How could Adolf Hitler and the Nazis have come to power in such a highly educated, industrially developed country, and in such a short time?
In this course you see the staggering effect on Germany of its defeat in World War I and how this allowed extreme nationalist movements like Nazism to thrive.
- What made the regime so popular?
- How were the Nazis able to seize control of the press, the radio, the courts, and the police with so little trouble? And to prepare for and fight the greatest war in history?
- How did Hitler’s obsession with the “Judeo-Bolshevik” conspiracy destroy him and almost take the civilized world down with him?