Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Nazis--a warning from history (Television program)

Title:

The Nazis : a Warning From History / a BBC/A & E Network co-production ; written and produced by Laurence Rees ; director [one episode], Tilman Remme.

Publisher, Date:

[England] : BBC Video, [2005]

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2005]

Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 290 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Use interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archival film and records, to examine how a political party as fundamentally evil as the Nazis could come to power in a modern European nation. Discusses the factors that enabled the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the economically-devastated Germany of the post-World War I era and looks at the role of ordinary Germans in the Nazi regime. Follows the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, from its early promises through the atrocities and suffering of World War II. Includes segments focusing on the occupation of Poland and on the holocaust and concentration camps, particularly Treblinka.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Series:

BBC history of World War II

BBC history of World War II.

Subjects:

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei -- History.

National socialism.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.

Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.