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When Hitler came to power in Germany he took charge with an awfully [Hitler appears]

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long and terrible to-do list in hand it wasn't long before he was checking items

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off left and right..Efficient? sure, but also really really horrifying first he

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classified lots of people and ideas as un-German.. Jews? check.. democracy and [Hitler's un-German people list]

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liberalism check and check communism well that was both Jewish and

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un-German so it got an extra big check next Hitler melded all of Germany states

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together into a single entity he also nixed the existence of every

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political party that wasn't his and even did a little Nazi housecleaning in the [Person vacuuming the house]

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summer of 1934 during the night of the Long Knives

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an ominous name if we ever heard one Hitler went on to establish the Gestapo

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or secret police which went around jailing and murdering anyone who is

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thought to be an enemy of the state Protestant and Catholic doctrine mixed

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with Nazi ideology although Hitler really wanted the German people that [Hitler appears in Church and audience raise their arms]

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ditch religion in favour of worshipping him... he was especially concerned with the

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indoctrination of children into Nazism which gave rise to a generation of

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little Hitler's minus the facial hair of course there for a party that was

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supposed to be socialist the Nazis were really bad at taking care of Germany's

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workers labor unions were out so were strikes and employers completely [People working in a sewing factory]

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controlled the lives of their employees oh what a time to be alive ..Sorry, we

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should have specified what a bad time to be alive.. the Nazis did however manage to

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pull Germany's economy out of the gutter Hitler's rearmament program virtually

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destroyed the German unemployment problem as did his focus on building [German troops building tanks]

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infrastructure and Public Works he also kept Germany's economy isolated from the

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other economies of Europe which helped the Germans become economically

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self-sufficient and innovative thanks to the Nazis by 1938 Germany had the

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economic capability to go to war, oddly enough while the Nazis hated the

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Bolsheviks over in Russia both groups had a lot in common both Hitler and [Men fighting in a street]

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Stalin were totalitarian dictators who believed that individuals were

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components of the state and nothing more.... The nation

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was everything while both German and Russian art, music, and literature had to

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conform to the party line the Nazis were especially keen on coming up with their [People dancing]

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very own special brand of science truth and reason had to support the Nazi

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philosophy and while Hitler and Stalin were both adept at churning out

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propaganda the Nazis took propaganda to the extreme by both censoring and

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producing information anti-semitism, nationalism and the wonders of war were [Books burning]

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at the heart of every newspaper and book published, every radio program broadcast

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and every poster glued on a wall Nazi Germany was a totalitarian dream not

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only did the state control the economy politics and military but it controlled [Boy sleeping on a couch dreaming of Nazi Germany]

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how and what people thought..hello there big brother which is how Hitler

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came to unleash an army of blond-haired blue-eyed zombies on the world in 1939 [Zombies with blonde hair appear]

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which would probably scare even the creepiest walking dead zombies

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