and Mr. Evans’s portrait of Hitler doubles as an excellent, if necessarily brief, introduction to the Nazis’ rise and fall. There is nothing remotely exculpatory in Mr. Evans’s accounts of ...

Before he became one of history’s most murderous dictators, Adolf Hitler was an awkward teenager ... up painting to pass the time, including a portrait of himself, a coloured-pencil drawing ...

This documentary is a revealing portrait of the German people, how they lived and perceived the world, under Hitler.