A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Cast
Gert Westphal
Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Ernest Bevin
Self (archive footage)
Karl Brandt
Self (archive footage)
Eva Braun
Self (archive footage)
Neville Chamberlain
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier
Self (archive footage)
Karl Dönitz
Self (archive footage)
Albert Einstein
Self (archive footage)
Emperor Franz Josef
Self (archive footage)
Otto Gebühr
Frederick the Great (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Rudolf Hess
Self (archive footage)
Reinhard Heydrich
Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)
Alfred Jodl
Self (archive footage)
Wilhelm Keitel
Self (archive footage)
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Self (archive footage)
Fritz Kortner
Self (archive footage)
Ernst Lubitsch
Self (archive footage)
Thomas Mann
Self (archive footage)
Theodor Morell
Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Friedrich Paulus
Self (archive footage)
Max Reinhardt
Self (archive footage)
Erwin Rommel
Self (archive footage)
Ernst Röhm
Self (archive footage)
Albert Speer
Self (archive footage)
Richard Tauber
Self (archive footage)
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self (archive footage)
Harry Giese
Narrator (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Artur Axmann
Self (archive footage)
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