Showing posts with label Adolf Hitler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adolf Hitler. Show all posts

Thursday, July 24, 2025

How Adolf Hitler Came to Power in Germany | Richard Wolff

Jul 21, 2025 | Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition.

This is Richard’s eighth appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In his last appearance, he and Robinson discussed 2025 and the first weeks of Trump’s presidency, as well as what’s to come. More particularly, they discuss the irrelevance of Donald Trump, his domestic and global policies, China, narratives on the right and left, and the future of the United States.

In this episode, they continue the discussion by diving deeper into recent events, Doge, Elon Musk, the relationship between Trump and Hitler, and important historical Marxists. Richard’s latest book is Understanding Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 2024).




I should like to correct Dr Wolff on something: The Germans didn't use the Deutschmark during the years of hyperinflation. The currency used at that time was known as the Papiermark, which eventually gave way to the Rentenmark. – Mark

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

After Hitler: The Path to Democracy

Apr 20, 2025 | With the invasion of neighboring Poland by the German armed forces in the fall of 1939, Germany ignited the Second World War. Six years of murder, destruction, expulsion and hunger shaped the fate of people in many parts of the world.

In May 1945, the guns fell silent in Europe. Germany was defeated. An end and a beginning at the same time. But how did the political, social and economic reconstruction take shape in post-war Germany? How did a dictatorship become a democracy?

We look at the first years after the end of the war – and the long road towards a new political order.


Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Gestapo - Hitler's Secret Police

Oct 21, 2023 | Hermann Goering’s Secret State Police were ordered to arrest, and torture supposed enemies of the Reich to get confessions from them. All the powers of the German judiciary were taken into its hands and the courts were rendered superfluous. This is a compelling account of one of the true horror stories of the century. Licenced through Mercury Studios


Nb: For English speakers who are unfamiliar with the intricacies of the German language, it might be of interest to you to learn that the word Gestapo is a portmanteau word combining these German words: Geheime Staatspolizei, meaning ‘secret state police’. ‘Geheim’ is German for secret. ‘Staatspolizei’ means ‘state polce’. So, by taking the first letters of those three words—‘Staatspolizei’ is one word made up from two—we get the word Ge Sta Po = Gestapo. – Mark Alexander

Dokumentation - Hitlers Österreich - Teile 1 (Der Anschluss) und 2 (Der Krieg)

Feb 26, 2013 | Als Anschluss Österreichs oder kurz „Anschluss" wird der Einmarsch deutscher Wehrmachts-, SS- und Polizeieinheiten in Österreich am 12. März 1938 und die darauffolgende De-facto-Annexion Österreichs durch das nationalsozialistische Deutsche Reich bezeichnet. Mit dem offiziell durch das am 13. März 1938 -- ohne Parlament -- verabschiedeten Gesetz über die Wiedervereinigung Österreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich wurde die Diktatur des Ständestaates bzw. des Austrofaschismus (seit 1934) vom nationalsozialistischen Regime unter Adolf Hitler abgelöst. Mit diesem Tag endete die staatliche Existenz Österreichs. Die Zeit der NS-Herrschaft in Österreich sollte bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges im April/Mai 1945 dauern.

Diese zweiteilige Dokumentation darf nicht eingebettet werden. Beide Teile müssen auf YouTube angesehen werden. Klicken Sie dazu bitte auf die folgenden Links: Teil 1 und Teil 2, um sie anzusehen. – Mark

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Echoes of Hitler Make Trump the World’s Most Dangerous Man | Op-Vid

July 12, 2025 | The president’s casual cruelty to his cabinet reveals echoes of 1930s Germany, says The Daily Beast’s Chief National Correspondent David Gardner. Trump is not an ideologue. Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. Trump wrote The Art of the Deal (or his ghostwriter did). But he is an emboldened president. Through an astonishing combination of guile, instinct, foresight, and plain luck, Trump finds himself in a position of unchallenged power in the White House.

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Is Trumpism akin to FAR-right Neo-Nazism?

July 12, 2025 | To craft legal discrimination, the Third Reich studied the United States - and Jim Crow policies.


