Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Hitler and the Nazis: Evil On Trial is a 6-episode documentary series exploring the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party between his birth in 1889 and the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-46 after the Second World War. Beginning with the trials themselves, the Netflix docuseries keeps cutting back and forth in time. It draws on 35 hours of previously unseen film footage of the trials and 1200 hours of audio.
1 24 Surviving Nazi Leaders Were Tried On 4 Counts At The Nuremberg Trials 21 Of Them Were Found Guilty The opening premise of Hitler and the Nazis: Evil On Trial is that 21 surviving Nazi leaders were being tried at the Nuremberg Trials starting in November 1945. They were being tried on four counts: conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
However, he was one of the three people acquitted at the Nuremberg Trials, due to a lack of direct evidence linking him to the specific war crimes and atrocities. The tribunal determined that his actions did not meet the legal threshold for criminal liability under the charges brought against him.
Related 10 Best Movies & Shows About Destroying Nazis These 10 excellent movies and shows, including Hunters, X-Men: First Class, and Indiana Jones, see Nazis get taken down and destroyed. The 1936 Berlin Olympics served as a platform for the Nazis to showcase their power and attempt to whitewash their image on the international stage. Hitler's party invested heavily in the event, constructing grand stadiums and facilities to impress foreign visitors and athletes.
The denial of entry to the M.S. St. Louis represented a tragic missed opportunity to save hundreds of lives from the horrors of the Holocaust. In Hitler and the Nazis, a woman who was a young girl at the time narrates the despair everyone felt, exemplifying how one Jewish man killed himself to avoid returning to Nazi Germany.
As per the docuseries, 12 million people, including Jews, prisoners of war, and civilians deemed undesirable by the regime, were subjected to grueling conditions in labor camps and factories, where many perished due to starvation, exhaustion, and abuse. Hitler and the Nazis portrays this through a suspenseful reenactment, with historians explaining the events in voiceover. The assassination attempt ultimately failed. The bomb, placed in a briefcase by Stauffenberg, exploded but did not kill Hitler, who survived with minor injuries. The failure of the plot led to a swift and brutal crackdown by the Nazi regime, resulting in the execution of Stauffenberg and many other conspirators.