It has been 80 years since Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany and the Nazi Party during the Second World War, killed himself in a bunker in Berlin.

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He and his policies led to the Holocaust, the worst genocide in history, and an atrocity so terrible that he is considered truly evil. Despite a concerted effort from Allied forces to eradicate Nazism, it has proved difficult to destroy an ideology. Far right politics is seeing a resurgence globally and, almost a century after his death, Hitler remains a notorious spectre in the modern consciousness.

But is history at risk of repeating itself? Or are the lessons learned from the mid-20th Century enough to keep fascism at bay?

00:00 Intro
00:37 Who was Hitler?
01:34 Hitler’s death
03:36 Neonazism in the 21st Century
05:59 History repeating itself?
08:38 Lessons from Hitler’s evil legacy
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