01: Hitler | Secrets of Leadership

Duration: 47'19''

Synopsis

Historian Andrew Roberts analyses Adolf Hitler's leadership techniques - and reveals the modern-day movers and shakers, in politics and business, who unknowingly use similar styles.

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