Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler The Menace

Part 1 of 2. A look at the rise of the Nazis in Germany, starting with the Great War of 1914-1918., Rare colour footage shows how Hitler revealed his haunting mission to save Germany. But, few would listen to the mediocre artist… until the 1929 economic crisis., The Rise of Hitler follows the Führer’s rise to power, which was as unforeseeable as it was catastrophic. This first episode follows his early years. A mediocre student pampered by his mother, a failed artist and a loner, Hitler shirked military service in 1913. But Germany’s defeat in World War I turned him into a rabid nationalist who soon became the mouthpiece of a small far-right group. When galloping inflation overtook Germany in 1924, he attempted a coup with his paramilitary Storm Troopers, but it was a terrible failure. Lucky to survive, Hitler was imprisoned and wrote Mein Kampf in his cell. When he was released he restarted his quest for power, this time by legal means. But the Germans weren’t worried; they still thought Hitler was just an irrelevant deluded crank on the margins of German politics…, A look at the rise of the Nazis in Germany, starting with the Great War of 1914-1918.