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00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:32,Well, this is the last recording
of Hitler on film.

00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,He's come out of the bunker,
into the Chancellery garden,

00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:43,and is congratulating members
of the Hitler Youth, some

00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,of whom seem very young indeed,

00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,ten or 11, on their fighting
prowess.

00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,His left arm, which he keeps
behind his back,

00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,is shaking uncontrollably.

00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,It's a pathetic scene.

00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:10,This is what the Third Reich
has been reduced to - a bunch of
00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,kids who should not be there,

00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:15,and who were sacrificing

00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,themselves quite needlessly.

00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,But here's Hitler congratulating
them,

00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,because the adults
are beginning to betray him.

00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,These are the people on whom
he now relies.

00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,Children.

00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,This is the story of the collapse
of the Third Reich.

00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,As the allied troops close
in on Germany.

00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,Our interest is the psychology
of that collapse,

00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,as those at the heart of the regime
cling to power.

00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:14,It's the worst in human nature
you see during the collapse

00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:15,of the Third Reich.

00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:18,To help us tell the story,

00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,we've asked historians and experts

00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,to take us inside the minds of each

00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,one of the key protagonists,

00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:29,as they are forced
to confront failure.

00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:37,The cycle of thinking, at that time,
wouldn't allow anyone to think

00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,that what's happening is wrong.

00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,Being picked up, shot,
disappeared...

00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:48,They are walking into an apocalypse
on purpose.

00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,Ultimately, who will stay
loyal to Hitler?

00:02:57,640 --> 00:02:59,And who will betray him?

00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:01,And when?

00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:23,By early April 1945, Adolf
Hitler's Nazi regime

00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,is on the brink of collapse.

00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,In the West, American troops
have crossed the Rhine.

00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,The British are closing
in from the North.

00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,The French, from the south.

00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,From the east, a vast Soviet army
has paused to regroup,

00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:44,just 40 miles from Berlin.

00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,Allied aircraft now control
the skies over Germany...

00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,..launching devastating air
raids almost at will.

00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,Factories, airfields and railways
lie in ruins.

00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,With Berlin under daily bombardment,

00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:27,Hitler is in permanent refuge
in his heavily-fortified bunker...

00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:35,..a series of 30 cramped rooms
covering 3,000 square metres.

00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:42,It includes living quarters,
a canteen, dog kennels

00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,and a telephone exchange.

00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,From the subterranean
conference room,

00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:53,Hitler attempts to co-ordinate
Germany's military operations.

00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,The bombing is absolutely
devastating.

00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,Berlin is almost completely
destroyed.

00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,But Hitler didn't really know
the details

00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,of what was going
on above ground.

00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,And part of the reason for that is
because the people around him

00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,are afraid to tell him.

00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,They know that people who give
Hitler bad news are likely

00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:28,to be shouted out, dismissed,
or declared to be cowards.

00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:29,They might even be shot.

00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,As Hitler's world becomes
increasingly bizarre,

00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:48,he and his propaganda minister,
Joseph Goebbels, look for signs

00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,that fate will somehow intervene.

00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,They study astrological charts,

00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,and Goebbels reads Hitler stories

00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,of incredible comebacks
from German folklore.

00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:09,Goebbels and Hitler are fixated
with being men of history.

00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:12,Men of destiny.

00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,And Goebbels writes in his diary
that,

00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,"It is necessary to model ourselves
on the heroes of the German past."

00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:35,Hitler is particularly attached to
the figure of Frederick the Great.

00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,Because Frederick, like Hitler,
had to fight against Russia and,

00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,for quite a while, it looked
like he was going to lose.

00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,And he was saved by Providence.

00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,Frederick's great rival,
Empress Elisabeth of Russia, died

00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,just in time to give Prussia
a chance to win.

00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:03,Goebbels fed Hitler's hope
that for Nazi Germany, Providence

00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,might provide like it did
for Frederick the Great.

00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,In some ways, Goebbels is now doing
propaganda not only to German

00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,people, but also to the Fuhrer,

00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,shoring up the Fuhrer's psychology.

00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,With the Soviets so close to Berlin,

00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,and the Fuhrer losing his grip
on reality,

00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,Hitler's inner circle
must consider their next moves.

00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,Joseph Goebbels has placed himself
firmly at the Fuhrer's side

00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,in this hour of need.

00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,But other senior Nazis take
different approaches.

00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:02,Albert Speer is still playing
a dangerous double game.

00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:14,On the surface loyal, while secretly
undermining Hitler's orders,

00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,in the hope of currying favour
with the Allies,

00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:19,when the war is over.

00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:28,Hermann Goring, Hitler's designated
successor, has been disgraced

00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,and has retreated to his country
estate.

00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,Stripped of any real authority,

00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,Goring has found his own
way of coping.

00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:52,Goring is something of a fantasist,
living in a fairy tale world.

00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:00,He has a large toy train set, set
up in the attic, where he even

00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,has a little model bomber
that comes on, and drops bombs

00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:05,on the trains below.

00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,Just like a child playing.

00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,But on the other hand, I think
Goring is actually a much

00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:21,more realistic figure than
many of those around Hitler.

00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:24,He does recognise that the war
is over.

00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,In the real world, things are not
going to work out

00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,the way he would like.

00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,Heinrich Himmler has had a
breakdown,

00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,after being reprimanded by Hitler

00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,for failing to hold
the eastern front.

00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,He has checked himself into
a sanatorium outside Berlin

00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,to focus on his health.

00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,Himmler is physically shattered.

00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,For him, the dressing down is
like a kick in the teeth.

00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:17,He feels extremely fragile
because he knows that his position

00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,as Reich leader of the SAS,

00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,as Hitler's most loyal paladin,
is at stake.

00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,Who is Himmler without Hitler?

00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:33,A nobody.

00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,Himmler can't break with Hitler,

00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,because breaking with Hitler

00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:45,would break Himmler as a person.

00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:55,Meanwhile, Hitler continues to live
as a recluse in the bunker.

00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:12,Hitler had never had an orderly
kind of...