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THE FATE OF THE REICH DEPENDS ON ME AS LONG AS I LIVE,

I SHALL THINK ONLY OF VICTORY.

I SHALL ANNIHILATE EVERYONE WHO IS OPPOSED TO ME.

ADOLF HITLER

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30th APRIL 1945 IN HIS BUNKER BENEATH THE RUINS OF BERLIN

ADOLF HITLER COMMITS SUICIDE.

"I die with a joyful heart,

in the knowledge of our infinite achievements,

and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name."

FOR TWELVE YEARS HITLER DOMINATED THE GERMAN PEOPLE

AND LED THEM TO THE BRINK OF A NEW WORLD ORDER.

HITLER STARTED A WORLD WAR THAT COST THE LIVES OF

50 MILLION PEOPLE.

"This war will not come to an end the way the Jews imagine,

with the extermination of the Aryan people."

"Instead, it will see the complete annihilation of the Jews."

"I do not play at war."

"I shall not allow myself to be ordered about by generals."

"With iron will, I shall determine the moment to attack."

"That is my mission."”

USING DIARIES, LETTERS AND NEWLY DISCOVERED COLOUR FILM.

Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!

COLOR OF WAR VI ADOLF HITLER

Sieg, Heil! Sieg, Heil!

Since the end of the First World War, the German people had been living

with the consequences of a catastrophic defeat.

Almost half of the workforce is unemployed.

One of them is laborer Hans Backer.

"Thousands of factories closed their doors."

"Many honest Germans had to resort to theft to obtain food."

"All of us yearned for better times."

"Like many, I have lost all my possessions."

"So I have joined the National Socialist Party."

The National Socialists - the Nazis -

have been in power for 20 months.

On September 15th 1934, at Buckeberg,

three-quarters of a million Germans have come to see their new leader,

Adolf Hitler.

"The misery of our people is horrible to behold."

"Unemployment must be overcome."

"People of Germany, give us four years,

and may God Almighty give our work his blessing."

Schoolteacher Louise Solmitz:

"A thrill shot through the crowd -

The Führer is coming!"

"The excitement of the moment gave vent to a rousing cry."

"So many worship him as their savior,

their redeemer from unbearable poverty."

"It is our task to make certain that the pages in German history

that bear witness to our disintegration are torn in half."

"From need, misery and wretchedness

shall arise a new German Reich."

Hitlers rise to power creates a new air of optimism.

Jewish doctor Herter Natroff:

"Hitler is Chancellor. Everyone is full of it. Its all they talk about."

"Many are filled with happiness. Some have worry written in their faces."

"But all are united in the words, now things will change."

Hitler gradually transforms the lives of the German people.

Unemployment is almost eliminated

and workers are even given holidays abroad,

heavily subsidized by the state.

Hans Bealis: "Who would have thought,

a German worker would one day be able to go to the Italian Riviera?"

"We will all return to Germany full of thankfulness,

and be able to work doubly hard to realize our Fuhrers goal."

At home in Germany, the Nazis stamp out all political opposition.

The police and courts are placed under Nazi leadership.

All power is concentrated in Adolf Hitler.

"Not every one of you can see me, yet I feel you."

"And you feel me. The miracle of our age

is that you have found me."

"And Germanys fortune is that I have found you."

September 1935.

Hitler announces new laws that turn Germanys Jews into second-class citizens.

Children are given new textbooks with lessons in racial education.

"You can most easily tell a Jew by his nose."

"It looks like the number 6."

"His lips are usually puffy."

"You can tell by his eyes that he is deceitful."

"If you have a good nose, you can smell the Jews."

Any opposition to Hitler is ruthlessly eradicated.

Tens of thousands are imprisoned.

Journalist Stefan Lorent dared to criticize the Fuhrer.

"I am writing in cell No.24."

"Outside, a new Germany is being created."

"Many millions are rejoicing."

"Hitler is promising everyone precisely what they want."

"I think that when they wake to their sober senses,

they will find that they have been led by the nose and duped by lies."

August 1st, 1936.

Adolf Hitler arrives to open the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin.

Deutschland, Deutschland über alles.

