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A dark history is revisited alongside a cast of actors who recreate key moments in World War II in Netflix's Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial. 

Directed by Joe Berlinger, Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial highlights Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the Nuremberg Trial through the perspective of journalist William L. Shirer who is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. 

The six-episode docuseries used AI to give way to Shirer's narration. It also includes cinematic recreations of what transpired during Hitler's terrifying reign. 

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Netflix will debut Joe Berlinger’s six-part docuseries “Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial,” about the Third Reich, on June 5.

Through the framing of the Nuremberg trials and eyewitness testimony of American journalist William L. Shirer, the series explores the rise and fall of Hitler and his enablers who were fueled through propaganda, censorship and a campaign of antisemitism.

Berlinger is in year four of a multi-year deal with Netflix. The director describes himself as a “culturally and ethnically Jewish man” who grew up in a “very secular home.” The Oscar nominee says that he owes his path to filmmaking “to my obsession with German history.

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I finally finished my grail: the 1500+ page The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer. I labored for two months, reading mostly at home to avoid the embarrassment of busting out a book with a giant honking swastika on the front. I dropped it in the middle to blow through a cheap historical novel, only to pick it up again. I laughed, I cried, I did a victory dance when I turned the last page.

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