The Complete Story of Hitler and the Nazis 3 pk.

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Product Description DVD 1: Hitlers Wrath - Program 1: Hitlers War - Rare archival footage illustrates the chilling account of Hitlers ruthless aspirations and savage victories as his armies blitz their way through Northern Europe and fatefully invade the Soviet Union. We also examine the disappointment and defeat that followed the collapse of his Russian adventure and the Allies closing in on the German capital of Berlin. Program 2: Eva Braun - A side of Hitler that only his inner circle saw is revealed using home movies that he shot with his mistress Eva Braun at Berghof, his mountain retreat. Is this urbane man smiling out at us the same person who ordered such inhumane acts of savagery? A macabre record of Eva Brauns years at the center of Hitlers inner circle is uncovered in this fascinating program. Program 3: Killing Hitler - The true story of the Valkyrie Plot. Driven by hatred towards Hitler, courageous co-conspirators set an intricate plan in motion to bring the Fuhrer to his demise. The most famous attempt to assassinate Hitler came in July 1944. A bomb planted in a suitcase and left in a meeting room explodes and creates great devastation, but as if by a miracle, Hitler escapes with minor injuries. The plotters paid a terrible price for their failure. Almost 5,000 were executed in the wake of Hitlers wrath. DVD 2: Nazi Terror - Program 1: Waffen SS - Hitlers elite fighting force. The sinister black-clad figures of nightmare, the Fuhrers Waffen SS hold a unique and dark place in German military history. Their code demanded a lethal combination of bravery and savagery and they must be held to account for many of the most hideous crimes of the Nazi period. Program 2: Gestapo - Hitlers secret police. Hermann Goering created a clandestine state police force tasked to arrest and torture confessions and information from supposed enemies of the Reich. All the powers of the judiciary were taken into its hands and the courts were rendered superfluous. A compelling account of one of the true horror stories of the 20th century. Program 3: Hitlers Secret Weapons - Hitler asked his industrial quarter for armaments to reinforce his plan for a mighty new German Army. The finest planes, artillery and tanks, even submarines and battleships were churned out to blitz through most of Europe and the Atlantic. His designers never stopped working. As the Allies gathered their strength and resources for the invasion of mainland Europe, the V1 & V2, Hitlers flying bomb and deadly long-range rocket, rained death and havoc on an already devastated London. Program 4: Divide and Conquer - Starting in 1939, as the world stood by in awe and horror, Hitlers armies stormed through one European country after another as they fell like dominoes: Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. This film uses Allied and German film footage to illustrate the machinelike precision of Blitzkrieg - Hitlers Lightning War. DVD 3: The Ultimate Evil - The Occult History of the Third Reich: The murderous deeds of Hitlers Third Reich are still widely recalled today, but what is less well known is the strange concoction of beliefs that underpinned the Nazi regime. Adolf Hitler was enamored with Germanic mythology and ancient legends, and these were combined with cutting-edge theories of genetic science. With this new philosophy, Hitler established the Germans as the Master Race. The Nazis created a new belief system of arcane rituals and potent symbols such as the swastika. Hitler evolved an entirely new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics and priestly elite in the form of Himmlers SS. Hitler himself was viewed as the ultimate leader in Messianic terms. This powerful and disturbing series uses rare original footage to tell a story that is as bizarre as it is horrific, and casts a new light on a national movement that came to see evil as a sacred task. About the Actor Michael Leighton is an actor and writer, known for King Charles I: The Royal Martyr (1994), Macbeth (1997) and Chasing the Deer (1994).