22 year old starlet, Lida Barovaa.

Hello.

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what? We’re going on a trip, right? Today ? It’s a faux pas, Who will have repercussions
about Goebbels’ career.

To put an end
to this scandalous liaison, His desperate wife Magda
threatens to divorce.

She confides in the friend
closest to the couple, Adolf Hitler.

Hitler has no family, the German family,
it is that of Josef and Magda Goebbels.

So when this family starts to fail,
Hitler is not happy at all, Requires him to break this bond there, And stop humiliating
Magda Goebbels whom Hitler loves, Like being a German woman
remarkable, a mother.

Hitler is so
furious for this image, But also for Magda Goebbels, for which he has
lots of love, Let him turn away
of Goebbels who suffers from it.

In the network
Hitler’s associates A newcomer will enjoy
of this disgrace, And achieve a climb
exceptional.

Albert Speer, however, starts from afar, Among the men who join
later Nazism.

In these images from 1935,
we already perceive their complicity.

Hitler draws, next to him,
in his impeccable suit, Stands Albert Speer, 27, A young architect who
hasn’t built anything yet.

In his youth, Hitler himself drew
his sketches of pharaonic buildings.

While dreaming of
see them come out of the ground, The day he would come to power.

Hitler and Speer, know each other
only for a year, But they share a common passion
for architecture.

Hitler saw through Speer, practically the life he dreamed of.

He always said he wanted
become an architect himself.

And Speer adapted
to Hitler’s demands.

Their project was always
gigantic, megalomaniacs.

Hitler noticed Speer,
this May 1, 1933, At Berlin airport, On Labor Day which brings together
over a million people.

A human tide.

Hitler is fascinated by the festivities, which end with
a spectacular fireworks display.

where his face crackles
above the assembly.

The organization is signed
by Albert Speer.

This great bourgeois who comes
to join the Nazi Party, And to whom Goebbels passed
his first orders.

It was Goebbels who presented
Speer to Hitler.

But of course, over time,
a rivalry was born.

Goebbels always found very important
to be part of Hitler’s entourage.

And of course, in this case,
Speer was becoming a rival.

Very quickly, Speer occupies a place
favored by Hitler.

Unlike Goebbels, He is the permanent guest
from his lair in the mountains.

Both appreciate
the same pompous style, Which comes from antiquity.

First of all, Speer is the architect
from the huge parade ground of Nuremberg, Copied from a temple dedicated to Zeus.

For party congresses, This esplanade can accommodate
more than 340,000 people.

Speer then builds to the foot
of the Eiffel Tower, the German pavilion, Installed for the exhibition
from Paris in 1937.

That same year, Hitler will
give him the order of the century.

Germania, the future capital
of his empire.

This disproportionate building site
should last until 1950.

It’s about rebuilding Berlin.

Along a 5km avenue,
called Victory Avenue, Buildings in Germania will be
the greatest ever made.

At the very end, This reserved cupola
at the Great Hall of the People, Will be 16 times bigger
than that of St.

Peter’s in Rome.

Which would still make it today, The largest building in the world.

For the people of Berlin, It will be an earthquake.

These are 50000 apartments
which needed to be razed.

Nearly 200,000 Berliners, Would have needed to be relocated.

While there was already
a great lack of housing.

And to test the speed
of its architect, Hitler will challenge him.

Speer, must build first
germania building, In just one year.

8000 workers from all over Germany, Work at the same time, day and night.

They are building the future
Reich Chancellery.

To please Hitler, Albert Speer, Deliver the building 2 days
before the set date.

Hitler takes possession
of his building, Supposed to dazzle the ambassadors
of the whole world.

Its chancellery is
of a showy luxury.

With a marble hall, A huge office
for Hitler.

And galleries twice as big
than those of the Palace of Versailles.

Albert Speer has caught up with all his competitors
in Hitler’s esteem.

The proximity of power fascinated him.

You have to imagine that Speer
was not even 30 years old.

And he had already become, One of the advisers
Hitler’s most influential.

Meanwhile, in Munich, One of Hitler’s historical accomplices, Himmler, received no ministry.

He is just named chief
of the Bavarian police.

Ready for anything, he will carry out a purge
bloody within the party, Known as
“Night of the Long Knives”.

It is one of the many steps
what he accomplished towards power.

Hitler then feared
the power of another leader, Ernest Rohm.

