Hitler's last soldier in America who defied the FBI for 40 years, the Auschwitz prisoners who releaved the secrets of the death camps, and the merciless Nazi who almost got away.
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At the end of 1939, the German Army invades Poland. Examine how Hitler succeeded in pushing through his rearmament and war plans relatively unhindered.
In 1934, Hitler's government is firmly in the saddle. Most Germans support Hitler's anti-Jewish policy and the regime's terror soon escalates.
Hitler's last soldier in America who defied the FBI for 40 years, the Auschwitz prisoners who releaved the secrets of the death camps, and the merciless Nazi who almost got away.
The elite German submariners who caused havoc in the heart of the American desert, the playboy pilot they couldn't cage, and the young lovers whose escape defied all odds.
We trace the astonishing story of designers turning away from metal and back to wood to create a twin-engine bomber that could outrun almost any aircraft in the sky, yet deliver a bomb load greater than an Avro Lancaster.
The Heinkel He 111 is one of the most recognised German aircraft of WW2. The broad winged design was a guinea pig for future bombers, with more variants than any other military aircraft of the time.
The story of the trench warfare from the First World War is well known. What is less well known is that the efficiency of the railway networks of both sides helped cause that stalemate.
A look at America's Cold War codebreakers charged with unravelling a seemingly uncrackable Soviet code and the uncovering of the Manhattan Project.
The Japanese Super Code reveals the US efforts to crack Japan's unbreakable WWII code following the horror of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Uncovering some of the world's most famous encryptions. Revealing how they were decoded, the brilliant minds who cracked them and the mysteries they were hiding.
The expansion of the Japanese empire had as its main aim the conquest of territories rich in natural resources. And so Japan cast its eyes towards South East Asia.
During the early months and years of the war, Britain and her allies were almost powerless to hit back at Germany. They were on the back foot, unable to take the war to where the Germans would feel it most – Germany.
How women were active - and often violent participants and perpetrators - in the conflict and its attendant atrocities - especially the Holocaust.
A look at the women surrounding Hitler once he came to power, and how they were held up as the Aryan Ideal to strive for once the Nazi dictator approved of their positions.
Revealing the encrypted German telegram could save Britain in its darkest hour. Can a team of geniuses decode the message in time?
President Hindenburg suspends freedom of speech and Hitler comes to power in 1933. The first concentration camps for political opponents are set up.
A social protest turns into a racist and anti-Jewish movement during the 1920s and the NSDAP use emotions to gain the loyalty of the people.
The Japanese Super Code reveals the US efforts to crack Japan's unbreakable WWII code following the horror of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Uncovering some of the world's most famous encryptions. Revealing how they were decoded, the brilliant minds who cracked them and the mysteries they were hiding.
The story of the prolonged development and the initially troubled operational history of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Forever known as the airframe that dropped the first atomic weapons on Japan, the B-29 lived on well beyond its war years.
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