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DVD ~ Stephen Murray; Adolf Hitler; Josef Goebbels; Heinrich Himmler; Rudolf Hess; Eva Braun etc.
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  • Actors: Stephen Murray; Adolf Hitler; Josef Goebbels; Heinrich Himmler; Rudolf Hess; Eva Braun etc.
  • Directors: Joachim C Fest
  • Format: Black & White, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Odeon Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 28 May 2007
  • Run Time: 140 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000OFOSHW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,028 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Hitler A Career is Joachim Fest s controversial German documentary film about the inevitability of Hitler and Fascism within Germany. Narrated by Stephen Murray, it tells the story of Hitler s rise to power from a German perspective; and Hitler s uncanny ability to satisfy the German people s emotional and psychological needs. But how did this unknown Austrian boy seduce the German people into becoming a Nazi state? Why did Germany follow Hitler to the brink of destruction? Fest s documentary film answers these questions by tracing the roots of fascism to Germany s historical heritage. Using unseen footage from the German war archives, Hitler A Career presents a compelling picture of the rise and fall of Hitler and the Nazi empire. It was not Hitler who created Nazi Germany; but Germany itself that created Hitler.

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This is the first release in the UK of this acclaimed German made documentary film. Hitler : A Career is Joachim Fest's controversial German documentary about the inevitability of Hitler and Fascism within Germany. Narrated by Stephen Murray, it tells the story of Hitler's rise to power from a German perspective; and Hitler's uncanny ability to satisfy the German people's emotional and psychological needs. But how did this unknown Austrian boy seduce the German people into becoming a Nazi state? Why did Germany follow Hitler to the brink of destruction? Fest's documentary film answers these questions by tracing the roots of fascism to Germany's historical heritage. Using unseen footage from the German war archives, Hitler : A Career presents a compelling picture of the rise and fall of Hitler and the Nazi empire. It was not Hitler who created Nazi Germany; but Germany itself that created Hitler.

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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A spellbinding documentary about the life of the worlds most notorious dictator,, 26 Feb 2008
Written by esteemed German scholar and historian Joachim C Fest, Hitler: A Career (Hitler - eine Karriere) is a mesmerizing look at the rise and fall of Adolph Hitler, as well as the complicity of the German people who catapulted him into power. Cleanly and thoughtfully constructed, Hitler: A Career relentlessly hammers home Fest's theory that Hitler gave the defeated, humiliated German nation exactly what they wanted in the early thirties, through a calculated shell game involving phony Germanic folklore and a soothing balm of violence and order to appease the middle classes fear of modernism. Fest's narration, read by Brit Stephen Murray, eschews a scholarly drone to appeal directly to the viewer's emotions. It's a spellbinding documentary, mainly in black and white but with some astonishing colour footage towards the beginning. I would highly, highly recommend Hitler: A Career.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Who was Hitler?, 13 Mar 2009
We are all familiar with documentaries exposing Hitler, the politician, the artist, the sexual fiend, the occultist, etc, etc. This documentary gives us an insight into Hitler, the Man. It traces Hitlers rise from a beer-hall activist to the absolute leader of a nation. But this exposition does not follow the usual commercial steps of explanation. No, it follows the man himself, tracing his changing attitudes, his manipulation of the German people and, indeed, his own party. This is not a political expose, but an attempt to understand the psychology of a man who allowed an absolute evil to be be committed in his name. The general opinion of the commentator is that Hitler, having achieved fame and fortune, grew lazy and let his minions run the nation. Watch this. You decide.
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12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Hitler - a career, 26 May 2009
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Very disappointing. This film is very like the BBC 'The Nazis: A Warning from History'. It suffers from the same major fault, in that it continually uses propagandist language. Listening to the descriptions of Hitler and the Third Reich reminds one immediately and overpoweringly of Joseph Goebbels describing the opponents and victims of Nazism - full of easy slurs like 'evil', 'monster', 'liar', but very little serious analysis. I expected the film to be far more analytical from descriptions I had read about it, and in particular I expected a rational description of how the nature of German society at the time produced (to some extent) the Nazi regime. I did not hear such a rational analysis. The propagandist approach of this film, and that of The Warning from History, is never going to be very impressive and leaves one thinking that the Nazis and their opponents share the same basic propagandist view of life.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Below expectations
I expected more from J. Fest. Too biased, no deep analysis. The biography of A. Hitler written by Fest is really well written and complete. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Massimo Ferrari

2.0 out of 5 stars More propaganda than serious unbiased analysis
I borrowed this from the library. Glad I didn't purchase it.
I don't think the cause of the rise of fascism in Germany can be so easily explained as is attempted here. Read more
Published 3 months ago by MBW

4.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking
The DVD showed a progressive career within politics and highlighted the horrors that politicians still use today: the euphoria of illusion, people's willingness to believe it, and... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Eagle

4.0 out of 5 stars Hitler - A Career
The first few sentences of this 135min DVD both sum it up and pose a profound question for those of us who look back on these events some eighty years later. Read more
Published 8 months ago by C. W. Bradbury

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