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81) Jack 1939
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It's spring, 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. President Franklin Roosevelt may run for an unprecedented third term, and he needs someone he can trust to find out what the Nazis are up to. His choice: John F. Kennedy, the attractive but unpromising second son of Roosevelt's ambassador to Britain, who is traveling through Europe to gather research for his Harvard senior thesis.
83) Execution
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Plot to kill Hitler volume 02
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"The action-packed second installment of the series based on the real-life scheme to take down one of history's greatest monsters!"--
85) Final account
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Presents interviews with living witnesses to Hitler's Third Reich, raising questions about national identity and complicity among Germany's civilian population.
An urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and...
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"An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he would make a new life, a career, have a family, and strive...
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Two Depression-battered nations confronted destiny in 1932, going to the polls in their own way to anoint new leaders, to rescue their people from starvation and hopelessness. America would elect a Congress and a president-ebullient aristocrat Franklin Roosevelt or tarnished "Wonder Boy" Herbert Hoover. Decadent, divided Weimar Germany faced two rounds of bloody Reichstag elections and two presidential contests-doddering reactionary Paul von Hindenburg...
88) Downfall
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It's the last days of Adolf Hitler, April 1945, and Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge finds herself in the Fuhrer's bunker and witnesses how Hitler and Eva lived their last hours.
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"On July 20, 1944, a one-eyed, one-armed veteran of Rommel's Afrika Korps smuggled a briefcase full of high explosive into a conference room in the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's East Prussian command headquarters. Finally, after ten years of intrigues and reversals, disappointment and vacillation, the German officer corps had turned against its master, Adolf Hitler.".
"Operation Valkyrie - the code name for the military coup d'etat - was underway. The authors...
90) Adolf Hitler
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Looks at one of history's most hated German dictator who led the country into the Second World War and carried out the murders of over eleven million people during the Holocaust.
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"Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Europe. Some conservatives are unnerved by this grandiose plan, but they are soon silenced, setting in motion events that will lead to the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the fall of the Weimar Republic, takes us from Berlin to...
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"This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg-- Hitler's 'chief philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology-- interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors. The result is a unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia. A groundbreaking historical contribution,...
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Criterion collection volume 565
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In Chaplin's first talkie, he plays the duel role of dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a Jewish barber who is a dead-ringer look-alike for der Nutsie...and who thwarts his plans for world domination.
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Inspired by Norman Ollier's revelatory book, Blitzed: Drugs In The Third Reich, the film reveals how both Hitler and Nazi Germany were heavily addicted to drugs. The recently unearthed journals of Hitler's personal doctor, Theodore Morell, suggest that the Fuhrer was a full-fledged addict, taking an assortment of drugs including cocaine, opiates, steroids. Meanwhile, the entire nation of Germany was binging on speed.