Name: Hitler's People
Uploaded: 2015
Description: This two-part documentary is an intimate and revealing portrait of the German people under Hitler.

This two-part documentary is an intimate and revealing portrait of the German people under Hitler.

On 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed German Reichskanzler. Theoretically, he was only one further new head of government. But in the practice of the coming months, the head of the NSDAP managed to completely reconstruct the country and center it around his person.

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On 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed German Reichskanzler. Terror became a principle of politics, and Germany, a fascist dictatorship.

Conformity

On 18 February 1943 Joseph Goebbels held his notorious "Total War" speech about being "faithful to the last" at the Berlin Sportpalast. But the Reich's defeat in Stalingrad a few weeks earlier shook the faith of the Germans in the "final battle", which saw Germany crumbling more and more every day.

On 18 February 1943 Joseph Goebbels held his notorious "Total War" speech about being "faithful to the last" at the Berlin Sportpalast.