For educational purposes
"The Dictator" examines the conditions under which Hitler's seeds were able to bear fruit.
This episode includes rare extracts from Hitler's speeches and film footage from German and international archives to draw a richly facetted and penetrating portrait of the dictator.
Statements by prominent and competent contemporary witnesses of events, who experienced Hitler's rule for themselves, convey an impression of the "climate of fear" in Hitler's Reich.
On the basis of the latest findings, this documentation analyses how a whole nation submitted almost completely to the diktat of a madman.
"The Dictator" examines the conditions under which Hitler's seeds were able to bear fruit.
This episode includes rare extracts from Hitler's speeches and film footage from German and international archives to draw a richly facetted and penetrating portrait of the dictator.
Statements by prominent and competent contemporary witnesses of events, who experienced Hitler's rule for themselves, convey an impression of the "climate of fear" in Hitler's Reich.
On the basis of the latest findings, this documentation analyses how a whole nation submitted almost completely to the diktat of a madman.
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00:30January the 30th, 1933. Hitler on his way to power. A few hundred men were ordered to
00:48shout Heil Mein Führer. Could this have been just another change of government?
00:56The pictures convey an atmosphere of normality. A conservative cabinet with a new chancellor.
01:05The gentleman was chosen by us, but we will rule, said von Papen, the vice-chancellor,
01:11we being the old elites. But Hitler had never been in any doubt about it. Once he gained
01:19power, he would never let go. Was no one listening? It appeared to be a straightforward change
01:28of government, but it wasn't. Germany under the swastika. Germany on the march straight
01:37into dictatorship. Those who did not march in step were hunted down. The reign of terror
01:52was established overnight. This footage was filmed secretly. An American film from this
02:07period made by a young German Jew who had got out in time. Shock, fear, terror. The
02:17person who had seized power in Germany was no actor.
02:21A dictator who understood something of power, who was ready to use the necessary brutality,
02:37the cruelty, and who achieved a colossal consequence in the exploitation of this power.
02:45Ten days after insinuating himself into power, Hitler appeared publicly for the first time
02:55as Reich Chancellor at a rally in the Berlin Sports Palace. There was a huge turnout. Only
03:03dictatorship can achieve this, as Hitler would remark again and again. People stayed away
03:09from the Democrats. His slogans were still the same. Only now they had added weight.
03:18He wanted to tidy things up. Few Germans cared precisely how. Finally, a man for sweeping
03:57That was the kind of dictation, the way he spoke, the way he did not shout, but
04:02shouted his opinion into the microphone. At the weekly meetings that were held at that time,
04:08it was actually quite clear to me.
04:11We want to work, but the people themselves have to help. It should never be believed that
04:19suddenly freedom, happiness and life are given from heaven.
04:25He once wrote in a fight against Hitler, the people are so stupid that you have to do everything
04:29with them. You just have to give them the same slogans every day, positive and negative,
04:33then it will follow you.
04:35We don't want to lie, we don't want to swindle. That's why I refused to ever step in front of this people
04:51and give them cheap promises.
05:02The Reichstag was burning, hot enough to drive out the Communists.
05:11Then books burned in Germany. Later, people.
05:18Hitler eliminated political opponents, carried off into cellars and so-called wild camps.
05:26They were tortured and tormented. The majority of the population remained silent.
05:31It didn't concern them. For the moment, it only affected others.
05:36Germany was being knocked into shape, blow by blow, systematically.
05:42There was a new order for everything.
05:45Hitler called it Gleichschaltung, marching in step.
05:52There were no longer basic rights under the law.
05:55Freedom of assembly and of the press were repealed, a state of emergency.
06:01Revolution from above, terror and a confused sense of things falling apart.
06:07Yet another election in March 1933.
06:10Hitler wanted a better result, confirmation from the people.
06:18Again he appeared as the tireless campaigner. He remained calm.
06:22He had resolved to give the people what they wanted.
