"Announcer:" "ENTERINGTHEFINAL" "PHASE OF VICTORY OVER HITLER'S" "NAZIS, YANK ARMIES SWARM ACROSS" "WESTERN GERMANY, BRINGING" "DEVASTATION TO CITIES OF THE REICH." "(gunfire)" "FROM ALL SIDES, ALLIED MIGHT" "CRUSHES IN ON THE REMAINS OF THE" "WEHRMACHT, BRINGING HOME THE" "HORRORS OF WAR TO THE GERMAN" "PEOPLE AS THEY HAVE NEVER" "EXPERIENCED IT BEFORE." "Narrator:" "THISWASTHE ALLIEDVICTORY." "BUT IF YOU WERE GERMAN..." "IT WAS YOUR DEFEAT." "Woman:" "ANDNOWWEAREHATED ." "OBJECTS OF CONTEMPT." "WE ARE POOR, DOWNTRODDEN, AND" "DESPISED BY ALL." "Narrator:" "THEGERMANPEOPLE" "HAD KNOWN FOR SOME TIME THAT" "THEY WOULD LOSE THE WAR," "AND THAT THEY WOULD SOON BE" "CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR WHAT HAD" "BEEN DONE IN THEIR NAMES." "Woman:" MYFINGERSARESHAKING" "AS I WRITE THIS." "EVERYONE IS NOW TURNING THEIR" "BACKS ON ADOLF." "NO ONE WAS EVER A SUPPORTER." "EVERYONE WAS PERSECUTED AND NO" "ONE DENOUNCED ANYONE ELSE." "WHAT ABOUT ME?" "I WAS THERE." "I BREATHED WHAT WAS IN THE AIR." "IT AFFECTED ALL OF US."" "Narrator:" "THISIS NOTTHE STORY" "OF HOW ADOLF HITLER" "SEIZED POWER IN GERMANY." "THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW AND WHY" "THE GERMAN PEOPLE GAVE IT TO HIM." "Woman:" IT'SEASYTO THROWSTONES." "EASY TO SIT IN JUDGMENT WHEN" "YOU ARE IN THE MIDST OF ABUNDANCE," "ROAST CHICKEN, AND" "THE GOOD LIFE." "'WE'D DO DIFFERENTLY,' PEOPLE SAY." "'WE WOULD LONG SINCE HAVE SHAKEN OFF" "THE DICTATORSHIP OF NAZI TERROR.'" "WOULD THEY REALLY HAVE?"" "Narrator:" "SOMEOF WHATYOU WILL" "SEE HAS NEVER BEEN SHOWN ON" "AMERICAN TELEVISION BEFORE," "AND SOME OF IT CANNOT BE SHOWN" "IN GERMANY, EVEN TODAY." "THESE ARE THEIR WORDS," "THEIR FILMS." "THIS IS THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH." "THERE HAD ONCE BEEN ANOTHER WAR," "AND ANOTHER GERMAN DEFEAT." "Haffner:" "THEENDOFTHEWAR" "MEANT HUSBANDS RESTORED TO WIVES," "AND LIFE RESTORED TO MEN," "BUT THERE WAS NO SENSE OF JOY," "ONLY DEFEAT, ANXIETY," "SENSELESS GUNFIGHTS, CONFUSION." "Narrator:" "IFYOUWEREGERMAN" "IN 1919, YOUR PEACE WAS" "HUMILIATION AND SUFFERING." "ENFORCED DEMOCRACY HAD" "RESULTED IN CHAOS." "MONEY WAS WORTHLESS." "VIGILANTES RULED THE STREETS." "BERLIN HAD BECOME A SWAMP OF" "DEPRAVITY, EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE" "WAS FOR SALE." "Haffner:" "THEATMOSPHERE" "HAS BECOME REVOLUTIONARY..." "APOCALYPTIC." "NOT ONLY MONEY, BUT ALL" "STANDARDS HAVE LOST THEIR VALUE." "SAVIORS HAVE APPEARED" "EVERYWHERE, DECLARING THAT" "THEY'VE BEEN SENT BY GOD" "TO SAVE THE WORLD." "Narrator:" "MYSTICS,MAGICIANS," "AND RELIGIOUS FANATICS DREW" "FOLLOWERS DESPERATE FOR RESCUE." "EACH WAS CALLED A HEILAND" "OR SAVIOR, BUT IN GERMAN, THERE IS" "NO PLURAL WORD FOR "SAVIOR."" "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE." "Fromm:" "INMUNICH,THEREISA" "CORPORAL WHO HAS BEEN" "CAUSING TROUBLE." "THEY SAY HE HAS AN ALMOST" "HYPNOTIC POWER." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE 2nd OFSEPTEMBER,1923." "HERE, AT THIS NATIONALIST RALLY," "ADOLF HITLER MADE ONE OF HIS" "FIRST APPEARANCES ON FILM." "Man:" "THEYSAYHEPUTS UP" "SIGNS AT HIS MEETINGS SAYING" ""NO ENTRY FOR JEWS," BUT HE HAS" "THE MOST PERSUASIVE LINE ABOUT" "GERMAN HONOR AND RIGHTS FOR THE" "WORKERS AND A NEW SOCIETY." "AND WHETHER YOU LIKE HIM OR NOT," "HE CERTAINLY KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS." "Narrator:" "TWOMONTHSAFTER" "THIS FILM WAS SHOT, HE WOULD" "ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER GERMANY" "AND FAIL." "OVERNIGHT, HITLER BECAME A" "NATIONAL FIGURE, TO SOME," "MAGNETIC, TO OTHERS, ABSURD." "Haffner:" "THEMUNICHSAVIOR" "FILLED THE HEADLINES WITH A" "RIDICULOUS ATTEMPT TO STAGE A" "REVOLUTION IN A BEER CELLAR." "IN FACT, THE REVOLUTIONARIES" "HAD BEEN DISPERSED