Nazis: The Road to Power

Miniseries

Miniseries

By the end of 1918, the German people are starving and revolution is in the air. A 29-year-old army corporal is sent to report on fringe political parties in Munich. His name is Adolf Hitler - and so begins the political ascent of the National Socialist Party. Nazis: The Road to Power recreates this story - a story of bullish intransigence, highly effective propaganda, unbridled thuggery, fanatical racism and staggering luck. It's also the story of the forgotten players from these early years - the army captain who trains Hitler to make rabble-rousing speeches, the Harvard-educated American who becomes Hitler's court jester, the millionairess who plays the role of surrogate mother, the openly gay man who commands his stormtroopers, the niece who shoots herself in his apartment - as well as staggering revelations from Joseph Goebbels' recently published diaries. Nobody imagines the Nazi Party will ever take power - it requires a chain of unpredictable events.