Hitler: The Rise to Power
People Who Made History
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28m
In the 1930s Germany, one of the World's richest, most technologically-developed and culturally-sophisticated countries, was transformed into an extreme authoritarian state under its dictator Adolf Hitler. His unbridled ambition would plunge the World into a war bloodier and more destructive than any in history. So one of the most important questions from our past is just how Adolf Hitler was able to come to power. Featuring renowned historian of the Third Reich Frank McDonough, and Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, professor of communications at Queen Mary, University of London.
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