Über alles in der Welt.

Hitler is determined these Games will be a showpiece for his new Germany.

Jewish professor Victor Klemperer:

"I find the Olympics so odious."

"The chanted slogans on the streets have been banned."

"Jew-baiting, war-like sentiments -

everything offensive has disappeared from the papers."

"The attention of our guests is repeatedly drawn

to how peacefully and pleasantly things are proceeding here."

By the end of the Games, the Germans top the medal table.

It is a personal triumph for Hitler.

"In 1940, the Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo

but thereafter they will take place in Germany for all time to come.”

Three weeks after the Olympic Games, Hitler welcomes David Lloyd George,

Britains former Prime Minister, to the Berghof,

his mountain home in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.

At Hitlers side is his interpreter, Paul Schmidt.

"Hitler was delighted with this visit from the world-famous statesman."

"We sat at a table near the window."

"He began to speak with excitement of his experiences

as a humble soldier during the Great War."

"I often faced the English,” he said."

Lloyd George is so impressed by Hitler,

he publishes his thoughts in the Daily Express.

"The idea of a Germany intimidating Europe

forms no part of Hitlers new vision."

"The Germans have definitely made up their minds

never to quarrel with us again.”

As Lloyd George leaves, Hitler presents a secret memo to his ministers.

"The world is moving towards a new conflict."

"Making the German Army into the first in the world is vital."

"If this does not happen, then Germany will be lost."

"We must be ready for war in four years time."

July 18th, 1937.

Adolf Hitlers personal pilot, SS-Oberführer Hans Bauer,

accompanies him to a pageant to celebrate 2,000 years of German culture.

Bauer is permitted to film his Fuhrer with his own camera.

14-year-old Ingeborg Weber:

"The four years the Führer asked for to fulfill his promises are up."

"What great things he has achieved."

"The Communists have disappeared from Germany."

"There is no unemployment."

"The Führer has given us back our self-respect.”

For the past six years, Adolf Hitler has kept a secret from the German people.

Hidden away from all but his closest companions

is his mistress, Eva Braun.

"The weather is so wonderful and I,

the mistress of the greatest man in the world,

am sitting here and gazing at the sun.”

With a camera given to her by Hitler, Eva Braun films his private life.

"I am so terribly happy that he loves me so much

and I pray that it will always be like this."

"He has had a head full of politics all this time

but surely it is time he relaxed a little."

Only members of Hitlers inner circle are allowed to meet Eva.

One of them is Hitlers close friend, architect Albert Speer.

"Never have I met a person who so seldom reveals his feelings."

"Even towards Eva he is never completely relaxed and human."

"Hitler and Eva avoid anything that might suggest an intimate relationship,

only to go upstairs to the bedrooms together late at night."

"Out of sympathy, I began to feel a liking for this woman,

who was so deeply attached to Hitler."

25-year-old Eva is from a traditional Catholic family.

When Hitler provides Eva with a flat of her own,

her father writes a letter:

"Your Excellency, I find myself in the extremely unpleasant position

of having to express to you my distress."

"I believe the parents supervision of the children until they get married

is a sacred principle. This is my code of honor."

"Please advise her to return to her family."

"Yours very respectfully, Fritz Braun."

Eva intercepts the letter. It will never reach the Führer.

Eva always appears happy, the center of attention.

But the only surviving fragments of her diary reveal a different story.

"When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular moment."

"Like his promises, which he never keeps."

"I am utterly miserable."

"I shall go out and buy some sleeping pills,

then I wont think about it so much.”

Eva has already made two attempts at suicide

but Hitler still refuses to marry her.

"A highly intelligent man should take a primitive and stupid woman."

“Imagine if I had a woman who interfered with my work."

"In my leisure time I want to have peace."

"I could never marry. Its the same with a movie actor."

"When he marries, he loses a certain something for the women who adore him."

"Then he is no longer their idol."

September 28th, 1937.

The people of Berlin are preparing for a state visit

from Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini.

Hitler is building a new military alliance in Europe.

"We do not intend in re-arming Germany

to create an instrument of military aggression,

but, on the contrary, exclusively for defence

and the maintenance of peace.”