06:27He had resolved, if the election cannot decide it, then the decision will be reached by other means.
06:44These were the last democratic elections in Germany, but hardly free and equal.
06:51The ageing president had made Hitler socially acceptable.
06:55Did he have any idea whom he had appointed?
07:06Von Papen was right about that.
07:10The election did not bring an absolute majority for Hitler.
07:14He said angrily that he wouldn't get rid of the old gang, the conservatives who had given him a hand.
07:20A show was put on for the first sitting of the Reichstag in Potsdam.
07:26Hitler, in a frock coat.
07:29A petty but much cared for Prussians.
07:32That the aged field marshal still marched with the leaders added an impressive touch of sentimentality.
07:39In the venerable gallery of the Reichstag, Hitler was seen as a hero.
07:45He was a man of the people.
07:48He was a man of the people.
07:51A touch of sentimentality.
07:54In the venerable garrison church, Hitler courted the parliament.
07:59The government of the National Assembly has decided to fulfil its duty to the German people.
08:06Today, it steps forward in front of the German Reichstag,
08:10with the ardent desire to find a foothold in it.
08:19A symbolic handshake, the old and new Germany appeared to be one.
08:24This day at Potsdam was a milestone in Hitler's journey to absolute rule.
08:33The bourgeoisie had to make peace with him.
08:45People thought things couldn't get any worse.
08:49He fooled everyone, and almost everyone fooled themselves about him.
08:55Two days later, the worthy man showed his true face.
09:00Dressed in the brown shirt of the SA,
09:03Hitler marched into the Kroll Opera House for the first session of the Reichstag.
09:08No longer a parliament, from now on it would meet here.
09:12Armed SA were there to intimidate the remaining Democrats.
09:19The Reichstag decided to dissolve itself.
09:22Only the Social Democratic Party voted against it.
09:25Now Hitler had all power in his hands.
09:30Democracy had been eliminated and the dictatorship had been recognised,
09:34apparently legally.
09:50From now on, the constitution of this new state was his will.
09:54What this meant soon became clear.
10:07Opponents disappeared on the streets,
10:10and in the streets of the Kroll Opera House,
10:13and in the streets of the Kroll Opera House,
10:17Opponents disappeared en masse to the so-called organised concentration camps.
10:22Dachau was the first.
10:24Everyone could read the reports in the Volkischer Beobachter of the day in Potsdam
10:28when Hitler promised law and order.
10:46Not against the National Socialists, but against the state,
10:49against the Reich, against the national uprising.
10:53It was all said in big words.
10:56And this is the paragraph of the trial of the high treason.
11:01This total willpower, who came in there, how they were treated,
11:05whether they were tortured or not,
11:08that only existed in a dictatorship.
11:10In the rule of law, that doesn't exist.
11:13Since the 30th of January,
11:17an upheaval has taken place in Germany
11:21which, in our history, will rightly be called the National Revolution.
11:29That such a historical process,
11:33like any struggle,
11:36is accompanied by such regretful appearances,
11:40lies at hand.
11:45The sneering words showed what was going on in Germany.
11:53Jews were no longer Germans.
11:56That's the way Hitler wanted it.
11:58It would end at Auschwitz.
12:10Germany will never be a Jew!
12:14Those who could left Germany before it was too late.
12:23They included the intellectual elite of Germany.
12:27Thomas Mann,
12:30Kortner,
12:33Richard Tauber,
12:35Lubitsch had already left,
12:38and Albert Einstein.
12:41Now the real Germans were all together.
12:46Numbness and utter cynicism.
12:49Somehow these feelings complemented one another.
12:59Anyone still capable of endangering Hitler's claim to power was eliminated.
13:04On the outside, he manifested harmony.
13:07Even with the unions.
13:11He, of all people, proclaimed May the first, Labour Day,
13:15the national holiday people had wanted for so long.
13:18But he had no time for the labour movement.
13:21The end of the unions had long been ordained for the next day.
