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Rise of the Nazis

Episode 3 Preview | Night of the Long Knives

See how Hitler finds himself caught between Germany’s president and the Nazis’ power base. His advisors persuade him to destroy the Nazi stormtroopers and their leader – one of his oldest friends – to make the SS Germany’s only paramilitary force.

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After Stalingrad, Hitler leaves it to the men around him to pull Germany from the abyss.
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It’s 1942, and Hitler has just lost the Battle of Moscow. German troops are desperate.
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The battles on the Eastern Front are viewed by many as the defining conflict of WWII.
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