Synopsis:
A turning point in Hitler's life was the thirteen months he spent in Landsberg Prison In Bavaria after the failure of his Putsch against the government in November, 1923. As we see him dictating excerpts from Mein Kampf to a young secretary, Ulrich Schwartz, we begin to sense the strange power he was later able to exert over the German people. Flashback scenes concern his youth in Linz, the death of his mother of cancer, his experience in World War I in which he Is blinded by gas and a prophetic scene with Bert Brecht in a Munich beer hail. At the end, his prison term ends and his rise to power begins.
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