Very popular, he leads the SA, A powerful recognizable Nazi militia
to his brown shirts.

While under his command, Himmler supervises Rohm’s assassination
and all his staff.

Even at the cost of blood, If a comrade stands in his way, He sees no inconvenience
to be eliminated, Even if it represents a great danger.

And Himmler emerges as the big winner
of this bloodbath.

His organization, the SS, The Black Order no longer has
no more rivals.

Himmler will be able to do
much more than just a militia.

For him, the SS is
a real political project, Of which he managed to convince Hitler.

Himmler worships
to the Germanic race.

It refers to a dead king
in the middle Ages.

He is going to meditate on his grave, And he introduces Hitler, As his successor
throughout history.

King Henry I transmitted 1000 years ago,
to our Führer Adolf Hitler, human values
and the role of guide for Germany.

For Germany.

Himmler wants to build
a new society, Deeply racist, Where the Germans of pure race, Will be the only masters
for centuries to come.

And so that the blood of the superior race
reproduces on a large scale, Himmler founded special maternities, Where the SS can drop out
newborns.

Who will be brought up by the regime.

It works a bit like
controlled reproduction of horses.

You bring your fillies
in the stables, There are stallions who are there, They impregnate your fillies and etc.

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To found the superior race, The Nazis also want to eliminate
what they call, Worthless lives.

From 1935, in all cinemas, Those terrible propaganda films
are broadcast.

They show the disabled
in a frightening light.

The film mainly emphasizes
expenses for the company, What would these patients represent?
who spend their whole lives in hospital.

This woman affected
of a hereditary disease, Would cost 153000 mark
per year to the community.

His three siblings,
62300 mark.

These epileptics,
more than 20,000 marks.

To manipulate public opinion, One more estimate
1.

2 billion marks, Would correspond to the financial cost
of all hereditary diseases.

The Nazis want to justify
the crimes they are planning.

But we must first separate and prevent these
worthless lives of harming the people.

Then, from 1939,
began to take shape, Real killing programs, Especially the disabled
physical and mental.

Himmler keeps
to want to remodel everything.

He also wants these SS
have their own beliefs.

I swear here, To Adolf Hitler, Loyalty and bravery.

strange ceremonies, Take place in the chapels
of Wolfsburg Castle, SS training center With this black sun
as an occult symbol.

Baptisms take place
according to SS rites.

Himmler himself
celebrates weddings.

The Nazis want to sweep away all the
existing religious beliefs.

If the Nazis had won,
there would have been a new calendar, There would have been new parties
and new liturgies, A new baptism, a new party
which would not have been that of Christmas, This is also the Nazi utopia.

It’s such a big revolution
and so global, That she had to change everything, everything, including
belief and including God.

in secret, In the mid-1930s, Hitler
will make a strategic decision, Let him share first
with his right arm.

Hitler himself fixed
a program that basically Said Germany must be ready
to go to war in 4 years.

And to carry out this program,
he creates a new administration, With a 4-year plan leader,
it’s Hermann Goring.

Overnight, in 1936, Hermann Goering is propelled
at the head of German industry.

Its financial envelope is unlimited.

His commands mobilize
more than 228 factories.

Firepower
unique in the world at the time.

The Germans, deprived of an army since
the defeat of the First World War, Prepare their revenge.

My dear compatriots,
my dear brothers in arms, What is the point
of this 4-year plan? I could sum it up
in one essential sentence: The backup
of German honor.

And backup
of German life.

Its new functions allow
also Goering to get rich.

For these birthdays, for example,
industrialists cover him with gifts.

He receives collectibles, But he has a predilection
for master paintings, And precious stones.

The corrupt system they put
in place is well organized.

His office sent
small lists, Like wedding lists, To the various representatives
companies, By telling them the Marshal would like
to have this or that work of art, Or such and such an object
as a gift.

Hermann Goering plays
the Roman emperors.

He likes eccentricities, Like posing with a lion cub.

Yes, my Caesar.

Are you visiting me? Come ! Are you satisfied Caesar? Come on pretty, jump! It’s good ! Hitler designates Goering
as his successor, Since Karine’s death, His first wife died of cancer.

The Germans miss him
a first lady.

So his second marriage in Berlin, Is worthy of a crowned head.

30,000 soldiers line the route.

