Part 02 - Adolf Hitler - Chronology of Events from the 1870s to 1924

The life stages of Adolf Hitler are shown in 17 chapters. Through the descriptions of Hitler's contemporaries and the presentation of his career, the picture of the man who shaped the 20th century like no other is put together.

The First World War - carnage on a scale never-before seen. But how did it all start? And how did some key figures of WWII fare in the earlier war?

'The Biology of the Second Reich' tells the disturbing story of the impact of Social Darwinism on German militarism in the years leading up to World War I, including an exploration of the German genocide in southwestern Africa (modern Namibia). It features California State University historian Richard Weikart.

The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the eugenics movement and its long history in the United States, from its beginnings in the study of heredity, to its rise as a popular movement promising to uplift the human race through state sponsored sterilization, to its influence on immigration laws designed to close our borders to groups deemed genetically inferior.

A month after the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne begins the First World War. But this stake had been prepared decades before.

WWI documentary intertwining archival footage of battles across Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman-Allied, African German colonies, and Western fronts.

Details Hitler's combat experience as a foot soldier in WWI in the German army

Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.

The events of World War One are followed week by week as occurred 100 years ago.

A newsreel made to condemn the militarization, oppressiveness, and ideology of the Nazi regime - using reedited stock footage of Nazi rallies in both Germany and the United States, with added narration to drive home its points.

How could a crisis-ridden democracy turn into an apocalypse with war and genocide? The rise and fall of National Socialism is told from an international perspective to offer a new comprehensive view on German history between 1918 and 1948.

Explores the family ties between British King George V, German Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who led nations on opposing sides during World War I despite being first cousins and grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) is regarded as a departure into the modern age, which failed because too many opponents wanted to put the clock back in the past. The need in Germany was not yet sufficiently developed to face democracy and take political fate into its own hands.

This Nazi propaganda film tells about the "freikorps" movement in post-World War I Germany. Freikorps were armed extreme-right-wing paramilitary groups, often composed of street thugs, ex-convicts and unemployed veterans, who engaged in street battles and assassinations of political opponents, usually leftist or Communist groups. Many of these "freikorps" were absorbed into the S.A. (Storm Troopers) and, later, the SS after Adolf Hitler came to power.

The rise and demise of Hitler and the Nazi Party. How was Germany seduced by Nazism?

Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.

A documentary of the joint effort of four Allied nations in overcoming the armies of Germany in the First World War, from the initial outbreak of war to the celebration of the Armistice, which occurred only six days before this film's release.

"The war was over. But it wasn't over. We just didn't know it." Stefan Zweig.

The "war to end all wars" failed to bring lasting peace, as World War One's aftermath set the stage for an even deadlier conflict. It explores the turbulent 20-year period that preceded World War Two's outbreak.

Soviet solidarity is strong in Germany where the Communist Party (KPD) marches under the clenched fist in spite of police harassment... Radio broadcasts reach all parts of the Soviet Union, including Magnitogorsk. On the steppe near the city, a family of nomads lives in their yurt. The father hears blasting: iron ore for the steelworks. Crushed ore and coke yield molten steel for the ladle. Stop-motion animation shows the bountiful tractor and freight car output of the future... A new blast-furnace is under construction. Accepting jobs at the site are women, ethnic minorities, and the nomad. An English-speaking engineer supervises; a young riveter learns his trade from an old hand... In the Kubass region, miners labour to produce the coal which becomes coke in Magnitogorsk... At last the blast-furnace is complete. Workers celebrate. A cheerful patriotic song is sung. Steel pours forth. The new day reveals a finished plant.