Hitler: A Career

Overview

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

Director: Joachim Fest

Cast

Gert Westphal

Narrator (voice)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

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Ernest Bevin

Self (archive footage)

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Karl Brandt

Self (archive footage)

Eva Braun

Self (archive footage)

Neville Chamberlain

Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Édouard Daladier

Self (archive footage)

Karl Dönitz

Self (archive footage)