BY POLICE FIRE" "AS THEY LEFT THE CELLAR," "AND THAT WAS THE END OF THE MATTER." "Narrator:" "BUTIT WASN'T." "THE SWASTIKA, OR HAKENKREUZ FLAG" "CARRIED THAT DAY BY" "HITLER'S NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY" "WAS STAINED WITH THE" "BLOOD OF THE FALLEN." "FROM THIS POINT FORWARD," "HITLER WOULD CALL IT "THE FLAG OF MARTYRS"" "AND USE IT TO INSPIRE" "A GROWING FOLLOWING" "OF TRUE BELIEVERS..." "NAZIS." "Man:" "I FEELELECTRIFIED." "A MAN BY THE NAME OF ADOLF HITLER" "HAS TRIED TO RESTORE" "HONOR TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE." "I FEEL WITH AN INCREASING" "CERTAINTY THAT A MAN HAS ARISEN" "TO LEAD THE FATHERLAND TOWARDS" "A BRIGHTER FUTURE." "Narrator:" "HEREIN BUCKEBERG," "IN NORTH CENTRAL GERMANY," "FILM HOBBYIST ADOLF VON HINUBER" "SHOT THIS FILM WITH HIS 9.5mm CAMERA." "200 MILES AWAY, IN BERLIN," "COMMUNISTS WERE FILMING THESE" "VIOLENT CLASHES WITH POLICE." "BUT IF YOU WERE A LOYAL FOLLOWER" "OF ADOLF HITLER, YOU WOULD HAVE" "BEEN HERE." "IT WAS AUGUST 2, 1929, AND THE" "NATIONAL SOCIALISTS WERE FILMING" "THEIR THIRD PARTY RALLY," "THE FIRST HERE IN NUREMBERG." "100,000 NAZIS ATTENDED." "Buchner:" "SUDDENLY," "ADOLF HITLER APPEARS." "HE GOES TO EACH MAN," "SHAKING HIS HAND." "THE ARE THINGS ONE CANNOT" "EXPLAIN, CANNOT DESCRIBE." "I NEVER STOP THINKING OF HIM." "SOMETIMES HE MEETS US" "IN OUR DREAMS." "Narrator:" "INTHISFOOTAGE," "HITLER CONSECRATES NAZI PARTY" "FLAGS BY TOUCHING THEM TO THE" "BLUTFAHNE--THE BLOOD-STAINED" "SWASTIKA OF HIS FAILED REVOLUTION." "THE LOYALISTS WERE DAZZLED." "Buchner:" "PEOPLECALLHIM" "A FOOL AND A DREAMER, AND MUCH MORE." "BUT WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE, ADOLF HITLER." "IT IS CRITICAL TO OUR NATION'S" "HISTORY THAT WE INTRODUCE OVER 65 MILLION PEOPLE TO THE IDEAS" "OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM." "65 MILLION NATIONAL SOCIALISTS," "WONDERFUL, FANTASTIC, THIS GOAL!" "Narrator:" "MOSTGERMANSSTILL" "THOUGHT OF HITLER AS TOO RADICAL." "IF..." "THEY THOUGHT OF HIM AT ALL." "BUT IN LESS THAN THREE MONTHS," "WALL STREET WOULD CRASH..." "AND TAKE THE GERMAN ECONOMY" "DOWN WITH IT." "AND WITHIN A YEAR, THE NAZIS" "WOULD BE ONE OF THE LARGEST" "POLITICAL PARTIES IN GERMANY." "Bangert:" "WHILEWE DESCENDED" "INTO MISERY AND CALLED" "ANXIOUSLY FOR A SAVIOR," "HE EMERGED LIKE A MOUNTAIN." "COLUMNS MARCH..." "DRUMS BEAT..." "AND 100,000 MEN STAND" "FIRMLY GATHERED AROUND ONE MAN." "NOW BUILD UP YOUR PEOPLE, OH MASTER," "A NEW, GREAT FATHERLAND AWAITS." "Narrator:" "ITWAS1932." "THIS FOOTAGE WAS RECORDED AT A" "CARNIVAL NEAR LEIPZIG, GERMANY." "FILMMAKER WALTER LENGER BROUGHT" "HIS 16mm CAMERA AND THE" "GIRL HE WOULD MARRY." "THE ATMOSPHERE WAS JOYFUL..." "BUT BEYOND THESE CARNIVAL GATES..." "THERE WERE CALLS FOR REVOLUTION." "IF YOU WERE GERMAN," "AND YOU WANTED CHANGE," "YOU HAD TWO CHOICES:" "EITHER YOU JOINED THE GROWING" "NUMBERS OF COMMUNISTS, OR," "LIKE WALTER LENGER," "YOU JOINED THE NAZI PARTY." "THE GREAT DEPRESSION WAS IN ITS" "THIRD YEAR..." "AND GERMANY HAD SUFFERED AS MUCH" "AS ANY COUNTRY." "Woman:" GERMANMOTHER,YOUR" "CHILDRENS' FATHER AND PROVIDER" "STANDS BEFORE THE CLOSED-DOWN" "FACTORIES, UNEMPLOYED, WITHOUT" "BREAD, WITHOUT THE HOPE THAT HIS" "LOT IN LIFE WILL CHANGE." "GERMAN MOTHER, YOU WANT A GOOD" "FUTURE AND FREEDOM FOR YOUR" "CHILDREN." "THIS IS WHY YOU WILL VOTE ON THE 13th OF MARCH FOR ADOLF HITLER."" "Narrator:" "ONFILM,WALTER" "LENGER DOCUMENTED HITLER'S FIRST" "AND ONLY BID FOR ELECTED" "OFFICE--THE GERMAN PRESIDENCY." "IF YOU OPPOSED THE NAZIS, YOU" "WERE SURE THAT THIS WAS THE END" "OF HITLER." "Haffner:" "HITLERHIMSELFIS" "STILL RATHER A HANDICAP FOR THE" "MOVEMENT THAT HAS GATHERED" "AROUND HIM." "BESIDES, FOR ORDINARY GERMANS," "HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE