Introduction

The Rise of the Nazis is a BBC documentary series.

First shown in September 2019, it focuses on how Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power and dismantled democracy in early 1930s Germany. A second series, focussing on the Eastern Front, followed in 2022.

Outline

Series 01

Documentary examining how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party seized power in Germany during the 1930s and ushered in the death of democracy.

In 1930 Germany was a liberal democracy. Just four years later democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and its government is in the hands of murderers. This series tells the story of how this happened. Leading historians and experts get inside the heads of some of the key players, whose political plotting, miscalculations and personal ambitions helped to destroy democracy and deliver control to Hitler.

Then there are those who were prepared to make a stand in order to try to stop the Nazis. With the intensity of a political thriller, the series sets out the plots and intrigues at the heart of the government, which transformed the Nazis from a fringe political group to the most powerful party in the Reichstag. It outlines the power struggles between prominent Nazis, which transformed Germany into a brutal police state that exercised state sponsored detainment and murder, allowing Hitler to go from being chancellor to all powerful Führer of the Third Reich. Powerful drama and stark use of archive brings an immediacy to this gripping and resonant story.

Series 02

Full series title – Rise of the Nazis: Dictators at War.

Rise of the Nazis is a powerful and resonant three-part series that looks at the story of what many see as the defining conflict of the Second World War – the Eastern Front.

Rise of the Nazis Series

• Series 01 (2019):
  • Episode 01: Politics.
  • Episode 02: The First Six Months in Power.
  • Episode 03: Night of the Long Knives.

• Series 02 (2022):
  • Episode 01.
  • Episode 02.
  • Episode 03.

Production & Filming Details

• Narrator(s):
  • Kate Fleetwood.
• Director(s):
  • Julian Jones.
• Producer(s):
  • Ella Wright … series producer.
  • David Glover … executive producer.
  • Julian Jones … executive producer.
• Writer(s):
• Music:
• Cinematography:
• Editor(s):
  • Daniel Lavender.
• Production:
• Distributor(s):
  • BBC Two.
• Release Date:
  • Series 01: 02 September 2019 to 16 September 2019.
  • Series 02: 14 February 2022 to 28 February 2022.
• Rating: Unknown.
• Running Time: 60 minutes (per episode).
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.

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