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    The End of Illusions

Documentary
55 
Dec 31, 2015
Germany, 1933. Adolf Hitler, at the head of the Nazi Party, has just become Chancellor and is faced with leading a republic in the throes of economic crisis and rampant inflation.

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Season 1, 8 episodes

Season 1
   
The End of Illusions,
Germany, 1933. Adolf Hitler, at the head of the Nazi Party, has just become Chancellor and is faced with leading a republic in the throes of economic crisis and rampant inflation.
55m Dec 31, 2015
   
The Trap,
In 1938, the Third Reich annexed Austria and applied a policy of systematic expulsion of foreign Jews resident on its territory.
54m Dec 31, 2015
   
The Nazi Machine,
By June 1940, Nazi Germany had occupied Paris. France was cut in two.
55m Dec 31, 2015
   
The Face of Death,
Leading historians reflect on the barbarity of the Holocaust. By 1941, the Nazis were using gas as the hideous method for mass killings at their death camps - including Auschwitz.
55m Dec 31, 2015
   
The Final Solution,
In the Warsaw ghetto, Emanuel Ringelblum and the other members of the documentary group Oyneg Shabbos collected whatever they could to recount life in the ghetto.
55m Dec 31, 2015
   
The Survivors,
By summer 1942, deportations were systematic across those parts of Europe occupied by the Nazis. The convoys which arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau came from Poland, also western and southern Europe.
55m Dec 31, 2015
   
Autopsy of a Mass Murder,
On 20 November 1945, the trial of the top brass of the Third Reich, including Göring, opened in Nuremberg, the city where the anti-Jewish laws were drawn up in 1935.
53m Dec 31, 2015
   
Lest We Forget,
Last in the deeply moving series about the Holocaust. While the hunt to find surviving Nazis continues today, efforts are being made to preserve the memory of their tragic victims.
55m Dec 31, 2015
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