American Experience

The Man Behind Hitler

Directed by Lutz Hachmeister
TV-PG
S18 • E13    May 21, 2006    55m
A profile of Joseph Goebbels (1897-45), who helped launch Hitler's rise to power. Kenneth Branagh provides voice-over readings of Goebbels' personal diaries. Included: footage from German archives tracing Goebbels' life; how Goebbels continually stage-managed his life and reinvented himself from his early days as a radical “popular socialist” to his death.

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Cast of The Man Behind Hitler

  • Kenneth BranaghNarrator (voice)
  • Lutz HachmeisterDirector / Writer
  • Michael KloftWriter

 

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