IS" "THOROUGHLY REPELLENT" "THE EPILEPTIC BEHAVIOR, THE WILD" "GESTICULATIONS AND FOAMING AT" "THE MOUTH, THE ALTERNATELY" "SHIFTY AND STARING EYES." "MOST OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEGUN TO" "ACCLAIM HITLER WOULD PROBABLY" "AVOID ASKING HIM FOR A LIGHT IF" "THEY MET HIM IN THE STREET." "Narrator:" "BUTIN LESSTHANA" "YEAR, HITLER WOULD BE" "CHANCELLOR." "IT WAS THE 10th OF FEBRUARY, 1933." "ALTHOUGH THEY HAD NEVER CAPTURED" "MORE THAN 37% OF THE POPULAR" "VOTE, THE NAZIS WERE THE" "LARGEST POLITICAL PARTY IN" "GERMANY." "AND SO GERMAN LEADERS INSTALLED" "HITLER AS CHANCELLOR." "AS MANY AS 20 MILLION PEOPLE" "ACROSS GERMANY WERE TUNED IN TO" "THIS RADIO BROADCAST..." "HITLER'S LARGEST AUDIENCE EVER." "AFTER THIS SPEECH, NAZI PARTY" "OFFICES WERE FLOODED WITH SO" "MANY MEMBERSHIP REQUESTS THEY" "HAD TO SUSPEND ADMISSIONS." "EVEN SO, HITLER DID NOT YET" "CONTROL GERMANY." "IN TWO WEEKS, THAT WOULD CHANGE." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE MORNING" "OF FEBRUARY 28, 1933." "IF YOU LIVED IN BERLIN..." "YOU AWOKE TO THIS:" "DURING THE NIGHT SOMEONE HAD SET" "FIRE TO GERMANY'S PARLIAMENT." "Ebermayer:" "JUSTNOW,THE" "REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN IN EARNEST." "THE MIDDLE CLASS HAD BEEN" "REPELLED BY THE ROUGHNESS AND" "LACK OF POLISH BY THE NAZIS." "NOW THEY'VE BEEN FRIGHTENED AND" "WON OVER BY THE REICHSTAG FIRE." "Narrator:" "TOTHISDAY ,NOONE" "IS CERTAIN WHO SET THE FIRE THAT" "DESTROYED THE REICHSTAG." "BUT HITLER KNEW WHO HE WOULD" "BLAME--HIS RIVALS," "THE COMMUNISTS." "THE NAZI PRESS SAID THAT THE" "REICHSTAG FIRE WAS INTENDED AS A" "SIGNAL FOR COMMUNIST CELLS" "ACROSS GERMANY TO RISE UP AND" "REVOLT." "Solmitz:" "THEYWANTEDTOSEND" "ARMED MOBS INTO VILLAGES TO" "COMMIT MURDER AND PLUNDER." "HOSTAGES WOULD BE TAKEN FROM THE" "MIDDLE CLASS." "WIVES AND CHILDREN OF POLICE" "OFFICERS USED AS HUMAN SHIELDS." "THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL CULTURAL" "VALUES--JUST LIKE IN RUSSIA." "Narrator:" "HITLERHADINVENTED" "A COMMUNIST THREAT." "NOW HE WOULD USE IT TO CRUSH HIS" "OPPOSITION." "Haffner:" "THEMORNINGAFTER" "THE FIRE, I DISCUSSED THESE" "MATTERS WITH A FEW FRIENDS." "ALL OF THEM ARE VERY INTERESTED" "IN THE QUESTION OF WHO REALLY" "STARTED THE FIRE, AND MORE THAN" "ONE OF THEM HINTED THAT THEY HAD" "DOUBTS ABOUT THE OFFICIAL STORY." "BUT NONE OF THEM WERE BOTHERED" "THAT FROM NOW ON THEIR" "TELEPHONES WOULD BE TAPPED," "THEIR LETTERS OPENED, AND THEIR" "DESKS BROKEN INTO." "Narrator:" "RADICALANDVIOLENT" "CHANGES WERE HAPPENING ACROSS" "GERMANY, BUT HITLER HAD" "JUSTIFIED THEM ALL." "Gebensleben:" "THISRUTHLESS" "INTERVENTION BY THE GOVERNMENT" "MAY APPEAR STRANGE," "BUT WE MUST CLEAN UP." "THE COMMUNISTS HAVE TO DISAPPEAR." "Klemperer:" "DAYAFTERDAY" "FLAGS RAISED," "BUILDINGS TAKEN OVER," "PEOPLE SHOT," "NEWSPAPERS BANNED." "IT IS SHOCKING HOW NAKED ACTS OF" "VIOLENCE, BREACHES OF THE LAW," "BARBARIC OPINIONS;" "APPEAR QUITE" "UNDISGUISED AS OFFICIAL DECREE." "ACTUALLY, IT'S TERRIBLY RISKY" "EVEN TO BE WRITING THIS." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE 23rdOF" "MARCH." "THE COMMUNISTS WERE IN JAIL." "THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO STOP" "THE NEW NAZI MAJORITY IN" "GERMANY'S PARLIAMENT." "WHEN DELEGATES VOTED TO" "CONSOLIDATE ALL POWER" "IN ADOLF HITLER." "HE HAD BEEN CHANCELLOR FOR" "EXACTLY... 52 DAYS." "NOW FOR ALL INTENTS AND" "PURPOSES, HE WAS DICTATOR." "Woman:" "WECRYWITHHAPPINESS" "AND JOY." "ALL TRACES OF RESISTANCE HAVE" "BEEN ELIMINATED." "ENTHUSIASM GRIPS THE ENTIRE" "NATION." "WE CAN BARELY BELIEVE THAT OUR" "BELOVED FUHRER STANDS ALONE AT" "THE HELM OF THE REICH." "Haffner:" "CHURCHBELLSRING," "CHILDREN WAVE FLAGS." "THERE ARE DAILY PARADES." "THE PEOPLE HAVE BECOME USED TO" "CHEERING..." "EVEN WHEN THERE'S NO REASON FOR IT." "IT IS REASON ENOUGH THAT PEOPLE" "WHO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM THE" "NAZIS ARE TORTURED TO DEATH" "DAILY WITH STEEL WHIPS AND" "ELECTRIC DRILLS." "BETTER TO CELEBRATE." "HOWL WITH THE WOLVES." "HEIL." "HEIL." "HEIL." