Rise of the Nazis (2019) s03e03 Episode Script

1
By this stage, almost every building
in Berlin has been flattened,
but there's still a partially
intact concert hall.
And in this concert hall, the Nazis
organise a final concert
by the Berlin Philharmonic.
The concert features
Wagner's Gotterdammerung,
in which the gods of Valhalla
are consumed in flames.
Gotterdammerung
by Richard Wagner
The last scene features a suicide
at its centre.
There's a clear implication
here that Germany, Hitler,
and as many people as possible
are going to end it all.
It's an extraordinary event.
And at the end of the concert,
as the audience streams out,
there are Hitler Youth handing
out cyanide capsules.
It's an invitation to the audience
to bring everything to an end,
to kill themselves as well.
This is the story of the collapse
of the Third Reich
as the Allied troops close in
on Germany.
Our interest is the psychology
of that collapse,
as those at the heart of the regime
cling to power.
It's the worst in human nature
you see during the collapse
of the Third Reich.
To help us tell the story,
we've asked historians and experts
to take us inside the minds of each
one of the key protagonists
as they are forced to
confront failure.
The cycle of thinking at that time
wouldn't allow anyone to think
that what's happening is wrong.
Being picked up, shot, disappeared.
They are walking into an apocalypse
on purpose.
Ultimately,
who will stay loyal to Hitler?
And who will betray him
and when?
When Adolf Hitler sweeps to power
in the 1930s,
he promises the German people
a thousand-year Reich,
a thousand years of
undisputed glory.
Seduced by this vision of
global domination,
Hitler's millions of followers
think he's invincible.
Now, at the end of April 1945,
the war Hitler started has come back
to haunt him.
Germany is on the brink of
total defeat,
and the all-powerful Fuhrer is
living in an underground bunker.
Most of Germany is occupied by
invading Allied forces,
and a two-million-strong
Soviet army
is just a mile from Hitler's
hiding place.
With the Red Army now inside Berlin,
even Hitler's most loyal deputies
have started to turn their backs
on him.
Albert Speer, once a close personal
friend of Hitler's,
believes the Allies will need him to
help rebuild Germany after the war.
Speer is looking for his own future,
his way out of the Third Reich.
He's collecting material for the
Allied forces,
to show them that he did everything
to stop the war,
to save the lives of people.
He twists the truth.
Speer now tries to appear
as Hitler's opponent.
Meanwhile, Hermann Goring,
Hitler's notional successor,
is convinced he's the one the Allies
will choose to collaborate with.
After all these years of waiting,
you think the possibility might now
arrive that I will actually
become Hitler's successor.
This is a point to which I've been
working for many years.
It's arrived at the wrong time,
of course,
but nevertheless there's still
a possibility
I can play an important role again.
While he waits to stake his claim
as leader,
Goring tries to preserve the wealth
and status he's enjoyed for so long.
The artworks, the tapestries,
the jewellery,
all the things that he's collected
as Hitler's deputy
across the years of the war
are all being packed up.
He wants to keep around him
the apparatus
that made him the great figure
he thinks he is.
Hitler believes Heinrich Himmler
is still his most loyal follower.
Himmler knows that his idol
is going to die soon.
Himmler must shape his own
future now.
What is keeping Himmler
going at this stage
is his determination to survive
his determination to maintain
his reputation
as one of the most powerful men
in Germany.
And he is really keen on crafting
a new role for himself
in a post-Hitler Germany.
Behind the Fuhrer's back,
Himmler is secretly making plans
for peace with Germany's enemies.
If Hitler discovers Himmler's plan,
it could cost him his life.
Song Of The Plains
by Boris Alexandrov
The Soviets are now taking
Berlin street by street,
hour by hour.
Brutalising the German people
as they go.
Heading to Hitler's bunker from
all directions.
On 27th of April, Hitler decides
he wants to go upstairs,
into the garden, and inspect the
ruins of the Reich Chancellery.
He gets his valet, Anslinger,
to lead him up to the door
that opens out onto the garden.
But just at that moment, a Russian
shell lands in the garden.
It's clearly far too dangerous
to go.
The Russians are now surrounding
the chancellery area
and bombarding it very heavily, and
so they have to go back downstairs.
By this time, he's realised
that the end is approaching.
Hitler knows he is now trapped.
With the Nazi regime disintegrating,
only his most die-hard loyalists
stay by his side.
