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The Third Reich, which Adolf Hitler built, lasted just 12 years. But his calculated butchery of human lives and the human spirit surpassed anything this earth. How did these cultured people steeped in Christianity and the arts and science collapse into barbarism in the 20th century? To seek the answers we must follow the Germans and the rise of their leader. Adolf Hitler.
Let's take a listen. Evil and chaos can have gentle beginnings. It is in the backwater countryside of northern Austria where Adolf Hitler is born on April 20th. 1889. He's the third child of the third marriage of an Austrian customs official.
He's the first of the children to live. Past fifty, his father Aloys is a harsh and restless man. Three of his seven children are conceived out of wedlock. Adolph's young mother Clara, who is also his father's niece. is the life of Adolph's existence.
She is a very sweet, hard-working and deeply religious Catholic. who will forever remain his warmest memory. As a boy, A teacher observes that young Adolph has limited talent. is lazy and bad-tempered. and arrogantly fancies himself a leader.
Adolph is just 13 years old when his father dies in 1903. At 18, with boundless confidence, and a portfolio of schoolboy sketches. Young Hitler sets out to conquer Vienna. Certain his talent will open all doors, Hitler applies for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts. but he will walk its corridors only as a visitor.
In a shattering and unexpected blow, he is rejected. I'm sorry, Eheda. You don't have a style. Your people are like little buildings. There's no life in them.
Perhaps if you tried architecture or theatrical design, I'm truly sorry. Best of luck. Then, just four years after his father's passing, Adolph's mother dies of breast cancer. All alone, Adolf Hitler sinks into a world of drifters and nobodies. Unwashed and gaunt, He sells an occasional crude painting around town for next to nothing.
while living in flophouses and in the streets. Hiller didn't have a plan B when he was rejected. He just didn't know what to do, so he started to drift. He had very little money. He was living a hand-to-mouth existence.
He had no clear aim in life at all. He was, in a sense, waiting for something to happen. Among Vienna's discontented subculture, Hitler's heartache finds echoes throughout the streets. warm into our country. Steal the bread from our teams.
Just ask our mayor. Are wolves. Beasts of prey in human form. For the first time, Hitler senses the uses of heat. The explosive political force stored in the resentments and fears of the masses.
His own hates are many. the intermarriage with non Germans. parliamentary government. inferior races, and of course, the Jews. Anti-Semitism has always existed in European society.
But in Hitler, it becomes all-consuming. They swarm into our country. Take the food from our mouths. Here we are. German and Hungary.
Early on, he begins reciting anti-Semitic platitudes to anyone on the streets who will listen. In 1913, Hitler leaves Vienna for the German fatherland, Munich. I'm off what the real Germans are. Uh The harsh brooding newcomer is out of place. Munich is the boisterous German land of beer and pretzels.
But not for long. War! War! Austrian Archduke's assassination leads to war! On August 1st, 1914, a huge enthusiastic crowd, including the misfit outsider Adolf Hitler, gathers in Munich Plaza.
The occasion. To celebrate Germany's entry into World War I. England, France, and Russia are joining forces against our ally, Austria. We must stand with her, united, ready to sacrifice. Our lives are nothing.
My country is nothing. everything. We are now only Germans! Germany has finally given Hitler what he's always longed for. A place to belong.
I fell down on my knees, Hitler writes in Mein Kampf. and saint heaven. for being permitted to live at this time. With the advent of the machine gun, War begins producing epic numbers of casualties. Here's retired U.S.
Army General Stanley McChrystal. Explaining World War I's trench warfare. They found that if they Dug even shallow trenches and used machine guns, a small number of troops could stop a large attacking force. And then both sides started to dig trenches. And so they were locked along this line, the Western Front, which was this extraordinarily complex set of trenches that didn't move very much either way.
The trenches cover 25,000 miles. Laid end to end, they would circle the globe. Two days after Germany's war declaration, Hitler joins the German army and becomes stationed in the trenches. The open area in between the trenches is so deadly. It's known.
As no man's land. Hitler becomes a dispatch runner, whereby he leaves the safety of his company's trench in order to deliver messages through the body-littered no man's land and into the nearby German trenches. But after months on the front lines, Hitler is still seen as an outcast. Heller was regarded by the other troops as something of a loner, something of a rather peculiar, eccentric person who kept to himself. But what Hitler lacks in popularity, He makes up for in blind ambition.
