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Lost Home Movies Of Nazi Germany

Season 1
This remarkable BBC history documentary takes a candid look at what life was really like for those living in, and under, Hitler's Third Reich in Nazi Germany. Recently discovered home movie footage offers a unique insight into what people in Germany were thinking and how their day to day lives were affected by fascism. This is a distinctly personal experience of the rise, and fall, of Nazism.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Hubris
    December 28, 2019
    50min
    TV-14
    This compelling BBC history documentary, using unique archive footage, charts the early years of Hitler's rise to power. Home movies reveal how ordinary Germans reacted to the onslaught of Nazi propaganda and hideous political strategies such as anti-semitism, which led to The Holocaust. As World War II commences, the horrors of war are illustrated by amateur films made by frontline soldiers.
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  2. S1 E2 - Nemesis
    December 29, 2019
    50min
    TV-14
    Christmas in Germany 1941 is an unsettling time. Food is scarce, the weather is freezing and Germans are starting to realize that the war is a very long way from over. This compelling BBC history documentary charts Hitler’s dreams crumbling and the moral reckoning the German people faced through personal home movie footage. What was the reaction of ordinary Germans as the Nazi vision collapsed?
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Martin DavidsonNick Watts
Producers
Aaron Young
Starring
Kate Hardie
Studio
Brighton Button Media
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