The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis on SBS – Europe in the 1920s and 1930s – a continent licks its wounds after the devastation of WWI. In this fertile breeding ground for dissent, authoritarian regimes are on the rise.
The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis takes a fresh look at the Third Reich from a global and current perspective. It tells us how the Nazis managed to conquer Germany and then half of Europe within a few years. How could that be, with the horrors of World War I still so fresh? Why did it take so long before they were stopped?
A combination of previously unpublished archive material, historic sources and an international team of experts paint a new picture of Hitler’s regime. The series unpicks the complex sequence of events that boosted a new regime, allowing violence and brutality to unfold on an unbelievable scale.
Series One, Episode Ten: The Reckoning 1945-1948
How do you deal with a people who remained loyal to their regime until the end, who carried out the extermination of the Jews and the destruction of Europe? What should be a new beginning, a moral reckoning with the guilty, how to deal with the spectators, and how to rehabilitate the victims?
The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis – Final Episode – Sunday, 19 March at 5.30pm on SBS and SBS on Demand (10 Parts)
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