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE 28thOFMARCH , 1933." "ADOLF HITLER HAD BEEN DICTATOR" "OF GERMANY FOR FIVE DAYS." "EVEN SO, UNLESS YOU" "OPENLY OPPOSED THE NAZIS," "YOUR LIFE WENT ON AS BEFORE." "BUT FOR SOME, THAT WAS ABOUT" "TO CHANGE." "Ebermayer:" "WEAREHAVINGLUNCH" "WITH A LAW PROFESSOR AND HIS WIFE." "THEY ARE BOTH JEWISH." "THE AMAZING THING IS THAT THIS" "CLEVER, CHARMING WOMAN IS NOT AT" "ALL OPPOSED TO THE NAZIS." "ON THE CONTRARY, SHE LECTURES US" "ON THE OUTSTANDING QUALITIES OF" "ADOLF HITLER..." "ON THE GREATNESS OF THE AGE" "WHICH WE ARE ALLOWED TO WITNESS," "ON THE NATIONAL REBIRTH," "AND SHE IS FIRMLY CONVINCED" "THAT NO HARM WHATSOEVER" "WILL COME TO EDUCATED JEWS IN GERMANY." "Narrator:" "FOURDAYSAFTER" "THIS LUNCH, NAZI PARTY MEMBER" "WALTER LENGER USED HIS CAMERA TO" "DOCUMENT ANOTHER HISTORIC MOMENT" "IN THE NEW THIRD REICH." "THE NAZIS WERE BOYCOTTING ALL" "JEWISH BUSINESSES IN GERMANY." "FEWER THAN 1 IN 100 GERMANS" "WERE JEWISH." "MOST SAW THEMSELVES AS GERMANS FIRST." "EVEN SO, HITLER SAID THE JEWS" "WERE GERMANY'S MISFORTUNE." "Haffner:" "SUDDENLY,EVERYONE" "FEELS JUSTIFIED OR REQUIRED TO" "HAVE AN OPINION ABOUT THE JEWS." "AND TO STATE IT PUBLICLY." "DISTINCTIONS ARE MADE BETWEEN" "DECENT JEWS AND OTHERS." "Woman:" "I SYMPATHIZE" "WITH THE JEWS." "HOWEVER, I WOULD SUPPORT THEIR" "CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY WITH" "ALL HONESTY." "Landau:" "WHYDO THEYSTILLLIE," "WHEN THEY ALREADY HAVE THE" "POWER TO DO WHAT THEY LIKE?" "I WANT TO KNOW THAT." "WHY DON'T THEY JUST KILL US," "IF THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT?" "THIS FOOTAGE WAS SHOT AT THE" "ORANIENBURG CONCENTRATION CAMP" "OUTSIDE BERLIN IN THE SPRING OF 1933." "IT SHOWS AN ORDERLY CAMP WHERE" "PRISONERS ARE TREATED HUMANELY." "BUT IF YOU WERE THERE, YOU WOULD" "HAVE EXPERIENCED SOMETHING MUCH" "DIFFERENT." "Man:" "NOONEEVERKNOWSWHEN" "IT WILL BE HIS TURN TO BE BEATEN," "OR FOR WHAT HE MUST BE BEATEN." "THOSE WHO ARE BEATEN UP IN THE" "CAMP USUALLY DO NOT SAY A WORD" "BECAUSE THEY DARE NOT, BUT AT" "NIGHT YOU COULD HEAR THE GROANS" "AND SOBBING." "Klemperer:" "A FRIENDTELLS" "THIS STORY:" "A MAN'S GARDEN WAS DUG UP." "THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A" "MACHINE GUN IN IT," "BUT NOTHING WAS FOUND." "TO SQUEEZE A CONFESSION," "THEY BEAT HIM." "HIS CORPSE WAS BROUGHT BACK TO" "THE HOSPITAL." "HIS BODY HAD BOOT MARKS ON THE" "STOMACH, AND FIST-SIZED HOLES IN" "THE BACK." "THE OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH?" "DYSENTERY." "Narrator:" "THEMESSAGEWAS CLEAR." "OPPOSITION OF ANY KIND" "WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED." "THE THIRD REICH HAD BEGUN ITS RISE." "Narrator:" "ITWASJANUARY1,1934," "AND THE NAZIS WERE" "RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR." "Goebbels:" "A YEAROF SUCCESS" "IS BEHIND US." "PEOPLE, STATE AND NATION" "HAVE BECOME ONE..." "AND THE STRONG WILL" "OF THE FUHRER IS OVER US ALL." "GERMANY STANDS BEFORE THE WORLD" "AS AN UNSHAKABLE UNITY." "Narrator:" "BUTNOTEVERYONEWASWELCOME" "IN THE NEW REGIME." "ONLY THOSE CITIZENS THE NAZIS" "BELIEVED WERE RACIALLY SUPERIOR." "AND THIS YEAR, THEY WOULD BEGIN" "TO ENGINEER MORE OF THEM." "IN 1934, NAZI PARTY MEMBER" "KURT HARTMANN AND HIS WIFE LOTTE" "WELCOMED THIS NEW BABY BOY." "ULRICH HARTMANN WAS LUCKY THAT" "HIS PARENTS DID NOT SUFFER FROM" "UNDESIRABLE GENETIC TRAITS." "BECAUSE THIS YEAR, THE NAZIS" "WOULD