Het Derde Rijk in kleur DVD 2002 The Third Reich in Color / Dutch WW2 historical documentary

UPC 5410504600029

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: Dutch 2.0

Total Runtime: 100 minutes

English Summary:

The Third Reich in Colour is a documentary series produced by Spiegel TV and shown in English on the History Channel in the UK.

The series consists of narrated clips of rare colour film stock, including images of concentration camp prisoners and Jewish occupants of the ghettos in German occupied Poland.

Dutch Summary:

We kennen het Derde Rijk uit de officiële propagandafilms, maar deze nooit eerder vertoonde kleurenfilms uit 1933-1945 laten de andere kant van Hitler-Duitsland zien. Privéopnames van amateurfilmers tonen spectaculaire beelden van de militaire trots van het Derde Rijk, maar ook het dagelijks leven van de gewone Duitser. Bijzonder en uniek, en in kleur.

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich until 1943 and Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country which they transformed into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", alluded to the Nazis' conceit that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which Hitler and the Nazis referred to as the Thousand Year Reich,^[4][j] ended in May 1945 after just 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany, ending World War II in Europe.

Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ]; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about 6 million Jews and millions of other victims.

Hitler was born in Austria – then part of Austria-Hungary – and was raised near Linz. He moved to Germany in 1913 and was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War I. In 1919, he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party, and was appointed leader of the Nazi Party in 1921. In 1923, he attempted to seize governmental power in a failed coup in Munich and was imprisoned with a sentence of five years. In jail, he dictated the first volume of his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). After his early release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. He frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as part of a Jewish conspiracy.