It is an undeniable fact that Trump and Hitler were cut from the same bolt of cloth. – © Mark Alexander

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Mussolini & Hitler: The Alliance That Broke Italy I PART 1 | SLICE WHO

Jun 9, 2025 | In the mid-1930s, Mussolini’s ambition to forge “new men” and a Mediterranean empire led him from conquering Ethiopia to allying with Hitler.

This film traces his radicalization, the rise of anti-Jewish laws in 1938, and Italy’s disillusioning World War II collapse. Deposed in July 1943, Il Duce resurfaced in northern Italy under Nazi protection, presiding over a brutal puppet regime.

Follow his final days in April 1945, when Italian partisans executed him and his mistress, leaving his once-admired legacy in ruins. A gripping portrait of power, ideology, and downfall.

Documentary : Mussolini, The First Fascist EP:2 The Fall Of A Dictator
Direction : Serge de Sampigny
Production : Histodoc (2021)



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Monday, March 17, 2025

Schatten der Vergangenheit: Hitlers Drehbuch zur Macht

Mar 17, 2025 | Mit Fackeln ziehen Anhänger der Nationalsozialisten am 30. Januar 1933 triumphierend durchs Brandenburger Tor. Wenige Stunden zuvor hat Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg den NSDAP-Vorsitzenden Adolf Hitler zum neuen Reichskanzler ernannt: Hitler ist an der Macht und die Weimarer Republik am Ende. In dieser 11KM-Folge erzählt BR-Politikjournalist Thies Marsen, wie Hitler und seine nationalsozialistische Bewegung auf den Tag der “Machtergreifung” über viele Jahre hingearbeitet haben. Wie konnten sie damals die junge deutsche Demokratie mit ihren eigenen Waffen schlagen? Wer waren Hitlers Helfer? Und: Wie kann sich die Bundesrepublik heute vor den Feinden der Demokratie schützen?

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Krankenakte Hitler – Drogen, Hormone und Parkinson | Terra X

Aug 16, 2020 | Wie krank war Hitler? Die Frage nach dem Gesundheitszustand des Mannes, der einen verbrecherischen Krieg vom Zaun brach und sechs Millionen Juden ermorden ließ, beschäftigt Mediziner, Psychiater und Historiker seit Jahren.

Nach 1945 wurde Hitlers Leibarzt Theodor Morell von Kollegen bezichtigt, er habe Hitler „mit Drogen vollgepumpt“. Nach dem Krieg gibt er zu, seinem Patienten 28 verschiedene Substanzen verabreicht zu haben, darunter Opiate, Morphine und Barbiturate. Haben die Medikamente, die er Hitler verschrieb, dessen Entscheidungsfähigkeit beeinflusst?

Manche Psychiater behaupten, Hitler sei nicht nur medikamentenabhängig gewesen, sondern manisch-depressiv. Schon oft wurden dem Diktator psychische Krankheiten unterstellt. Der Historiker Henrik Eberle und der Mediziner Hans-Joachim Neumann haben die erhaltenen Krankenunterlagen Hitlers aus Archiven und Privatbesitz ausgewertet, darunter auch den Nachlass seines Leibarztes Theodor Morell. Sie kommen zu dem Schluss, dass Hitler zwar in der Tat ungewöhnlich viele Medikamente verschrieben wurden, darunter wahrscheinlich sogar Sexual-Hormone. Hinweise auf die Einnahme von Aufputschmitteln wie „Pervitin“ oder eine Kokainabhängigkeit finden sie nicht. Die einzige schwere Krankheit, die Adolf Hitler wahrscheinlich hatte, war Parkinson. Bis zuletzt aber war der Diktator im Besitz seiner geistigen Kräfte. Auf seine militärischen und politischen Entscheidungen hatte Hitlers Gesundheitszustand keinen Einfluss.

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Dieses Video ist eine Produktion des ZDF, in Zusammenarbeit mit History Media.



Hitler war so gegen das Rauchen, nahm aber trotzdem so viele Drogen! Wie heuchlerisch und lächerlich ist das denn?