Propaganda Chief Joseph Goebbels
is one of the last true believers.
Goebbels understands that the war
is lost.
But he still urges the German people
to fight to their utmost, to fight
to the bitter end.
This is not because they expect
victory any more,
but rather they are walking into
an apocalypse.
They want to make a historical
last stand,
they want to go down in flames
and take Europe down with them.
Nazi ideology is based
on the belief,
in a Darwinian struggle
between races,
only the strongest can survive.
Now the Germans are losing the war,
Hitler and Goebbels turn this racist
ideology against their own people.
Hitler and Goebbels had come
to believe their own propaganda
about racial struggles for survival,
and that if German people
did not win,
they did not deserve to survive.
They did not care for the lives
of German people
if they were not victorious.
Goebbels is so indoctrinated
by Nazism,
he makes a shocking choice.
The Goebbels' decision to take
their children with them
in the Hitler bunker seems crazy.
But in their own logic,
it made a lot of sense.
Goebbels was not going to leave
the side of the Fuhrer.
Magda declared very openly,
"I belong to my husband, and my
children belong to me."
Obedient as she is,
there is far more to Magda than a
doting wife.
Magda is a very committed Nazi.
All of the Goebbels' children have
names beginning with H
in a tribute to Hitler.
Hitler outright believes that she is
the model
of the perfect Aryan woman that
represents the purity,
the dedication, the devotion and the
ideological radicalism of Nazism.
She has been printed in
every magazine.
Every German would have known
her face
because she is the ideal
Nazi matron.
Goebbels hopes his family's
show of loyalty
will boost Hitler's morale.
But in reality, Germany's military
position is hopeless.
Things are so desperate in
April 1945
that Hitler issues a proclamation
that everybody should fight.
People shouldn't do deals
with the Allies,
they shouldn't raise white flags,
men, women and children
should resist until the last.
This is an invitation to die in the
interests of a future Germany,
as Hitler saw it.
Hitler believes that the most
shameful thing in German history
has been the surrender, the
capitulation of 1918,
at the end of World War I.
This time, there will be
no surrender.
While Hitler demands self-sacrifice
from his bunker in Berlin
in southern Germany, American
forces are just a few miles
outside the historic town
of Ansbach.
19-year-old student Robert Limpert
fears many lives
will be needlessly lost by resisting
Germany's inevitable defeat.
Robert, this person who wanted to
speak out,
he wanted to think freely.
He doesn't want to just follow the
orders of the Nazis
without questioning.
The town's commander,
Colonel Ernst Meyer,
calls on local people to fight until
the last bullet.
Few have the capacity to resist
his senseless command.
They either still support the Nazis
or are too exhausted by war
to defy him.
It's very strange.
Like, speaking about the Nazis,
I feel myself speaking about Isis.
Because it's exactly what they did.
People lose track of what they are.
People forget at one point
that they are being oppressed.
While a student at
Wurzburg University,
Robert witnessed the devastation of
the city by Allied bombers.
Robert saw all that destruction
and thought, "I have a chance
to prevent this
"from happening in my town."
He believes in the power of words.
He believes in the power
of thoughts.
Now he decides it's time to show
the people how ugly this war is.
He began distributing
those leaflets.
If caught with his
anti-Nazi propaganda,
Robert faces certain death.
But with countless lives at stake,
he cannot stand by and do nothing.
Robert has to convince the people
of Ansbach not to fight back
when the Americans arrive.
In his last line, he wrote "Death
to the Nazi executioners!"
This is the ultimate level
of resistance to the Nazis.
His opposition against the system
is putting him at the danger
of death,
that he might be killed
at any moment.
But he knows deep inside
his heart and mind
that this is what should be done.
Hitler is really now
cooped up in the bunker.
The situation is getting desperate.
The Red Army is going to be there
within hours.
In this atmosphere, discipline
begins to fall apart.
People start smoking in
Hitler's presence.
They started drinking, which he also
didn't like, as a teetotaller.
People started disrespecting him.
They didn't stand up when he entered
a room, didn't give Nazi salutes.
It's a situation in which Hitler,
in some sense, is already dead.
He's already treated as if he's
no longer the great leader.
You can smell the fear,
the sweat of people.
The toilets are blocked,
and so the stench is spreading
throughout the bunker.
There is a sense of impending doom.
