When Hitler triumphed in the summer of 1940, Acclaimed by the Germans.

His people take him
for an infallible genius, Endowed with extraordinary intelligence.

Only it’s a picture
created from scratch.

The myth of Hitler who is
sold to the Germans, It’s the Führer who knows everything,
who works day and night, Of which light in the office
never turns off.

This is the exact opposite of reality.

Hitler is a dilettante,
it never really works.

It’s someone
who never worked.

It’s someone who can’t stand
long-term intellectual effort, And long-winded and unable
to read a file of more than 20 pages.

Hitler does not work.

In fact, Hitler likes
retreat to his refuge, Like an artist who hovers
above reality.

A handful of employees
work in his place.

Their name is Joseph Goebbels,
Heinrich Himmler.

Or Albert Speer.

Hitler took more than 15 years
to recruit them.

To say today that it is a good
human resource manager, He surrounds himself very well
choosing as companions, People who brought him every time
something extra.

Who are these men
in Hitler’s shadow? What is each person’s role? Around the Führer there is
an extensive network of collaborators.

First of all,
there is close guard.

The only ones who have
direct access to it.

Among his faithful, was constituted
an essential trio, Whose first character
is Hermann Goring.

He’s an ogre who doesn’t think
only to get rich.

Bulimic, opportunist, drug addict, He loves luxury and extravagance.

The second, Joseph Goebbels,
is a failed writer.

His leg disability makes him complex.

He avenges himself by a radical hatred.

He lives only through his idol, Hitler.

The third, Heinrich Himmler,
is a petty bourgeois, Cold, stubborn, meticulous.

A smooth man who will become
killer of the century, By organizing what
the nazis are calling, The final solution.

The second circle is composed
younger and more ambitious men, Who join Hitler
in the 30’s, When he comes to power
and distribute the ministries.

Among them, Albert Speer
will rise to the top.

Under the features
of a distinguished architect, He is actually a great manipulator, who shares the dreams
Hitler’s megalomaniacs, Ready to do anything to become
his favourite.

Finally, at the bottom of the scale,
there are the performers on the ground, Third Reich officials, who commit the crimes
and atrocities.

Like Rudolf Hoess, the commander
from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, Totally cold and contemptuous.

This father,
installed with his wife and 5 children, In a house on the edge of the camp, Organize the extermination
of 1,100,000 people.

At his side, Dr.

Josef Mengele, He is in charge
of medical experiences.

He embodies the cruelty of the Nazis.

Without pity for his victims, This SS doctor proceeds
to the worst mutilations in the camps, Including on children.

Without them, the worst crimes
would not have been possible.

To please Hitler,
they are in competition.

around Hitler,
they all hate each other.

It’s even a mode of operation
of this little community there, Encouraged moreover by Hitler,
which stirs up rivalries, Competition and emulation.

Hitler, still unknown, Will recruit his accomplices
in the early 20’s, In a troubled Germany.

The vanquished of the
First World War, Only have one army left
reduced to 100,000 men.

So everywhere, former soldiers constitute
more groups of mercenaries.

The country is afraid of rocking
in the civil war.

In this procession, a small group from the south
of Germany has chosen as its symbol, The swastika.

It’s called the National Socialist Party
of German workers, NSDAP.

Born in Munich, this small party attracts
workers and the unemployed.

In the front row of the spectators,
Hitler, 30 years old, little army employee,
is not yet its leader.

He is only its 55ᵉ member.

This veteran of 14-18, Experienced battles on the front.

To the rank of simple Corporal.

Since the defeat, he no longer thinks
only to avenge Germany.

Hitler wins quickly
as the leader of the small party, By speaking in
Munich breweries.

He denounces the humiliations
inflicted on his country.

But his ways are
still very limited.

Arranged in this
rear brewery room, This is his first office.

He writes his speeches
on this modest corner of the table.

To have more echo,
Hitler misses him, More prestigious representatives.

In the fall of 1922,
when a personality comes to listen to him, He feels he has found
an ideal candidate.

Hitler was really full of joy
because he said: “You see, there we have someone
wealthy, a war hero! That is propaganda that we need.

He’s someone we absolutely must have
as a member of our party.

” The new recruit has a certain panache.

Hermann Goering, 27, was a fighter pilot
during the Great War.

In combat in the sky, It shot down 21 planes.

