Synopsis
The ideological backing to Hitler's Mein Kampf.
- Programme: The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
- Episode: 1
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2012
- History | Germany, 1890-1945 | Hitler's rise to power, 1919-33 | The Munich Putsch and the lean years, 1923-29
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