The Nazis: A Warning From History

Part 1 examines how Hitler was "helped into power by economic circumstance and the support and miscalculation of others," according to narrator Samuel West. The hour documents Hitler's ascendance to the chancellorship in January 1933.

A look at the extraordinary popularity of both Hitler and the Nazis, as well as the astonishing degree of voluntary support ordinary Germans gave the infamous Gestapo.

A look at how Hitler found himself at war with Britain - a country whose achievements he admired - and allied to his ideological enemy, the Soviet Union.

This film provides insights into how the Nazis' reign of terror in Poland was characterised by huge population upheavals, chaos, petty squabbles and sheer bloodlust.

Part 5 travels "The Road to Treblinka," examining the Holocaust and how the Nazis moved from a policy of ethnic "relocation" to one of mass murder. Included: an interview with one of the 70 known survivors of the Treblinka death camp.

Fear and hatred of Bolshevism drove many Germans to fight to the bitter end, despite continued suffering.