BERLIN 1933 – DIARY OF A METROPOLIS
BBC Two
Late November/December
The story of Berlin in 1933 is often told as a story of how the Nazis, exploiting the Great Depression that followed the Wall Street Crash in 1929, rose to power. However, it's perhaps less often remembered that, even as Adolf Hitler was poised to take high office – a moment that arrived on 30 January 1933 when the president, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, reluctantly appointed him chancellor, the German
