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Rise of the Nazis

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Home Front - After Stalingrad, Hitler’s stress intensifies. For once there is no master plan. Hitler leaves it to the men around him to pull Germany back from the abyss.

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Home Front

After Stalingrad, Hitler leaves it to the men around him to pull Germany from the abyss.

Stalingrad

It’s 1942, and Hitler has just lost the Battle of Moscow. German troops are desperate.

Barbarossa

The battles on the Eastern Front are viewed by many as the defining conflict of WWII.

About Rise of the Nazis

See how Adolf Hitler and the Nazis rise to power. In 1930, Germany is a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and the government is in the hands of the Nazis.

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