Synopsis
An example of how Hitler was always sensitive to the mood of the general population.
- Programme: The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
- Episode: 3
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2012
- History | Germany, 1890-1945 | Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-39 | Germany at war
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