Introducing Nazis: The Road to Power
The story of how in just 13 years, Hitler led a fringe sect with less than a hundred members and outlandish ideas to be the dominant force in German politics.
From the producers of Nuremberg, the story of how in just 13 years, Adolf Hitler led a fringe sect with less than a hundred members and outlandish ideas to be the dominant force in German politics.
It is also about the forgotten players from these early years who played crucial roles in the Nazi Party's rise to power. This new scripted podcast takes listeners into the intrigues, the personalities, the knife-edge decisions which would ultimately lead to forty million dead in the world’s greatest catastrophe.
Starring Sir Derek Jacobi as President Hindenberg, Tom Mothersdale as Adolf Hitler and Alexander Vlahos as Joseph Goebbels. With Toby Stephens, Nancy Carroll, Laura Donnelly and Juliet Stevenson as the Narrator. Written and directed by Jonathan Myerson. Producer - Nicholas Newton. A Promenade production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds.
Why did the Nuremberg trial happen?
How unprecedented war crimes demanded proper international legal redress.
What happened after Nuremberg?
The authorities were ready for executions and prison sentences, but not acquittals...
The historical dramatist and his dissidents
Nuremberg director Jonathan Myerson lays out the challenges of writing historical drama
Nuremberg Remembered
William Shawcross on the legacy of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal.
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Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals
The story of the trial of Nazi war criminals following Germany's surrender in 1945.