Obwohl ich selbst nicht mehr rauche, bin ich dem Genuß des Rauchens gegenüber sehr tolerant. Im Leben habe ich immer wieder festgestellt, daß Männer, die nicht rauchen, oft selbst viele andere Schwächen haben. Denken Sie an viele Autokraten, die Nichtraucher sind und anderen nichts beibringen können. Denken Sie an Trump, Putin, Hitler und viele andere. – © Mark Alexander

Friday, March 14, 2025

How Hitler Radicalized Germany | Timeline

Oct 26, 2024 | Discover how Hitler and the Nazis seized power in Germany and ushered in the death of democracy. This video examines how the National Socialists exploited economic turmoil to get into power before leading the nation into an era of militarism and horror.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Hitler's Rise: From Obscurity to Dictator | Second World War Documentary | Full Docuseries

Nov 1, 2024 | In this gripping documentary on Hitler and the rise of the Nazi regime, explore the pivotal moments that led to one of history's darkest chapters. Beginning in Munich in 1919, witness how Hitler, a young soldier grappling with the aftermath of the First World War, ascended from obscurity to dictatorship. Set against the backdrop of post-war chaos, this Second World War documentary uncovers the socio-political forces that fuelled Hitler's rise to power and the devastating impact of his ideology. Learn how his calculated opportunism and exploitation of national discontent drew an entire nation into the abyss of the Second World War.


WIKIPEDIA: Winifred Wagner »

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Germany 1933: The Rise of Hitler and the Persecution of the Jewish People | Slice Full Documentary

Feb 5, 2025 | Germany, 1933. Adolf Hitler, at the head of the Nazi Party, has just become Chancellor and is faced with leading a republic in the throes of economic crisis and rampant inflation. He used the cult of personality nurtured by his propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, who spread the Nazi’s xenophobic and anti-Semitic ideology which Hitler had been touting since the First World War and which he reiterated in Mein Kampf: the Jews, he claimed, were part of an international conspiracy against Germany.

He would use the power of the German state, which had become the Third Reich in 1934, to progressively exclude the 600,000 German citizens of Jewish origin from society, first by forcing them to emigrate, then annihilating them.

Physical violence against Jews became widespread from the summer of 1935, the growing number of exactions leaving German society largely indifferent. Meanwhile, in the interior ministry, Nazis lawyers defined what it mean to be Jewish, thereby identifying who should be excluded. The Nuremberg laws of September 1935 notably withdrew German nationality from the country’s Jews.

On 12 March 1938, the Third Reich annexed Austria without encountering any opposition, and without the slightest reaction on the part of Western democracies. Eichmann set up a central bureau to force Austria’s 100,000 Jews to emigrate, leaving behind all their possessions which were seized by the Reich.

But Western democracies were not prepared to welcome the refugees, and the Evian conference, initiated in July 1938 by US president Franklin Roosevelt, was doomed to failure. As a neutral country bordering Germany, Switzerland called for the passports of Jews fleeing the Reich to be stamped with a “J”, so it could refuse them entry for fear of them wishing to stay in the country.

Documentary: Annihilation EP1 : The End of Illusions (2016)
Director: William Karel & Blanche Finger
Production: ZADIG PRODUCTIONS


Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Obersalzberg – From the Alpine Village to the Führer's Off-limits Area: Eyewitness Reports | Reupload

Jan 31, 2022 | Obersalzberg had been Adolf Hitler's vacation domicile since 1923. During the National Socialist era, the mountain ridge above Berchtesgaden became the second seat of government of the Nazi regime. With historical footage and interviews with contemporary witnesses, the film documents the expulsion of the local population and the transformation of the old village into the "Führersperrgebiet" (Fuhrer's Restricted Area) with large buildings such as Hitler's Berghof and the Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle’s Nest). Former neighbors tell how Hitler lived in the Wachenfeld house in the 1920s and wrote "Mein Kampf." While they had to sell their houses after 1933, Hitler enjoyed life on Obersalzberg with Eva Braun, received state guests such as Benito Mussolini and led the Second World War from here. It was not until April 1945 that the "Führersperrgebiet" was partially destroyed in an air raid.

The exhibition film by journalist and book author Ulrich Chaussy was shown in the Dokumentation Obersalzberg from 1999 to 2021. The film was slightly edited for the online version.