Hitler parades his new army in front of Mussolini.

Accompanying the two dictators is Hitlers interpreter, Paul Schmidt.

"I have ample opportunity of observing the two of them."

"Hitlers voice was rough and often hoarse."

"Sometimes his eyes blazed."

"His laugh always had a flavor of sarcasm."

"There was an interesting ceremony, with Mussolini appointing Hitler

an honorary corporal in the Fascist Militia."

Hitler has also signed a pact with Japan.

With his new Axis of Power in place, he is ready to make his next move.

March 12th, 1938.

Hitler announces the Nazi takeover of Austria.

Born in Austria, Hitler has always dreamt of merging his homeland

into a greater German Reich.

Karl Titzian is a soldier in the Austrian Army.

"Weve been told German troops should not be met with any resistance."

"God save Austria.”

"Everywhere there are people on the streets and swastika flags."

"Germany has apparently saved us from the Communists."

"Now everyone is on the side of the winners."

In the town of Dornbirn, 10,000 people celebrate

in the renamed Adolf Hitler Square.

Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!

"I believe that it was Gods will to send a boy from here into Germany,

to raise him to be leader, to return his homeland to the Reich."

"For me, this is the proudest hour of my life."

Within weeks, the Jews of Vienna

are feeling the real impact of Austrias savior.

24-year-old Jewish student, Edith Hahn:

"The Nazis are putting up signs on Jewish shops,

warning people not to buy there."

"Anybody who resists is beaten up,

killed, or taken away to a concentration camp."

"Everyone around us has gone mad."

"They were born hating us, raised hating us,

and now the veneer of civilization,

which had protected us from their hatred, has been stripped away."

High in the Bavarian Alps, at his mountain hideaway,

Hitler is already planning his next conquest.

The diary of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels:

"Now comes Czechoslovakia."

"The Fuhrer is wonderful. A true genius!"

"He sits for hours over the map and broods."

"The Führer is pleased the Czechs are being so stubborn."

"All the more will they be torn to pieces one day."

"And they havent the slightest idea whats going to happen."

"Poor fools!"

Hitler claims that ethnic Germans living in the Czechoslovak province of Sudetenland

are being oppressed.

German newspapers are full of fabricated stories of violence and rape.

Reports of German troop movements convince the Western allies,

Britain and France, that this distant border dispute could lead to war.

During the annual Nazi Party Rally,

the news is announced that negotiations with the Czech government have broken down.

When Hitler begins his closing speech, the whole world is listening.

Ein Fuhrer! Sieg, Heil! - Heil!

Sieg, Heil! - Sieg, Heil!

Diese Sudetendeutschen keine Geschenke zu bieten. Sie haben das Recht,

ein eigenes Leben zu beanspruchen, genauso wie jedes andere Volk.

I demand the right of self-determination

for the three and a half million Sudeten Germans.

They themselves have a right to decide to which country they belong.

I demand that the oppression of these Germans in Czechoslovakia ceases!

Adolf Hitler, unser Fuhrer. Sieg, Heil! Sieg, Heil!

Two weeks later, Czechoslovakia's fate is sealed

when Hitler meets British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

"The agreement signed last night

is symbolic of the desire of our two peoples

never to go to war with one another again."

"I believe it is peace for our time."

Hitlers troops are allowed to march into the Sudetenland

without a shot being fired.

"I have made sacrifices. And I have shown great restraint."

"It is the last territorial demand I shall make."

Sieg, Heil! Sieg, Heil! Sieg, Heil!

June 12th, 1939.

Adolf Hitler visits his childhood home, the small Austrian village of Fischlham.

Son of a local customs officer, Hitler lays flowers on his parents grave

and then visits his old school.

"It was here that my first ideals took shape."

"My association with the rougher boys

made me the very opposite of a stay-at-home."

"Even then, my speaking talents

were being developed in violent arguments with my school friends."

"Woods and meadows were then my battlefields.”

Hitler is now 50 years old.

On his birthday, a woman writes to her local newspaper:

"My children look upon the Führer as he who gives the orders for everything."

"To them, the Führer is the creator of the world."

