Who was Hitler

Nov 16, 2017

3h 11m

★ 5.7

Overview

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, only contemporaries and Hitler himself speak: no interviews, no reenactment, no illustrative graphics and no technical gadgets. The testimonies from diaries, letters, speeches and autobiographies are assembled with new, often unpublished archive material. Hitler's life and work are thus reflected in a unique way in interaction with the image of the society in the years 1889 to 1945.

Genres

Documentary

History

Production Companies

Epoche Media

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Cast

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Self (archive footage)

Ernst Röhm

Self - Narrator

Jürgen Tarrach

Self (archive footage)

Albert Speer

Self (archive footage)

Heinz Rühmann

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