13:25Halt! Halt!
13:28Comrades and comrades,
13:32May has come.
13:35Armed SA commandos stormed union buildings and arrested officials.
13:39Members and assets were absorbed into the German labour front
13:43with no resistance and no general strike.
13:47On the 30th of January,
13:50the Germans dropped their guns.
13:53And I don't believe that the opponents who laughed back then
13:59still laugh today.
14:02Many Germans were satisfied.
14:05The end of the political parties did not worry them,
14:08and the National Socialists became the state party.
14:11Many people had been waiting for Hitler to come along.
14:15He fulfilled their desire for a strong man,
14:18someone at last who took drastic action,
14:21who cleaned up the quarrelling among the parties,
14:24someone who provided peace and order,
14:27someone who assumed responsibility.
14:36Many Germans did not just tolerate the system,
14:39they were part of it.
14:42An army of accomplices, officials,
14:45snoopers, informers.
14:48Who did what, when and how.
14:52The Germans were not just a nation led,
14:55but a nation of many little leaders.
15:19One personnel problem remained with Hitler,
15:23one from his own ranks.
15:25An old friend and fighting companion, Ernst Röhm,
15:28chief of the SA,
15:30mostly one step behind Hitler.
15:34The SA was a three million strong army of brawlers
15:37who had fought on the streets to secure Hitler's power.
15:40After that, his thugs settled some old scores,
15:43but the hoped for rush to power and sinecures
15:46failed to materialise.
15:55Their leader acts as if he was still one of them.
16:17...that you didn't leave me in that time.
16:20Because only you can write all of this down.
16:23If you had gone back then,
16:26Germany would never have been saved.
16:35And you,
16:37today you must be the unwavering fighting force
16:41of the national revolution.
16:45Hitler's revolution didn't go far enough for Röhm.
16:48Besides, he wanted more power.
16:51The SA and Reichswehr should be a people's army
16:54under his command.
16:56Röhm's demands became more and more aggressive.
16:59The German army command was put on alert.
17:01Hitler had to make a decision.
17:03It wasn't difficult.
17:05He needed the German army command
17:07for the war which he'd long been planning.
17:11Hitler ordered the killing of Röhm.
17:28In August 1934, President von Hindenburg died.
17:32He had come to like the strong Chancellor.
17:36Hitler appointed himself Head of State.
17:40Führer was what he wanted to be called.
17:43He now had absolute power.
17:46Guten Tag, Herr Reichskanzler,
17:49became Heil, mein Führer.
17:52Waving goodbye to the old days
17:54with the new German salute.
17:58I swear by God
18:03this holy oath
18:08that I, the Führer of the German Reich and people,
18:18Adolf Hitler
18:22Adolf Hitler
18:25The oath was a very clever way
18:28to break the tradition of the old days
18:32and to involve a part of the reluctant officers
18:37who were also very monarchist
18:41to the National Socialism.
18:45If at all to someone, then only to the Führer.
18:48That was it.
18:50And that the urge for a person
18:54was somehow better than the urge for a written book.
18:58Well, you can judge who you want about that,
19:02but that's just the way it was.
19:04I swear by Adolf Hitler
19:07The oath as thanksgiving for murder.
19:10The rival had been eliminated.
19:12The brave soldier
19:16at all times
19:19for this oath
19:22to devote a life
19:26to the Führer of Adolf Hitler
19:29without any fear.
19:31For many who, according to their thinking,
19:35would have belonged to the resistance later,
19:40as far as I know from my own experience,
19:43the oath was the pretext for not being able to leave.
19:47And then there were certainly
19:50some who used this oath as an exculpation
19:56to be able to say to themselves
19:59I can't do anything against this man
20:02because I swore this oath.
20:06September 1934.
20:10Peace reigns across the land.
20:13Hitler arrives at Nuremberg
20:15for the week-long celebration of the Reich Party Conference.
