1918-1933

Provides details of Hitler's vision for a foreign policy based on continual aggression that would inevitably result in a confrontation with the United States, which he saw as a major stumbling block to his plans.

Willi Kraus, a Jewish detective in the Weimar Republic in 1932, begins investigating the disappearance of beautiful girls in Berlin, a case that leads him into the depraved upper echelons of the Nazi party.

A collection of impressionistic and political essays by German journalist Joseph Roth which reflect on the violent social and political factors which threatened the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933.

Use interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archival film and records, to examine how a political party as fundamentally evil as the Nazis could come to power in a modern European nation. Discusses the factors that enabled the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the economically-devastated Germany of the post-World War I era and looks at the role of ordinary Germans in the Nazi regime. Follows the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, from its early promises through the atrocities and suffering of World War II. Includes segments focusing on the occupation of Poland and on the holocaust and concentration camps, particularly Treblinka.

Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl growing up in a city in southern Germany during the period of Hitler's rise to power.