Hermann Göring was even decorated for
his bravery of the Cross for merit, The military’s highest honor.

They were practically the only heroes
that German propaganda put forward.

We made postcards
and everyone in Germany, Was more or less aware
exploits of this or that officer.

And that’s why Göring was
someone who was very famous, With decorations, it’s really
a character at that time.

After the war, like the aviation
German military is disbanded, He is unemployed.

But in Hitler’s eyes,
Goering presents another interest.

He has connections in high places.

Goering brought him his prestige
and his considerable social network.

The flying ace married
a wealthy woman, Karine von Fock is from
of the Swedish nobility.

They met in
the family castle near Stockholm.

The couple frequent the aristocracy
and justly, Hitler needs donors
to finance his small movement.

Upon joining the party, Goering is immediately propelled
at the head of the armed militia, Called SA.

Less than a year later, in Munich, The Nazi Party wants to take
power by a coup.

During this November 1923 putsch, A gunfight breaks out between
the Nazis and the police.

There are 16 dead.

For the Nazis, it is a total failure.

Hitler is locked up for 8 months
in the fortress prison of Landsberg.

His party is dissolved.

In cell, he writes Mein Kampf, In French, Mon combat.

Seriously shot,
Goering is on the run.

He is inadmissible
on German soil.

He needs to be operated on and he is being treated.

morphine to dull his pain.

He becomes addicted to drugs.

Goering, takes refuge in Stockholm,
in his wife’s country.

Without profession, without future, He has bouts of violence.

It gives him a mental breakdown, And from the moment it becomes
also a bit difficult to manage, It was his wife who, at that time, Prefer to put him in an asylum
to treat it.

Goering, makes several stays
in this psychiatric hospital, Around Stockholm.

According to his confidential medical records, He was admitted for
morphine poisoning.

Goering is portrayed as
self-centered suicide.

He explains his mental disorders, Because he sees himself as
politically dead.

But the following year,
it is reborn from its ashes.

Thanks to the election
1925 presidential An amnesty has just been proclaimed.

He is allowed to return
in Germany.

Without his führer, Goering is nothing.

He hopes to regain his place
leader in the party.

But the current is no longer flowing
with Hitler.

Hitler at first was not so
warm to see his ex-chief of the SA again, Because now he disposes
from another SA leader.

So Goering reminds Hitler, The services he rendered her.

He said to her: “I have lost everything, I have always been your
most faithful collaborator, So now it’s up to you to tell me
show your appreciation a little.

” Hitler needs dedicated men, And he finds her a new place.

Goering is no longer
fight in the streets, But he must conquer
worldly salons.

He will struggle to regain his rank.

He did not succeed until 1928,
when he entered the Reichstag, The German Parliament, elected from among
the first 12 Nazi deputies.

In 1932, he even became
president of this meeting.

The second accomplice Hitler recruits, Sees his career in Nazism
fly away at the age of 29.

Hitler begins by entrusting
to Joseph Goebbels, A very delicate mission.

He sends her to Berlin,
the capital of Germany.

With its 4 million inhabitants, It was at the time the most
great metropolis of Europe.

It is made up of huge suburbs
where the workers are crowded.

It is nicknamed “Red Berlin”, because the communists
have made it their stronghold.

Hitler launches a huge challenge, To this lame little man.

Making Nazis First
political force in Berlin.

And the Führer knows he can
ask Goebbels everything.

He is a man in search
overwhelmed with gratitude, He is hungry for recognition.

He finds it in Hitler, That he considers to be a man
charismatic, intelligent, superior, And towards which he develops
an almost romantic relationship.

It is in
a real emotional dependence, With regard to Hitler whose
he seeks recognition, friendly gestures,
kind words.

Goebbels owes everything to Hitler, Because until they meet, his life
was just a series of failures.

Suffered an illness
in early childhood, Goebbels is disabled in the leg.

He is ashamed of it.

During the World War One,
he dreamed of becoming a soldier.

To explain his infirmity,
he prefers to lie.

He hides his handicap by
by masking the origin, Saying “I was hurt during the Great
War, I am a hero of the Great War.

” But he didn’t fight
during the Great War, Simply because he
was not enrolled.

Doctor of Literature from the University, Unsuccessful writer, He couldn’t find a job
up to its ambitions.

Goebbels worked 9 months
as a bank clerk, Before resigning.

Only Hitler gives meaning to his life.

