A series of 12 half-hour lectures on a college course level by Thomas Childers. Covers the rise of the Nazi party and the Third Reich in power.

Recorded in 2001; the same speaker previously recorded lectures on the same topic ten years earlier. Special features include professor biography.

Disc 1. Third Reich, Hitler, and the 20th century ; First World War and its legacy ; Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazi Party ; Twenties and the Great Depression ; Nazi breakthrough ; Hitler's assumption of power -- disc 2. Racial policy and the totalitarian state ; Hitler's foreign policy ; Munich and the triumph of National Socialism ; War in the West, war in the East ; Holocaust: Hitler's war against the Jews ; Final solution.