Now: PBS, RISE OF THE NAZIS (2019) Stream Online, WETA DC: 'Dismantling Democracy In 1930s Germany'

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https://www.pbs.org/show/rise-nazis/

- The Rise of the Nazis is a BBC documentary series. First shown in September 2019, it focuses on how Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power and dismantled democracy in early 1930s Germany. Featuring British historian and Nazi Germany expert Sir Richard Evans, University of Cambridge, 'Hitler was a Narcissist.'

Response: A review in The Times described the series as a lesson in 'how easily — and petrifyingly quickly — a democratic country can move to a totalitarian dictatorship.' A more critical review in The Spectator suggested that the programme made unfair comparisons to political developments at around the time of its production, such as Brexit and the Presidency of Donald Trump, concluding that 'it's time the BBC gave up trying to pretend it's a voice of impartial authority.' A TVinsider review of the American release on PBS a little over a year later described the series as 'riveting' and 'as gripping as any fictional thriller.'..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Nazis

- Episodes:

- 3 Episodes. About the Show: In 1930 Germany was a liberal democracy. Just four years later democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and its government is in the hands of murderers. This series tells the story of how this happened. Leading historians and experts get inside the heads of some of the key players, whose political plotting, miscalculations and personal ambitions helped to destroy democracy and deliver control to Hitler.

- Read more: Then there are those who were prepared to make a stand in order to try to stop the Nazis. With the intensity of a political thriller, the series sets out the plots and intrigues at the heart of the government, which transformed the Nazis from a fringe political group to the most powerful party in the Reichstag. It outlines the power struggles between prominent Nazis, which transformed Germany into a brutal police state that exercised state sponsored detainment and murder, allowing Hitler to go from being chancellor to all powerful Führer of the Third Reich. Powerful drama and stark use of archive brings an immediacy to this gripping and resonant story.

Episode 1 | Politics

Learn the chain of events that propels Hitler from the fringes to the heart of the government. After leading a failed coup in 1923, he turns the Nazis into a legitimate, mainstream party and plots to overthrow Germany's political elite.

> Now streaming, Episode 1:
https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-1-politics-6y6ygy/

Episode 2 | The First Six Months in Power

Discover the measures Chancellor Hitler takes to dismantle the German state. The Nazis have the power to ban free speech, books are burned, and Jewish people, gay people and those holding anti-Nazi beliefs begin to disappear.

Episode 3 | Night of the Long Knives

See how Hitler finds himself caught between Germany's president and the Nazis' power base. His advisors persuade him to destroy the Nazi stormtroopers and their leader – one of his oldest friends – to make the SS Germany’s only paramilitary force

[IcyPeas]

1. is this on regular PBS tv or is it just streaming? I can't find it in my PBS listings.

thanks.

[appalachiablue]

2. It's airing on DC Metro area PBS stations

now, I don't know about other areas. Streaming online hopefully works.

[IcyPeas]

3. Oh thanks. I found it "on Demand"

I want to see this!.