Synopsis
The Third Reich brings barbarity to the modern era. Germany is rebuilt through huge public works program, winning Hitler adulation from a once humiliated, impoverished and unemployed German people.
- Programme: People's Century
- Series: 1
- Episode: 9: 1933: Master Race
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1995
- History
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