This is the moment when his charisma
finally breaks and disappears.
In these darkest hours, Hitler
relies evermore
on the unconditional support
of his girlfriend, Eva Braun.
Piano Concerto No. 5
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Eva Braun is not a particularly
political creature.
She is not following things
in great detail.
Eva's fantasy is about her place
in Nazi history.
The clock is ticking.
Time is running out.
I now need to make sure
that I am at Hitler's side.
Most rational people would be trying
to get out of Berlin.
Eva has a different ambition.
Her life doesn't hold value
to her
unless she can achieve her
greatest ambition,
which is to secure her place in
future Nazi history,
being Hitler's loyal support
to the end.
Even if it costs her life.
Despite his rapidly
waning authority,
Hitler still holds daily
military briefings.
He now pins his hopes on the
12th Army,
but they are nowhere near Berlin.
Heather's Situation Conferences
came to focus more and more
on enormous maps he'd had made
with little flags that he could
move around,
each representing a division.
And he became almost obsessed
with these maps.
But the problem was each division
was severely depleted.
In reality, the little flags,
they represented nothing at all.
They were purely imaginary.
One of the generals, Keitel,
requests permission
to rejoin the remnants of the
12th Army
to make sure Hitler's demands are
carried out.
Keitel is the last of the totally
loyal generals around Hitler.
He's there at the centre of things
because Hitler trusts him
not to object to anything he orders.
Even Keitel realises that Hitler
is indulging in fantasies
so bizarre and so hopeless that it
would not make any sense
to carry out these orders.
Keitel simply disappears.
He just fled.
As the situation in Berlin worsens,
Himmler senses an opportunity to
improve his own chances of survival.
Himmler feels emboldened to press
on with plans for the future.
Himmler thinks that Hitler
is incapable at this stage
of acting decisively.
Himmler needs to take charge
from now on.
As he contemplates a new Nazi order,
Himmler allows himself to imagine
a world in which he is the
next Fuhrer.
He even considers a new name
for the Nazi Party -
the Party of National Union.
He's a man who boasts about loyalty.
He is a man who boasts
about honour.
But what really matters to Himmler
in the end is his own prestige,
it is his own position.
Himmler thinks the best way
to secure his position
in future Germany is to sound out a
peace deal with the Western Allies.
To make this bold move,
he travels 175 miles
north of Berlin to the
Baltic coast.
Himmler is meeting an intermediary,
Count Bernadotte,
who is a senior representative from
the neutral Swedish government.
Himmler tells Bernadotte
that he has authority from Hitler
to negotiate with the
Western Allies.
Himmler boasts that he will force
the German troops
fighting on the Western Front
to surrender.
This is exactly what Hitler
promised would never happen.
Going over the Fuhrer's head
is a very dangerous game
to be playing.
Himmler is not really having lots of
moral qualms.
He simply talks about business.
Himmler is determined to have a
meeting with the Supreme Commander
of the Allied Forces in Europe,
General Eisenhower.
And he is wondering whether he
should shake hands with Eisenhower
or whether he should bow.
He is acting under delusion
if he believes
that the Western Allies will
seriously negotiate with him,
the architect of the Holocaust.
In the town of Ansbach,
Robert Limpert continues his one man
campaign of resistance.
But he needs more than just leaflets
to save lives
and starts taking ever bigger risks.
To disrupt the defence of the town,
Limpert cuts telephone wires leading
from the headquarters
of the local Nazi commander,
Colonel Meyer.
It's probably his last resort.
It's an act of courage,
but at the same time, he knows
the step he is taking
has only one end.
Boys from the Hitler Youth
saw him
and they reported him immediately
to the police.
When Robert is arrested, a show
trial is quickly held.
And in two minutes, he is sentenced
to death.
They don't care about
killing him physically.
They are so afraid of what Robert
would say
if he was given the right to speak
because they know it is the power of
his words that will last.
Even at that moment, Robert
was resisting.
He somehow managed to escape.
I believe he died with some sorrow,
looking at his people.
But at the same time, satisfied
that he had done the right thing.
Meyer said, "Let him stay here
until he stinks."
They wanted to leave him hanging.
To that extent, they were trying
to dehumanise him.
But they forgot that Robert
is no more this body.
Robert is the value of what it
means to be a free man.
I believe freedom is what he
stood for.
