A History of Hitler's Empire, 2nd edition

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Overview: Know thy enemy. That's what the wisdom of history teaches us. And Adolf Hitler was surely the greatest enemy ever faced by modern civilization. Over half a century later, the horror and fascination still linger. No one is better able to explain the unexplainable about this man and his movement than Professor Thomas Childers. In these lectures, you will see what great teaching is all about.

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Season	Episode	Name	Aired	Runtime	Overview	Watched
1	1	The Third Reich, Hitler, and the 20th Century Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Why is it important to study the Nazi movement? What was it about the political context of post-WWI Europe and Germany that allowed an extremist group which, at its start, had just a handful of members, to take over the country in less than 15 years' time?	Mark as Watched
1	2	The First World War and Its Legacy Details	2022-03-20	N/A	After suffering terrible losses and hearing constantly from their rulers that they would win, Germans—and none more so than a wounded Austrian-born volunteer soldier named Adolf Hitler—were shocked by the Armistice of 1918 and the harsh Versailles Treaty that followed.	Mark as Watched
1	1	The Third Reich, Hitler, and the 20th Century Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Why is it important to study the Nazi movement? What was it about the political context of post-WWI Europe and Germany that allowed an extremist group which, at its start, had just a handful of members, to take over the country in less than 15 years' time?	Mark as Watched
1	1	The Third Reich, Hitler, and the 20th Century Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Why is it important to study the Nazi movement? What was it about the political context of post-WWI Europe and Germany that allowed an extremist group which, at its start, had just a handful of members, to take over the country in less than 15 years' time?	Mark as Watched
1	1	The Third Reich, Hitler, and the 20th Century Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Why is it important to study the Nazi movement? What was it about the political context of post-WWI Europe and Germany that allowed an extremist group which, at its start, had just a handful of members, to take over the country in less than 15 years' time?	Mark as Watched
1	3	The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Examine the problems that beset Germany's new democratic government after WWI, and trace the origins of the tiny National Socialist party and Hitler's emergence as its leader between 1919 and the "Beer Hall Putsch" of November 1923.	Mark as Watched
1	3	The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Examine the problems that beset Germany's new democratic government after WWI, and trace the origins of the tiny National Socialist party and Hitler's emergence as its leader between 1919 and the "Beer Hall Putsch" of November 1923.	Mark as Watched
1	4	The Twenties and the Great Depression Details	2022-03-20	N/A	The late '20s were politically quiet but economically harsh years for Germany. The Nazi party focused on winning members and votes but remained stuck on the fringe of German politics.	Mark as Watched
1	4	The Twenties and the Great Depression Details	2022-03-20	N/A	The late '20s were politically quiet but economically harsh years for Germany. The Nazi party focused on winning members and votes but remained stuck on the fringe of German politics.	Mark as Watched
1	4	The Twenties and the Great Depression Details	2022-03-20	N/A	The late '20s were politically quiet but economically harsh years for Germany. The Nazi party focused on winning members and votes but remained stuck on the fringe of German politics.	Mark as Watched
1	4	The Twenties and the Great Depression Details	2022-03-20	N/A	The late '20s were politically quiet but economically harsh years for Germany. The Nazi party focused on winning members and votes but remained stuck on the fringe of German politics.	Mark as Watched
1	5	The Nazi Breakthrough Details	2022-03-20	N/A	The economic crisis from 1929 to 1932 enabled Nazism to thrust itself into the mainstream. Using a revolutionary strategy of perpetual campaigning and other new techniques, the Nazis became Germany's largest political party with 38 percent of the vote.	Mark as Watched
1	6	Hitler's Assumption of Power Details	2022-03-20	N/A	The November 1932 elections showed signs that the Nazi voter coalition was unraveling. How, then, did Hitler get appointed chancellor in early 1933? How did he consolidate the bases of Nazi power once in office?	Mark as Watched
1	5	The Nazi Breakthrough Details	2022-03-20	N/A	The economic crisis from 1929 to 1932 enabled Nazism to thrust itself into the mainstream. Using a revolutionary strategy of perpetual campaigning and other new techniques, the Nazis became Germany's largest political party with 38 percent of the vote.	Mark as Watched
1	7	Racial Policy and the Totalitarian State Details	2022-03-20	N/A	The events of the first two years after Hitler took power can be seen as the prelude to worse terrors to come, this time aimed not at possible political opponents, but at those considered to be racial or social "undesirables."	Mark as Watched
1	8	Hitler's Foreign Policy Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Why is it not enough to think of Hitler simply as a "madman bent on world domination"? What were his aims and strategy, and how did they drive the world rapidly toward global war?	Mark as Watched
1	9	Munich and the Triumph of National Socialism Details	2022-03-20	N/A	This lecture covers the stunning advance of the Nazi regime beginning with the Munich Agreement of 1938. Hitler swallowed Czechoslovakia, signed a cynical pact with Stalin, invaded Poland, and stood on the verge of becoming master of the European continent.	Mark as Watched
