A side of Hitler that only his inner circle saw is revealed using home movies that he shot with his mistress Eva Braun at Berghof, his mountain retreat. Is this urbane man smiling out at us the same person who ordered such inhumane acts of savagery? A macabre record of Eva Braun's years at the center of Hitler's inner circle is uncovered in this fascinating program.
The true story of the Valkyrie Plot. Driven by hatred towards Hitler, courageous co-conspirators set an intricate plan in motion to bring the Fuhrer to his demise. The most famous attempt to assassinate Hitler came in July 1944. A bomb planted in a suitcase and left in a meeting room explodes and creates great devastation, but as if by a miracle, Hitler escapes with minor injuries.
Hitler's elite fighting force. The sinister black-clad figures of nightmare, the Fuhrer's Waffen SS hold a unique and dark place in German military history. Their code demanded a lethal combination of bravery and savagery and they must be held to account for many of the most hideous crimes of the Nazi period.
Hitler's secret police. Hermann Goering created a clandestine state police force tasked to arrest and torture confessions and information from supposed enemies of the Reich. All the powers of the judiciary were taken into its hands and the courts were rendered superfluous. A compelling account of one of the true horror stories of the 20th century.
Hitler asked his industrial quarter for armaments to reinforce his plan for a mighty new German Army. The finest planes, artillery and tanks and even submarines and battleships were churned out to blitz through most of Europe and the Atlantic. His designers never stopped working.
The Nazis created a new belief system of arcane rituals and potent symbols such as the swastika.
Hitler evolved an entirely new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics and a priestly elite in the form of Himmler's SS. Hitler himself was viewed as the ultimate leader in Messianic terms.
Uncover the dark Waffen SS, a savage unit designed for lethal military work, whose hideous crimes top the list of WWII atrocities.
Adolf Hitler was enamored with Germanic mythology and ancient legends and these were combined with cutting-edge theories of genetic science. With this new philosophy, Hitler established the Germans as the "Master Race".