BEGIN SURGICALLY" "PREVENTING THOSE GERMANS" "FROM BREEDING." "THE NAZIS MADE PROPAGANDA FILMS" "LIKE THESE" "TO ENCOURAGE COMPLIANCE WITH THE NEW LAW." "BUT YOU COULD BE FORCIBLY STERILIZED" "FOR ANYTHING THEY CONSIDERED" "A GENETIC FLAW." "Emma:" "I HAVEBEENINFORMED" "BY WRITING, THAT I AM TO BE" "RENDERED INFERTILE." "I REJECT THIS DECISION." "I CANNOT UNDERSTAND" "WHY THEY WANT TO STERILIZE ME" "SINCE I'VE DONE NOTHING WRONG." "ANYONE COULD'VE SUFFERED FROM" "A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN." "Narrator:" "EMMAWASSTERILIZEDANYWAY." "Man:" "I HAVENOTICEDINTHESE" "TRIUMPHANT NAZI CELEBRATIONS" "A NEW FEATURE" "I NEVER USED TO SEE." "BEHIND THE BAND AND ITS" "FOLLOWING OF BROWN-SHIRTED" "STORM TROOPS" "THERE IS NOW A LONG TAIL" "OF CIVILIAN FLAG WAVERS" "WHO NEVER USED TO MARCH WITH THEM." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE 25thOFFEBRUARY." "THESE NAZI LOYALISTS WERE ASSEMBLED" "IN MUNICH FOR WHAT WAS" "BILLED AS THE BIGGEST OATH TAKING" "IN HUMAN HISTORY." "IF YOU KNEW WHAT WAS" "GOOD FOR YOU, YOU JOINED HIM." "IN 1934, KURT AND LOTTE HARTMANN'S" "OLDEST SON, PETER, BEGAN SCHOOL." "LIKE OTHER GERMAN BOYS," "ON HIS HIS FIRST DAY HE LEARNED" "THE MANDATORY GERMAN GREETING" ""HEIL HITLER."" "IF YOU WERE AN ADULT AND YOU DIDN'T" "USE THE HITLER GREETING," "YOU RISKED BEING SENT TO A" "CONCENTRATION CAMP." "SO NOW, IN PUBLIC AT LEAST," "IT SEEMED AS IF EVERYONE" "WAS A NAZI." "Ebermayer:" "EVERYONE," "LITERALLY EVERYONE, CRINGES" "WITH FEAR." "NO LETTER, NO TELEPHONE CONVERSATION," "NO WORD ON THE STREET" "IS SAFE ANYMORE." "EVERYONE FEARS THE NEXT PERSON" "MAY BE AN INFORMER." "Narrator:" "SUMMER1934." "NAZI PARTY MEMBER ADOLF VON HINUBER" "FILMED THIS FOOTAGE" "HERE, ON THE ISLAND OF BORKUM," "IN THE NORTH SEA." "HE AND HIS FRIENDS WERE WELCOME" "AT THIS POPULAR VACATION SPOT." "JEWS WERE NOT." "FOR DECADES, THE RESIDENTS OF" "BORKUM PROUDLY CLAIMED TO BE" "FREE OF JEWS." "AND THIS YEAR, THE NAZIS WOULD" "SET THAT GOAL" "FOR ALL OF GERMANY." "IF YOU WERE A DEVOTED NAZI PARTY MEMBER," "THE SUMMER ENDED AS THEY ALL DID," "WITH THE ANNUAL" "PILGRIMAGE TO NUREMBERG FOR THE" "PARTY RALLY." "FOR THE FAITHFUL, THIS WAS THE" "MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED EVENT" "ON THE NAZI CALENDAR." "BUT THE RALLY OF 1934" "WOULD BE PARTICULARLY SPECIAL..." "BECAUSE THIS YEAR, THEY WOULD" "FILM THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PIECE" "OF NAZI PROPAGANDA EVER MADE." "Riefenstahl:" "WHATIWITNESSED" "IN NUREMBERG IS ONE OF THE MOST" "REMARKABLE EVENTS" "I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED." "I CANNOT COMPARE IT" "TO ANYTHING I'VE EVER" "EXPERIENCED BEFORE AS AN ARTIST." "Narrator:" "TOCAPTURE" "THE GLORY OF THE THIRD REICH," "FILMMAKER LENI RIEFENSTAHL" "HELPED TO STAGE IT," "DIRECTING AND REHEARSING THIS SCENE" "AT LEAST 50 TIMES." "THE FILM "TRIUMPH OF THE WILL"" "PREMIERED TO WORLDWIDE ACCLAIM," "WINNING AWARDS IN GERMANY," "VENICE, AND FINALLY, PARIS." "WITHIN A YEAR OF THAT AWARD," "ADOLF HITLER WAS NAMED TIME MAGAZINE'S" "MAN OF THE YEAR." "ManA TEACHERIN DORNBERGHAD" "THE CHILDREN RECITE" "Manandchild:"JEWSARE" "SINNERS." "THEY SLAUGHTER CHRISTIAN" "CHILDREN." "THEY CUT THEIR THROATS," "THE DAMNED JEWISH FILTH."" "Man:" "THETEACHERTHREATENED" "TO PUNISH THE CHILDREN IF THEY" "WOULD NOT LEARN THE POEM BY HEART" "BY THE FOLLOWING DAY." "Narrator:" "ITWASSEPTEMBER15,1935," "AND ONCE AGAIN, THE NAZI FAITHFUL" "WERE GATHERING IN NUREMBERG." "IN A SPEECH THAT WAS BROADCAST" "TO THE NATION, HITLER ADDRESSED" "WHAT HE CALLED" ""THE JEWISH PROBLEM."" "Ebermayer:" "AFTERTHESETHREE" "LAWS WERE READ..." "THE HALLS RANG WITH" "MINUTE-LONG APPLAUSE." "IT WAS THE CALL OF A WILD ANIMAL," "A BEAST THAT SMELLS BLOOD." "Announcer:" "WELCOMETO