And you've been listening to the story of the rise of Adolf Hitler. And what you're hearing here is a full and total picture of what drove the man. The story of the rise of Adolf Hitler continues. Here on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here.
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Hitler's role as the messenger was actually considered perhaps the most dangerous task in trench warfare. running from trench to trench, exposing himself to enemy fire. The mortality rate for messengers was quite significant. Then this mind-crushing whopper of a what-if moment occurs on the battlefield. Handy has.
Adolf Hitler in his sights. And even though he's a trained soldier. He can't bring himself.
So pull the trigger. Years of trench warfare transform Adolf Hitler from a directionless loner to a hardened soldier. The gas attacks are endless. To Hitler they've become routine. But this time, it's different.
The Allies hit the Germans with a deadly new form of chemical warfare. Mustard gas. Muster gas affects the central nervous system. It creates mustard-colored blisters on the skin. It blinds people.
It strips away the mucous membranes. It's incredibly painful. and debilitating. And since it had no odor, by the time you realized that you had inhaled it and it was on your skin, it was too late. On October 14th, 1918.
Hitler becomes one of the victims of a British mustard gas attack. Then less than a month later, after four years of continuous fighting, and 37 million casualties. Germany surrenders. While most of the world celebrates the end of the fighting, One unknown 29-year-old man, gentlemen, recovering at a military hospital. I have your attention.
Here's the news. I have an important announcement to make. Earlier today the Army High Command agreed to negotiate the terms of surrender. The war is over. No!
We must place ourselves now at the mercy of the victors. Shut up! Right, then we'll be generous. No no no! Hitler took the surrender personally.
a personal destructive blow to himself. He also took it as a mission. A mission in life. to avenge and rectify this surrender. While the fighting has stopped.
The pressure is on the United States and their fellow Allied victors to come to an agreement on how to prevent war from ever breaking out again. The leaders of each allied country, including the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. gather at the Palace of Versailles in France. After six months of intense negotiations, The resolution falls on Germany. forcing them to pay $80 billion.
the modern equivalent of nearly half a trillion dollars. A debt they won't pay off until 2010. Germany immediately is struggling with a question of survival. For ordinary Germans, the war did not end in November 1918. For ordinary Germans, the battle for survival, the daily struggle for food, the effort to find shoes and clothing stretched on into the 1920s.
As anger and starvation spread, Tensions rise throughout the country. Radical factions struggle to win over the hearts and minds of the populace. The Communists and the Socialists battled daily in the streets. Who will be able to best exploit this national crisis? Hitler becomes an informer for the demobilized German army.
And is assigned to infiltrate one of the many socialist factions. One of these groups is the German Workers' Party. led by a man called Anton Drexler. They gather in the back room of a beer hall. Just an excuse to have a drink, I expect, but...
Pay them a visit and tell me what they're planning. But don't drink so. Just listen then. Interest. The German Workers' Party is an insignificant group of pessimistic and defeated men, passing the time in a beer hall while delivering uninspired speeches and rhetorical platitudes about racial superiority and social reform.
Hitler tries to remain in the background, but is unable to restrain his impassioned tongue. You were talking about the purity of the German people. Which is no fairy tale. As I was saying, this burst of inspiration was not lost on the party's leader, Anton Drexler. Drexler asks Hitler to speak at their next meeting on October 16, 1919.
Many of you may remember him by his comments at our last meeting.
So please welcome Hey, Enos. Yeah, yeah. But the party attendees are more interested in their beer and getting lost in their thoughts. Is anyone listening? That's the problem nowadays, isn't it?
No one cares. No wonder we face extinction. This is the 3-2-1 liftoff moment for Adolf Hitler and what would soon become known. As the Nazi Party in just five months, the German Workers' Party expands quickly. They changed the name to the National Socialist Party or Nazi for short.
our enemies. Live among us. Under Hitler's leadership, membership in the National Socialist Party quickly expands. As Hitler experiences his first taste of real power, the media love the charismatic speaker and begin printing his stories. Over the next two decades, Adolf Hitler will seduce the media all over the world.