So he is no more
the little bank clerk, He is no longer the brave little writer
rejected by the big publishers.

It is now
the leader of the nazi party, For an area that is
still important, Who is that of
the capital of the Reich.

Upon his arrival in Berlin, the new chef, find only a hundred
active members and small offices.

Everything is to be built.

Goebbels begins
by creating a journal, The Angriff, the attack in French.

And to make the Nazis talk, He chooses a radical strategy, Stir up hatred.

Less than a week
after his arrival, Goebbels sends his big arms to challenge
Communists in their neighborhood.

Violent fights break out.

Mass arrests take place.

Police Ban Nazi Party
in the capital of the Reich.

But no matter for Goebbels.

The movement feeds on scandal.

In this violent climate,
Nazi propaganda finds itself a martyr.

In 1930, a young activist,
Horst Wessel, Was stabbed to death
by a communist.

In the presence of Hitler and Goering, His funeral with great pomp, Provide an opportunity for a demonstration
of impressive strength for the Nazis.

And Goebbels keeps throwing
oil on the fire.

Did he really deserve this death? That he had courage
to walk in the storm, This young German worker, right, and proud.

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To reward him,
Hitler offers Goebbels a promotion.

He appoints him chief
party propaganda.

The third man
Hitler’s close guard, Does not have the usual profile
workers and the unemployed, Who joined Nazism.

Heinrich Himmler is a young bourgeois, Obsessed with superiority
of the Germanic race.

At the party headquarters in Munich, In this propaganda film
dating from 1929, Himmler is this young man with glasses.

It still appears as
a little subordinate secretary, At the orders of his boss.

The others do not perceive
not these ambitions.

Himmler comes from a good family.

Catholic, perfectly
integrated into society.

He is the son of a
Greek Latin teacher, Became headmaster of a
of the best high schools in the city.

nothing is missing,
but very young, He joins the groups
most radical racists.

Catherine Himmler is
Ernst’s granddaughter, The youngest brother
by Heinrich Himmler.

This political scientist studies the history
from his family.

The 3 Himmler brothers became
virulent Nazis.

Their ideology was close
of a feeling of superiority, The feeling that the German people
was above the others.

This racist discourse advocates
also a return to the earth.

Himmler becomes an agricultural engineer.

With his wife Marga,
they buy a small farm, Where they want to live in autarky, To protect yourself from the outside world
which they consider rotten.

Along with Hitler, Himmler is submissive.

But he also has a real
influence on him.

In fact, we have since known, that he defended
his own beliefs.

He often obtained Hitler’s agreement
for ideas he had himself.

Himmler, the young bourgeois,
believes in Nazi ideas.

But he doesn’t like to mingle
grassroots activists, Who constitute the heart of the party.

In Himmler’s eyes, these people are,
we could say, Debrained fools.

This is
the equivalent of a supporters club, Like Lazio or PSG,
in those good times.

In reaction, Himmler therefore created
a classy club within the party.

These disciplined men in black, Will form an elite under his authority.

The acronym of this unit in German, Consists of two letters, The SS.

All must be absolutely
of pure Germanic origins.

They will be the most fanatical
among the fanatics.

When, that evening in 1933, Adolf Hitler is appointed
Chancellor of Germany, A new time,
he doesn’t want to work As his role would require.

He doesn’t like being forced to
work daily from 9 a.

m.

to 5 p.

m.

For him, it is unthinkable.

When he started
his career as Chancellor, From a few days, He immediately insisted that this
was not for him to work.

Once in power, The sharing of roles
between his accomplices, Will have winners and losers.

Goebbels does not become
immediately minister.

As for Goering, he triumphs.

Hitler brings him into
its first government in 1933.

And no one’s gonna hoard
as many titles as him.

In 12 years of power, Just see
the variety of its uniforms.

President of Prussia, Grand Huntsman of the Reich, Air Minister, Marshal of the Empire.

A riot of decorations, Who triggers jealousy
of his great rival, Joseph Goebbels.

Goebbels at the start is enough
skeptical of Goering’s role.

He describes it very well as being, An unbearable balloon,
puffy, Puffed up with fatuity, vanity.

A vulgar pleasure-seeker,
a beau in fact, A nouveau riche who wants
tinsel, who struts around
ridiculous uniforms, Packed with medals
and fodder.

It’s a puppet in his eyes.

