Mar-04 5:30pm SBS-TV: The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis
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In October 1934, around one million people are drawn to the Buckeberg in northern Germany.
Hitler welcomes his ‘National Community’ for a celebration known as the Reichserntedankfest (National Thanksgiving Festival). In the meantime, Hitler’s government was firmly in the saddle – to dismay foreign critics. The American sociologist Theodore Abel wants to find out what motivates NSDAP supporters and collects around 700 biographies of party members in Germany. They reveal that many shared a deeply rooted hatred towards Jews.
