The Nazis - A warning from history exposes the popular myths surrounding the rise and fall of the Third Reich. The series explores how the Nazis came to power, how they ruled, how they treated their occupied territories and, above all, how a cultured nation could be responsible for such acts of humanity.

Through compelling interviews and archive film and records, the series paint and astonishing and often unpalatable picture of Nazi rule. Contemporaries recall the true extent of Hitler's power; eye-witnesses describe the horrors perpetrated on the Eastern; specially shot film in Lithuania reveals the development to the "Final Solution" and ordinary German shed new light on the relationship between the Party and the people.

The thought - provoking conclusions may not be what we would like to believe