Rise Of The Nazis: 2nd September 2019 9pm BBC 2: 3 Episodes

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    A powerful three-part forensic examination of how Germany turned from a liberal democracy into a brutal murderous dictatorship in just four years.
    In 1930 Germany was a liberal democracy, but just four years later the country is ruled by a dictator and its government is in the hands of murderers. Rise Of The Nazis is a powerful three-part forensic examination of what happened in those four short years. The series reveals that the Nazification of Germany was as much about ruthless personal ambition and a desire to hold onto power by more moderate politicians as it was about extreme ideology.

    The series will also expose the power struggles between prominent Nazis which helped transform Germany into a brutal police state, allowing Hitler to transform himself from Chancellor to all-powerful Führer of the Third Reich.

    Along with dramatic reconstruction and archive footage, historians and experts, including Professor Sir Richard Evans, General Sir Mike Jackson, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, and Ash Sarkar, take viewers inside the heads of the historical characters who were key players, and pick apart the events in the Nazis’ rise to power.

    Each episode also reveals one of the many resistance stories, acting as a reminder that there were those who understood what was happening and were prepared to act.

    In a political climate that is dominated by concerns about the rise of populism, nationalism and disunity, this series is also a timely look at the fragility of democracy.


    BBC - Rise Of The Nazis - Media Centre
     
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  2. idler

    idler GeneralList

    I know I've paid for it but I think I'd better give that a miss for the sake of my blood pressure.
     
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  4. Tolbooth

    Tolbooth Patron Patron

    Think I'll give it a miss as it features that invention of the Devil and patronising TV producers - "dramatic reconstruction"

    Could only be worse if "historian" D. Snow was presenting...

    It's my age...turning into an old curmudegeon
     
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  5. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    Laurence Rees's revisiting of history is remarkable.When I saw Post #1,I thought of his contribution and could not think that his work could be improved on.

    Gets to the heart of the matter.I recollect that he had access to Gestapo files in one German town and read that a woman had denounced another to the Gestapo.He was able to trace the denouncer and interview her which proved to be embarrassing for the denouncer after all these years.

    Without doubt a documentary that propagates a warning to all democracies.
     
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  6. Lindele

    Lindele formerly HA96

    looking at the world of today, yes, a lot changed.
    Fortunately I was born in late March 1945. What would I have done, if I was born 10 years earlier?
    I would still recommend to watch these documentaries and tell young folks to have a break with their playstations and see what really happened, as well as push their studies of history with a focus on WW1 and WW2.

    Stefan.
     
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  7. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    As I oft state.
    It keeps that era in the now
     
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  8. SteveDee

    SteveDee Well-Known Member

    I just caught up via iPlayer and have now seen all 3 episodes of this excellent documentary.

    Its just amazing that Hitler's friends managed to dismantle democracy in just 6 months and pave the way to the disaster that followed.

    Having the support of the SS, Gestapo and 4million Storm Troupers certainly helped, but there were a few lucky breaks for Adolf along the way.

    This documentary should be compulsory viewing for all 15 year old school students in europe (...maybe the world).

    Back at school in the 60s, we did nothing useful in History. We just had to learn the dates for Kings/Queens of England. I got as far as Henry 6 (...you know, that fat fella that had 8 wives and fell out with the pope!) before giving it up in favour of metal-work.
     
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  9. Little Friend

    Little Friend Senior Member

    Same thing happened at our school. All we were taught was about the Royal family etc. By the time we were getting close to WW1 it was my last year, 1972 and we all left to start work. So were taught nothing of real interest to many of us.
     
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  10. idler

    idler GeneralList

    The World Wars weren't in the syllabus in my day, as far as I could tell. Not that we needed them with Battle, Victor , Warlord and Commando comics, Airfix kits in every other shop, Action Man, socially-acceptable toy guns, etc. Doing it at school would've spoilt it...
     
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  11. SteveDee

    SteveDee Well-Known Member

    I think the biggest mistake my parents generation made (both at home and at school) was NOT talking about WW2.

    20 years later (in the 1960s) we were all "make love, not war" because we had no idea what WW2 was all about. I think we just thought that a few national leaders had an argument about something that didn't affect us. All through my life I've heard people talk as if war is always avoidable.

    People still sometimes say things like "Switzerland stayed neutral, so why didn't we?". They know nothing.
     
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  12. Robert-w

    Robert-w Banned

    Completely different in my case. First economic history - the agricultural revolution which formed the platform for the industrial revolution and on through the booms and busts of the Victorian period and on to the post WW1 depression.
    Then European history from the end of the 30 years war to 1914. This was in a Grammar Tech (of which there were only 3 as the Attlee admin didn't like the idea which had been devised by C P Snow) in the late 50s and early 60s. Perhaps I was lucky?
     
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  13. Ramiles

    Ramiles Researching 9th Lancers, 24th L and SRY

    Also on...
    The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West, Volume 1

    Streamed live on 13 Nov 2015

    "James Holland weaves together the experiences of civilians, infantrymen, line officers, military strategists, diplomats, and heads of state with war strategy, tactics, and the economic, political, and social aspects of the war to redefine our understanding of one of the most significant conflicts in history."

    Edit: Followed by...


    Streamed live on 13 Oct 2017

    "When James Holland’s The Rise of Germany, the first volume in his War in the West trilogy, ended, the Nazi war machine looked to be unstoppable. In The Allies Strike Back, while Germany’s invasion of Russia unfolds in the east, in the west, the Americans formally enter the war, defeat Rommel in North Africa, and the bombing of Germany escalates, aiming to destroy Nazi industry and crush civilian morale."
     
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  14. Ramiles

    Ramiles Researching 9th Lancers, 24th L and SRY

    The Rest is History - Podcast

    295. The Rise of the Nazis

    Where do the origins of Nazism lie? The Second Reich? Hitler’s time in Vienna? The First World War? Join Tom and Dominic in the first of their four-part series on the Rise of the Nazis as they discuss its origins.
     

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