And it's freedom, what he died for.
Tragically, the Americans arrive
in Ansbach
just a few hours after
Robert's execution.
His town surrenders without a fight.
Robert is one of 10,000 German
citizens executed by the Nazis
in a final wave of terror.
In Berlin, Russian shells pound
the streets surrounding the bunker.
Underground, life is becoming
increasingly squalid.
Fans supplying fresh air
are turned off
after they start sucking in
smoke and fumes
from the heavy shelling above.
The war is so close,
an emergency field hospital
is set up inside the bunker itself.
Surrounded by the dead and dying,
ever more dreadful news
reaches those trapped inside.
An Allied radio broadcast
has been intercepted.
Hitler and Goebbels are together
when Hitler's press secretary
comes in and lets them know that
the Allied press has published
attempts by Himmler to make peace
with England and the United States.
Himmler had been the truest
of the true.
Hitler used to call him
"Treu Himmler" -
"Faithful Himmler".
Now, Goebbels and Hitler
are outraged.
They see any attempt at peace
whatsoever as a betrayal.
Hitler goes incandescent
in another outburst of rage.
This is a cause of absolute despair
for Hitler.
Hitler finds this the last, final,
worst betrayal of all.
Faithful Heinrich has become
Faithless Heinrich.
"It is the greatest betrayal
in history," he says.
Stunned, Hitler takes out his fury
on one of Himmler's subordinates,
Hermann Fegelein, who he suspects
to be part of Himmler's plot.
Fegelein was close to Hitler
because he was married to
Eva Braun's sister, Gretl.
But Fegelein was also, of course,
close to Himmler.
Astonishingly, he ordered Fegelein
to be shot.
Not content with Fegelein's death
and fuelled by paranoia,
Hitler orders the unthinkable -
the execution of Himmler himself.
But Himmler is more than 100 miles
away from the Fuhrer bunker,
near Germany's Baltic coast.
Himmler is completely shocked that
Hitler, his erstwhile patron,
staunchest supporter, is now
ordering the execution of Himmler.
This is something which comes as
totally unexpected news.
He has lost almost everything.
He is absolutely shattered.
Hitler and Himmler have stood
side by side in the Nazi Party
for over 20 years.
With the news that the Allies
will not even consider negotiating
with Himmler, he realises he's
betrayed his Fuhrer for nothing.
The ties between Himmler and Hitler
are now cut for good.
With his inner circle in disarray,
Hitler makes time for one last
grand gesture.
After keeping her in the shadows
for 15 years,
Hitler is finally ready to
acknowledge his girlfriend,
Eva Braun.
When Eva Braun went to stay with him
in Berlin in the last days,
resisting all attempts to persuade
her to leave and go into hiding
he was, I think, grateful,
perhaps rather touched.
He decided now was the time
to give her a public thanks
for her loyalty and devotion
by marrying her.
It's hard to accept, but Hitler
did have ordinary human emotions.
He was capable of love.
He does seem to have loved
Eva Braun.
Oboe Concerto No 2 in D minor
by Albinoni
When Eve signs her name,
she begins writing "Braun",
before correcting it to
"Eva Hitler, nee Braun".
This is all Eva's ever wanted.
And she's really pleased
to become Frau Hitler.
She's got her eye
on the history books.
Finally, she'll be recognised
as belonging to the heart
of the Third Reich.
Eva Braun had imagined a wedding
on a grand scale -
a royal wedding
a celebration,
a couple of days of partying
cameras filming everything,
flowers and meadows.
What she gets is a plate
of cold sandwiches
in a hole 25 foot beneath
the ground.
This is a grim event,
but she's facing a grim reality.
The nuptials are short-lived.
Hitler leaves the celebrations
to dictate to one of his secretaries
his last public statement as Fuhrer.
Hitler's testimony's
a very depressing document.
It's full of the settling of
old scores, of revenge, hatred,
as well as expressions of loyalty
to the people who've
unquestionably followed him.
He also has diatribes full of hatred
for people who have betrayed him.
And then at the end, he has another
anti-Semitic rant against the Jews.
He accuses them of having plotted
the destruction of Germany.
Complete paranoid fantasy.
And then he says,
"And the Jewish people have had to
suffer the same fate."
And that is a confession
that he has ordered
and had carried out the Holocaust,
the mass murder of
nearly six million Jews.
Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
by Gorecki
With the Russians almost
at Hitler's door
staff in the bunker receive
dramatic news from Italy.
Hitler's ally,
dictator Benito Mussolini,
and his mistress have been killed by
communist partisans
their mutilated bodies
publicly strung up
outside a petrol station
near Milan.
Hitler's not a man who fears death.
What he did fear was to be captured,
taken prisoner, humiliated,
put on trial, subjected to the
mockery and contempt of the world.
Hitler gets the news of
Mussolini's death.
This is the last straw.
He says he's not going to suffer
the same fate.
He is going to die, as far as
he can, a dignified death.
And he wants his body and that of
Eva Hitler - as she now is -
to be burned until
they are unrecognisable,
so there's nothing left of them
to mock or defile.
Hitler assembles his staff
in the bunker on the 30th of April
and says formally goodbye to them,
shaking their hands and
thanking them for their service.
Finally, he has reached a point
where he knows it's total defeat.
In a sense, that makes him
rather calm.
The decision has been made.
There's no more hope of
turning the tide,
there's no more hope of a victory,
and so he knows he's going to
shoot himself.
And so he's reconciled
himself to his fate.
The proclamation that Hitler
had died a hero's death,
fighting at the head of his troops,
was, of course, a complete lie.
He died a squalid death
in the bunker by shooting himself
and poisoning his partner.
When Hitler dies,
for many Germans, the world is over.
It too dies.
He had loomed so enormously large
in the consciousness of the Germans
under the Third Reich that there was
an enormous wave of suicides
in Nazi Germany, one of the largest
mass deaths in history.
The defeat was total.
Germany was occupied.
There was no obvious reason
to carry on fighting.
The Fuhrer may be dead,
but he's left a crucial set of
orders to be carried out.
Hitler's private secretary
sends a message
disclosing news of his successor.
In his final testament, Hitler
has made a surprise appointment.
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz
will be Reich president.
Doenitz may be an outside choice
for Supreme Commander,
but he is a committed Nazi.
The Navy, in complete contrast
to the Army,
had been faithful to Hitler
all the way through.
And Hitler, I think, felt that
Doenitz, as the head of the Navy,
represented the one institution
in Germany that he had trusted,
that remained loyal to him
all the way through.
Doenitz summons
the disgraced Himmler
to his temporary headquarters
in northern Germany.
Himmler sees this invitation as
a chance to salvage his reputation
among the Nazi elite.
Himmler now feels completely
liberated of any loyalties,
of any ties, of any obligations
to Hitler,
so Himmler can now do
whatever he likes.
Himmler still commands the SS
and the police.
Himmler still has a considerable
amount of power.
He is so deluded that he thinks
he will play a major role
in a post-Hitler government.
Himmler appears with armed guards
in Doenitz's office
because he wants to remind Doenitz
that the SS and Himmler
are still extremely powerful,
that they are still forces
to be reckoned with.
Fearing a violent confrontation,
Doenitz has concealed a gun
with the safety catch removed
under papers on his desk.
Doenitz knows that Himmler has been
expelled from the Nazi Party
and that Himmler is a traitor
in Hitler's eyes.
The atmosphere is extremely tense.
Himmler still thinks that he is
far more powerful than Doenitz,
who is, after all,
only a Grand Admiral,
the leader of the German Navy.
Doenitz hands Himmler a copy of
Hitler's final order,
identifying the Admiral,
not Himmler, as his successor.
After 22 years a member,
Himmler is unceremoniously dismissed
from the Nazi Party.
Himmler has always suppressed
his own feelings.
He's never shown any emotion
in public.
But now, after his fall from power,
he must be feeling a total failure.
Himmler offers his services
as a second-in-command,
but Doenitz refuses.
Himmler has always been very sure
of himself.
He's always known his identity.
He's always known the purpose
of his life.
But now he doesn't.
What is his plan B?
What is he going to do next?
One thing he knows is that
he wants to save his own neck.
Speer, keen to keep himself
at the heart of power,
also meets with Doenitz.
He, too, is shunned
and gets no official position.
For a once close friend of Hitler
it's a personal humiliation.
But Speer soon senses an opportunity
in this rejection
a chance to distance himself from
the excesses of the Nazi regime.
It's, for him, part of
his exit strategy.
Speer claims that he is
just a civilian,
he is a bystander,
he has nothing to do with
all these atrocities, with crimes.
