Nazi Megastructures

Series 1

2013 · 6 episodes · 4h 30m in all · 7.5/10

Episodes

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   1. The Atlantic Wall

   18 Nov 2013 · 45 min · 8.0/10

   This is the story of the greatest fortification project of the 20th century, Hitler’s ambitious Atlantic Wall, and the ultimate test it faced on D-Day.

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   2. V2 Rocket Bases

   18 Nov 2013 · 45 min · 8.0/10

   This episode relates the development of the first ever space missiles used by the Nazis as destructive wonder-weapons to bomb the Allies into resignation and the rocket engineer who set the groundwork for the moon landing.

3. 

   3. U-Boat Base

   25 Nov 2013 · 45 min · 8.0/10

   This episode describes the immense and impenetrable concrete and steel submarine pens that the Nazis built to protect their precious and deadly U-boats from Allied attacks.

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   4. Super Tanks

   2 Dec 2013 · 45 min · 7.0/10

   The story of Nazi engineers tasked with fulfilling Hitler's megalomaniac demand for the construction of a land battleship weighing 1,000 tons.

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   5. Hitler's Jet Caves

   9 Dec 2013 · 45 min · 7.0/10

   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.

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   6. Fortress Berlin

   16 Dec 2013 · 45 min · 7.0/10

   April 1945. Safe in his heavily fortified Führerbunker in the center of Berlin, Hitler prepares for the Allies' final attack.