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The Nazis- The Acclaimed BBC Documentary [VHS]
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Product Details/SpecificationsRecording label: A&E Home Video EAN: 9780767008877Binding: VHS TapeISBN: 0767008871Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, NTSC, Release Date: 1999-10-26Universal product code (UPC): 733961403350Number of discs: 6Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)Description
" The rise of Hitler was inevitable. The Gestapo received little help from ordinary Germans. The Nazi government was organized and efficient. There was widespread German resistance to the Nazis. Many people believe these statements. They are all false. THE NAZIS: A WARNING FROM HISTORY is the definitive history of the Third Reich, exposing many widely-held myths. Extensive commentary from world- renowned scholars like Ian Kershaw, bestselling author of Hitler and The Hitler Myth, recently discovered documents and archival footage from former Soviet-Bloc nations and riveting eyewitness testimony combine in this landmark series. Hear chilling testimony from a convicted war criminal who stares blankly when asked if his conscience bothers him for sending Jews to their death. Explore the reasons for the Germans' refusal to surrender even when their fate was obvious to the entire world. And see how Hitler's dependence on his underlings led to some of the most radical policies of Nazi Germany. From the brownshirts and Kristalnacht to Hitler's suicide, join host Roger Mudd for the true, shocking history of Nazi Germany."
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What higher praise could one lavish on a 300-minute documentary series about an all-too-familiar subject other than that the production makes old news seem quite new again? Rarely has an ambitious documentary project gone to such lengths to reintroduce a notorious chapter in world history as did The Nazis: Warning from History, a BBC series originally brought to American audiences by the History Channel. It may sound unlikely, but chances are viewers will feel they are hearing the story of Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Nazi party for the first time. There's a reason for that: a considerable amount of information and film footage incorporated into the program is relatively new and unknown to the general public, much of it discovered in the former East Germany and other one-time Soviet bloc nations. These include striking color images of jack-booted Nazi troopers parading in Berlin, Hitler arriving at a conference, and street scenes that give this production an almost shocking immediacy. There are also uncovered documents relating to Hitler's entrance into extremist political life, his manipulation of German justice, and the strange story of why Germany ended up in a war with Great Britain (a nation Hitler actually admired). Aided immensely by British historian Ian Kershaw, an expert on the Nazi era, the series explains a lot of things, from Hitler's popularity with big business and rural voters (who knew almost nothing about him) to the convoluted reasons Germany's invasion of Russia helped turn a policy of expelling Jews into a decision to murder them in death camps. The Nazis makes the entire period from the end of World War I to Hitler's suicide a living nightmare again, one from which every nation on Earth can yet distill the lessons of scapegoating neighbors and embracing the promises of madmen. --Tom Keogh
Running time: 300 minutesLanguage: English (Unknown)
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