BBC - The Nazis - A Warning From History (Part 1 & 2 of 6)

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BBC - The Nazis - A Warning From History (6 parts)

As the new century approaches, one historical question more than any other demands an answer.

How could a cultured nation at the heart of Europe be responsible for acts so heinous that they have altered concepts of what man is capable of.

How could the Nazis come to be?

This series is the definitive television history of the rise and fall of the Nazis.

Episode 1 - Helped into Power
How was it possible that a cultured nation at the heart of Europe ever allowed Hitler and the Nazi party to come to power?

Episode 2 - Chaos and Consent
If the Germans are famous for one quality it is efficiency. Yet the Nazi administration of Germany during the 1930’s was characterised by radical chaos.

Episode 3 - The Wrong War
Hitler admired one country more than any other - Great Britain. His favourite film was the Bengal lancers which told the story of the British in India. In Mienkampf he spoke of expanding German territory tot he East. How was it possible then that in 1939 he ended up fighting the one country that he had started out wanting as an ally, Great Britain, and allied to the one country he had intended to take land from, Russia?

Episode 4 - The Wild East
Poland was to become the epicentre of Nazi brutality; the place were Nazism achieved its purest and most bestial form. This is the story of the first two years of the Nazi occupation of Poland and the vicious power battles between the Nazi barons.

Episode 5 - The Road to Trbelinka
How was it possible that the holocaust ever happened? With access to extraordinary new material from Lithuania including an interview with a member of the Nazi killing squads this programme examines how the Nazi could commit acts which have caused estimates of how low human can sink for ever to be altered.

Episode 6 - Fighting to the End
In the summer of 1943 the Italians, seeing which way the war was going, voted Mussolini out of office declared the war over. Why couldn’t the Germans do the same? Why did it take the near total destruction of their country for them to give in?

How could a political party as fundamentally evil and overtly racist as the Nazis come to power?

This remains one of the most enigmatic questions of the last century.

Acclaimed historian Laurence Rees examines what led a cultured nation at the heart of Europe to commit the atrocities it did. In so doing, he exposes popular myths and encourages understanding of the real forces that led to one of the darkest chapters in modern history.

Was it simply the hypnotic power of Hitler's rhetoric?

Did the Gestapo really impose themselves by terror on an unwilling population?

Through interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archive film and records, this six-part series unveils a more chilling reality.

How could it possibly have happened?

An evocative 6 part series which rather than investigating the Second World War as a whole, looks at how it could have happened.

How did anti-semitism permeate throughout Germany society?

How did people feel about having to murder civilians in cold blood?

Anyone who believes in the ultimate goodness of humanity will be left with the shivers after watching interviews with ex-Wermacht and SS soldiers who took part in massacres.

The sheer indifference of one individual who clearly has never even heard of the concept of guilt never mind considered it is horrifically compelling.

This is a man who could appear as a harmless grandfather, still harbours no regrets about his role and claims that his very short prison terms alleviates him of any responsibility for the taking of innocent lives.

This series is fundamentally important history as it illuminates what humanity is capable of when all normal controls are removed and men are invited to behave in a lawless manner.

Furthermore, with recent history in Rwanda and the Balkans leaving many people shaking their heads at what could motivate such savagery, this series offers a potential cross-referenced explanation.

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