Schoolchildren are even being taught a new song.

"Adolf Hitler is our savior, our hero."

"Hes the noblest being in the whole wide world."

"For Hitler we live, for Hitler we die."

"Our Hitler rules a Brave New World."

All over Germany, thousands of new recruits

swear allegiance to their Fuhrer.

Hitlers adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Schmundt:

"The Führer says that the solution to our problems demands courage."

"It is a question of expanding in the East."

"No other openings can be seen in Europe."

"We are left with no alternative but to attack Poland at the first opportunity."

This time, Britain and France warn Hitler

if he attacks Poland they are prepared to go to war.

Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels:

"We know for sure that the British are too weak and too cowardly

to get in our way."

"The Führer says that Britain now has the most rotten government imaginable."

"Believe me, were going to see things develop just like the last time."

"A war of nerves, but they'll end up giving in."

Hitler must remove one vital threat before he can launch his attack on Poland.

He sends a secret telegram to the Soviet leader.

"Herr Stalin, the tension between Germany and Poland

has become intolerable. A crisis may arise any day."

"It is desirable to enter into a new relationship with each other."

"I should be glad to receive your early answer. Adolf Hitler."

48 hours later, Stalin agrees not to interfere with Hitlers plans.

More than two million men await their Fuhrers orders.

"No one will ever again have the confidence of the whole German people."

"All depends on me. Our enemies have leaders who are second-rate."

"I saw them in Munich. They are little worms."

"Close your hearts to pity. Act brutally."

"When starting a war, it is not right that matters but victory!"

Early on the morning of September 1st, 1939,

the German Army invades Poland.

The news is broadcast throughout Germany by Adolf Hitler himself.

Werner Harz is in Berlin.

"The streets are empty and there are no troops to be seen."

"There are no cheering people, such as we had at the start of the Great War."

"War has broken out quietly, as if under a cloud."

Two days later, Britain and France declare war on Germany.

Adolf Hitler has started a second world war.

POLAND, SEPTEMBER 1939

A captured airfield on the outskirts of Warsaw.

The Nazi invasion is only three weeks old

but already the Poles are facing defeat.

A jubilant Hitler arrives to congratulate his troops.

"Endless columns of the Polish Army have become prisoners of war."

"Whatever remains must surrender and lay down its arms,

or it will be destroyed."

As part of the secret pact with Stalin, the Red Army invades Eastern Poland.

When the Poles still refuse to surrender, the city of Warsaw is devastated.

Panzer Grenadier Gerhardt Meier:

"We encountered masses of refugees in carts. People are leaving town."

"Our artillery has had a field day. Everything has collapsed."

"There are people standing at the side of the road watching us with hatred."

Hitlers defeat of Poland leaves 70,000 dead.

As a nation, Poland ceases to exist.

Hitler hopes that his destruction of Poland

will serve as a warning to Britain and France.

He makes them an offer of peace.

When it is dismissed, he is enraged.

Joseph Goebbels:

"The Führer believes England has to get a knockout blow."

"Englands power is now simply a myth, not a reality any longer."

"All the more reason why it must be smashed."

"Before then, there will be no peace in the world."

May 10th, 1940.

Hitler launches Blitzkrieg in the West.

He catches the Allies by complete surprise.

Private Hans Gotthard:

"My darling wife, how can I start to describe this experience?"

"From all sides, we can feel the march of thousands."

"The thunder of artillery never ceases and we just follow its echo."

In just two weeks, the German Army has the Allies on the run.

At Dunkerque, more than 340,000 men of the British and French armies

are forced to abandon France.

Peter Suff is one of the first German soldier's on the beach.

"It is hard to describe the panic of the English."

"Imagine a picture of absolute chaos on the beaches."

"Thrown-away weapons and guns, and lots of vehicles and tanks."

"With the fall of Dunkerque, the whole of the Belgian and French coast

is in our hands."

With the British Army beaten, France is now alone.

Hans Bauer, Hitlers pilot, films the Fuhrers triumphant arrival in France.

"Soldiers of the Western Front, you have not disappointed me."

"The most daring plan in the history of war was realized

thanks to your unequalled valor."

