The documentary examines the conditions under which Hitler's seeds were able to bear fruit. The authors, Guido Knopp and Nina Steinhauser, fall back on rare extracts from Hitler's speeches and film footage from German and international archives to draw a richly facetted and penetrating portrait of the dictator. Statements by prominent and competent contemporary witnesses of events, who experienced Hitler's rule for themselves, convey an impression of the 'climate of fear' in Hitler's Reich. On the basis of the latest findings, this documentation analyses how a whole nation submitted almost completely to the diktat of a madman. Rated: PG