Everything Adolf Hitler dreamed of in the 30's was already achieved by Benito Mussolini in the 20's. 'Il Duce' was born in Predappio, where you can also find his grave.
When Franz Biberkopf, the fictitious main character from the book 'Berlin Alexanderplatz', was released from prison in 1929 he panicked when he saw present-day Berlin.
How was it possible that so many well-educated people, people from completely normal families, fell for the reign of the Nazi's? Their children try to answer this question.
The French liked to believe the whole of France was against Hitler during the war. They were wrong, a part of the country supported the Nazi's: Vichy France.
From behind the windows of their factory, the employees of 'Topf und Sohne', could see the smoke rise from the chimneys of Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp. The smoke came from ovens they designed.
In 1943 a Polish man took a picture of the beautiful German girl Lilly Steinmuller. Who was she? What was she doing in Poland and were did she went after the Soviets defeated the Germans in Poland?
Before the fall of Hitler, Stalin and the Allied leaders already divided Europe. Poland and Czechoslovakia would fell under Russian control. The people who lived there didn't know that at the time.
1945: the Nazi's were defeated but what to do with the German people? Were they all guilty of the atrocities committed by the Nazi's? If so, do they deserve to be punished?
In Bleiburg, a small Austrian town, Tito's partisans massacred tens of thousands unarmed opponents. The victims were Ustashas, Croatian fascists who sided with Hitler and who were responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands.
How long would it take for Europe could live with the shame of their part in the persecution of the Jews? For a long time some European countries supplanted the memory of their role in the Holocaust.