Sources:
Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 609 20", Quelle: Bundesarchiv, Bestand Film: K-72204
Obersalzberg, Quelle: Bundesarchiv, Bestand Film: 27462-1


Hitler privat: Der Kriegsherr [Teil 1] | SPIEGEL TV | Reupload

Jul 3, 2022 | Angstzustände und Darmprobleme: während des Krieges begibt sich Adolf Hitler in Behandlung von Dr. Morell, dem »Reichsspritzenmeister«. Morell wird zum Leibarzt des »Führers«. Die nächste Folge der Dokumentationsreihe "Hitler privat."

Die menschliche Seite Adolf Hitlers ist ein Tabuthema. Wie wurde er überhaupt zum Diktator? Wie wurde er zum Auslöser des Holocaust? Mit der Doku-Reihe »Hitler privat« Wir versuchen uns auf eine düstere Reise durch das Leben einer der umstrittensten Figuren des 20. Jahrhunderts zu begeben.




Hitler privat: Der Künstler

Hitler privat: Der Soldat

Hitler privat: Der Führer

Hitler privat: Der Kriegsherr

THE GUARDIAN:

High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history: German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war »

Monday, February 17, 2025

Hitler privat: Der Führer [Teil 1] | SPIEGEL TV | Reupload

May 28, 2022 | Der Obersalzberg war nach der Machtübernahme ein beliebter Rückzugsraum für Adolf Hitler. Hier machte Eva Braun auch seltene private Aufnahmen vom »Führer«. Die menschliche Seite Adolf Hitlers ist ein Tabuthema. Wie wurde er überhaupt zum Diktator? Wie wurde er zum Auslöser des Holocaust? Mit der Doku-Reihe »Hitler privat« Wir versuchen uns auf eine düstere Reise durch das Leben einer der umstrittensten Figuren des 20. Jahrhunderts zu begeben.

Geheimnisse des Kehlsteinhauses: Hitlers Alpenfestung im Detail - Dokumentation

Nov 18, 2020 | Neu Entdeckte und teilweise bisher unveröffentlichte Aufnahmen vom Bau der Kehlsteinstraße und des Kehlsteinhauses lassen dieses Video zur ultimativen Dokumentation über das „Projekt Kehlstein“ werden.

Noch NIE ZUVOR gab es eine derartig umfangreiche Dokumentation über die Entstehung des wohl kühnsten Bauprojektes des III. Reiches.

Der Dokumentarfilm ist eine Dokumentation über den Bau des sogenannten "Kehlsteins" auf dem Kehlstein im Obersalzberggebiet bei Berchtesgaden. Mit neuem Filmmaterial vom Bau des Tunnels und des Kehlsteinhauses ist diese Dokumentation die ultimative Dokumentation über das Kehlsteinhaus und dessen Bau.

Die Produktion des Films erforderte den Einsatz von speziellem Equipment, um im Tunnel und im Kehlsteinhaus zu filmen.


Thursday, February 06, 2025

The Jews that Fought for Hitler

Feb 3, 2025 | After Jews were made enemies of the state by Nazi Germany before WW2, it wasn't just people of Jewish blood that were used as a scapegoat. Hitler persecuted anyone even remotely related to a Jewish person to be the sworn enemy of the German people. How then, did some of these 'Mischlings' end up fighting on Hitler's side against their own people?

Saturday, February 01, 2025

The Humanist Report: The Eerie Similarities between Trump’s Rhetoric and Hitlerian Fascism

Oct 16, 2025 | Trump’s rhetoric is getting increasingly dark and more explicitly fascistic as we get closer to election day, prompting some pundits (such as Jake Tapper of CNN) to finally use the f-word: fascism. This is long overdue. Trump’s rhetoric eerily echoes the same divide and conquer tactics of Hitler during World War II. In this video we’ll look at the similarities between Trump’s rhetoric and Hitlerian fascism.

Friday, January 31, 2025

The Nazi Dismantling of Constitutional Law in Germany | Timeline Documentary

Jan 21, 2023 | A sobering look at how Hitler and the Nazi party manipulated laws to further their hate-filled agenda. People who were considered physically or racially inferior or disloyal to the state were deprived of their rights and often their lives under these Nazi laws. When Germany was ultimately defeated, Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg Trials, in an attempt by the world community to restore the rule of law.