Hitler, his witness, Favored his grandiose nuptials
to hide his own private life.

Emma and Hermann Goring
now embody, The official couple of the regime.

They increasingly represent
Nazi power on special occasions.

Like here, at a reception
in honor of Mussolini.

To receive, Goering had fitted out
his vast domain, At the gates of Berlin.

Hundreds of works of art
cover the walls of this palace.

There were also many
hunting trophies.

Dieter Wellershoff,
meets Goering several times.

At a very young age, he was enlisted
in the Hitler Youth, And, at the age of 17, He has been for a few months
soldier on Goering’s property.

When they were reviewing us, Goering always said, Once I walked past you,
you can relax.

Which meant we weren’t
no longer have to stand up straight.

We had to choose
a path without puddles, And no mud for that fat man
and heavy can walk.

He was grotesque! If he occupies the first
stage plan, Goering is having a hard time
to contain Hitler.

The Führer is now
ready to go to war.

Hitler regularly attends
at fight rehearsals.

Despite his immense exercises
in natural size, Goering has all the trouble
to curb his impatience.

‘Cause he knows the plan to prepare
Germany at war Got late.

He explains at that moment, to Hitler, You see, Germany
is not ready yet.

However, with a year in advance
on the plan he himself has set, Hitler orders to go on the attack.

He lives in a movie, He lives in a play.

He himself is an actor
and his own war, These are deployed cards
on a gigantic table, flags moving forward
and pawns it moves.

For Hitler and his accomplices, Entering the war in 1939
is disconcertingly easy.

The German army seems invincible.

After a single year of struggle, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands, And France are invaded.

Half of Europe is collapsing, And the division of the empire between
Hitler’s accomplices will be bloody.

Goebbels depends on an administration,
Goering on another and Himmler on another.

And we realize that
in the policy of conquest, colonization, predation,
of plunder, There is an overlap of jurisdictions.

And all this creates friction,
tensions.

The great plunder begins.

Goering makes Paris
his hunting ground.

He lands in
a convertible limo, Roam the streets
and go down to Place Vendôme, In a palace, the Ritz.

Goering came to help himself
in French museums, Matisse, Monet, Cezanne.

He seizes hundreds of paintings to
complete his gigantic collection.

The same year,
Hitler also arrives in Paris.

Albert Speer, its architect,
is by his side.

He promises to copy the most beautiful
monuments of the French capital, For their future Germania.

Hitler was very impressed
by Paris, The Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe.

He obviously wanted to reproduce
all this in Berlin, But in dimensions
much larger.

Back in Berlin, Marshal Goering triumphs
front row seats.

He directs military operations.

And yet,
he hides reality from Hitler.

It is of course, from the point of view of the public,
a dazzling success.

From an economics point of view,
it is a disaster.

Because after the few
weeks of fighting, Germany has no more bombs, More ammunition and very few planes.

For fear of displeasing Hitler, Goering won’t say anything.

Boastful, he promises her on the contrary
to crush England, In just 3 weeks.

Himmler, he carved out
an empire in eastern Europe, Where he oversees a policy
vile of extermination, With total coldness.

When Hitler gives him back
visit to Poland, His SS soldiers are already leading
their great racist war.

Himmler spends his time
to motivate his troops, To justify
systematic killings.

What he always says to his SS men, It is what it is
hard to support, Like a test.

A painful task
that they have to do.

But he says: “We are morally
strong enough!” And he thinks that about
sacrificial mode.

He is saying:
“I am sacrificing my psyche, So that my children
may live, etc.

” There is a whole discourse behind that.

From 1939 in Poland, Then from 1941 in the USSR, Nazis experiment with policies
mass murders and deportations.

Under Himmler’s orders,
they build their living space, A colonial empire populated by slaves
and rid of its Jews.

This project involves the death of dozens
millions of people from hunger.

We are in an imaginary
of “letting die”.

At the same time, in Ukraine,
but also in the Baltic countries, Operate small groups
SS killer mobiles, Called Einsatzgruppen.

These atrocities follow one another
at a frantic pace.

More than a million people
will be exterminated by shootings.

In August 1941, Himmler
goes to Minsk, Belarus, To assess in person
this killing strategy.

He first inspects
Soviet prisoners, And attend personally
to these shooting executions.

Himmler during a visit to Minsk,
in the summer of 1941, Gonna be the witness
of the execution of 100 Jews.