1	9	Munich and the Triumph of National Socialism Details	2022-03-20	N/A	This lecture covers the stunning advance of the Nazi regime beginning with the Munich Agreement of 1938. Hitler swallowed Czechoslovakia, signed a cynical pact with Stalin, invaded Poland, and stood on the verge of becoming master of the European continent.	Mark as Watched
1	9	Munich and the Triumph of National Socialism Details	2022-03-20	N/A	This lecture covers the stunning advance of the Nazi regime beginning with the Munich Agreement of 1938. Hitler swallowed Czechoslovakia, signed a cynical pact with Stalin, invaded Poland, and stood on the verge of becoming master of the European continent.	Mark as Watched
1	10	War in the West, War in the East Details	2022-03-20	N/A	To Hitler, the brutal war against the "Judeo-Bolshevik" Soviet Union, unleashed on June 22, 1941, was always the main event. On his western flank, however, Churchill's Britain remained unbroken and defiant, and America was slowly coming to her aid.	Mark as Watched
1	10	War in the West, War in the East Details	2022-03-20	N/A	To Hitler, the brutal war against the "Judeo-Bolshevik" Soviet Union, unleashed on June 22, 1941, was always the main event. On his western flank, however, Churchill's Britain remained unbroken and defiant, and America was slowly coming to her aid.	Mark as Watched
1	10	War in the West, War in the East Details	2022-03-20	N/A	To Hitler, the brutal war against the "Judeo-Bolshevik" Soviet Union, unleashed on June 22, 1941, was always the main event. On his western flank, however, Churchill's Britain remained unbroken and defiant, and America was slowly coming to her aid.	Mark as Watched
1	11	Holocaust--Hitler's War Against the Jews Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Between 1939 and 1942, the Nazis pursued several options regarding what they called "the Jewish question." In late 1941, they finally opted for what they called "the final solution." It called for mass murder hidden behind a program of fictive "resettlement in the east."	Mark as Watched
1	11	Holocaust--Hitler's War Against the Jews Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Between 1939 and 1942, the Nazis pursued several options regarding what they called "the Jewish question." In late 1941, they finally opted for what they called "the final solution." It called for mass murder hidden behind a program of fictive "resettlement in the east."	Mark as Watched
1	11	Holocaust--Hitler's War Against the Jews Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Between 1939 and 1942, the Nazis pursued several options regarding what they called "the Jewish question." In late 1941, they finally opted for what they called "the final solution." It called for mass murder hidden behind a program of fictive "resettlement in the east."	Mark as Watched
1	11	Holocaust--Hitler's War Against the Jews Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Between 1939 and 1942, the Nazis pursued several options regarding what they called "the Jewish question." In late 1941, they finally opted for what they called "the final solution." It called for mass murder hidden behind a program of fictive "resettlement in the east."	Mark as Watched
1	11	Holocaust--Hitler's War Against the Jews Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Between 1939 and 1942, the Nazis pursued several options regarding what they called "the Jewish question." In late 1941, they finally opted for what they called "the final solution." It called for mass murder hidden behind a program of fictive "resettlement in the east."	Mark as Watched
1	12	The Final Solution Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Here you examine the later stages of the Nazi murder campaign, asking also what the Allies knew and what they did. The lecture and the course close with the final destruction of the Third Reich, and a reflection on the lessons to be drawn from this chapter in what Churchill called "the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime."	Mark as Watched
1	12	The Final Solution Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Here you examine the later stages of the Nazi murder campaign, asking also what the Allies knew and what they did. The lecture and the course close with the final destruction of the Third Reich, and a reflection on the lessons to be drawn from this chapter in what Churchill called "the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime."	Mark as Watched
1	12	The Final Solution Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Here you examine the later stages of the Nazi murder campaign, asking also what the Allies knew and what they did. The lecture and the course close with the final destruction of the Third Reich, and a reflection on the lessons to be drawn from this chapter in what Churchill called "the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime."	Mark as Watched
1	12	The Final Solution Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Here you examine the later stages of the Nazi murder campaign, asking also what the Allies knew and what they did. The lecture and the course close with the final destruction of the Third Reich, and a reflection on the lessons to be drawn from this chapter in what Churchill called "the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime."	Mark as Watched
1	12	The Final Solution Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Here you examine the later stages of the Nazi murder campaign, asking also what the Allies knew and what they did. The lecture and the course close with the final destruction of the Third Reich, and a reflection on the lessons to be drawn from this chapter in what Churchill called "the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime."	Mark as Watched
1	11	Holocaust--Hitler's War Against the Jews Details	2022-03-20	N/A	Between 1939 and 1942, the Nazis pursued several options regarding what they called "the Jewish question." In late 1941, they finally opted for what they called "the final solution." It called for mass murder hidden behind a program of fictive "resettlement in the east."	Mark as Watched

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