The video clip reveals the "mass" part of the mass movement that was German fascism. Note also Hitler's oratorical flourishes and how he plays on the emotions of his "youthful" listeners.
The second video clip is Charlie Chaplin's incredible satire of Nazism, "The Great Dictator."
The severe economic straits in which Germany found itself in the 1920s and early '30s provided fertile grounds for the rise of extreme parties. The National Socialist German Workers' Party would be one of them. Through the organizational and oratorical skills of its leader Adolf Hitler (and also intimidation and street violence), the Nazi Party would come to dominate the political landscape of Germany
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