Hitler's rise to power gets picked apart here as a series of contingent political maneuvers rather than an inevitable destiny, contradicting the myth the Nazi regime later built around itself. The series draws on interview testimony from people who lived through the period, including former Nazi officials and ordinary Germans who joined the party or looked away, to trace how a fringe movement took control of a modern state within a few years. Archival footage of rallies, street violence, and the machinery of the SS runs alongside these accounts, showing the everyday choices that let the regime function: promotions accepted, denunciations made, neighbors reported. The film's argument is that the Holocaust and the war did not require a nation of fanatics, only enough people willing to comply, advance their careers, or stay silent. Episodes move chronologically from the Weimar collapse through the consolidation of power and into the machinery of persecution, using firsthand testimony to make the case that ordinary complicity, not fate, built the Third Reich.