A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Gert Westphal
Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Ernest Bevin
Karl Brandt
Eva Braun
Neville Chamberlain
Charlie Chaplin
Winston Churchill
Édouard Daladier
Karl Dönitz
Albert Einstein
Emperor Franz Josef
Otto Gebühr
Frederick the Great (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Hermann Göring
Rudolf Hess
Reinhard Heydrich
Heinrich Himmler
Alfred Jodl
Wilhelm Keitel
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Fritz Kortner
Ernst Lubitsch
Thomas Mann
Theodor Morell
Benito Mussolini
Friedrich Paulus
Max Reinhardt
Erwin Rommel
Ernst Röhm
Albert Speer
Richard Tauber
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Harry Giese
Narrator (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Artur Axmann
Joachim Fest
Director, Writer
Werner Rieb
Producer
Apr 7, 1938
Dec 15, 1993
Sep 16, 2022
Dec 2, 2016
Feb 2, 1995
May 2, 1979
Nov 18, 1959
Nov 23, 1984
Aug 29, 2024
Sep 6, 2013
Nov 3, 1993
Jun 1, 2007
Nov 9, 2015
Jul 23, 2025
Mar 14, 2024
Mar 17, 1982
Interart
Werner Rieb Produktion
Cine-art Munich
Germany
Deutsch