The rise of Nazi Germany
Nazi SA 'brownshirts' organise boycotts of Jewish businesses in Berlin. Hitler presides over a military parade in 1939 to celebrate his 50th birthday, and Minister for Propaganda Josef Goebbels speaks at a Nazi book-burning rally
The rise of Nazi Germany
Nazi SA 'brownshirts' organise boycotts of Jewish businesses in Berlin. Hitler presides over a military parade in 1939 to cel...
Rearming Germany
Prof Richard Overy argues that Nazi rearmament was serious and substantial, but was not geared towards a major European war i...
Hitler's first speech as chancellor
GERMAN LANGUAGE: Newly appointed German Chancellor Adolf Hitler makes his first speech and other prominent Nazis take office ...
German rearmament
German army officers inspect an armaments factory, as Hitler's regime rearms in defiance of the Versailles Treaty...
Adolf Hitler assumes Bizmarks mantle 1933
"Berlin. Adolf Hitler assumes Bismark's mantle! As Germany's Chancellor - once a Lance Corporal - he is now master of his ado...
German Nazi youth camp 1930
A German film showing young people, mostly Hitler Youth, enjoying themselves at an outdoor camp...
The new Germany
"Berlin. Hundreds of thousands of boys and girls in a Nazi great 'Demonstration of Youth'...
German war readiness
Dr Simon Trew looks at how Germany was psychologically and physically well prepared for a short European war in 1939, but les...
Hitler and the threat of war
Prof Richard Overy explains why the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1933 made a European war much more likely...
The Versailles military clauses
Dr Duncan Anderson argues that the unintended consequences of the Versailles Treaty, ironically, helped Germany to develop th...
The escalation of anti-Semitism
A selection of different clips from Nazi Germany, the concentration camps and the Nuremberg trials...
