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Who was Hitler

  • 2017
  • TMDB 5.7/10
  • 3h 11m

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, only contemporaries and Hitler himself speak: no interviews, no reenactment, no illustrative graphics and no technical gadgets. The testimonies from diaries, letters, speeches and autobiographies are assembled with new, often unpublished archive material. Hitler's life and work are thus reflected in a unique way in interaction with the image of the society in the years 1889 to 1945.

Overview

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, only contemporaries and Hitler himself speak: no interviews, no reenactment, no illustrative graphics and no technical gadgets. The testimonies from diaries, letters, speeches and autobiographies are assembled with new, often unpublished archive material. Hitler's life and work are thus reflected in a unique way in interaction with the image of the society in the years 1889 to 1945.

Cast

  • Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
  • Joseph GoebbelsSelf (archive footage)
  • Ernst RöhmSelf (archive footage)
  • Jürgen TarrachSelf - Narrator
  • Albert SpeerSelf (archive footage)
  • Heinz RühmannSelf (archive footage)

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