He captivates people with his simple racist message. Germany has been betrayed. The Jews are to blame. Only Hitler and the Nazis can make Germany great again. ibid.
All these companies profit from Nazi party and later Nazi government contracts. ibid.
‘I counted actually about 170 different uniforms of Nazi Germany.’ ibid. Nicholas O’Shaughnessy
‘It will be like a religious order.’ ibid. Hitler’s speech
A war that will be the most destructive in history. ibid.
In 1924 Landsberg castle in southern Germany, Adolf Hitler is imprisoned here for staging a coup, but the authorities are surprisingly tolerant. Project Nazi: Blueprints of Power s1e2: Hitler’s Highways
Jobs, cars and roads for everyone. ibid.
The people’s car has to be cheap enough for workers … What the Fuhrer wants, the Fuhrer gets. ibid.
1924: Adolf Hitler is in jail: his attempt to seize power here in Munich the previous year failed dismally. Forced out of politics he turns to writing. Project Nazi: Blueprints of Power s1e3: The Industry of War
Germany simply does not have enough resources to build a fleet anywhere near the size of its enemy’s. ibid.
Hitler astonishes the world by agreeing a peace pact with the Soviets. ibid.
In just 36 days it’s all over: Poland has been crushed. ibid.
In 1913 Adolf Hitler is struggling to make a living. A self-taught artist, he sells his watercolours of Munich sites to the tourists, but he wants so much more. His burning ambition is to become a great artist. Hitler never forgets this painful rejection. His revenge is to transform German art, making his own image its most potent icon. Project Nazi: Blueprints of Power s1e4: A Culture of Control
The book-burnings are intended to halt modernism and cleanse Germany society. ibid.
The Nazis take full control of the film industry, radio, the press, music and the theatre. ibid.
1923, Munich in southern Germany: Armed right-wing nationalists are making a dramatic attempt to seize power led by Adolf Hitler. One of them is Heinrich Himmler. He’s carrying the Nazi flag at the head of Hitler’s troops. This is the beer-hall putsch. Project Nazi: Blueprints of Power s1e5: Himmler’s Empire of Terror
By 1933 the Stormtroopers have become so powerful even Hitler feels threatened by them. ibid.
Captain Roehm Executed: Arrested Storm Troop Commander Given Ten Minutes To Kill Himself – Shot When He Refuses: Hitler Crushes Brown Shirt Revolt. ibid. Daily Express
Nazi terror is now systematically applied. ibid.
The Nazis forced their victims into more than 40,000 camps and ghettos. ibid.
13 June 1944: Just days after D-Day, British and America forces are spreading across France flush with success. But their advance is about to be stopped by one man and one tank: the man is Michael Wittmann, a German Panzer ace. Project Nazi: Blueprints of Power s1e6: Retreat from Reality
The Tiger was rushed into production. Early Tigers are particularly unreliable: they often break down during combat and have to be abandoned. In fact, more Tigers are destroyed by their crews than by the enemy. ibid.
By the summer of 1943 the War is going badly for Germany. ibid.
During the last ten months of the War about 12,000 V1s and 3,500 V2s are launched against Britain and Belgium. ibid.
The Britons work out how to shoot V1s down … The inaccuracy of the V2 was its biggest weakness. ibid.
The Nazis took advantage of the fact that the socialist parties were divided. World War II: The Apocalypse: Hitler’s Rise to Power aka Apocalypse: The Second World War: Aggression, France 2 2009
Hitler comes to power legally on 30th January 1933. Within a few months his dictatorship is firmly in place. ibid.
His first mission will be to destroy France, to wipe out the humiliation of the Versailles Treaty of 1919. ibid.
4,500 Polish officers are executed with a bullet in the head in the Katyn forest. ibid.
The Nazis declare open season on gypsies. ibid.
He wanted to make Germany a world super-power. A pathological anti-Semite Hitler also took on the mission of asserting the superiority of the Germanic Aryan race. ibid.
Hitler also believed it was his mission to bring all the German-speaking people into the Third Reich, beginning with his homeland Austria. ibid.
Hitler and Stalin were about to stun the world ... An extraordinary diplomatic coup ... A history-making treaty with his deadly enemy. ibid.
A man of action born on the 20th April 1889 with sun in 29 degrees Aries at the time of his birth can expose himself to personal danger by excessively uncautious action and could very likely trigger an uncontrollable crisis ... His constellations show that this man is to be taken very seriously indeed. He is destined to play a Fuhrer role in future battles. It seems that the man I have in mind with this strong Aries influence is destined to sacrifice himself for the German nation. Also to face up to all circumstances with audacity and courage even when it is a matter of life and death. And to give an impulse, which will burst forth quite suddenly to a German freedom movement, but I will not anticipate destiny – time will show the present state of affairs at the time I write this naturally cannot last. Elsbeth Ebertin, A Look Into the Future, Almanac July 1923
This is the story of how and why the German people gave it to him [Hitler] ... This is the rise of the Third Reich. Third Reich: The Rise I, History Channel
The 1919 treaty that ended the First World War had 440 clauses. 414 were devoted to punishing Germany. ibid.
‘A Man To Lead The Fatherland’ 1923-1928. ibid.
On November 8th Hitler tried to incite revolution from a Munich beer hall. 16 of his followers were killed. ibid.
Nazi Party Rally Film 2nd August 1929: 100,000 Nazis attended. ibid.
Most Germans still thought of Hitler as too radical. If they thought of him at all. ibid.
On March 13th 1932 Hitler received eleven million votes in the presidential election. He lost. ibid.
The Nazis were by now the largest political party in Germany. ibid.
During the night someone had set fire to the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament ... Within 24 hours of the fire freedom of the press, freedom of expression, freedom of public assembly, were suspended. ibid.
Within days of the fire thousands of communists were arrested. ibid.
He was dictator. ibid.
The Nazis were boycotting all Jewish businesses in Germany. ibid.
By the end of 1933, 100,000 Germans had been arrested. At least 600 of them were murdered while in police custody. ibid.
The message was clear: opposition of any kind would not be tolerated. ibid.
At least 400,000 Germans were sterilized for: blindness, epilepsy, homosexuality, mental depression, alcoholism, deafness, sexual promiscuity and physical deformity. ibid.
In public at least it seemed everyone was a Nazi. ibid.
One People, One Germany, One Fuhrer: September 1934. ibid.
The Rally of 1934 would be particularly special because this year they would film the most influential piece of Nazi propaganda ever made: Triumph of the Will. ibid.
Hitler: Time magazine’s Man of the Year. ibid.
Jews were no longer German citizens; marriage between Germans and Jews was now outlawed; sexual intercourse between Jews and Germans was now outlawed. ibid.
The summer of 1936 and the world was coming to Berlin ... Germany won 89 Olympic medals – more than any other nation. The United States ranked second, with a total of 56. ibid.
In 1936 900 girls came home from the Nuremberg rally pregnant. Unwed mothers were known as the Fuhrer Brides. ibid.
1938: the majority of Austrians welcomed it. ibid.
Within days 70,000 Austrians would be sent to concentration camps. ibid.
Hitler had demanded that Czechoslovakia cede a large portion of its German speaking territory – the Sudetenland – to the Third Reich. ibid.