BERLIN," "CAPITAL OF THE GERMAN REICH!" "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE SUMMER" "OF 1936, AND THE WORLD WAS" "COMING TO BERLIN." "Announcer:" "FORBERLIN,1936" "IS THE OLYMPIC YEAR, AND" "THEREFORE BERLIN IS PRESENTING" "HERSELF IN FESTIVAL DRESS." "THE MAIN THEME ARE THE FLAGS OF" "THE NEW PARTY'S DESIGNS, THE" "BLACK SWASTIKAS IN A WHITE CIRCLE" "ON A RED BACKGROUND." "Narrator:" "GERMANY'SCAPITAL" "WAS HOSTING THE 11th OLYMPIC GAMES," "AND THE THIRD REICH" "PRODUCED TOURISM FILMS LIKE THIS:" "TO ENCOURAGE FOREIGNERS TO VISIT." "HITLER WANTED THE WORLD TO SEE" "THE NAZI RENAISSANCE FOR ITSELF." "AND SO, FOR TWO WEEKS IN AUGUST," "THE NAZIS PUT ON A SHOW." "IF YOU WERE A FOREIGN TOURIST AT" "THE OLYMPICS, THE NAZIS MIGHT" "HAVE CONVINCED YOU THAT GERMANY" "WAS AN OPEN AND TOLERANT NATION." "FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS," "FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS" "WERE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE." "THE SIGNS PROHIBITING JEWS FROM" "PUBLIC PARKS OR BENCHES HAD BEEN" "TAKEN DOWN." "IF YOU WERE GERMAN, YOU KNEW" "THIS WAS NOT NAZI GERMANY." "Klemperer:" "I FINDTHEOLYMPICS" "SO ODIOUS." "IT'S CONSTANTLY BEING DRUMMED" "INTO THE FOREIGNERS THAT HERE," "ONE IS WITNESSING THE REVIVAL," "THE FLOWERING, THE UNITY OF" "SPIRIT OF THE THIRD REICH," "WHICH LOVINGLY EMBRACES THE WHOLE WORLD." "Narrator:" "OUTSIDETHESTADIUMGATES," "BERLIN'S HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORKERS" "HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED" "TO TREAT FOREIGNERS" "WITH EXTREME TOLERANCE." "MANY AMERICAN ATHLETES COMMENTED" "THAT THEY HAD NEVER BEEN SO WELL TREATED" "AT HOME." "FOREIGNERS WHO KNOW GERMANY ONLY" "FROM WHAT THEY HAVE SEEN HERE" "CAN CARRY HOME JUST ONE" "IMPRESSION:" "IT IS THAT THIS IS A NATION" "HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS BEYOND" "BELIEF, THAT HITLER IS ONE OF" "THE GREATEST, IF NOT THE" "GREATEST, POLITICAL LEADERS IN" "THE WORLD TODAY..." "AND THAT GERMANS ARE A PEACEFUL PEOPLE" "WHO DESERVE THE BEST THE" "WORLD CAN GIVE THEM." "WHEN THE GAMES ENDED," "THE TOURISTS WENT HOME." "BERLIN RETURNED TO NORMAL." "AND LOTTE AND KURT HARTMANN" "RETURNED TO BRUNSWICK, WHERE" "THEY SCREENED THEIR OLYMPIC HOME" "MOVIES FOR SONS ULRICH AND PETER." "PETER HARTMANN WAS PROUD TO BE" "A GERMAN BOY..." "AND SO HE JOINED THE HITLER YOUTH." "BY 1936, ALL CHILDREN OVER 10" "WERE REQUIRED TO JOIN, WHETHER" "THEY WERE WILLING OR NOT." "THE MANY THOUSANDS OF NEW" "MEMBERS WERE TO BE PRESENTED TO" "HITLER AS A GIFT FOR HIS 48th BIRTHDAY." "IF YOU WERE A 10-YEAR-OLD BOY" "IN GERMANY, YOU TOO MIGHT HAVE" "WANTED TO JOIN AFTER WATCHING" "FILMS LIKE THIS." "Hermand:" "FOROURFIELDEXERCISES," "OUR SQUAD HAS TO FIND" "THE OTHER SQUAD THROUGH MILITARY" "RECONNAISSANCE." "ONCE THE "ENEMY" SQUAD IS" "FOUND..." "THERE ARE FISTFIGHTS." "THIS EXERCISE IS SUPPOSED TO" "TEACH US THAT COMRADESHIP," "AS THEY CALL IT, IS FORMED IN BATTLE." "Man:" "WEAREDREADFULLYWORRIED." "THE BOYS WON'T LISTEN TO US ANYMORE." "WHEN MY WIFE INSISTED THAT OUR" "OLDEST OBEY..." "HE DREW HIS DAGGER AND ASSAULTED HER." "HE SHOUTED, "I BELONG TO THE" "FUHRER FIRST!" "THE FAMILY COMES SECOND."" "Narrator:" "WITHINTWOYEARS," "NEARLY EIGHT MILLION CHILDREN" "HAD TAKEN THE HITLER YOUTH OATH" "OF ALLEGIANCE" "Narratorandboy:" "ISWEARTO" "DEVOTE MYSELF TO ADOLPH HITLER." "I AM WILLING AND READY TO GIVE UP" "MY LIFE, SO HELP ME GOD."" "Narrator:" "INTHEEND ,MANYOF" "THEM WOULD." "Narrator:" "ITWAS1937" "AND AMATEUR FILMMAKER WALTER LENGER" "CELEBRATED HIS WEDDING" "BY MAKING THIS SHORT FILM." "LENGER AND HIS BRIDE WERE" "EXACTLY THE KIND OF GERMANS" "HITLER WANTED MORE OF" "INDUSTRIOUS, POLITICALLY ENTHUSIASTIC," "AND MOST IMPORTANTLY..." "ARYAN." "WOMEN