
Early Years: Birth of a Führer
Adolf Hitler: Rise and Downfall
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The Story of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a man with a unique talent for myth-making. He twisted the truth of events, even as they happened. We'll trace the story from his birth in 1889 to his attempted coup in 1923. How did a man born in Austria end up in Germany at the crest of violent populism? And how did he develop history's most noxious ideology? Nazism.
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