Even in the United States, Time magazine awards him their Man of the Year in 1938. Who alone are responsible for the moral decadence that now riddles our society? The Jews! The Jews! Yes!
You call themselves German, but who are now and who have always been unwelcome, unwanted, and they are everywhere. Invading our government. Stripping us of our savings. Raping our families and our heritage. I tell you, friends, this is war.
A war that is soon to turn, where the invaders will become the victims! As the National Socialist Party grows, agitators from rival political factions pour into their meetings in order to disrupt them. They shout down Hitler and start fights. He needs protection. We need more men like you.
In the party. Adolf finds Muscle and a military official Ernst Schröm. Rome is made commander of the Storm Battalion, or SA, the Nazi Party's militia. But before this can happen, Rome points out the obvious. If my man can crush a revolution, they can also create one.
Because they love this country as much as you or I do. The only little problem is They're unemployed. Hey. Yes, we do. And you've been listening to the story of the rise of Adolf Hitler.
And what you're hearing here is a full and total picture of what drove the man. And it wasn't just his hatred of Jews or outsiders. It wasn't just a quest for power. No, he wanted revenge. revenge for what had happened to Germany.
and the surrender. He just couldn't believe. that Germany had surrendered to the Allies. and my goodness, he went to work. to do something about it.
Of course the humiliation the Germans faced through that gathering at Versailles. where they were forced to pay over eighty billion dollars in restitution. would keep Germany starved and hungry. and angry, and of course there was Hitler. to just capture it all, take advantage of it all.
And then, of course, to take over the Germans' Workers' Party, a nascent, almost non-existent party that had no influence. And of course, last but not least, he realizes he needs a militia for protection. and realizes also that if you can crush a revolution, you can start one. When we come back. The rise of Adolf Hitler continues.
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And when we last left off, Hitler had taken the Germans' Workers' Party and turned it into the National Socialist Party. Let's return to the story. I know some people who would love to hear you speak. were not likely to go to a beer hall. The Welsh.
I've met a few. Armchair politicians. Care more about their money than you do their own country. Yes, but surely as your party's propaganda leader, you must know that in order to defend their money, they'll spend it, a good deal of it. That is, if someone they trust tells them it's a safe bet.
That's where I come in. Hitler turns to the Harvard-educated American businessman Ernst Homstingle. Holfstingl and his wife Helena introduce Hitler to Munich high society and help polish his image.
Soon after, Ernst and Helena invite Hitler to speak to a room of influential Germans. It's here where Adolf will meet the future commander of the Nazi Air Force. Herman Goering. to cast all Germany under his spell. Hitler needs an image that will burn into the minds of millions.
Nowadays we'd call it a logo, of course. It was designed personally by Hitler. And it may be that he put some of his artistic impulses into this. The essential part of it ultimately went back to India, but it was taken up as a symbol of racism and anti-Semitism, combined with the red background for socialism and the red, white and black colours for the old Kaiserweights. Hitler's artistic creation is known as the swastika.
Hitler can now fund Rome's SA police force and begin to push out party propaganda en masse. The Nazi Party newspaper is also launched in 1920. May God. and the people of Germany. We win this.
On November 8th, 1923, in what will become known as the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler leads his Nazis into a Munich beer hall. where top government officials are meeting.
Okay. The German revolution begins tonight! Threatened at gunpoint, the government leaders reluctantly agree to support Hitler's new regime. Then Hitler and his 3,000 Nazis swiftly march into the Munich streets to take the city by force. His entourage includes Haufstingel, Boering, his future deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, along with Rome and his SA soldiers.
But 100 German police are prepared. Sixteen Nazis and three policemen are killed. Hurry up! We're three! Goering is shot in the groin.
Hitler suffers a dislocated shoulder when the man he locks arms with is shot and pulls him down onto the pavement. Hitler's bodyguards take several bullets after jumping on top of the fallen Hitler, saving his life. Hitler scrambles along a sidewalk out of the line of fire and crawls into a waiting car. Oh. Drive!
Hitler's attempt to seize power fails. I know a safe place. To ride up ahead. Desperate, suicidal, and still armed with his pistol. The injured Hitler seeks refuge in Hampstingel's home, just outside of Munich.
