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Hitler's bodyguard

2010 · 1 season · 13 episodes · Ended

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Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of fifty million people. An entire nation followed him to ruin. Over a tumultuous 12 years Adolf Hitler went from being a minor rabble-rousing politician, to supreme leader of Nazi Germany. He was hated by those he persecuted, and even by some of his own commanders - yet in twenty-five years no one managed to kill him. This program shows how Hitler's bodyguards helped him cheat death on many occasions. They expanded from a handful of thugs recruited to protect political meetings and fight opponents on the streets, to many thousands - including some of the most fearsome secret police and paramilitary forces the world has ever known.

Episodes

  • S01E01How Hitler's Bodyguard Worked2010-02-1246m

    Hitler's personal protection squad grew from a few fiercely loyal, handpicked ruffians into an army with a complicated structure and intense internal competition.

  • S01E02Early Attempts on Hitler's Life2010-02-1246m

    Beer hall brawls, street fighting, and several brushes with death marked Hitler's rise to power in the stormy politics of interbellum Germany.

  • S01E03Kill the new Chancellor2010-02-2646m

    During Hitler's first year in office--as he steered Germany abruptly towards tyranny--he faced no fewer than a dozen attempts on his life.

  • S01E04Night of the Long Knives2010-03-0546m

    In one bloody, well-planned purge, Hitler eliminated his political rivals and ended the looming threat from Ernst Röhm's well-armed Sturmabteilung.

  • S01E05Jewish and Emigre Attempts to Kill Hitler2010-03-1246m

    As the Nazis amped up their anti-Semitic and expansionist activities, Jewish groups, Soviet Communists, and Otto Strasser's rival Black Front all targeted Hitler.

  • S01E06Kill Hitler Before War Starts2010-03-1946m

    By 1938, people inside and outside Germany--including some of Hitler's senior military personnel--planned preemptive strikes against the Führer.

  • S01E07Bombs and Paranoia2010-03-2646m

    Convinced that a failed bomb plot had roots in England, a Gestapo counterintelligence officer engineered an elaborate sting to snatch British agents.

  • S01E08Dangerous Car Journeys2010-04-0246m

    Hitler liked to tour cheering crowds in a customized, open-top Grosser Mercedes and later a G4-a predilection that gave his bodyguards nightmares.

  • S01E09Flights into Danger2010-04-0946m

    Hitler appreciated the power of aircraft, not only as a military weapon, but as a political tool. During the early 1930s, he hired aircraft for election campaigning, often facing weather and mechanical problems, as well as specific assassination attempts.

  • S01E10Hitler's Dangerous Train Journeys2010-04-1646m

    British operatives targeted Hitler's special train, the Führer-Sonderzug--a rolling fortress on rails--despite its heavy armor and tight security measures.

  • S01E11Attempts to Kill Hitler at Wolf's Lair2010-04-2346m

    Heavily camouflaged and fortified, Hitler's military headquarters in Poland saw several assassination attempts--including one that came closest to succeeding.

  • S01E12Nearly Assassinated at the Berghof2010-04-3046m

    Hitler's Alpine retreat in Bavaria offered opportunities for a pistol-packing German officer, a sniper, a long-range bombing raid, and even an aerial assault by the Allies.

  • S01E13Poison Gas Plot in the Bunker2010-05-0746m

    One member of Hitler's inner circle later claimed to have contemplated flooding the Fuhrer's Berlin bunker with nerve gas as the Allies closed in.

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