Hitler and Germany

Part 1 The road to dictatorship: the young Hitler - down-and-out in Vienna, childhood and youth, early political ideas, Germany in 1914; Hitler at War 1914-1919 - into battle, Germany in defeat, the Weimar Republic, the Treaty of Versailles, Germany and the Treaty, the world after 1919, the German Workers' Party; birth of the Nazi Party 1920-1924 - the 25 point programme, party boss, street fighter, Hitler's men, the great inflation, the beer hall putsch, "Mein Kampf"; rebuilding the Nazi Party 1924-1929 - Nazism in check?, the revival of Germany, re-organizing the NSDAP; the road to power 1929-1933 - the great depression, government by decree 1930, the Nazi breakthrough 1930-1932, Hitler for President, the Nazis and the ballot box, the crucial weeks 1932-933. Part 2 Germany under Nazi rule: from Chancellor to Fuehrer - the Nazis in power, destroying the opposition, the night of the long knives, after Hindenburg; the Nazi revolution 1933-1939 - the economy, the Jews, the Christion Churches, the army, teenagers in Germany, school life; Nazi power 1933-1939 - the SS and the police, the organization of the SS, concentration camps, the armed SS, the making of SS men, the law courts, propaganda. Part 3 The Third Reich: Germany, Europe and the world 1933-1937 - Hitler's view of the world before 1933, Hitler, Italy and Britain 1933-1935, Hitler strengthens his position 1936-1937, the Hossbauch Memorandum November 1937; Austria and Czechoslovakia 1937-1939 - the Republic of Austria, preparing for the Anschluss, Der Anschluss, the Republic of Czechoslovakia, case green, threats of War, the Munich conference, the final destruction of Czechoslovakia; Poland and the "phoney war" 1939-1940 - Britain and Poland, the Polish question, Stalin and Hitler, World War II, the "phoney war". Part 4 Hitler's war - the years of victory: Hitler's attack on western Europe - the Battle of Britain, the invasion of the USSR, world-wide war, the battle of Stalingrad, Hitler's war at sea; Germany and Europe under Nazi rule 1939-1945 - the German economy at war, the euthanasia programme, Hitler's war on the Jews, the "final solution"; resistance - outside Germany, German resistance; the years of defeats 1942-1945 - Stalingrad and North Africa, the Soviet advance 1943-1945, D Day, the collapse of Nazi Germany; Germany and Europe in 1945 - the toll, the political scene, Nuremburg.