Secrets of the Nazis is a 20-part documentary uncovering the hidden crimes and conspiracies of Hitler's regime. From youth manipulation and lethal experiments to covert diplomacy and genocide.
In 1930s Germany, the Nazi Party created the Hitler Youth to indoctrinate children and adolescents with Nazi ideology and prepare them to become a child army for Hitler. This episode traces the rise of the movement, from early everyday life indoctrination, through to the war.
45 minutes
In 1930s Germany, the Nazi Party created the Hitler Youth to indoctrinate children and adolescents with Nazi ideology and prepare them to become a child army for Hitler. This second episode starts at the height of WW2 and traces the story of the Hitler Youth as they face defeat.
44 minutes
In 2016, over 200 unseen photos of Nazi officials surfaced, revealing the rise of a young Hitlerite group in concentration camps between 1928-1943.
56 minutes
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland in a blitzkrieg fueled not only by tactics and technology, but also by Pervitin-crystal meth.
52 minutes
Hitler, Goring, and Himmler shared a strange obsession with animals, using them as propaganda tools, symbols of ideology, and even weapons of war.
51 minutes
On 30 January 1933, Hitler became chancellor and the Nazis quickly seized state power.
52 minutes
In 1945, the U.S. ended WWII with atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 180,000.
1 hours 1 minutes
While the British army puts the Italian forces to rout, Hitler sends the Afrika Korps led by general Rommel for help.
53 minutes
June 22, 1941. Under the code name 'Barbarossa', Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
54 minutes
Since September 1941, the Wehrmacht had been advancing on all fronts.
52 minutes
On 27 November 1942, the French fleet scuttled itself in Toulon, sending over 85 warships to the seabed to avoid German capture.
51 minutes
Legend holds that Nazi Germany pillaged France's vineyards, but historians reveal a more complex truth.
52 minutes
On 18 May 1939, the Nazis opened Ravensbruck, the largest women's concentration camp. Of the 130,000 women and children deported, 90,000 died.
56 minutes
As the Allies land in Normandy, Hitler unleashes Das Reich, the brutal Panzer division infamous for massacres in Ukraine and Belarus.
48 minutes
With recolorized archives, this episode explores the final year of Hitler's infamous division.
44 minutes
Thanks to the American landing in June 1944, the Allies were certain to end the war before Christmas.
51 minutes
In January 1945, the Soviet army discovered the existence of Auschwitz and then of more than a hundred concentration camps.
50 minutes
At Nuremberg, Hitler's closest allies faced judgment for crimes against humanity. Yet under Nazi law, these acts were legal. This episode examines how Hitler reshaped the justice system, exposing the pivotal role jurists played in transforming law into an instrument of terror.
52 minutes
Through the stories of a jurist, an executioner, and a regime opponent, this investigation reveals how Nazi law justified extermination. Expert voices and archives show how Germany's intellectual elite enabled a murderous totalitarian state.
53 minutes
Amateur filmmakers in Normandy secretly documented daily life between 1939-1945, risking arrest under Nazi rule.
52 minutes
