(2 of 2)
The finished mini-series has swayed many critics. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says it "reminds us how fragile democracy is." That's not to say that Hitler solves every mystery--it's cagey, for instance, on whether most Germans shared or simply tolerated Hitler's anti-Semitism--or that no viewer might draw the wrong lessons from it. When people say it's risky to try to understand evil, they're right. But it is far more dangerous not to try to understand it at all.