"Our victory shall teach our enemies an historic lesson."

June 22nd, 1940.

The French formally surrender.

Yet for some German soldiers the price of victory is too high.

Private Hans Gotthard:

"My darling wife, I am completely shaken inside."

"Our soldiers have become childlike and cruel."

"When we have won this war, I can imagine

all the enthusiastic speeches at home about our leadership,

and the spirit of the troops."

"I have to say, it is untrue."

"We have only won due to our wickedness."

6am, June 28th.

Hitler enters the defeated French capital.

"Within barely six weeks of heroic struggle,

our soldiers have ended the war in the West."

"Their deeds will enter into history as the most glorious victory of all time."

"I order flags to be flown throughout the Reich

and bells to ring for seven days."

Only Britain now stands in the way of Hitlers total mastery of Europe.

BERLIN, JULY 1940

A week later, he returns to Berlin.

Hundreds of thousands of people line the streets to greet him.

He makes yet another offer of peace to Britain.

"Mr. Churchill should place his trust in me."

"The continuation of this war will end in the complete destruction

of one of our two nations."

"I know it will be Britain."

"I direct yet another appeal to reason."

Winston Churchill refuses the offer.

The battle for Britain has begun.

Hitler believes his pilots must eliminate the Royal Air Force

before an invasion can take place.

This time, they encounter a more formidable enemy.

Messerschmitt pilot Ulrich Steinhilper:

"I can report I've now shot down my fourth Spitfire."

"But it cost me an excellent pilot."

"The day before, we had three more losses."

"My wingman was also caught."

"There are only 12 left from the old crew."

"The British have a new engine in their Spitfires

and we can hardly keep up with it."

A week later, Ulrich Steinhilper is shot down over Britain.

When Churchill orders the bombing of German cities,

Hitler switches his attack from the RAF to the British people.

"If the Royal Air Force should drop 2,000 or 4,000 bombs,

then we will drop 200,000 or 400,000,

even 1,000,000 bombs, in a single night."

"If they then increase their attacks, we will obliterate their cities."

Hitlers pilots blitz Britain day and night.

Over the next nine months, more than 40,000 people are killed.

But the British still refuse to give in.

The Luftwaffe is starting to suffer heavy losses.

Bomber Pilot Peter Stahl:

"16th October. Our losses amount to four bombers and their crews."

"This is a heavy blow. And tomorrow the official communique will state

that our brave aircrews have inflicted devastating damage on vital targets

and our own losses were only minimal."

"Our crews are reaching the limits of their nerves."

By May 1941, Hitler has lost the battle for Britain.

For the first time, he has met his match.

"I am not a man to abandon a fight, once begun."

"Ive proved this in my life, and I will prove this to Churchill."

POLAND 1941

In Hitlers new Eastern provinces, victory has brought a brutal new regime.

"The Poles have a thin Germanic layer."

"Below that is foul material."

"The Jews. The most disgusting thing imaginable."

"If Poland had lasted any longer, everything would be lice-ridden."

"A clear, masterful hand is now needed here."

Hitler requires all Jews to be marked with a special armband.

They are rounded up and forced to live in ghettoes.

The largest ghetto is in Polands old capital, Warsaw.

400,000 Jews are confined within its walls.

17-year-old Marie Berg:

"The ghetto is becoming more and more crowded."

"There is a constant stream of new refugees."

"People are ragged and barefoot,

with the tragic eyes of those who are starving."

"Starvation alone is killing 40-50 people each day."

"I saw a little girl crying."

"She looked at me with her blue eyes and said, I'm hungry."

"Why does no one come to our aid?"

"How long are we going to be kept here?"

Joseph Goebbels:

"The Führer prophesied that if the Jews brought about another World War,

they would experience annihilation."

"The World War is here."

"The extermination of the Jews is the necessary consequence."

By the end of 1942, almost 300,000 men, women and children

have been taken from the Warsaw ghetto to the death camp at Treblinka.

Hitlers Final Solution has begun.

BERCHTESGADEN 1941

After his defeat at the hands of the RAF,

Hitler has abandoned his plans for an invasion of Britain.