100 Jews are executed as an example,
to show Himmler how it’s done.

And Himmler will faint
in front of the show.

Himmler is one of the worst anti-Semites
of the Third Reich, A convinced, enraged anti-Semite.

It’s not out of pity
for the Jewish victims, It’s just the show for the killer,
it causes trauma.

As unbearable as it may seem, Himmler, as the great leader of the SS, Worries only about trauma
psychological for his men.

You have men
who are not born killers, And so there are disputes not to their
get accepted before they start killing.

Following the killings in Minsk, Himmler
will ask his men, in Berlin, to find the method
to spare the killers.

In 1941, different methods
of mass murder coexist.

But at the end of the year,
an order from Hitler himself, Will unify the procedures.

He demands the extermination
of all the Jews of Europe.

3 years earlier, Hitler had warned.

If the war became global,
he would carry out his threat.

Still
I will be a prophet.

If international Jewish finance, In Europe
and outside Europe, Had to succeed in rushing the peoples
in a world war, Then the result would not be
the bolshevization of the world, So the victory of Jewry.

On the contrary it will be
the annihilation of the Jewish race! And it’s the start of the war
of the United States in December 1941, Who finally motivates his decision.

The final solution,
it is decided by Hitler.

At this moment,
mass executions take place.

In that year, there are practically
4 million Jews who were exterminated.

For Himmler, It will not be possible
to murder millions of people, By mass shootings.

And it is for this reason
that the gassing is going to be seen, As an effective remedy
to protect the killers.

Gassing is not introduced
to kill more people, On the other hand, the gas chambers
have a major merit, It’s to spare the killers.

There is no more contact with the victims, You don’t even see people dying anymore.

We pick up the bodies at the end.

Himmler then decides
to concentrate on a single place, All this news
extermination policies.

A gigantic place that will become
largest of the concentration camps, And killing centers.

A place to which they will be deported,
1,300,000 people.

One, it has to be a place
which is central to the Nazi empire.

Two, it must be well connected
to all parts of Europe.

And three, let him be endowed
of a killing line, Which is extremely fast and efficient.

The real railway and central hub
of the nazi empire which is going to be chosen, It’s Auschwitz.

Himmler entrusts Auschwitz
to a field official, One of the worst specialists in the camps.

His name is Rudolf Hoess.

He becomes, at the age of 40, Director of one of the largest
projects of the Third Reich.

These pictures of Auschwitz
that we know, Are those of the liberation of the camp
in 1945 by Soviet soldiers.

To direct this vast complex,
the largest camp of the nazi empire, Heinrich Himmler, had a choice
between multiple managers.

But he chose Rudolf Hoess, A man who has
a murderous past.

In 1923, Hoess assassinated
a man, a communist, Who was detained in prison
during 5 years.

When he will be out of jail, Himmler took him under his wing and finished
by finding him a new profession.

In the early 1930s, Himmler went to see my grandfather, And suggested he join the SS.

Rainer Hoess, is the grandson
of the commander of Auschwitz.

His father, Hanns, is the most
young son of Rudolf Hoess.

He first got a job
at the Dachau concentration camp.

He stayed there for 4 years.

Then he became head of detention, Then Deputy Director
from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

And in 1940, thanks to Himmler, He was named directly
commander of Auschwitz.

When he arrives in
the locality of Auschwitz in 1940, To set up camp, Hoess only discovers a small town
of 15,000 inhabitants.

As well as an old barracks
of the Polish army, Where he establishes the first place of confinement,
Auschwitz 1.

And he also spots a villa
which adjoins the camp.

Hoess take over this house, Of which Polish owners
are expropriated.

On the second floor, from
his office window, This bird’s eye view of the crematorium
don’t bother him.

The commander settles in the villa
with his wife Edwige and their 5 children.

The family does not think
than to his social ascent.

These photos from the album
family attest to this, Their new living environment
provides unexpected comfort.

70m from the crematorium, The garden, surrounded by a large wall, Becomes the favorite playground
children.

It was so big they could
cycling indoors.

Today, it seems that at that time, My grandparents passed
from anonymous to VIP status.

Thanks to the concentration camps,
the Hoess lead a comfortable life, With a workforce
reduced to slavery.

There is an inmate who serves as a gardener, Inmates who serve as servants

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