Creating Hitler's Germany: The Birth of Extremism

Germany confronts its wartime collapse and Versailles aftermath, tracing a nation's painful conscience toward fragile absolution.

Germany's defeat in the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that followed were national disasters, with far-reaching consequences not just for the country but for the world itself.

Weaving the stories of three German families from the beginning of Germany’s territorial aspirations of the First World War to the shattered dream of a thousand-year Reich in th...