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The Man Behind Hitler

A profile of Joseph Goebbels (1897-45),who helped launch Hitler's rise to power. Kenneth Branagh provides voice-over readings of Goebbels' personal diaries. Included: footage from German archives tracing Goebbels' life; how Goebbels continually stage-managed his life and reinvented himself from his early days as a radical “popular socialist” to his death.
Aired: May 22, 2006 Genre: DocumentaryProducers:Duration: 55m Rating: 0 Country: United States of America Production: GBH