Fatal Alliances

FATAL ALLIANCES (episode 2) uses rare footage to show the development of Germany's war machine throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and how it led into World War II. With runaway inflation making daily life excruciatingly difficult for the average German, Germany evaded restrictions put on it after World War I, Hitler came to power promising economic restoration and the end of inflation. He secretly turned to the re-armament of Germany Firms like Krupp and Messerschmitt and E.G. Farben became major players in Germany's industrial revival and the creation of a potent war-making machine. Germany's leadership, under Hitler, adopted aggressive policies that threatened the peace of the world and led into World War II. Germany's impressive war machine dominated the battlefield in early years; but the Western Allies and the Soviet Union developed a fierce resistance, and the Nazis eventually had their upcoming, after incredible death and destruction.