Not Rated. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Also narrated by Bill Paterson. Quotes [in court, Hitler is trying to defend Litten's allegations of brutality] Adolf Hitler : When we first marched through Berlin in , people threw flowers from their windows to greet us. User reviews 4 Review. Top review. Impressive telling of an unknown moment in history.
This was an intensely moving film about an almost unknown moment in history. When Hitler was challenged on his views in court. It just raised so many questions. How did a nation such as Germany think that by allowing this man power that they could tame him. How did they think that they think that they could show him up to be the crazed individual with murderous ambitions in court when the Judge was cowed by the nature of Hitler. All of the performances were impressive and this is a film that deserves constant repetition to show how tyranny can win if you don't stand up and fight.
The ending was so poignant. One knew what the end would be as the attorney clearly had his card marked and Hitler was not the sort of man to forget a slight. You just end up wondering how and why it was allowed to happen. Details Edit. Release date August 21, United Kingdom. United Kingdom. BBC United Kingdom. Hitler on Trial. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 25 minutes. Related news. Apr 6 Gold Derby. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content.
Edit page. Large numbers matter because they are an accumulation of small numbers: that is, precious individual lives. Today, after two decades of access to Eastern European archives, and thanks to the work of German, Russian, Israeli, and other scholars, we can resolve the question of numbers. The total number of noncombatants killed by the Germans—about 11 million—is roughly what we had thought. The total number of civilians killed by the Soviets, however, is considerably less than we had believed.
We know now that the Germans killed more people than the Soviets did. That said, the issue of quality is more complex than was once thought. Mass murder in the Soviet Union sometimes involved motivations, especially national and ethnic ones, that can be disconcertingly close to Nazi motivations. Drawing of a solitary confinement cell by artist Jacques Rossi, who spent nineteen years in the Gulag after he was arrested in the Stalin purges of — It turns out that, with the exception of the war years, a very large majority of people who entered the Gulag left alive.
Judging from the Soviet records we now have, the number of people who died in the Gulag between and , while both Stalin and Hitler were in power, was on the order of a million, perhaps a bit more.
The total figure for the entire Stalinist period is likely between two million and three million. The Great Terror and other shooting actions killed no more than a million people, probably a bit less.
The largest human catastrophe of Stalinism was the famine of —, in which more than five million people starved. Of those who starved, the 3. Tens of thousands of people were shot by Soviet state police and hundreds of thousands deported. Those who remained lost their land and often went hungry as the state requisitioned food for export. The first victims of starvation were the nomads of Soviet Kazakhstan, where about 1. The famine spread to Soviet Russia and peaked in Soviet Ukraine.
Stalin requisitioned grain in Soviet Ukraine knowing that such a policy would kill millions. Blaming Ukrainians for the failure of his own policy, he ordered a series of measures—such as sealing the borders of that Soviet republic—that ensured mass death.
A poster from In , as his vision of modernization faltered, Stalin ordered the Great Terror. Because we now have the killing orders and the death quotas, inaccessible so long as the Soviet Union existed, we now know that the number of victims was not in the millions. We also know that, as in the early s, the main victims were the peasants, many of them survivors of hunger and of concentration camps.
In all, , people were killed during the Great Terror, to which might be added a few hundred thousand more Soviet citizens shot in smaller actions. The total figure of civilians deliberately killed under Stalinism, around six million, is of course horribly high. But it is far lower than the estimates of twenty million or more made before we had access to Soviet sources.
At the same time, we see that the motives of these killing actions were sometimes far more often national, or even ethnic, than we had assumed. Indeed it was Stalin, not Hitler, who initiated the first ethnic killing campaigns in interwar Europe. Nazi Germany began to kill on the Soviet scale only after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in the summer of and the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland that September.
About , Polish civilians were killed between and , with each regime responsible for about half of those deaths. It was this policy that brought asphyxiation by carbon monoxide to the fore as a killing technique. Beyond the numbers killed remains the question of intent. Most of the Soviet killing took place in times of peace, and was related more or less distantly to an ideologically-informed vision of modernization.
Germany bears the chief responsibility for the war, and killed civilians almost exclusively in connection with the practice of racial imperialism. Germany invaded the Soviet Union with elaborate colonization plans. Thirty million Soviet citizens were to starve, and tens of millions more were to be shot, deported, enslaved, or assimilated. Such plans, though unfulfilled, provided the rationale for the bloodiest occupation in the history of the world.
The Germans placed Soviet prisoners of war in starvation camps, where 2. A million Soviet citizens also starved during the siege of Leningrad. Some , German soldiers died in Soviet captivity. Suitcases that belonged to people deported to the Auschwitz camp.
This photograph was taken after Soviet forces liberated the camp. Auschwitz, Poland, after January Hitler came to power with the intention of eliminating the Jews from Europe; the war in the east showed that this could be achieved by mass killing. By December , when it appears that Hitler communicated his wish that all Jews be murdered, perhaps a million Jews were already dead in the occupied Soviet Union.
Most had been shot over pits, but thousands were asphyxiated in gas vans. As the Holocaust spread to the rest of occupied Europe, other Jews were gassed by hydrogen cyanide at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Overall, the Germans, with much local assistance, deliberately murdered about 5. A few hundred thousand more Jews died during deportations to ghettos or of hunger or disease in ghettos. Most Holocaust victims had been Polish or Soviet citizens before the war 3.
The Germans also killed more than a hundred thousand Roma.
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