Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age

Totalitarianism: The Third Reich (1x37)

Air date: Apr 06, 1998

An application and assessment of the concept of totalitarianism, first devised by Hannah Arendt to describe the Nazi and Soviet systems with their all-encompassing ideologies and use of state terror to remake the world. The moves through which Hitler consolidated his regime between 1933 and 1939 are dissected.