The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis
The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis is a TV show on SBS ONE. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 8 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2024.
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51:33The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis
Sobibor is one of the camps of 'Operation Reinhardt', which took nearly two million lives within a few months in 1942/43. Unlike Auschwitz, Operation Reinhardt left few survivors.
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51:55On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. His goal - to deprive Great Britain in Europe and gain 'Lebensraum (habitat)' in the East. 'This is an entirely new kind of war, with unprecedentedly brutal rules,' says historian Moshe Zimmermann when talking about the campaign in the East, which goes hand in hand with th...
51:49At the end of 1939, the German 'Wehrmacht' has invaded Poland. The army is followed closely by the SS (Schutzstaffel) task forces, which have only one mission - to murder the Polish intelligence to fulfill Hitler's idea of a 'hard national struggle without legal bindings'. Thousands of people fell victim to them. Was it po...
51:41In October 1934, around one million people are drawn to the Buckeberg in northern Germany. Hitler welcomes his 'National Community' for a celebration known as the Reichserntedankfest (National Thanksgiving Festival). In the meantime, Hitler's government was firmly in the saddle - to dismay foreign critics. The American soc...
52:15Hardly in office, Hitler gets serious and tries to crush any opposition to the end. This episode demonstrates how Hitler and his NSDAP succeed in seizing complete power over Germany. The most striking thing is that the Nazis seem to act legally, creating decrees and laws for their measures. After the 1933 parliament fire, ...
52:35At the end of the 1920s, Germany is a democratic and modern country. But the country is seething. With radical protests against social decline, Wilhelm Hamkens and his 'Landvolkbewegung (Rural People's Movement)' gain rapid popularity among the peasants of northern Germany.
51:59In 1923, the NSDAP had grown to 55,000 members, and Hitler was portraying himself as a powerful man in the right-wing extremist movement. But what is he up to? The journalist Leo Lania risks something unbelievable. He takes advantage of Hitler's admiration for the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, poses as a party s...
52:00In 1940, Adolf Hitler forces defeated Frenchmen in a train carriage to sign their surrender - the Germans had experienced the same humiliation at the end of the WWI. The World War, which took 20 million lives, did not lead to a renunciation of violence - it only laid the foundation for radical agitators to succeed in post-...