download disk 1
download disk 2
The film covers the life of Adolf Hitler from his childhood to his emergence as absolute ruler of Germany in 1934.
Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs.
Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg
