Nazi Megastructures

Rating:3.3 of 5Total number of episodes:16Last broadcast:23/04/2017 at 08:30
2017
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Season 3 Episode 6 - Pacific Megaships

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In 1934, the Japanese begin designing the Yamato, the most powerful battleship in history. Japan's determined to retain control in the Pacific so builds a ship 30 per cent larger than anything their enemies have. Constructed in absolute secrecy, the...
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Season 3 Episode 4 - Hitler's Killer Subs

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By Early 1943 Nazi Germany was losing the battle in the Atlantic. Hitler and Kriegsmarine High Command had been developing the world's most advanced submarine: Hitler's sea-daring super weapon. The submarine was capable of fast underwater speeds and...
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Season 3 Episode 3 - The Eagle's Nest

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Once Hitler seizes power in 1933, he transforms his Alpine retreat in the sleepy district of Obersalzberg in Bavaria into a vast mansion called the Berghof. The area becomes a magnet for the most powerful Nazis and Hitler's Berghof a show piece for ...
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Season 3 Episode 2 - Lightning War Machine

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In the first years of WWII, Hitler's Germany crushed its enemies in a series of lightning offensives. Extraordinary ruins scattered across Europe tell the story of a revolution in tactics and weapons which almost gives Hitler the chance to create hi...
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Season 3 Episode 1 - Hitler's Island Megafortress

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Nazi Megastructures returns with a third series that uncovers the hidden remains of some of Hitler’s most ambitious projects, telling the stories of the engineers that built them and revealing how these structures changed warfare forever. In June 19...
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Season 2 Episode 6 - Kamikaze Suicide Bombers

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As American forces close in on Japan in 1944, the Japanese turn to desperate new tactics: killer planes, rocket bombs, and super torpedoes guided not by machines, but by human pilots. Along Japans coast, the experts explore caves, overgrown bunkers,...
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Season 2 Episode 5 - Hitler's Megaships

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Hitler's Megaships - Germany is on the rise and Hitler has plans for world domination. He sees the battleship as the ultimate status symbol for his new Third Reich, and orders two vessels to be constructed that are bigger, more powerful, and more he...
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Season 2 Episode 4 - Himmler's Ss

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Himmler's SS - As Hitler's power grows within Nazi Germany, so does that of the Schutzstaffel, or SS. The SS has humble beginnings in the 1920s as the Fuhrer's personal body guard, but it also engineers Hitler's vision for a new Germany and a pure A...
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Season 2 Episode 3 - The Wolf's Lair

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The Wolf's Lair - As European countries fall like dominoes to the all-conquering German armies, Hitler becomes convinced of his own military genius. He plans to invade Russia and orders the construction of a huge, heavily protected command complex o...
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Season 2 Episode 2 - Hitler's Siegfried Line

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Hitler's Siegfried Line - More than 390 miles long, Hitler's Siegfried Line was one of the greatest fortifications in the history of warfare. The campaign to breach it took more than six months and cost the American forces 140,000 casualties. This ...
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