Holfstingl's wife Helena dissuades Hitler from committing suicide as the police come to arrest him. He's arrested and charged with treason. With the collapse of the Nazi Revolution, Hitler's political career and the Nazi movement has come to a crashing, almost laughable end. How do you plead? Hitler uses his trial as a personal forum to publicize his worldview to the German nation.
You have been accused of high treason and called an enemy of the state. If a thief takes your money, you take it back. Does that make you also a thief? The courtroom quickly becomes a stage, and Hitler is its hero protagonist. in 1918.
We were betrayed. by the November criminals. The ones who claim to be our leaders. They entered the war. Sign the Treaty of Versailles.
And that's... Was high treason? This is supposed to be an interrogation, not a speech. The judge is visibly impressed by Hitler's response to the prosecutor. If I am guilty of anything...
Then I am guilty. of fighting to defend the rights of the German people. Yeah, yeah. Fascinating, isn't he? After 24 days of deliberation, Hitler's fate rests in the hands of the judge.
Er Hitler. The court finds you guilty of treason. Yes! You hereby sentenced to a fine. 200 gold marks.
And five years. in Landsberg Christ You will. You will eligible for parole. In nine months. Yeah, yeah.
It's a slap on the wrist. Hitler has turned defeat into triumph. The provincial troublemaker is now a national hero. Uh This way, please. Hey, Hitler.
Hitler spends all his eight months as a celebrated guest in prison. And if I may say so, sir, It's an honor to serve you. plotting his next move with Nazi cellmate Rudolf Hess. who volunteers his time in prison to be Hitler's secretary. Welcome, my Fuhrer.
Thank you, Hass.
Well it's lovely isn't it? Only two things missing, an audience and an income. Perhaps I'll write a memoir. What do you think? I think it's an excellent idea.
Good. Then I need a publisher. To gain followers and to spread his message, the 35-year-old Hitler creates a manifesto. Financed and published by the Harvard educated Haufstingel. the heart of which is a radical plan for world domination.
He titles it Mein Kampf or My Struggle. On December 20th, 1924, Hitler is free. But now Hitler's twisted socialist crusade is stopped by the adversary he fears most. Good times have come to Germany. Rebellions have faded.
The inflation halted. The country is back to work and the hardships and humiliations of defeat are fading. And you've been listening to the story of the rise of Adolf Hitler. and how he came to power. And ultimately, how he came to power was a failed attempt to come to power.
which led to a trial. that Hitler used brilliantly as a stage in which he set himself up as the protagonist, as the hero in his own story, and a hero fighting for the cause of Germany. And the judge, he played his part in Hitler's play as well. Sentencing Hitler to a mere five years with eligibility for parole at nine months. Not just a slap on the wrist, almost an endorsement.
And while in prison, he takes the time to pen his manifesto. Mine comes. which of course translated from German is my struggle. When we come back, The Rise of Adolf Hitler continues. Here on Our American Stories.
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On October 29, 1929, After a decade of post-World War I prosperity, The New York Stock Exchange suffers the most catastrophic crash it will ever see. Losing over $14 billion in just one day. The crash launches a heartbreaking era for America. The Great Depression The fallout quickly spreads throughout the world. but one of the countries taking the biggest hit.
is Germany. Hitler will not let this national crisis go to waste. Unemployment increased so dramatically. That it opened the door for radical movements to gain support. It was the Great Depression.
Yeah. and made Hitler possible. Hitler believes he can rally the desperate people around his vision of a new powerful Germany. Setting in motion a plan he first described in his manifesto, Mein Kampf. What we must fight for.
is to safeguard Existence. and the reproduction of our race and our people.
Okay. Mein Kampf is enormously significant. It provided a kind of outline. for all the things that Hifter wanted to do eventually. Hitler clearly believed passionately.
From the start of his career right to the end, that the Jews were the world enemy who intended to destroy Germany. It's a paranoid fantasy. He believed he was chosen by destiny. to rescue Germany. Yeah.
We must reverse the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler recruits new members to his party and tours the country giving impassioned speeches and distributing various forms of Nazi propaganda. What the Nazis did was to project an image of energy. vigour, youth, determination in the service of Germany. They're constantly marching through the streets with banners.
