On May 10, 1941, former deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich Rudolph Hess made an extraordinary lone flight to Britain. Was he attempting to make peace with the British before the German invasion of the Soviet Union?
On the night of September 17, 1931, Adolph Hitler's niece Angela 'Geli' Raubal was found dead in his apartment. Widely suspected of being the Fuhrer's mistress, was Rabaul's death suicide as the Nazi party claimed or was she murdered by Hitler in a fit of jealous rage?
Under the influence of his personal physician, Adolph Hitler's mental and physical state dramatically deteriorated. Recent evidence raises new questions about Hitler's increasing dependence on the prescription drugs that rendered him a shadow of his former self.
Throughout most of World War II the British intercepted and decoded German signals traffic. How did the Germans never suspect that their codes had been broken? How did the British disguise the source of their information? Just how important was the secret to the outcome of the conflict?
Despite years of conspiracy and the most meticulous of plans, this most secret aim of Germany's bravest generals would never achieved. Why was Hitler never able to command the unswerving loyalty of his own senior military staff? And why, despite all their efforts, were these Generals always finally unable to kill Hitler?
Why did the Germans spend so much time and effort developing a space age weapon only to arm it with less than one ton of conventional explosives? Did Hitler have plans to arm the rocket with a more sinister and deadly warhead?
What are the origins of this dreaded symbol of National Socialism? How did the Swastika change from a Buddhist sign of good fortune to the Nazi emblem, striking terror in the hearts of millions?
What were the mysterious ceremonies performed in the castle crypt? Did Himmler really believe that the castle would be the spiritual focal point of the final great battle between East and West? What became of the contents of Himmler's secret safe hidden deep in the castle vaults and removed in 1945?
Why Hitler unilaterally declared war on the most powerful neutral nation on Earth is a mystery compounded by Hitler's own later observation that, "This war with America is a tragedy; illogical, devoid of fundamental reality."
Mystery still surrounds his fate, even today. Did he escape from the ruins of of his chancellery and seek refuge in South America or did he take his own life? What did happen to Adolf Hitler in those last desperate days of the Reich?
In May 1940, the British Army in France was facing annihilation at the hands of powerful German armored formations. Yet with such a resounding victory within his grasp. Hitler uncharacteristically ordered the tanks to a halt, enabling the British to make a dramatic escape from the beaches of Dunkirk. Why did Hitler ignore the advice of his tank commanders and issue the now famous Stop Order? Did he actually want the British to escape?
On May 10, 1940 the Germans unleashed an ambitious offensive of immense proportions on Belgium and Holland. Why did they decide to attack these two countries? Were they looking to lure the Allies into the eye of the battle instead?
The Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941 shocked the world and drew the United States into the war. Did British Intelligence and Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, know in advance of the Japanese attack and fail to warn the Americans?
By June 1944, Adolf Hitler had become convinced that the Allied invasion of France would be launched at Pas-de-Calais.