Hitler And Stalin: A Secret Relationship on SBS – Hitler and Stalin, two men with an extraordinary destiny. The most terrible dictators of the twentieth century.
Everything opposed them, and yet for decades, it was a well-kept secret. Behind the facade of their radical antagonism, the two men had more in common than we think.
Though they never met, their complicity and their collaboration remain the black hole of modern history. What did they think of each other? How did they influence each other? Did they like each other?
This two-part documentary series brings to the light the latest revelations about the most infamous relationship of the twentieth century. It explores – with unpublished and colourised archives – the intimacy of the two monsters, their mutual fascination, their maneuvering to get closer, the marks of trust they exchanged and all the benefit they derived from the German-Soviet pact, before resuming their fight to the finish in June 1941.
Series One, Episode Two:
With the German-Soviet pact, Stalin and Hitler put aside all political logic to let the Western democracies believe that such a rapprochement was impossible and finally reconcile the irreconcilable.
For that, they had to send each other signals through trusted agents, sideline those on each side who opposed such a rapprochement and wonder whether the other was bluffing before facing the facts: clearly each had understood that – human, political, ideological considerations aside – they had everything to gain by getting along.
This episode archives the intimacy of the two monsters, their mutual fascination, their maneuvering to get closer, the marks of trust they exchanged and all the benefit they derived from the German-Soviet pact, before resuming their fight to the finish in June 1941.
Hitler And Stalin: A Secret Relationship – Final Episode – Sunday, 2 July at 5.30pm on SBS and SBS on Demand (2 Parts)
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