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.
Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
as Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
as Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler
as Self (archive footage)
Reinhard Heydrich
as Self (archive footage)
Claus von Stauffenberg
as Self (archive footage)
Erwin Rommel
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Bormann
as Self (archive footage)
Adolf Eichmann
as Self (archive footage)
Rudolf Heß
as Self (archive footage)
Ernst Röhm
as Self (archive footage)
Joachim von Ribbentrop
as Self (archive footage)
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13