Who was Hitler

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, only contemporaries and Hitler himself speak: no interviews, no reenactment, no illustrative graphics and no technical gadgets. The testimonies from diaries, letters, speeches and autobiographies are assembled with new, often unpublished archive material. Hitler's life and work are thus reflected in a unique way in interaction with the image of the society in the years 1889 to 1945.

Director: Hermann Pölking-Eiken

Cast

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Self (archive footage)

Ernst Röhm

Self (archive footage)

Jürgen Tarrach

Self - Narrator

Albert Speer

Self (archive footage)

Heinz Rühmann

Self (archive footage)