12 Jahre, 3 Monate, 9 Tage - Die Jahreschronik des Dritten Reichs

"The Germans are far from finished with Hitler." (Sir Ian Kershaw) "The past is and remains." (Helmut Schmidt) On 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor. Once power over Germany was in his hands, the Nazis never let go of it - until the downfall on 8 May 1945. The Third Reich lasted 12 years, 3 months and 9 days. It began with great hopes and unprecedented rejoicing - and ended after a world war with more than 50 million dead, the destruction of Germany and the genocide of the European Jews. Director Michael Kloft chronicles the years of the Third Reich, with rare, sometimes unpublished film footage of the Nazi dictatorship. Three renowned scholards help to understand this era from the Nazi's ascent to power, to their war and its chaotic end. Sir Ian Kershaw's biography of Adolf Hitler set a gold standard. In her groundbreaking work, Brigitte Hamann studied what fuelled the fascination for the Führer, while Götz Aly focussed on the participation of large sways of the population in the "feel-good dictatorship" of the 1930s. In his book "Hitlers Volksstaat", Aly also chronicled the ruthless plundering of Europe by the Germans.