Berlin in the 1920s is a capital of cabaret, art, and radical politics, the beating heart of the fledgling Weimar Republic. This History Hit film traces how that fragile democracy collapsed under the weight of the Great Depression, as mass unemployment and hyperinflation turned street politics violent and made extremist parties look like the only alternative to chaos. It follows Adolf Hitler's calculated climb from failed putschist to Chancellor, then charts the specific mechanics by which he converted that office into total control between 1933 and 1935, from the Reichstag fire and the Enabling Act to the purge of rivals within his own movement. Historians and archival photographs of Weimar street life, Nazi rallies, and government proceedings anchor the narrative, showing how legal process, propaganda, and intimidation worked together rather than force alone. The film's focus is narrow and procedural: not why Nazism appealed to Germans in the abstract, but the concrete steps by which one man dismantled a republic's checks in under three years.