Only, Goering is also
a strong man.

He installed the dictatorship in 1933.

When the Reichstag catches fire
under mysterious conditions, Goering, Speaker of the Assembly, Attributes the fire to the communists
and is threatening.

I will sweep with an iron broom, Everyone who got
positions and privileges, Exclusively thanks to their
political affiliation, red or black, I will knock them down! A wave of repression
falls on Germany.

More than 3,000 opponents of Nazism
are arrested without trial.

Goering creates a new
political police, the Gestapo.

As early as 1933, the first camp
of concentration opens in Dachau.

Opponents are subject
to forced labor.

Goering, earn points
in Hitler’s esteem.

Goering has, each time,
front page when Hitler, looking for someone to give a job
difficult for one of his collaborators.

But Joseph Goebbels ends
he too by receiving, A tailor-made position.

A great ministry
for propaganda.

The frustrated writer now has the power
to choose the authorized books, And ban others.

books by jewish writers
or authors considered degenerate, Are burned in large
public ceremonies.

Like that evening in May 1933,
near the University of Berlin.

You do well to entrust
the demons of the past.

To the flames.

The German man of the future, will not only be
book man, But also
a man of character.

And to that,
we want to train you.

He is also a fanatical anti-Semite.

When the Nazis came to power, Jews only represent in Germany
than 0.

8% of the population.

But Goebbels imagines a
way to persecute them.

Trucks drive through
the streets to spread a message.

Let’s be German
and let us no longer be Jews! My dear compatriots, This morning at 10 a.

m.

We have started
the boycott of Jewish traders.

Stores run by Jews
are pointed out.

And the Nazis deter
firmly customers to enter.

Goebbels now wants to impose
his messages on the airwaves.

And so that the propaganda
enters every home, He even had it made on purpose
a cheap radio.

This climate he creates in Germany, Is particularly oppressive
in the family of young Margit, 5 years old, who lives in Berlin.

His father is a Jew, a bookseller
and sells banned books.

I did not understand everything, But I felt the atmosphere.

We had received from Goebbels,
these people’s radio stations, And I always heard: “The Jews are our misfortune!” It was Hitler’s voice
and that of Goebbels.

And me, I didn’t know absolutely
not what a Jew was.

Joseph Goebbels monitors everything.

theater, cinema, And he’s watching the news
by an all-powerful censorship committee.

Goebbels also orchestrates a bet
into a monumental scene of the regime.

Behind the scenes,
he takes care of the smallest details.

Throughout the 1930s, In huge gatherings, filmed as a
hollywood Blockbuster, Hitler is presented to the people
like the Messiah.

The career of Joseph Goebbels
is at its peak.

But his tormented character
will take over.

Goebbels is completely at ease
in crisis situations, In situations of distress,
of disasters.

There, he is not at ease.

He needs sound and fury.

The storm for Goebbels,
will come from his private life.

He married Magda in 1931, With as witness of marriage,
Adolf Hitler.

Their children are used
over time by propaganda.

The Goebbels form the family
scheme model.

Dear daddy,
do you see us walking towards you? You already guessed
that we are here to congratulate you, Because you are celebrating your birthday.

Helmut! The names of the 6 children, All start with the letter H
in honor of Hitler.

Magda Goebbels, decorated by the regime, Embody the mother
ideal Nazi family.

And every year, A short sequence is staged
to celebrate father’s birthday.

Say, “Dear Daddy.

” Quick, say, “Dear Daddy.

” Stronger ! We congratulate you, Really.

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For your birthday.

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.

Because you are at work
and you don’t know what we’re doing here.

Joseph Goebbels, cultivate this image
of a good father.

Like on Christmas Eve 1936, Where he gets filmed in the train
to distribute gifts, To the little Germans
the most modest.

Thanks for the short note.

You want that ? Only, Reality has nothing to do
with this picture perfect.

Goebbels is known for
multiply the adventures, He needs entertainment, he needs
of action, it needs events.

As he loves the cinema,
as he knows very well, As he has a large
artistic culture, he participates.

One of the ways to participate in
the life of the cinema is to make castings, And say, “Miss
come and have tea.

” He is known to be, I quote,
his nickname in the film world, The Babelsberg goat.

Babelsberg is German Hollywood.

It’s on the studios, near Potsdam,
The Babelsberg goat.

In 1936, Goebbels strikes up a romantic idyll with a

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