Discover the story behind the defensive wall, stretching thousands of kilometres, built by the Third Reich to protect themselves from the Allies.
Discover how Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun heralded the birth of ballistic missiles and laid the technological foundations for the space race.
To create a safe haven in port for their lethal U-boat submarines, the Nazis built massive, impenetrable submarine pens that still survive today.
The story of Nazi engineers tasked with fulfilling Hitler's megalomaniac demand for the construction of a land battleship weighing 1,000 tons.
Explore the story behind one of the most advanced aeroplanes of WWII, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the subterranean bat-cave where it was built.
April 1945. Safe in his heavily fortified Führerbunker in the centre of Berlin, Hitler prepares for the Allies' final attack.
A secret headquarters of concrete and steel is the heart of Hitler’s plans for domination and the key to a Nazi conspiracy - the Wolf’s Lair.
The Bismarck and Tirpitz were battleships of record breaking proportions, ultimate status symbols of the Third Reich and hunted by the Allies.
In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest, deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history.
In retaliation for Allied bombing raids, Hitler ordered the development of the V1. The first cruise missile, it changed the face of war forever.
As America closes in on Japan in 1944, the Japanese turn to desperate new tactics: killer planes and super torpedoes guided by human pilots.
The campaign to breach Hitler's 400 mile-long Siegfried Line took more than six months and cost the American forces 140,000 casualties.
Hitler transformed his Alpine retreat in Bavaria into a fortified fiefdom, home to 2,000 SS troops and protected by a high level security system.
It’s June 1940 and the Nazis have taken the Channel Islands, where Hitler orders some of the most fortified structures in the Third Reich.
Ruins across Europe tell the story of Blitzkrieg, a revolution in warfare which almost gave Hitler the chance to create his Thousand Year Reich.
Hitler planned a submarine to outperform all others. The Type 21 was the world's most advanced submarine: Hitler's sea-faring super weapon
In the 1930s the Japanese begin designing the Yamato, the world's most powerful battleship, 30 per cent larger than anything their enemies have.
In 1945 Japanese generals construct a network of defences and tunnels on Okinawa, creating a devastating killing ground for American troops.
The railways were the lifeblood of the Nazi empire. It was a vast network that spread Nazi ambition and control across Europe and beyond. Through use of drama, documentary and archive the programme reveals Hitler's personal train, unseen bunkers, massive depots, railway weapons and record-breaking engines that made up what was arguably the Nazis biggest ever megastructure: the railways.
The rail networks most sinister function was to facilitate the Final Solution. Hitler and the mastermind of the Holocaust, Himmler, used the vast rail network to transport Jews to concentration camps and to their death. But the wider war effort was dwindling and in 1945 in Berlin, Hitler finally abandoned his beloved train and made a dash for his underground bunker - the place that would eventually become his tomb.
The story of one of the Nazis' toughest structures. These defensive lines spanned the Italian peninsula, stalling the Allies for almost two years.
It's one of the most daring and bold operations of WW2: The Nazi's occupation and fortification of Norway. Hitler demands breath-taking defences along the country's 1500 mile coastline to prevent an Allied invasion. It includes some of the biggest gun batteries of the entire war. Norway is an Arctic frontline from which the Nazis can attack the Soviet Union, but it also offers Hitler the possible means to make an atomic bomb.
During the brutal Battle of Berlin in 1945, 100,000 German civilians fight to the death and 6,000 commit suicide. How did the Nazis motivate ordinary civilians to fight even when defeat was inevitable? The answer is propaganda, and in Dr Josef Goebbels, Adolf Hitler found a genius of mind-manipulation. This episode reveals the evidence left behind by the Nazi propaganda machine, monuments to the sinister but brilliant brain-washing of an entire nation.
