nest teahouse 459 00:41:04,098 --> 00:41:06,398 above the Berghof. 460 00:41:07,928 --> 00:41:11,085 At weddings and formal occasions, he's wheeled out 461 00:41:11,149 --> 00:41:13,528 as the kind of slightly embarrassing relative, 462 00:41:13,763 --> 00:41:17,716 who's a bit creepy and austere and detached. 463 00:41:18,066 --> 00:41:22,351 He's kind of glassy eyed, and he's just not there anymore. 464 00:41:23,497 --> 00:41:27,354 He's, of course, dealing with his own health issues, his own insomnia, 465 00:41:27,418 --> 00:41:31,473 his own worries about where this is all leading. 466 00:41:31,537 --> 00:41:36,575 From a propaganda perspective, this is powerful because the whole Hitler myth 467 00:41:36,639 --> 00:41:41,796 is built upon sort of accessibility to Hitler; hearing his voice, seeing his face. 468 00:41:41,860 --> 00:41:45,912 When all those things were absolutely needed to convince the German people 469 00:41:45,976 --> 00:41:49,282 that Hitler was still the leader of the country, 470 00:41:49,346 --> 00:41:51,646 he doesn't show himself at all. 471 00:41:53,424 --> 00:41:57,095 Hitler now based his military command at the Berghof. 472 00:41:57,782 --> 00:42:02,948 Each day, a few hours was set aside for strategy meetings with his Generals 473 00:42:03,214 --> 00:42:06,193 in what was an otherwise leisurely routine. 474 00:42:09,922 --> 00:42:13,687 The whole kind of schedule of the day is teenagerly 475 00:42:14,471 --> 00:42:19,853 and Hitler talks about the four years between the death of his father 476 00:42:19,917 --> 00:42:23,911 and the death of his mother as one of the happiest periods in his life 477 00:42:23,975 --> 00:42:28,220 and he is absolutely indulged by his mother. 478 00:42:28,284 --> 00:42:33,514 He has to do nothing except lie-in and enjoy himself, 479 00:42:33,819 --> 00:42:37,128 and with the help of drugs, and the mountains, 480 00:42:37,290 --> 00:42:40,369 and that's what he recreates in the Berghof. 481 00:42:41,673 --> 00:42:45,453 So the long lie-in, the late breakfast, 482 00:42:45,789 --> 00:42:49,917 the medical treatments, the injections 483 00:42:51,084 --> 00:42:57,300 and the pills before lunch. 484 00:43:00,557 --> 00:43:06,428 And then he will walk down to the teahouse, eat cake, 485 00:43:06,492 --> 00:43:12,956 and he gets driven back up hill because he never likes to physically exert himself. 486 00:43:13,394 --> 00:43:18,702 Supper, another vegetarian meal, and then it's a very strong expectation. 487 00:43:18,766 --> 00:43:24,421 Everyone gathers around the fire and he starts talking and he talks 488 00:43:24,485 --> 00:43:29,921 and talks and talks about art, about race, 489 00:43:29,985 --> 00:43:33,831 music, vegetarianism, our history, differences about people. 490 00:43:33,895 --> 00:43:37,963 You'll have to sit there and listen to it and we have many memoir accounts 491 00:43:38,027 --> 00:43:42,030 where people say, “My God, I was ready to shoot myself. I thought he would never stop.” 492 00:43:42,094 --> 00:43:45,860 More cake is served and he bangs on and on and on, 493 00:43:45,924 --> 00:43:52,023 and nobody can go to bed until he stops and it can be two, three in the morning. 494 00:43:54,677 --> 00:43:57,244 5th of June 1944. 495 00:43:59,017 --> 00:44:02,547 True to his routine, Hitler stayed up late, chatting 496 00:44:02,611 --> 00:44:06,939 and watching movies with Eva before going to bed around 3:00 a.m.. 497 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:22,207 600 miles away in Normandy, American paratroopers began the first phase 498 00:44:22,271 --> 00:44:24,571 of the allied invasion. 499 00:44:28,687 --> 00:44:34,917 At 6:30 a.m., massed allied forces began landing on the beaches of Normandy. 500 00:44:38,627 --> 00:44:40,927 D-Day was underway. 501 00:44:45,714 --> 00:44:48,598 And the Fuhrer couldn't be woken. 502 00:44:51,669 --> 00:44:54,403 Hitler was the only guy that could release divisions, reserve divisions 503 00:44:54,467 --> 00:44:57,062 to repel the invasion, and yet nobody would wake it. 504 00:44:57,284 --> 00:45:00,101 Hitler is literally asleep at the wheel; landing craft 505 00:45:00,165 --> 00:45:04,991 are bringing the troops to the various beaches - Gold, Sword, Juna, Omaha, Utah. 506 00:45:05,291 --> 00:45:09,075 The allies are ashore at Normandy while Hitler is rubbing the sleep from his eyes. 507 00:45:10,153 --> 00:45:14,013 And it's not until about 10 o'clock that his staff dared to wake him up. 508 00:45:14,077 --> 00:45:16,672 When he does awake, this response is curious. 509 00:45:16,736 --> 00:45:19,343 “Gentlemen,” he says, “it's finally happened." 510 00:45:19,407 --> 00:45:23,600 "They're finally here as I expected them to come. Now let's see what happens.” 511 00:45:23,664 --> 00:45:25,901 We hit the seizes as the moment, this is a moment where the Germans 512 00:45:25,965 --> 00:45:28,201 are going to show the British, Americans a proper war. 513 00:45:28,265 --> 00:45:30,969 He's facing disaster with open arms. 514 00:45:31,265 --> 00:45:33,824 He's standing on a precipice with the German people. 515 00:45:34,648 --> 00:45:37,955 He's going to take them with him to Apocalypse. 516 00:45:41,955 --> 00:45:57,955 Transcribed danel32. Ready for job-offers /eng.to.est@gmail.com/ 48531

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