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With Franz von Papen now willing to act as Vice Chancellor, alongside Hitler as Chancellor, can he convince Alfred Hugenberg to bring his 51 Nationalist MPs into coalition with the Nazi Party?

Von Papen believes that together they will box Hitler in, that they will be 鈥渉iring him鈥� 鈥� in fact, the Nazis demand is for merely two cabinet seats. But suddenly there鈥檚 talk of a military coup to forestall this - will President Hindenburg finally agree to appoint Hitler as Chancellor?

Hitler becomes Chancellor but what matters is that Hermann G枚ring is Minister of the Interior with 50,000 policemen at his disposal. They immediately crack down on all Communists, placing their Members of Parliament into 鈥榩rotective custody鈥� 鈥� detention for their own safety 鈥� in a new camp near a Bavarian village called Dachau. But when the Reichstag, the Parliament Building, catches fire, Hitler decides this Red Uprising must be nipped in the bud.

And now begins the Nazi grip on Germany, their determination to impose absolute totalitarian rule and then expand that to the rest of Europe. While talking peace, Hitler will contrive a massive programme of re-armament, while signing 鈥榰nbreakable鈥� peace treaties his troops will re-occupy the Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and while introducing ever more laws against the Jewish population, he will be allowed to host the 1936 Olympics.

Starring Derek Jacobi as President Hindenburg, Tom Mothersdale as Adolf Hitler, Aditomiwa Edun as Sefton Delmer, Scott Karim as Hermann G枚ring and featuring Oscar Batterham as Rudolf Diels, Head of the Prussian Political Police.

The company:
Ernst R枚hm & Gregor Strasser - JOSEPH ALESSI
Emil Maurice & Rudolf Diels - OSCAR BATTERHAM
Gottfried Feder & Otto Meissner - EDWARD BENNETT
Helene Bechstein - NANCY CARROLL
King Ludwig & Franz von Papen - WILLIAM CHUBB
Dorothy Thompson - LAURA DONNELLY
Sefton Delmer - ADITOMIWA EDUN
Kaiser Wilhelm & Karl Alexander von M眉ller - NICHOLAS FARRELL
Leni Hanfstaengl & Anni Winter - MELODY GROVE
President Hindenburg - DEREK JACOBI
Putzi Hanfastaengl - COREY JOHNSON
Hermann G枚ring - SCOTT KARIM
Rudolf Hess - GEORGE KEMP
Else Janke & Mimi Reiter - SORCHA KENNEDY
Oskar von Hindenburg - JACK LASKEY
Sinclair Lewis - FORBES MASSON
Kurt Eisner & Joachim von Ribbentrop - MICHAEL MALONEY
Hermine Hoffman - LYNNE MILLER
Adolf Hitler - TOM MOTHERSDALE
Magda Goebbels - SHANAYA RAFAAT
Captain Mayr - TOBY STEPHENS
Geli Raubal - TANVI VIRMANI
Joseph Goebbels - ALEXANDER VLAHOS
General Ludendorff and Kurt von Schleicher - ANDREW WOODALL
The Narrator is JULIET STEVENSON

Sound designer 鈥� ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager 鈥� MARK SMITH
Casting Director 鈥� GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score 鈥� METAPHOR MUSIC
Executive Producer 鈥� EDWARD CROZIER
Producer 鈥� NICHOLAS NEWTON
Writer and Director 鈥� JONATHAN MYERSON

A Promenade production for 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 and 麻豆约拍 Sounds