The Luftwaffe, a revolutionary German air force, created from nothing and fast-tracked by Hitler to annihilate the enemy from the skies. From the factory where the deadly Heinkel HE111 bombers were mass-produced, to the Baltic and the ruins of the Luftwaffe's top-secret torpedo test facility to the most technologically advanced jet bomber of World War 2, Nazi Megastructures lifts the lid on Hitler's war from above.
Artefacts left over from Hitler's invasion of Russia, from the vast weapons built for the German army to the stronghold at Sevastopol where they met their match.
Examining how Hitler responded to defeat at Stalingrad by increasing Germany's mass production of tanks - leading to the largest clash of armoured vehicles in history at Kursk.
Structures built to prevent a Soviet counter-attack against Germany as Nazi forces retreated in the wake of the failed invasion of Russia.
The surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor, revealing how it required months of secret preparation, innovations in torpedo design, and clever counter-intelligence.
How the Japanese army turned to ancient warrior traditions during the battle of Saipan - a conflict where defeat would place US aircraft dangerously close to their home country.
How the German army prepared for the D-Day landings, despite having no evidence of exactly where in Europe the Allied forces planned to attack.
September 1944 on Peleliu, Japanese soldiers build an island-wide structure creating a killing zone that lead to the death of thousands people.
Hitler’s final attempt to win was a surprise winter attack. What resulted were some of the worst war crimes ever committed against America.
This is the story of Japan's final months in WWII - when America threatened to invade and Japan unleashed a terrifying new weapon, suicide bombers.
January 1943. With defeat in Russia and North Africa Hitler now has to face a new battle front; the fight for the skies above the Fatherland itself.
As the Nazi war machine reaches the English channel in 1940, Hitler forms a strategy to destroy Britain's air power and land troops in southern England.
Japan’s do-or-die struggle to create and control an airfield in the middle of the Pacific
Japanese force Allied POWS and Asian laborers to lay 258 miles of track to build the Burma Railway in support of their armed forces during the Burma Campaign.
Armed with one of the most famous generals of WWII, Erwin Rommel, Hitler takes on the Allies in a campaign which will dictate the course of the war.
When allied spies plant false documents on a corpse, they are carrying out one of the most audacious deceptions of World War II. Operation Mincemeat ensures that the allied invasion of Sicily takes the Nazis totally by surprise. With few reinforcements, German troops must now make clever use of the island's rugged landscape to attempt a fighting retreat to the Italian mainland - and safety.
As the US armed forces sweep up and down the Pacific, the Japanese fight tirelessly to defend mainland Japan. From the air, they sow death and chaos, resorting to suicide bombers.
The story of Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels, the two men in charge of building the largest social megastructure in Nazi Germany.
During the Battle of the Atlantic, Hitler commanded the largest battleships in the world, with the aim of surpassing the firepower of the British.
This is the story of Hitler's invasion of Russia, with the largest invading powers ever assembled and the largest tank battles in history. Since their "Total War" plan fails, the Germans face a vast Soviet army determined to take revenge, so they must fight for every inch of Baltic terrain until they can return to the heart of Berlin.
During World War II, Hitler's Germany used its new Tiger and Panther tanks during its invasion of the Soviet Union.
A closer look at Hitler's Air Force: The Luftwaffe. At the beginning of World War II, it was the most powerful Air Force in the world. It is a symbol of the military ambition of the Nazi leader.
In order to extend its hold over the world, Hitler relied on its gigantic fortresses built to prevent any invasion by the Allies. With defensive structures along a coast of almost 2,500 kilometers, Norway is one of the first lines of the Arctic from which the Nazis can target the Soviet Union.
Revolutionary German war machines include the first jet-propelled plane and the U-21 submarine.
During World War II, the German Army construct two extensive lines of defence.
The story of the Nazi geniuses who created Hitler's deadly weapons of vengeance, including the world's first-ever cruise missle and long-range rockets.
A special look at Hitler's personal train, the Nazi's record-breaking engines and the railways' sinister role in the Final Solution.
