Nazi Megastructures: Saison 4

Hitler's War Trains

44min - The railways were the lifeblood of the Nazi empire. It was a vast network that spread Nazi ambition and control across Europe and beyond. Through use of drama, documentary and archive the programme reveals Hitler's personal train, unseen bunkers, massive depots, railway weapons and record-breaking engines that made up what was arguably the Nazis biggest ever megastructure: the railways.

Hitler's War Trains

Hitler's Railways of Death

44min - The rail networks most sinister function was to facilitate the Final Solution. Hitler and the mastermind of the Holocaust, Himmler, used the vast rail network to transport Jews to concentration camps and to their death. But the wider war effort was dwindling and in 1945 in Berlin, Hitler finally abandoned his beloved train and made a dash for his underground bunker – the place that would eventually become his tomb.

Hitler's Italian Fortress

44min - From Monte Cassino to San Pietro and ultimately the defense of Rome, this is the amazing story of one of the toughest defensive structures that the Nazis ever conceived. The Allies thought an advance from the south would be a quick way to bring down the Nazis, but they were wrong. Hitler, determined to defend every inch of ground, ordered a series of defensive lines stretching across the entire Italian peninsula, stalling the Allies’ advance into the Third Reich for almost two years.

Hitler's Luftwaffe

44min - The Luftwaffe, a revolutionary German air force, created from nothing and fast-tracked by Hitler to annihilate the enemy from the skies. From the factory where the deadly Heinkel HE111 bombers were mass-produced, to the Baltic and the ruins of the Luftwaffe’s top-secret torpedo test facility, to the most technologically advanced jet bomber of World War II, Nazi Megastructures lifts the lid on Hitler’s war from above.

Hitler's Propaganda Machine

44min - During the brutal Battle of Berlin in 1945, 100,000 German civilians fight to the death and 6,000 commit suicide. How did the Nazis motivate ordinary civilians to fight even when defeat was inevitable? The answer is propaganda and in Dr. Josef Goebbels, Adolf Hitler found a genius of mind-manipulation. This episode reveals the evidence left behind by the Nazi propaganda machine, monuments to the sinister but brilliant brain-washing of an entire nation.

Hitler's Arctic Fortress

44min - It's one of the most daring and bold operations of World War II: The Nazi's occupation and fortification of Norway. Hitler demands breath-taking defenses along the country's 1500 mile coastline to prevent an Allied invasion. It includes some of the biggest gun batteries of the entire war. Norway is an Arctic frontline from which the Nazis can attack the Soviet Union, but it also offers Hitler the possible means to make an atomic bomb.