The Nazis: A Warning from History

Season

1997

8.7

An examination of how a cultured people could have allowed Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Helped into Power

By January 1933, Germany had voted for a chancellor who was openly opposed to democracy.

S1 • E2

Chaos and Consent

A look at the extraordinary popularity of both Hitler and the Nazis, as well as the astonishing degree of voluntary support ordinary Germans gave the infamous Gestapo.

S1 • E3

The Wrong War

A look at how Hitler found himself at war with Britain - a country whose achievements he admired - and allied to his ideological enemy, the Soviet Union.

S1 • E4

The Wild East

This film provides insights into how the Nazis' reign of terror in Poland was characterised by huge population upheavals, chaos, petty squabbles and sheer bloodlust.

S1 • E5

The Road to Treblinka

Part 5 travels "The Road to Treblinka," examining the Holocaust and how the Nazis moved from a policy of ethnic "relocation" to one of mass murder. Included: an interview with one of the 70 known survivors of the Treblinka death camp.