The East German Perspective on the Rise of Hitler

The division of Germany occured after the Second World War was over. Germany was divided by the Soviets, the British, the Americans and the French. The Soviet occupation zone would become the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The East German state was communist oriented. How did GDR historians explain the rise of Hitler and his party? This video is about the East German perspective on the rise of the Third Reich. SUPPORT ME ON PATREON ► SUPPORT ME ON PAYPAL ► SUBSCRIBE ► INSTAGRAM ► FACEBOOK ► TWITTER ► SOURCES – Weimar Republic and Nazi Era in East German Perspective (Andreas Dorpalen) in Central European History , Sep., 1978, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Sep., 1978), pp. 21