Season 1

Documenting Hitler’s rise to power and leadership, Heinrich Hoffmann’s photographs are a remarkable record of the public face of a man during his brief spell of absolute power

How Hitler and his party used the latest propaganda means to mould Germany in their image.

Hitler presented himself as devoted only to Germany. But in private, he needed female companionship, notably his niece and his mistress Eva Braun. Both their lives ended in suicide.

After the humiliation of World War I, Hitler was determined to crush communism. His ambition drove him to war in a bid for German global domination.