This is the start of the Cold War: an escalation of political and military tension that would set the Allies against each other and take the world back to the brink of war. ibid.
765 top scientists and engineers from Hitler’s military research programmes are whisked away to America without undergoing any process of de-Nazification. ibid.
They are the embodiment of evil: Hitler and his National Socialist Party plunged the world into the bloodiest of all wars. And perpetrated the greatest atrocities in human history. But this evil arose long before. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e1: The Misfits Gather, 2014
‘There were fights, bitter fights, on the streets every night.’ ibid.
‘From its beginning it was a rallying brand.’ ibid.
‘He gives them what they want.’ ibid.
This time the devil comes cloaked in a subtler disguise. With a message tailored for the masses. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e2: Becoming Respectable
November 1923, Munich, Germany: Hitler makes an audacious attempt to seize power. ibid.
Hitler decrees that the Nazi Party will be relaunched; it will be reputable and democratic. ibid.
Hitler rallies the masses. But to gain power he’ll have to cover up dark personal secrets, beat down rivals outside his party, and root out the enemies lurking within. This is the story of how Adolf Hitler sabotages a democracy and finally seizes control of Germany. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e3: Seizing Power
He vows to put the unemployed back to work. But he also uses the opportunity to focus on his new agenda – the Jews. ibid.
The rallies reach a truly colossal scale. ibid.
‘From the back of the arena Hitler would walk in.’ ibid.
Germany’s parliament building – the Reichstag – is set on fire. ibid.
The blood purge has only just begun. ibid.
While some joined the dark crusade, others would rebel against it. This is the story of how Hitler works a nation to his will, and persuades them to support the most evil regime in history. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e4: In Power
Lebensraum or living space which he believes is essential for the nation to grow. ibid.
Hitler decides to send troops back into the Rhineland, an area of western Germany that was demilitarized after World War I. ibid.
Hitler has been rearmed … Now he is ready for war. ibid.
Adolf Hitler rises to power with promises of prosperity and peace. But behind the scenes he’s locked in a fierce battle with his generals: they believe he is hellbent on a suicidal war of conquest. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e5: Preparing for War
Appoints himself supreme commander of the German army. ibid.
Hitler amasses troops on the border of Czechoslovakia and threatens invasion. ibid.
‘Chamberlain very much looks like a statesman of the old school, and of course Hitler is a very different beast indeed.’ ibid.
‘He would just play these incredible histrionics and theatrics.’ ibid.
Hitler has unleashed his war machine, and the continent has crumbled before it. But the unbridled ambition that forged an empire is about to turn against him on the distant battlefields abroad, and within the Reich itself. This is the story of how Hitler makes his biggest military mistake and starts to sow the seeds of his own demise. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e6: Hitler’s Biggest Blunder
Hess is held in the Tower of London. ibid.
The Nazi leadership, far from being united, is a seething mass of rivalry and conspiracy. ibid.
The German army outside Moscow is finally forced to beat a tactical retreat. ibid.
250,000 German troops are cut off from the supply line. ibid.
Of all their evil actions nothing defines the Nazis like the Final Solution, the murder of some six million Jews. But how did they get an entire nation to buy into the wholesale slaughter of an innocent race? This is the story of how Hitler and the Nazis groomed the German people. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e7: The Final Solution
The truth about the killing starts to leak out. ibid.
‘[Reinhard] Heydrich really is the rising man of the Nazi racial killing machine.’ ibid.
Goebbels keeps up a stream of propaganda. ibid.
It will require murder on an industrial scale. ibid.
Germany is losing the war. Destruction now rains down on the homeland … And Hitler is spiralling out of control … The Nazis’ illusion starts to crack. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e8: Plots & Delusions
The plotters are now ready with a plan to seize power … By early July Stauffenberg is ready to assassinate the Fuhrer. ibid.
By the autumn of 1944 Hitler has few military options … Support at home is ebbing away. ibid.
It’s the endgame for Nazi Germany. As the allies advance on all sides Hitler’s thousand-year Reich built on illusion and delusion is crumbling. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e9: End Game
Hitler is a shadow of the man he once was. ibid.
As the Red Army advances on Berlin, preparations are being made for Hitler’s 56th birthday. ibid.
‘It’s a brutal nasty death and quite fitting actually.’ ibid. expert
1945: Germany is defeated. Now the awful reality of what Adolf Hitler and his cronies have been up to is revealed. Germany has been brainwashed and committed the most heinous crimes in history. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e10: Aftermath
The allies need to undo years of Nazi indoctrination. ibid.
An unprecedented step – to put them on trial for war crimes. ibid.
Adolf Hitler is the very personification of evil … The most malevolent dictator the world has ever seen. Evolution of Evil s1e2: Hitler: The Benchmark of Evil, 2015
For the Fuhrer he and the German state are one. What he wants, it wants. ibid.
‘Wherever I went I now saw Jews … and became an anti-Semite.’ ibid. Hitler
He is blinded by a British gas attack. ibid.
In 1933 the Nazis become the largest party in parliament. ibid.
Within six weeks Poland is crushed. ibid.
By December 1941 his final solution is underway. ibid.
The Jews are made responsible for their own misery. ibid.
Out of the ashes of World War I Germany is crying out for a saviour … This small gang of misfits and heroes find each other in the violence and misenchantment of their broken nation, and their hunger for vengeance would inspire them to commit the worst crimes in history. Hitler’s Circle of Evil s1e1: Heroes & Misfits, History 2018
In early 1919 [Dietrich] Eckart and the Thules Society occultists launch their plan to spread their right-wing message. They form a fledgling political group. ibid.
Eckart has handed Hitler complete control of the Nazi party. ibid.
The coup has ended in complete disaster. ibid.
Eva is kept out of sight, a closely guarded secret from the German people. Hitler’s Circle of Evil s1e5: The Berghof Set
Throughout 1938 the jostling in the Fuhrer’s entourage continues. ibid.
Recreation, leisure, and Nazism … For Adolf Hitler there were an integral part of his plan to control Germany’s workforce and to indoctrinate citizens of the Third Reich with the ideals of the Nazi Nazi Victory: The Post-War Plan V, 2018
Hitler used the Olympic games to promote Nazism. How he controlled the leisure time and holidays of his citizens by developing the world’s largest travel agency. ibid.
Hitler had very strict views on the kind of paintings that people should be admiring. ibid.
State-funding recreation and leisure time. ibid.