This is important for Speer
to create a new image
as the innocent man.
With their hero dead
at his own hand,
Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda
now face an appalling choice.
They are locked into
a terrible struggle.
They have decided to stay there
until the end
and share Hitler's fate,
and so they discuss what to do
with their children.
The Goebbels are so fervently Nazi,
so ideologically committed,
there is nothing for them
to live for.
A world without Nazism was not
a world for their own children.
Goebbels, the mastermind of
Nazi indoctrination,
is the one member of
Hitler's inner circle
who most fervently swallows
his own propaganda.
Magda writes, "The world
which will succeed the Fuhrer
"and National Socialism
is not worth living in.
"And for this reason, I have brought
the children here too.
"They are too good for the life
that will come after us,
"and a gracious God will understand
"if I myself give them release
from it."
The Goebbels' children are sedated,
before cyanide capsules
are crushed into their mouths.
Their parents then shoot themselves.
Magda didn't kill her children
because she was a monster.
Magda was a person that had been
radicalised by these ideas,
radicalised to such an extent that
she did the most unnatural thing
a mother could do
and killed her own children.
On the 7th of May 1945,
a representative of the German Army
signs Germany's
unconditional surrender.
After six years of conflict,
the war in Europe is over,
Nazism defeated.
When Hitler rose to power in 1933,
Germany was a liberal democracy.
Then he and his fanatical deputies
stripped the German people
of their basic freedoms to establish
a ruthless dictatorship.
Fuelled by hatred and a flawed
belief in racial superiority,
Hitler instigated a global war
that cost 60 million lives.
But as his dream of
an Aryan empire collapsed,
he turned his anger
on his own people
and finally himself.
The Third Reich shows us
how dangerous ideas are.
Where Hitler and the Nazis
are different
is that they wanted to ultimately
conquer the whole world.
Their ambitions were without limit.
Nazis, like all nationalists,
do not believe that there's
such a thing as humanity.
For them, we're different species
locked in a struggle for survival.
Underlying that is a total contempt
for human life.
Even though Europe is now at peace,
for some Nazis,
the story is far from over.
Goering makes no effort to run away
at the end of the war -
in fact, the opposite, really.
Goering gives himself up
to the American Army.
And I think he does so
because he still has this idea
that he'll be treated
as a senior figure now,
perhaps the most important
senior figure, after Hitler's death.
And so Goering hopes he'll be taken
to Eisenhower
and be able to talk to him
as one senior officer
to another senior officer.
Goering has no idea that, instead,
he faces trial for
crimes against humanity.
What Goering doesn't really expect
is that he will end up
in a prison cell along with
other major war criminals.
It's so bizarre.
I think he has no sense that
he is one of them.
While Goering is behind bars
Himmler is on the run.
Himmler's main priority now
is to get as far away
from the advancing Soviet troops
as quickly as he can.
He has really fallen from power.
But there is no evidence whatsoever
that Himmler is feeling any remorse.
He is completely unrepentant.
Himmler is carrying a fake ID,
pretending to be just
an ordinary soldier.
But his forgery is
quickly discovered.
Himmler is acutely aware of the fact
that he's one of Europe's
most wanted men.
He knows that he will be
put on trial and that
he will be, in all likelihood,
sentenced to death.
As Himmler is searched,
he bites down on a cyanide capsule
he's concealed in his mouth.
The architect of the Holocaust
and the man responsible for
the deaths of millions of people
is dead.
His death by suicide is
a rather pathetic, cowardly act.
At the same time,
Allied forces arrive
at Admiral Doenitz's headquarters
in northern Germany.
Any hopes the remaining Nazis have
of playing a role
in Germany's post-war government
are dispelled when they're arrested.
Speer is very clever.
He knows that pictures
are very powerful.
On the day of the arrest,
he shows up in civilian clothes,
in a trench coat.
All others wear uniforms.
He shows with this,
"I'm a civilian and I don't belong
to this group.
"I'm different."
He lies. He has to lie.
Even other members of Hitler's inner
circle don't lie like Speer lies.
Now, the world must seek retribution
and Germany must deal with its role
in one of the deadliest episodes
in human history.
As dozens of Nazis are rounded up
and put on trial
tens of thousands more are on
the run or hiding in plain sight
as they begin to process
what they've done
in the name of the Fuhrer.