Who was Hitler (2017)

5.7/10 • 191 min • Documentary History

Overview

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, only contemporaries and Hitler himself speak: no interviews, no reenactment, no illustrative graphics and no technical gadgets. The testimonies from diaries, letters, speeches and autobiographies are assembled with new, often unpublished archive material. Hitler's life and work are thus reflected in a unique way in interaction with the image of the society in the years 1889 to 1945.

Cast

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Self (archive footage)

Ernst Röhm

Self (archive footage)

Jürgen Tarrach

Self - Narrator

Albert Speer

Self (archive footage)

Heinz Rühmann

Self (archive footage)

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