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Introducing Nazis: The Road to Power

The story of how in just 13 years, Hitler led a fringe sect with less than a hundred members and outlandish ideas to be the dominant force in German politics.

From the producers of Nuremberg, the story of how in just 13 years, Adolf Hitler led a fringe sect with less than a hundred members and outlandish ideas to be the dominant force in German politics. It is also about the forgotten players from these early years who played crucial roles in the Nazi Party's rise to power. This new scripted podcast takes listeners into the intrigues, the personalities, the knife-edge decisions which would ultimately lead to forty million dead in the world鈥檚 greatest catastrophe.

Starring Sir Derek Jacobi as President Hindenberg, Tom Mothersdale as Adolf Hitler and Alexander Vlahos as Joseph Goebbels. With Toby Stephens, Nancy Carroll, Laura Donnelly and Juliet Stevenson as the Narrator.

Written and directed by Jonathan Myerson.

Producer - Nicholas Newton.

A Promenade production for 大象传媒 Radio 4 and 大象传媒 Sounds.

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Adolf Hitler and the Nazis

10 Things You Might Not Know About Adolf Hitler and the Nazis

Uncovering lesser-known facts about the scarcely-credible rise to power of the Nazi party

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