Nazi Megastructures

Series 4

2017 · 6 episodes · 4h 30m in all

The fourth series follows a team of experts on a dark journey from the Arctic Circle to Southern Italy, from the Death Camps of Poland to the inside of Hitler’s rolling HQ aboard his personal train, as they uncover a Nazi world that has been hidden for decades.

Episodes

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   1. Hitler's War Trains

   17 Jul 2017 · 45 min

   The Nazi empire ran on trains, from the personal trains of the leadership to the locomotives and service depots that serviced the network.

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   2. Hitler's Railways of Death

   24 Jul 2017 · 45 min

   Railways were key to the planning and implementation of the Final Solution, used to bring victims to the death camps from all over Europe.

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   3. Hitler's Italian Fortress

   31 Jul 2017 · 45 min

   The fortifications the Nazis built in northern Italy were meant to slow the Allied advance. Now the team reconstructs their extent and depth.

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   4. Hitler's Arctic Fortress

   7 Aug 2017 · 45 min

   After invading Norway in the spring of 1940, Nazi armed forces proceeded to fortify the entire country for war against Britain and the Soviet Union.

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   5. Hitler's Propaganda Machine

   14 Aug 2017 · 45 min

   The war was lost long before it ended, but the Nazi propaganda apparatus was designed to keep that truth from its subjects for as long as possible.

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   6. Hitler's Luftwaffe

   21 Aug 2017 · 45 min

   The German air force was the most powerful and largest in Europe at the beginning of World War II, and it played a key part in Hitler's conquests.