LIKE MRS. LENGER WERE" "ENCOURAGED BY THE REICH TO HAVE" "AS MANY CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE." "BECAUSE, IF THE THIRD REICH" "WAS GOING TO ACHIEVE ITS GOALS," "IT DIDN'T JUST NEED BETTER GERMANS." "IT NEEDED MORE OF THEM." "Woman:" "INTHEEYESOFOURBELOVEDLEADER," "THE MOTHER IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON" "IN THE NATION." "WE ARE GERMANY'S HOPE IN THE FUTURE," "AND IT IS OUR DUTY TO" "BREED AND REAR THE NEW" "GENERATION OF SONS AND DAUGHTERS." "Narrator:" "THISFEMALEDIVISION" "OF THE HITLER YOUTH WAS" "FILMED HIKING OUTSIDE MUNICH IN 1937." "PARTICIPATION WAS MANDATORY FOR" "THESE GIRLS, WHO WERE REQUIRED" "TO DOCUMENT THAT THEY WERE ARYAN" "AND FREE OF HEREDITARY DISEASE." "Girl:" "DEARMOTHERAND FATHER," "IN OUR CAMP THERE ARE 48 GIRLS." "NEAR US IS A BOYS' CAMP." "WE SEE THE BOYS VERY OFTEN" "AND MEND THEIR CLOTHING AS WE SPEND" "THE EVENINGS WITH THEM." "A FUNNY THING--OF THESE 48 GIRLS, 35 ARE PREGNANT," "AND STILL FUNNIER, I'M ONE OF THE 35!" "Pope:" "UPONLEARNINGOFHER" "DAUGHTER'S PREGNANCY," "ONE GIRL'S HORRIFIED MOTHER" "RUSHED TO THE CAMP TO INVESTIGATE" "AND DISCIPLINE HER DAUGHTER." "THE 16-YEAR OLD REPLIED HOTLY" "THAT IF HER MOTHER DID NOT" "GO HOME AND LEAVE HER ALONE," "SHE WOULD REPORT HER TO THE" "CAMP LEADER, WHO WOULD IN TURN" "REPORT THE MOTHER TO THE GESTAPO," "WHO WOULD THEN TAKE ACTION AGAINST HER" "FOR SABOTAGING GERMAN MOTHERHOOD." "Announcer:" "HERE'SABULLETINFROM VIENNA." "CHANCELLOR HITLER TERMED AUSTRIA," "THE LATEST AND GREATEST ADDITION" "TO THE GERMAN REICH." "A HYSTERICAL ROAR OF CHEERS TODAY IN VIENNA." "THE CROWD WAS DESCRIBED AS" "ONE OF THE GREATEST GATHERINGS EVER ASSEMBLED" "IN THE AUSTRIAN CAPITAL." "(crowd cheers)" "MEANWHILE, AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN" "FIRED AT NAZI STORM TROOPERS" "FROM A WINDOW AND THEN SHOT" "HIMSELF DEAD." "LATER AT A DOWNTOWN CAFE," "A MAN GOT UP FROM A TABLE," "SHOUTED "HEIL HITLER"" "AND THEN STABBED HIMSELF." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE 12thOFMARCH ," "AND HITLER WAS TAKING AUSTRIA." "THE TREATY THAT HAD ENDED WORLD WAR I" "FORBADE THE UNION" "OF GERMANY AND AUSTRIA." "BUT THE MAJORITY" "OF AUSTRIANS WANTED IT." "AS ONE FOREIGN NEWSPAPER" "OBSERVED, "IF HITLER WAS RAPING AUSTRIA," "THEN THE AUSTRIANS LIKED GETTING RAPED."" "OVERNIGHT, THE GERMAN EMPIRE" "HAD GROWN BY FIVE MILLION CITIZENS." "WITHIN DAYS, 70,000 AUSTRIANS" "WOULD BE SENT TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS." "Girl:" "NAZISONGSAND" "NAZI SALUTES EVERYWHERE." "THE CITY IS A SEA OF SWASTIKA FLAGS." "WHEN DID THEY MANAGE TO SEW" "ALL THESE HUGE SWASTIKA FLAGS?" "WHEN DID ALL OUR NICE NEIGHBORS" "OBTAIN THEIR SWASTIKA INSIGNIA?" "WHAT HAPPENED?" "Reck-Hallectewen:" "ASIWRITE," "AN IMMENSE FLIGHT OF BOMBERS" "IS DRONING PAST OVERHEAD..." "AS THOUGH THESE PLANES WERE" "FLYING AGAINST A WORLD POWER." "YOU, UP THERE, I HATE YOU." "I DO NOT KNOW IF I WILL" "SURVIVE YOUR DOWNFALL," "BUT THIS I DO KNOW..." "THIS IS A CARICATURE OF GERMANY..." "SMEARED BY A MALIGNANT APE," "ESCAPED FROM A LEASH." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE SUMMEROF1938." "AND CELEBRATION WAS IN THE AIR." "HERE IN MUNICH, THE THIRD REICH" "WAS PREPARING TO CELEBRATE THE" "NAZIFICATION OF GERMAN CULTURE." "200 MILES NORTH, IN LEIPZIG," "WALTER LENGER AND HIS WIFE" "WERE CELEBRATING THEIR BIRTHDAYS." "HE TURNED 40..." "AND SHE, 30." "AND IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL OF BERLIN," "JEWISH JOURNALIST, BELLA FROMM," "WAS ALSO CELEBRATING." "Fromm:" "WHENIFOUNDMYSELF" "OUTSIDE THE AMERICAN CONSULATE," "THE AMERICAN VISA IN MY HAND," "I HAD TO SIT DOWN ON THE STONE STEPS" "AND CRY IN MY GRATEFUL HAPPINESS." "I'M GOING AS SOON AS I CAN." "I MUST MANAGE TO