He prepares orders for a new war,

this time against his ally, the Soviet Union.

Chief of Staff, General Halder:

"The Fuhrer says that if we can defeat Russia, Britains last hope will be gone."

"He believes a campaign against the Soviet Union will be childs play."

Some of Hitlers generals are beginning to doubt his leadership.

Deputy Chief of Operations, General Warlimont:

"This means we are bringing on ourselves a war on two fronts

that up till now we have been lucky to avoid."

"What we need is someone to oppose the Führer. But there is no one."

A war to destroy Communism has been Hitlers dream for the last 20 years.

"Communism is an enormous danger for our future."

"We must forget any idea of comradeship between soldiers."

"This will be a war of annihilation."

Dawn, June 22nd, 1941.

More than 3,000,000 German soldiers cross the border into the Soviet Union.

Hitlers treaty with Stalin is over. Operation Barbarossa has begun.

Karl Fuchs is a gunner in the 7th Panzer Division:

"War isnt half as bad as it sounds."

"The Russians are fleeing everywhere."

"Yesterday I shot up a Russian tank."

"If I get another one, I'll get my first battle stripes."

"Were going to show those Bolshevik pigs whos who around here."

"I wish you could see me now, all tanned by the sun."

"We all believe in an early victory."

An officer in the 105th Police Battalion writes home:

"Dear Hannah, the number of prisoners we take increases day by day."

"Our battalion has to take care of them."

"We shoot them there and then."

"When you know that these men have killed German soldiers,

it is not such a difficult job to shoot them."

"Please don't read this to our son."

By the wars end more than 3,000,000 Soviet prisoners of war

will have been killed.

August 26th, 1941.

Hitler visits the Eastern Front. With the Red Army in full retreat

and large parts of the Soviet heartland in his grasp,

his plans for an Eastern Empire are beginning to take shape.

"What India is for Britain, Russia will be for us."

"If only I could make the German people understand

what this space means for our future."

"Lets learn from the British."

"It is just a matter of dividing up a giant cake,

so that at first we rule it, then administer it,

and, finally, exploit it."

But Hitler and his generals fail to defeat the Red Army

before the start of the severe Russian winter.

They are forced to call a halt to Operation Barbarossa.

Then, on December 7th, Hitler receives the news that his allies,

the Japanese, have bombed Pearl Harbor.

Adolf Hitler is faced by a new enemy - the United States.

"No power can shake us."

"I am Führer of a Reich that will last for a thousand years."

"Churchill and Roosevelt are sitting over there in their plutocratic little world."

"Behind the scenes, the Jews run their show."

"I have my people behind me."

With winter over, Hitler launches a new offensive.

He is convinced that the Red Army is on the brink of destruction.

Lieutenant Wilhelm Brühler:

"At last, were in our element again."

"It is we who are taking the initiative, Mr. Stalin."

"And neither you nor your beasts can stop us."

"All about is an ear-splitting, gigantic racket."

"Shot after shot. A never-ending inferno."

"The land is bathed in a thick fog."

"We thank God that this war is not being fought on German soil."

When the German Army reaches the river Volga,

Hitler orders the capture of Stalingrad.

His soldiers are now over 1,000 miles from home, and dangerously exposed.

When his generals suggest a retreat, Hitler confronts them.

"Do you think that you can teach me what the man at the front is thinking?"

"Where were you in the First World War?"

"I demand from you the same toughness as from the frontline soldiers."

Hitler orders "no retreat".

Three months later, the Red Army surrounds and traps

a quarter of a million German soldiers in Stalingrad.

Auf Posten in einsamer Nacht

Da steht ein Soldat und hält Wacht

Träumt von Hanne und dem Glück...

On the home front, the people of Germany are preparing for Christmas.

Some of the families of soldiers trapped in Stalingrad

have letters brought out by air.

Private Werner Bunnemann:

"My dear son, I hope that this is the last Christmas

that you celebrate without me. The Russians have dealt us a nasty blow."

"It is now minus 30 degrees here."

"How nice it must be, in warm rooms."

"Next year, I will hopefully be back with you."

"Love from your father, Werner."

