Kudos to Netflix for producing a documentary called “Hitler and the Nazis, Evil on Trial,” and for running it now.

It’s the story of how a less-than-mediocre man with a gift for gab molded a dissatisfied and angst-filled Germany into the worst human catastrophe so far in history; a story of how easily social unease can be channeled into violence and racial hatred by a sociopath who’s obsessed with power and truly believes in his own infallibility.

Told from the point of view of William Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,  during the Nuremberg trials. He was a journalist in Germany during Hitler’s rise, barely got out with his life and his journals, and continued reporting on Hitler after he got back to the US.