GET OUT OF GERMANY" "BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE 9th OFJULY ,1938 ." "BY SPECIAL WILL OF THE FUHRER," "THE CITY OF MUNICH WAS HOSTING A 72-HOUR FESTIVAL DEDICATED" "TO GERMAN ART." "IF YOU WERE ONE OF THE MANY" "THOUSANDS OF VISITORS," "YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN THE IDEAL GERMANY" "RENDERED IN PAINTINGS," "SCULPTURES AND ETCHINGS," "ALL HAND-SELECTED BY HITLER HIMSELF." "Pope:" "I WASCONDUCTEDTHROUGH" "THE HOUSE OF GERMAN ART." "I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE MY EYES." "THE TREND IS EROTICISM:" "TO GIVE GERMAN MEN THE INCENTIVE" "TO HAVE MANY GERMAN CHILDREN..." "AND THE GLORY OF THE GERMAN FARMER" "WHO FEEDS THE NATION'S WARRIORS;" "AND, OF COURSE," "HEROISM IN BATTLE." "CONCLUDING THE 3-DAY ART ORGY IS" "A 6-MILE LONG PROCESSION" "CELEBRATING 2,000 YEARS OF GERMAN CULTURE" "WITH FLOATS DRAWN BY ARMY HORSES" "AND THOUSANDS OF MEN" "AND WOMEN IN COSTUME." "IT GOES ON FOR THREE SOLID HOURS." "AT THE END, THE SYMBOL OF" "THE THIRD REICH:" "THE SOVEREIGN GERMAN EAGLE." "BUT THE CLIMAX," "WHICH BRINGS THE GERMAN SPECTATORS" "TO THEIR FEET," "IS THE GOOSE-STEPPING SOLDIERS." "IT IS AN ADMISSION OF THE" "FUHRER'S RESTLESS PLANS..." "FOR WORLD CONQUEST." "Narrator:" "INLESSTHAN12WEEKS ," "HITLER WILL MOVE TO INVADE" "NEIGHBORING CZECHOSLOVAKIA." "Announcer:" "GERMANY IS ONE OF THE MOST" "POPULAR TOURIST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD." "THE NEW NATIONAL TRAVEL OFFICES" "RELIEVE THE TOURIST OF THE USUAL" "TRAVEL WORRIES." "Narrator:" "BUTIF YOUWEREAGERMANJEW," "LIKE BELLA FROMM," "MOVING AROUND GERMANY WAS DIFFICULT..." "AND GETTING OUT USUALLY MEANT" "GIVING UP EVERYTHING YOU HAD." "Fromm:" "I DIDNOTSPAREMONEY" "ON MY TRAVEL," "BECAUSE I'D HAVE TO LEAVE IT" "IN GERMANY ANYWAY." "TO GET OUT, I HAD TO PAY NEXT" "YEAR'S TAXES IN ADVANCE," "EVEN THOUGH I WILL NOT BE IN GERMANY" "AT ALL." "BUT NO PRICE IS TOO MUCH." "THIS IS A COUNTRY TO GET OUT OF..." "EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT NAKED." "Narrator:" "ITWASTHE 26thOFSEPTEMBER," "AND THE ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST" "IN MUNICH WAS IN FULL SWING." "BUT IN A FEW MINUTES," "HITLER HIMSELF" "WOULD PUT AN END TO THE FESTIVITIES." "Pope:" "SUDDENLY," "THE ROLLER COASTERS STOP." "ON THE LOUDSPEAKERS, THE FUHRER" "IS RAGING AGAINST CZECHOSLOVAKIA." "NEVER HAVE I SEEN SUCH A LARGE" "CROWD CHANGE FROM ELATION TO GLOOM" "SO INSTANTANEOUSLY." "Narrator:" "HITLERHADDEMANDED" "THAT CZECHOSLOVAKIA CEDE A LARGE" "PORTION OF ITS GERMAN-SPEAKING" "TERRITORY TO THE THIRD REICH." "IF CZECHOSLOVAKIA REFUSED," "GERMANY VOWED TO INVADE." "24 HOURS LATER, THE EVENING OF" "SEPTEMBER 27th..." "HERE IN BERLIN, GERMAN SOLDIERS" "PREPARED FOR AN INVASION." "IN ONLY A FEW HOURS, THEY WOULD" "ROLL TO THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN BORDER." "Andreas-Friedrich:" "HAVETHEPEOPLE" "ANY IDEA WHAT THEY ARE" "BEING FORCED INTO?" "NO, I DON'T WANT ANY PART OF IT." "WE WANT PEACE." "AND TOMORROW, THERE WILL BE WAR." "Fromm:" "SAFEABOARDTHIS" "GORGEOUS BOAT." "IT IS ALMOST TOO MUCH FOR ME TO BELIEVE." "THEN, WHEN I DO BECOME ACUTELY" "AWARE OF MY GOOD FORTUNE," "I ALMOST FEEL GUILTY, REMEMBERING" "THE UNFORTUNATE ONES WHO WAIT," "DESPERATELY HOPING FOR THEIR" "CHANCE TO GET OUT." "Narrator:" "ONTHEDAY BELLAFROMM" "SAILED FOR AMERICA," "THIS BABY GIRL WAS BORN IN THE TOWN" "OF HALBERSTADT, OUTSIDE BERLIN." "WIBKE KLAMROTH'S MOTHER AND FATHER" "ARE ENTHUSIASTIC NAZIS," "BUT IT IS ONLY SEPTEMBER OF 1938." "THE THIRD REICH WILL LAST FOR" "ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS." "AND IN THOSE SEVEN YEARS," "HITLER WILL BETRAY..." "IMPOVERISH..." "AND ULTIMATELY DESTROY" "THE KLAMROTH FAMILY..." "ALONG WITH THE REST OF GERMANY."