Volker ullrich hitler biography video

In recent months, right-wing extremists in Germany have shown no restraint in attacking the country's culture of remembrance, aiming to end the way Germany recognizes and deals with its Nazi past. 

Far-right nationalists downplay the horrors of the Third Reich as just a short chapter in an otherwise glorious history, or as co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party  Alexander Gauland put it, "Hitler and the Nazis are just bird s--- in more than 1,000 years of successful German history." 

Such statements are dangerous, believes historian and journalist Volker Ullrich: "Anyone who decides to patch together such a euphemistic account of history," he said, "is agitating the foundations of this republic."

Ullrich has now completed his two-volume biography on Adolf Hitler. The author sees Hitler's rise to power as a cautionary tale on how fast a democracy can unhinge Hitler nationality!