A History of Hitler’s Empire, 2nd Edition

Overview

Investigate how history’s most infamous dictator rose to power in a modern, educated nation—and plunged the world into war—in this 12-lecture course by an Ivy League historian.

Course No. 805

This penetrating analysis examines the Nazi rise from fringe movement to totalitarian regime, revealing the political, economic, and social conditions that made the Holocaust possible.

Course Content

The Nazi Rise to Power

• Weimar Republic’s Collapse (31 min)
  • Post-WWI Germany’s vulnerabilities

2. Great Depression Breakthrough (31 min)
   • How economic crisis fueled Nazi electoral success

3. Hitler’s Legal Revolution (31 min)
   • 1933 power grab and dismantling of democracy

Totalitarian Germany

4. Racial State Building (32 min)
   • Persecution of Jews and “undesirables”

5. Propaganda Machine (31 min)
   • Goebbels’ media control and cult of personality

6. Foreign Policy Aggression (32 min)
   • From Munich to the Nazi-Soviet Pact

War & Genocide

7. Blitzkrieg Conquests (31 min)
   • 1939-1941 military triumphs

8. Eastern Front Turning Point (31 min)
   • Operation Barbarossa and war with USSR

9. Holocaust Evolution (31 min)
   • From persecution to industrialized murder

10. Final Solution (36 min)
    • Death camps and Allied knowledge