Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Tiger at the Gate

This program explains reasons for Hitler's appeal and his meteoric rise to power, the developments that gave the Nazis popular support, and the means they used to broaden and consolidate their power. It shows the effects in Germany of defeat in World War I: death, economic stagnation, inflation, fears of Soviet-type revolution; the use of troops to crush local socialist governments; the political purposes of anti-Semitism; the rise of Hitler and his power base; the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch of 1923; organizing the Stormtroopers; the pivotal role of the middle classes in supporting the Nazis; the uses of propaganda. (20 minutes, b&w)

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