"Rise to Power" is the first episode of the three-part documentary "Hitler's Power". How could a nobody become a dictator, bringing down a democracy in just a few years? What were the crucial events that helped Hitler gain respectability and influence? Who were his supporters? Which moods in the populace were in his favor? Nazi propaganda stylized him as the visionary who would fulfil the so-called "German mission." Hitler himself was under the delusion of his own providence. In fact, he was a meaningless nobody after the end of the First World War. He did not enter politics of his own accord; rather, he came across as a vagabond opportunist, who maneuvered between left-wing and right-wing extremes.
