"Rise to Power" is the first episode of the three-part documentary "Hitler's Power". How could a nobody become a dictator, bringing down a democracy in just a few years? What were the crucial events that helped Hitler gain respectability and influence? Who were his supporters? Which moods in the populace were in his favor?

Hitler had outwardly emphasized his will for peace, yet once he came to power, he committed his top commanders to a war of extermination that would secure the German Reich's supremacy in Europe and so-called "Living Space" in the East.