Five weeks later, 90,000 surviving German soldiers in Stalingrad surrender.

80,000 will die in Soviet captivity.

Private Werner Bunnemann is one of them.

With Hitlers war claiming more and more German lives,

even old men and boys are now called up to fight for the Fatherland.

The diary of 15-year-old Wolfgang Findeisen:

"We have replaced the men, so that they can go to the Front."

"Soldiers have manned these guns until now."

"Its very exciting. I like this much more than school."

"We are now on duty 24 hours a day."

"We are boys no longer - now we are men."

Hitlers homeland is under attack from the air.

The Allies have begun fire-bombing Germanys cities.

On July 27th, 700 British bombers target Hamburg.

HAMBURG, JULY 1943

The firestorm is filmed by Hamburg fireman Hans Runswig.

"The fire is like a thunderstorm without rain."

"The heat is unbearable. I see people lying in the street."

"I try to help them but they are already dead."

"Hamburgs streets are littered with bodies,

some of them so burnt that they are only skeletons."

"Some are reduced to small heaps of ash."

In Hamburg alone, more than 40,000 people are killed.

Hitlers advisors want him to tour the ruins and raise the morale of his people.

Minister of Supplies, Albert Speer:

"I tried a few times to persuade Hitler."

"Goebbels had tried to put over the same idea, but in vain,

and referred enviously to the conduct of Churchill."

"When I think of the propaganda value I could make of such a visit," he'd say.

Hitler remains hidden away in his command bunker on the Eastern Front.

"If the German people are no longer so strong and ready for sacrifice,

that they will not stake their own blood on their existence,

they deserve to pass away and be annihilated by another stronger power."

"If that is the case, I would not shed a tear for them."

RASTENBURG, 1943

Hidden in the forests of Eastern Germany is Hitlers secret headquarters.

The Wolfs Lair is a huge complex of camouflage buildings and underground bunkers.

From here, Hitler directs his war.

His health is now failing.

He has a heart condition and the early signs of Parkinsons disease.

General Heinz Guderian:

"Since I last saw Hitler, he has aged greatly."

"His back was bent, his hand trembled."

"His eyes lacked their former luster."

"He easily lost his temper and was then unpredictable

in what he said and did."

Hitlers ally, the Fascist dictator of Romania, Marshal Antonescu,

is here to discuss the worsening war situation.

Hitlers Adjutant, Nicolaus von Below:

"I had the impression that Hitler now believed

that the war against both the Russians and the Allies, on two fronts,

could no longer be won."

NORMANDY, 1944 Dawn, June 6th.

The Allies begin an invasion of Nazi-controlled France.

D-day.

When Hitler is informed, he is delighted.

"The news could not be any better."

"As long as they were in Britain, we could not get at them."

"Now we have them where we can destroy them."

But, by the end of the first day,

the Allies have overwhelmed the German soldiers and fought their way inland.

Private Robert Vogt:

"We only had infantry weapons. We didn't even have a bazooka."

"And we were even short of ammunition."

"The Americans were right - they dropped leaflets in German

which read, "Attacked from the front, cut off from behind,

written off by Hitler"."

In Germany, the news is announced

that a bomb has exploded in Hitlers Wolfs Lair headquarters.

A group of Army officers has been secretly plotting his downfall.

Hitler has a lucky escape.

"Now I have proof. The entire General Staff is contaminated!"

"Now I have the swine who have been sabotaging my work for years!"

"Now I know why my great plans failed."

"It was treason."

Hitler orders the arrest of 5,000 people.

200 are executed.

With his Empire under attack from all sides,

Hitler puts his faith in a new weapon.

For more than 12 years, at a secret location in Northern Germany,

a team of Nazi scientists have been testing a long-range ballistic missile.

They make a special color film of their first successful launch.

Head of the research team, Major-General Walter Dornberger,

shows it to Hitler.

"A strange, fanatical light flared in Hitlers eyes."

"What I want is annihilation!" he raged.

"I realized that he expected this new weapon

to produce a turning point in the war."

"Our missile has been renamed the V-2."

"Vengeance Weapon No.2."

1,300 V-2 rockets are fired on London, killing almost 3,000 people.

