“He promised jobs, jobs, jobs to everybody…and that was exactly what they wanted to hear.”

Hitler was a mesmerizing speaker. He offered simple solutions to complicated problems, and he repeated lies over and over until everything he said seemed true. By 1932, his political base was convinced that he would bring Germany “above all the world.”

(This clip is excerpted from my new one-hour special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe.” Check your local listings for air times — and if you don’t see it, please ask your public television station to add it to their schedule.)

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