20:18Hitler now had absolute rule over Germany.
20:24The hit propaganda film was Triumph of the Will.
20:28A presumptuous will.
20:32The fact that you have found me,
20:34one of so many millions,
20:37that is a miracle.
20:39And the fact that I have found you
20:42is the happiness of Germany.
20:52Germany's good fortune was put into uniform.
20:55The Germans were gleichgeschaltet,
20:57made to toe the line.
20:59Hitler covered the country with a network of organizations.
21:02It was hardly possible to elude his claims to power.
21:30The show had a name.
21:32The Party Conference of the Will.
21:35One phrase expressing a program and a concept of the state.
21:39The will of the dictator.
22:00The will of the dictator.
22:13The integration of the Germans into Nazi organizations
22:16was the cement holding Hitler's dictatorship together.
22:20The individual did not count.
22:22Only the mass.
22:24Only one person stood out.
22:26The dictator.
22:28It was a society marching in step.
22:31The new self-esteem wore a uniform.
22:34Hitler had to coerce only very few.
22:37He gave the people what they most missed.
22:40Belief that they were great and important.
22:59The Great Column
23:04And if the great columns of our movement today
23:09are led by Germany,
23:12then I know you will join the column.
23:19Germany lies before us.
23:22Germany marches into us.
23:25Behind us comes Germany.
23:40That it was a spook.
23:42That it had a very dark back.
23:49You knew that.
23:51You could know that.
23:53That was suppressed.
23:55That was not allowed to be said.
23:57And if someone pointed to the dark back,
24:01then he would risk his head.
24:05The Gestapo was not just a friendly gang
24:08that knocked you on the shoulder
24:10and said, come with me for a little chat.
24:13You stayed there for a long time.
24:15And it was from the beginning,
24:17as everyone could hear here and there,
24:19that it opened a concentration camp.
24:22The whole thing was no fun.
24:24The city was everywhere.
24:27One place the state didn't reach,
24:29into the little corners of private happiness.
24:32But pictures like these weren't shown in the newsreels.
24:35Apart from this,
24:37the state had the Germans firmly in its grasp.
24:53Hitler had the man for the job.
24:55Heinrich Himmler.
24:57Reichsführer of the SS.
24:59His World Order troop
25:01became the tool of the dictatorship.
25:04From the inside you were a non-human,
25:07a non-person.
25:09And that's why you let your feelings run free.
25:13Because you were trained for it.
25:16You were raised for it.
25:18That was state-bearing.
25:26I swear to you,
25:28I swear to you,
25:30Adolf Hitler,
25:32Adolf Hitler,
25:34the house is on fire.
25:37the house is on fire.
25:40That's how we were taught.
25:43That's how we were taught.
25:46With God on their lips and blood on their hands,
25:49the law was broken in Germany.
25:53Whoever was capable of endangering the state
25:56was snuffed out, shut away.
26:01A vague suspicion, a conjecture was enough.
26:11The people were deprived of their rights
26:14in the name of the state
26:16and saw no harm in it.
26:18It is the task of justice to assist
26:21in the preservation and security of the people
26:24against those elements
26:26that, as asocials,
26:28consider themselves to be
26:30in violation of common obligations
26:32or to commit crimes
26:34against these common interests.
26:38National Socialism
26:40is out of the question.
26:42It is out of the question.
26:44It is out of the question.
26:46National Socialism
26:48is the starting point,
26:50the content and the goal
26:52of National Socialist right-thinking.
26:58You could protest.
27:00How could you protest in a dictatorship?
27:02Young people sometimes ask me,
27:04why didn't you demonstrate?
27:06They want to know
27:08who came out alive from such a demonstration.
27:11No, you couldn't protest.
27:14I was afraid, of course.
27:17It was a climate of fear at the time.
27:20You couldn't breathe freely
27:23at any moment.
27:27That didn't exist.
27:29But at any moment
27:31you knew, wait, wait,
27:33just a moment.
