Season 1
- 1Tearing Down the Old14 Oct 2024
- 2Cult of Personality21 Oct 2024
- 3Follow the Money28 Oct 2024
- 4Holding on to Power11 Nov 2024
- 5Expanding Their Reach18 Nov 2024
- 6How Dictators Fall25 Nov 2024
Dictator, despot, authoritarian or strong man, whatever you call them they all have one thing in common – the pursuit of absolute power. ‘Rise of the Dictators' is the story of the Führer, Adolf Hitler; il Duce, Benito Mussolini and the Vozhd Josef Stalin. How did these men take absolute power? How did they use it? What did they say? And what did they do?But there is much more if we are to comprehend the dictators – their support, their power, their legacy of destruction. By telling their story…