Not the annihilation Hitler has demanded.

The Allies are closing in on the Fatherland itself.

Hitler is still telling his people that the war can be won.

But, in private, he is a changed man.

"I know the war is lost. The enemys superiority is too great."

"I have been betrayed. I ought to put a bullet in my head."

"But we will not capitulate, ever!"

"We may go down but we will take the world with us."

April 11th, 1945.

The Allies arrive at Buchenwald.

It is one of over 1,000 of Hitlers concentration camps.

Udo Dietmar is one of the few survivors.

"The conditions in Buchenwald had reached the height of horror."

"People were starving."

"A few of those who could still move broke down and died."

"There were mountains of corpses."

"The crematorium and the courtyard, they are overcrowded with skeletons."

"I can still hear my dead friends."

"If you should survive, dont forget to tell the world of our destiny."

"I will never forget."

The Americans round up people from the nearby town

and force them to witness the horrors that have been committed in their name.

18-year-old Renate Simone:

"I could hardly believe what I was seeing."

"They had piled up the corpses of people who had died."

"The smell was just too much."

"I couldnt take it anymore."

"But the GI shouted at me, "You, Hitler Fraulein!

Here, look! Look!"."

The Nazis have murdered six million Jews.

January 1945.

The Red Army has reached the Oder river, just 50 miles from Berlin.

From his bunker beneath the center of the city,

Hitler orders every able-bodied male to defend Berlin.

"Every soldier must fulfill his duty."

"Whoever does not is a traitor."

"Anyone who gives you an order to retreat must be arrested

and executed immediately."

Outnumbered more than five to one, the German cause is hopeless.

On April 21st, the Russians enter Berlin.

With more than 20 million Soviets already killed in the war,

the Red Army allows its soldiers to celebrate.

24-year-old Hildegard Christoph:

"The Russians came. We werent allowed to lock our doors."

"Holding machine guns, they herded us into an empty house."

"Other young women had also been dragged in."

"The beasts pounced on us, again and again, the entire night."

"The whole mob of them."

"At dawn, they disappeared. We crept back to our family."

"Many committed suicide."

As many as two million German women are raped.

In the ruins of the Nazi Chancellery,

Hitlers underground bunker is discovered.

It is deserted.

After finally marrying his mistress, Eva Braun,

Adolf Hitler has committed suicide.

"In order to escape the disgrace of surrender, my wife and I choose death."

"It is our wish to be burnt immediately."

All that is found are a few charred bones.

Hitlers war is finally over.

17-year-old schoolgirl, Edelgard Seidel:

"We believed in victory, and now this is the end."

"Hitler is responsible for destroying our nation."

"We will always have to live under this shame."

Across Europe, 50 million people are dead.

Before killing himself, Hitler wrote this last testament.

"It is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted war."

"It was provoked solely by the Jews."

"I die with a joyful heart, in the knowledge of our infinite achievements,

and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name."

HITLER'S LEGACY

IN HIS "NERO COMMAND" OF MARCH 1945 HITLER ORDERED

THAT EVERYTHING REQUIRED FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF LIFE BE DEMOLISHED.

SO THAT NOTHING BUT A "DESERT, VOID OF CIVILISATION"

WOULD FALL INTO THE ENEMY HANDS.

MASSIVE ALLIED AIR STRIKES CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVASTATION.

AS THE ALLIES ADVANCED, THE DEFEATED GERMAN SOLIDERS WERE ROUNDED UP

AND HELD IN MAKESHIFT PRISON CAMPS.

ALL ACROSS GERMANY, ALLIED PRISONERS OF WAR WERE RELEASED

AND BEGAN THEIR JOURNEY HOME.

IN THE TOWNS AND CITIES, GERMAN PEOPLE AWAITED THE ARRIVAL OF THE ALLIED FORCES.

AFTER SIX YEARS OF WAR, THERE WERE SO FEW GERMAN MEN,

IT WAS LEFT TO THE WOMEN TO BEGIN CLEARING THE WRECKAGE.

HITLER'S MOUNTAIN HIDEAWAY, THE BERGHOF, WAS LEFT IN RUINS.

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