27:35And if I, my Führer,
27:37know you here in our midst,
27:39I would like to tell you
27:41as one of your oldest comrades,
27:43that the concept of the relationship
27:45of the German people to you
27:47has become a legal concept
27:49for the first time in the history
27:51of the German people,
27:53the concept of love for the Führer.
27:58Where German hearts beat higher again,
28:00where German arms create rustic again,
28:03and German children laugh happily again,
28:05it is you.
28:07We carry you in our hearts.
28:09You are the Führer,
28:11you are Germany's saviour,
28:13you are loyalty,
28:15you are love, our faith.
28:17I love you from the bottom of my heart.
28:19I want to be yours,
28:21I want to serve you,
28:23every day and every hour,
28:25as a loyal fighter,
28:27as a brave soldier.
28:31Incomprehensibly terrible
28:33and brutal
28:35and
28:37deceitful
28:39and
28:41desired.
28:43Endless,
28:45unbearable.
28:49The cult of the Führer
28:51was for him not simply
28:53a necessary evil to hold on to power.
28:55He himself believed
28:57in the picture he had created.
29:01Germany was to become like him,
29:03his own work of art.
29:08That was his ideal,
29:10martial,
29:12always ready for battle.
29:21As foremost architect of the state,
29:23he had models made of his dreams.
29:29Above all,
29:31gigantic, colossal,
29:33the temples of a great illusion.
29:35Even after a thousand years,
29:37they were meant to continue
29:39to proclaim the greatness of his Reich.
29:41People were petrified
29:43in the monumental.
29:45Their lives were null.
29:47Only one person counted.
30:05So he took the flag of culture,
30:07of humanity and of civilization
30:09in his strong hand
30:11and carried it against
30:13the threat
30:15and the momentum of the world revolution.
30:21Hitler, the Führer of the people,
30:23the benefactor of the people,
30:25the savior of the people, and so on.
30:27This schizophrenia,
30:29to put it more precisely,
30:31this abysmal deceit
30:33that was done.
30:39Hitler in Bayreuth.
30:41Wagner, he believed,
30:43expressed his own worldview.
30:45The heroic struggle
30:47of divine titans
30:49against a world of enemies.
30:53He expressed
30:55the things
30:57that were expressed
30:59in Wagner's work
31:01in such a way
31:03that he misunderstood
31:05the utopian,
31:07the dramatic,
31:09and also the moments
31:11of the people
31:13with the reality.
31:15In his own Wagnerian opera,
31:17he was both director
31:19and star.
31:21For him, everything was a stage,
31:23from the Reich Chancellery
31:25to the Festival Theater.
31:31Even in rehearsals,
31:33he was assessing standards
31:35for his own performance.
31:45The Führer cult
31:47taken to excess,
31:49twilight of the idols
31:51in all its splendor.
31:55Where magic
31:57and magicians
32:00where madness rules,
32:02the absurd is not far away.
32:29Hitler is Hitler!
32:31Hitler is Germany,
32:33as Germany is Hitler!
32:44The man who wanted to be Germany
32:47wanted to be everywhere in Germany,
32:51preferably over Germany.
32:55He changed his appointments
32:57as the fancy took him.
32:59He didn't stay in one place
33:01more than a few hours,
33:03as if he had to make sure
33:05of his power across the whole Reich.
33:07He needed the allegiance
33:09of the masses everywhere.
33:17Hitler on the move.
33:19This is how he liked to rule,
33:21moving from one homage
33:23to the next, a vagabond.
33:25He made the lifestyle of his early years
33:27into a political principle.
33:29The Chancellor and Führer of the Germans
33:31shied away from regular work.
33:54The new Reich Chancellery
33:56was often deserted.
33:58It was built only for him,
34:00Adolf Hitler.
34:02The dictator didn't think of successors.
34:05He took himself to be unique.
34:09His desk was only rarely occupied.
