Nazis--a warning from history (Television program)
Title:
The Nazis [videorecording] : a warning from history / a BBC/A & E Network co-production ; written and produced by Laurence Rees ; director [one episode], Tilman Remme.
Format:
[videorecording] :
Publisher:
BBC Video ;
Copyright Date:
c2005
Description:
2 videodiscs (ca. 290 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1997. Region 1, full screen presentation 4:3, stereo. Narrator, Samuel West.
Contents:
Fighting to the end. Chaos & consent : the Nazi rule of Germany -- The wrong war -- The wild east -- The road to Treblinka -- Fighting to the end.
Summary:
Use interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archival film and records, to examine how a political party as fundamentally evil as the Nazis could come to power in a modern European nation. Discusses the factors that enabled the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the economically-devastated Germany of the post-World War I era and looks at the role of ordinary Germans in the Nazi regime. Follows the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, from its early promises through the atrocities and suffering of World War II. Includes segments focusing on the occupation of Poland and on the holocaust and concentration camps, particularly Treblinka.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.