History Series / HitlerTheRiseOfEvil

* CreepyUncle: Hitler has an obsessive relationship with his niece Geli that has some sexual undertones. He's immensely jealous whenever another man shows an interest in her, and treats her more like a mindless pet than a human being. [[spoiler:This ultimately leads her to commit suicide.]]

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Yes, this series manages to do this to ''Hitler'' (history's most infamous genocidal dictator), taking every aspect which might be considered positive, and tearing it to shreds. The medal he earned in World War One is presented as a political gesture with no real military merit behind it. While in reality Hitler was known to be an animal lover, here he brutally bashes a dog's head in for embarrassing him by peeing on his leg. He is implied to have an abusive sexual relationship with his niece. For all his many faults, there is no historical evidence whatsoever that Hitler was any kind of sexual predator.[[note]]That last one is probably based on a public accusation one of Hitler's political opponents did make in real history, but there is no evidence that points towards it being anything more than a baseless smear attempt.[[/note]] Robert Carlyle's take on Hitler is peppered with nervous twitches of all sorts, especially before he takes the reign of the Nazi Party and develops some confidence. In fact, the first acts of the story present him as not quite mentally stable, more like a sectarian preacher than a political extremist, which not only has no grounds in reality, but also makes it hard to believe anyone would actually entrust him with any sort of responsibility in the first place.

* AdaptedOut: Heinrich Himmler never appears, despite Hitler's relationship with SA leader Ernst Röhm and the Night of the Long Knives being a big part of the plot.

* WhatAnIdiot: InUniverse. During the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler has this reaction when Ludendorff says he allowed Kahr and the others to call their wives, when they actually notified the authorities to what was happening.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: One of the hallmarks of this series. It got so bad that Ian Kershaw - the historian brought on as an advisor for the show, whose two-volume biography of Hitler even ''inspired'' the show - regretted ever taking part of it and wondered why he was brought on in the first place because he felt that everything he said was being ignored.
** Hitler had blue eyes, [[AdaptationDyeJob something none of the actors playing him in the series have]].
** Hitler's mother and father (Klara Hitler and Alois Hitler) were cousins instead of uncle and niece. That was how she addressed him, not their actual blood relation.
** Alois Hitler did die of a heart attack, but he was visiting the local pub (inn) at the time, not in front of his wife and son during a heated argument.
** The doctor who treated Hitler's mother for cancer is depicted as noticeably [[AllJewsAreAshkenazi Hasidic]]. Austrian Jews of the turn of the century were among the most assimilated in Europe, so most dressed, acted, and looked like Austrian Christians. Hitler himself noted in ''Literature/MeinKampf'' that he never saw a Hasidic Jew until he moved to Vienna... a passage they actually quote ''in this very movie.'' The real man who treated his mother, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Bloch Eduard Bloch]], was no exception.
** In the series, Hitler goes to Germany just on the outbreak of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI in 1914. In reality, he moved to Germany in 1913.
** Hitler is told he's being deployed to the Eastern Front, right before the gas attack that blinds him. The Eastern Front ended in March 1918, with Russia collapsing due to the Bolshevik Revolution, seven months before Hitler being sent to hospital. Hitler only served on the Western Front, never receiving any orders to go East.
** Also, during that above scene, German soldiers remark that they're so close to Paris that they can smell perfume from the city. The Germans made their closest approach to Paris during the first month of the war. In 1918, the Allies were steadily pushing the Germans back.
** When Hitler was in the hospital, one of the doctors announced that Germany surrendered. In actuality, Germany had only signed an Armistice with the Allies. Furthermore, for most Germans the Armistice had been long expected. The abdication of the Kaiser would have been much more of a shock.
** When the Beer Hall Putsch collapses, Hitler is depicted fleeing to the Hanfstaengl home, where he is immediately arrested. He was actually arrested two days later.
** The Enabling Act and the Reichstag Fire Decree are conflated into a single act.
** The Enabling Act is shown as passing only with Nazi Party support. In reality, nearly every single party in the Reichstag supported the bill. The Communists had been banned so weren't present, and the Centre and other moderate parties had been cowed into accepting the bill with promises and threats (namely by the SS surrounding the building vowing to retaliate if they didn't vote "yes"). Only the 94 members of the Social Democratic Party voted against the bill, to Hitler's rage.
** After Hitler finishes reading the provisions of the Enabling Act, Göring then gives the Nazi salute and sings "Deutschlandlied," immediately followed by all the Nazis, and soon joined by non-Nazi representatives. This did not happen in reality.
** The scenes in the Kroll Opera House make it look like the Nazis control a majority of the seats. The Nazis were never able to win a majority of seats. Even when Hitler had been appointed chancellor and had turned Germany into a police state, the best they could manage was 44% of the vote. They only got a majority as part of a coalition government (which, obviously, they later nullified when they cowed their partners into accepting a one-party state).
** Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Rudolf Hess are all either [[DemotedToExtra minor characters]] or [[AdaptedOut non-existent]] in the story. In reality all of these men played a huge role in Hitler's rise to power.
** Hitler is depicted as recruiting Ludendorff to the far-right cause to lend himself credibility. In reality, it was taken for granted by all far-right parties and groups that Ludendorff was their ''de facto'' leader and future dictator of Germany since immediately following the end of the war. Ditto with Röhm, who was the leader of the Steel Helmets, a powerful paramilitary group and the most influential extremist organization in Bavaria until the Nazi party swallowed them up. Röhm and Hitler were also much closer in RealLife than the movie depicts as well.
** At Hitler's trial, he is fined 200 goldmarks. The goldmark refers to German currency when the country was on the gold standard, which Germany stopped using in 1914. In actually, Hitler's fine for the Beer Hall Putsch was 500 ''Reichsmarks''.
** Ernst Rohm is present for the Bamberg Conference in 1926. He was actually in Bolivia from 1923 until 1930.
** When the Reichstag is set on fire, Hitler is shown arriving to inspect the damage the following morning. He actually arrived just as the fire was being put out around midnight.
** After Röhm is executed, Hitler tells the SA members that he's incorporating them into the Reichswehr. This never happened. While the SA had their numbers significantly cut after the Night of the Long Knives, they remained a separate organization up to the end of the war.
** Von Hindenburg's funeral wasn't in Berlin, but in East Prussia. Also, the funeral is said to be taking place on August 2, 1934, which is actually the date that Hindenburg ''died''.
** When Hitler returns to Munich after the war, he witnesses a couple of Communist revolutionaries toppling a statue of Wilhelm II. Not only did such a specific incident not occur, it is also never clarified ''why'' the statue is there. Wilhelm was officially the "German Emperor", but quite explicitly ''not'' the monarch of the Kingdom of Bavaria.

* TranslationConvention: Averted. Most of the signs and newspapers are in German.

** Hitler's mother and father (Klara Hitler and Alois Hitler) were cousins instead of uncle and niece.