34:12A single great idea
34:14is worth far more
34:16than an entire life
34:18behind a wall.
34:20A great idea is worth far more
34:22than an entire life behind files,
34:24he said.
34:26So the new cabinet room
34:28was merely a museum.
34:30The ministers never met here.
34:32How could power operate from here?
34:39Was Hitler a weak dictator?
34:42Had he handed the true power
34:44over to his henchmen?
34:46Increasingly, these golden pheasants
34:48were shaping the dictatorship.
34:50Some of them were getting their hands
34:52on more than power.
35:00Hitler's rule also meant
35:02corruption, intrigue,
35:04the exercise of arbitrary power.
35:07But it didn't seem to tarnish his reputation.
35:10If only the Führer knew.
35:18If only the Führer knew.
35:20The Führer knew a lot.
35:22He knew what he was up to.
35:24He knew that he was
35:26controlling a war.
35:30Criticism of the Führer
35:32was high treason.
35:36He also knew he had chieftains
35:38who hastened to do things
35:40the way they thought
35:42he would like them done.
35:44They courted his favor
35:46by holding on to power.
35:48Without the Führer, nothing worked.
35:50That was the impression
35:52one had.
35:54Not that he did everything himself,
35:56but without him, nothing worked.
36:00Divide and rule.
36:02That was Hitler's basic law.
36:04In the administration
36:06of the Führer,
36:08the Führer was the one
36:10who had the power.
36:12The Führer was the one
36:14who had the power.
36:16That was Hitler's basic law.
36:18In the administration, the army,
36:20and the party, new positions
36:22proliferated.
36:24There were more and more officials.
36:28Only the dictator held
36:30the overgrown body politic together.
36:32His orders
36:34were corset stays.
36:36That's how Hitler's rule worked.
36:38Nothing is possible
36:40if not one will
36:42commands
36:44and orders
36:46to always
36:48obey the others,
36:50starting from the top
36:52and ending at the bottom.
36:56Thus, the Führer principle,
36:58the core of Nazi rule.
37:00The Germans learned it
37:02from an early age.
37:04The Führer's dictatorship
37:06became dictatorship of upbringing.
37:14Whoever held youth
37:16held the future,
37:18believed Hitler.
37:20He pulled out
37:22all the stops.
37:24His goal
37:26was not evolution,
37:28but breeding.
37:30We must raise
37:32a new human being.
37:34Our people
37:36must not
37:38succumb
37:40to the typical
37:42degenerative appearance
37:44of this new age.
37:48In our eyes,
37:50the German boy of the future
37:52must be slim and strong.
37:56Strong like a wind dog,
37:58tough like leather,
38:00and hard like crude steel.
38:06Community,
38:08not individuality.
38:10Allegiance,
38:12not criticism.
38:14Devotion,
38:16not explanations.
38:22Imperious, heroic,
38:24ready for anything.
38:26That's how the young should be.
38:32Community, not individuality.
38:40My older brother
38:42didn't want to join
38:44this mass organization,
38:46while I enjoyed
38:48being with others,
38:50measuring myself against others.
38:52That was actually
38:54above the ideology
38:56that was preached
38:58over and over again.
39:00But the community experience
39:02that any other youth
39:04could have offered,
39:06which was forbidden,
39:08I took with me.
39:12A longing for community,
39:14which the seducer abused.
39:18He was the representative
39:20of the fatherland.
39:22And in no way
39:24did I want to
39:26be someone
39:28who denies the fatherland
39:30the service that the fatherland
39:32is allowed to claim.
39:34And I didn't know
39:36the fatherland
39:38as what Hitler
39:40represented.
39:42And only later
39:44did I realize
39:46that this fatherland
39:48was led by a Jew murderer.
39:56The murderer needed a war
39:58for his murderous plan.
40:00Germany was arming itself.
40:03But not at the cost
40:05of consumption.
40:07The dictator needed well-fed
40:09national comrades for his purposes.