There's constant speeches, meetings, huge activity. And this projects this image of that they're going to do something. All the other parties are just wasting their time talking, we're actually going to do something. The nation does its duty. Then the day will come which restores to us one right.
in honour and freedom. Hitler's speeches had some kind of unique power. He served as a lightning rod for all the discontent. In Germany. He managed to focus it and channel it and become it.
Within a few years, the National Socialist Party is transformed from a fringe organization into a growing political movement. Hitler's Nazi Party quickly holds the largest numbers of seats in parliament. The Nazi strongmen come not to debate, but to end debate. The government comes to a standstill.
Now, with widespread support, Hitler's dream is finally within his grasp. He has won his countrymen by demands for action.
Now they expect action. He has promised a new Germany.
Now they want it. The evangelist of hate has become the prophet of hope. Yeah. Moderate parties try to remind the public of Hitler's long-standing promise that when he gains power, heads will roll. It is a campaign promise Hitler fully intends to keep.
Do you solemnly swear? To carry out the obligations of the office of Chancellor. Just as Franklin Delano Roosevelt is first elected President of the United States in 1933. The faltering senile German president Hindenburg hands Hitler a ceremonial position in the government as Chancellor of Germany. hoping to pacify his Nazi movement.
But in the slippery business of double dealing, Hitler proves the master. Keep hold. Immediately following the ceremony, 20 million people across Germany tune in to this radio broadcast. Hitler's largest audience ever. Bye, Kevin.
Oh, that's a good answer. Germans, my people. Party members, rich and poor. City and country The educated and knowing And the ignorant. She's in star.
I'll starve it upon it. The task of politics is not to represent Just one faction. Rather the task of politics must be to overcome these divisions for a greater good. Yeah. In our hands alone.
Lichtitz Ugunft! Lies the destiny of the German people. In these hands! In these hands! The words of this speech are unimportant.
oft-repeated platitudes. but the level at which they ignite passion, loyalty, and obedience. is sorcery. After this speech, the Nazi party is flooded with so many membership requests, they have to suspend admissions. Then, just two weeks after being named Chancellor, someone sets fire to the German Parliament building.
Called the Reichstag. A giddy Hitler, who never claims responsibility, arrives on scene and feigns outrage. This is a signal from God. We are under siege. The terrorists have opened fire.
And we will fire back. It's good to see him so happy. This is an outrageous crime and someone will answer. Hitler calls an emergency meeting of the Reichstag. In order to the government.
to carry out necessary procedures against terrorism. Breichstark must support an enabling action. This act. It's your opportunity. to hand power.
over those that can wield it most effectively. From now on. All legislation will be handled by the administration. Michelle had some rights to make constitutional changes. Freedoms of speech.
Association? And the press. are temporarily suspended. Privacy rights! In relation to telephone, And personal communication.
The revenge. The right chance for the please return to its seat. I will take any refusal. as a statement of opposition. Gentlemen.
You must decide. Will it be peace? Oh! Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alley. They approve the Enabling Act.
which effectively turns Germany into a police state. with Hitler as their absolute ruler. In what will become known as the Night with the Long Knives. Hitler begins arresting German citizens by the thousands and eliminates nearly 100 of his political enemies, including media figures and reporters. It's your soul.
Even his own SA commander, Ernst Röhm. High Furah. And so, in his honour. I will bring you all into the Reichswehr army. Rome's SA are replaced with two million Hitler-controlled SS guards.
In one move, Adolf Hitler has taken complete control of the government. and is now supreme leader of Germany's sixty seven million citizens. A time of peace! and prosperity await us. The thousand year rifle has begun!
Seek higher. And a terrific job by the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler. And a special thanks to Sir Richard Evans, Ron Rosenbaum, Douglas Brinkley. And Robert Galately, historians whose voices you heard throughout that piece, and the dramatic audio clips were from the film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, which can be purchased at visionvideo.com. That's visionvideo.com.
And what a story you just heard. How Hitler exploited the Great Depression, used the Great Depression, without which his rise to power was simply impossible, and then, of course, used the narrative. and that the Jews had destroyed the country. And then, of course, had an answer to that, which was to seize power, total control, absolute control over the nearly 70 million citizens. of Germany.
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