Examining the life and times of Adolf Hitler and following the full arc of his ascent, tyrannical reign, criminality and undoing.
SS-Lieutenant Colonel Helmut Von Schreader conceives an unusual plan to escape the aftermath of the Second World War by disguising himself as a Jewish Concentration Camp victim. Under the alias of Ben Grossman, Von Schreader is liberated from the camps and immigrates to Palestine where he joins the Zionist movement. Twenty five years later, living as a hero of Israel and a General in the Israeli Army, the underground SS organization ODESSA locates Von Schreader and orders to him to again serve the cause of the Third Reich.
Secrets are divulged and stories of espionage, conspiracy, murder, sabotage and greed are uncovered.
The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS.
Alexander Belov is a Russian spy, who travels from Soviet-held Latvia to Nazi Germany under an alias of Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the German intelligence.
He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism.
Summer 1943: Hitler engages in a decisive battle in Kursk to win the war in the East. This is without counting on the pugnacity of the Red Army and the Allied intervention in the West. Month after month, the noose tightens on the Nazi tyrant who refuses to admit defeat and precipitates his country in its fall.
4-tlg. Dokumentation über die „Einsatzgruppen“ der Nazis, die für den Massenmord an Juden, Sinti und Roma und sowjetischen Gefangenen in Osteuropa verantwortlich waren.
Albert Speer - er war der Mann für die Zukunftsvisionen eines Kriegsverbrechers, er war Hitlers Architekt und Rüstungsminister. Beide lebten den Größenwahn, dem Nationalsozialismus mit gigantischen Bauten ein ewig währendes Denkmal zu setzen. Rücksichtslos trieb Speer die deutsche Rüstungsindustrie auf einen Höchststand. Er war kein unwissender Mitläufer, wie er immer wieder beteuerte, sondern mitverantwortlich am Tod tausender Zwangsarbeiter. Regisseur Heinrieb Breloer entwickelt in dem historisch-biographischen Dreiteiler das Bild eines sich selbst belügenden Menschen, der Mitschuldiger am dunkelsten Kapitel deutscher Geschichte und seiner eigenen Aussage nach (Nürnberger Prozesse) Hitlers bester Freund war.
Wie konnte aus einer krisengeschüttelten Demokratie eine Apokalypse mit Krieg und Völkermord entstehen? Was hat den Aufstieg der Nazis begünstigt, was den Weg zum Genozid an den Juden ermöglicht? Die zehnteilige Doku-Reihe erzählt aus internationaler Perspektive vom Aufstieg und Untergang des Nationalsozialismus und untersucht die Ursachen für den von Deutschen begangenen Zivilisationsbruch, der schlussendlich zum Weltenbrand und zu einem globalen Konflikt von verheerendem Ausmaß führte.
Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke have found at the NARA (National Archives in Washington DC) almost four hours of footage, mostly in colour, filmed by Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun between 1938 and 1944. It's an unbeleivable eyesight on Hitler's private life from the happy life in the "Eagle's nest" till his suicide in his bunker.
It is customary to give every new government 100 days to draw an initial summary of its work, its successes, its failures, its prospects. A “grace period” that also applied to Chancellor Adolf Hitler. However, he uses them more radically for his goals than anyone before him. This is what this series tells about – as a canon of contemporary voices. Diary entries from all over Germany document different perspectives, perceptions and very private things. How can a civilized country, a democratic state, turn into a brutal dictatorship in just a few weeks?
Between 1914 and 1945, two major conflicts engulfed the planet. Among the combatants of the First World War, eight men would play a decisive role in the next one.