40:12Guns and butter.
40:16Armaments on tick.
40:18In the end,
40:20it was bankruptcy or war.
40:22The dictator had made up
40:24his mind long ago.
40:32The people suspected nothing.
40:40The people suspected nothing.
40:46The dictatorship was built
40:48on the basic principle
40:50of sugar bread and whipped cream.
40:54We offered people
40:56that they could
40:58go to Madeira
41:00and also get
41:02a mother.
41:04Unemployment was reduced.
41:06Those who didn't
41:08were put on the wall.
41:10And one day
41:12came the war
41:14and the whipped cream.
41:16He was regarded
41:18as a redeemer
41:20who redeemed the people
41:22from this terrible
41:24hopelessness.
41:26And of course he was
41:28a renegade.
41:32He was always
41:34a religious doctor.
41:36You who know
41:38in what trouble and you
41:40who help us.
41:42This cult worship
41:44is almost incomprehensible
41:46today.
41:48Were the Germans blind?
41:54Here, only cheering faces
41:56can be seen.
42:18But they were not
42:20the entire population.
42:22There were people
42:24who withdrew
42:26from this mass hysteria.
42:34Amid all the cheering
42:36they'd whisper the joke
42:38Why do the Germans always say hello
42:40by shouting Heil?
42:42Because they no longer know
42:44what a good day is.
42:46Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!
43:10The dictator wanted to keep
43:12his people in a good mood.
43:14A chance to hold onto power must allow festivities.
43:17The high point was a piece of luck that fell into his lap,
43:21the Olympics under his dictatorship.
43:30The decision for a Berlin Olympics
43:32had been made before he came to power.
43:35Still, he took them as his games.
43:45Nothing was allowed to spoil the image
43:48of the peace-loving ruler, the wolf in sheep's clothing.
43:51The deception was perfect.
44:04The French team gave the Hitler salute as they marched in.
44:07Was that really necessary?
44:15For these people, it was a matter of course.
44:21While the world watched a peaceful Germany,
44:24Hitler was dictating a directive.
44:34A festival of peoples, so it seemed.
44:38Hitler was angered by the German crowd's enthusiasm for black athletes.
44:58When Germany lost a gold medal it seemed certain to win,
45:01the dictator took it as a personal insult.
45:07The Gollinger flies away, increases the distance.
45:10Six, eight, ten metres ahead.
45:12The German team can no longer win.
45:14The last change is coming.
45:17Germany loses the match.
45:24The way is clear for America.
45:31Three years later, the way was clear for Hitler.
45:34Now he could do as he pleased with the army.
46:05These boots continued to echo around Germany.
46:11A year later they marched through half of Europe.
46:19Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and so on.
46:27For four hours a stream of military vehicles, tanks and artillery
46:32rolled past the reviewing stand.
46:41Hitler's Reich was ready for the coming war.
46:44That was the message of this display.
46:47It was glossed over by a tradition that had already been abused.
46:52The cheering crowds did not know they were being deceived.
46:56They did not know that they were being led into war.
47:00It no longer had anything to do with their will.
47:03Only his.
47:09The German army was ready for the coming war.
47:12It was ready for the coming war.
47:15It was ready for the coming war.
47:18The German Army was ready for the coming war.
47:21It was ready for the coming war.
47:27Poland was the first to shoot at our own territory.
47:32They were ready to shoot at regular soldiers.
47:35They have been shooting back since 5.45 a.m.
47:48The German Army was ready for the coming war.
47:51It was ready for the coming war.
47:54It was ready for the coming war.
47:57It was ready for the coming war.
48:00It was ready for the coming war.
48:03It was ready for the coming war.
48:06It was ready for the coming war.
48:09It was ready for the coming war.
48:12It was ready for the coming war.
48:15It was ready for the coming war.
48:18It was ready for the coming war.
48:21It was ready for the coming war.
48:24It was ready for the coming war.
48:27It was ready for the coming war.