The SA and the appeal of the Nazis | Rise of the Nazis

01: Helped into Power | Nazis: A Warning from History

Documentary series examining how Hitler came to power. By January 1933, Germany had voted for a chancellor who was open...

S01E02: Hitler's Last Days | Days That Shook the World

A dramatised anatomy of the final hours of Adolf Hitler, based on accounts of five witnesses who were in a secret unde...

02: Chaos and Consent | Nazis: A Warning from History

A look at the extraordinary popularity of both Hitler and the Nazis, as well as the astonishing degree of voluntary sup...

S01E03: Night of the Long Knives | Rise of the Nazis

Threatened by the ambition of SA leader Ernst Röhm, Hitler is persuaded by Himmler to destroy Röhm and his stormtroopers...

20: Genocide | The World at War

This edition recounts Himmler's plans to realise Hitler's vision of a pure Aryan Germany. Narrated by Laurence Olivier.

S01E01: Politics | Rise of the Nazis

Delving into the corridors of power where Germany's top political mastermind sees an opportunity to use the popularity of the Nazis for ...

06: Liberation and Revenge | Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution

Last in series about the Nazi concentration camp looks at the fate of the remaining prisoners and th...

The Reichstag fire and the Enabling Act | Rise of the Nazis

Goring blames the communists for the Reichstag fire, giving Rohm and the SA an excuse to arrest what is left of t...

03: Factories of Death | Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution

With the increase in killing at Auschwitz and nearby Treblinka, people are showing tremendous courage, l...

Episode 2 | D-Day: The Last Heroes

The concluding part of historian Dan Snow's documentary series tells the powerful and heroic stories of those who risked their lives on th...

01: Surprise Beginnings | Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution

Explores the beginnings of Auschwitz, and how the camp was originally intended for a purpose very diffe...

S01E02: The First Six Months in Power | Rise of the Nazis

At the start of 1933, Hitler is the chancellor of Germany, but he does not have absolute power. He sets his sights ...

Downfall | Der Untergang (2004)

As defeat looms, the increasingly unhinged Adolf Hitler readies himself for the end and makes his final declarations to a dwindling crowd of ...

Himmler and the SS | Rise of the Nazis

Himmler and the black shirts (the SS) arrest thousands of political prisoners, and open the first 're-education' camp in Dachau.

The creation of the Gestapo | Rise of the Nazis

Himmler and Goring fight for control of the newly formed Gestapo, responsible for the preventative arrest of Jews, political ...

01: A New Germany | The World at War

Laurence Olivier narrates the acclaimed documentary series telling the story of World War II. Stricken by humiliating defeat and emergin...

02: Orders and Initiatives | Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution

Originally a Prisoner of War camp for Soviet soldiers, SS Commander Rudolf Hoss oversaw the transiti...

03: In the Shadow of Hitler | Art of Germany

Andrew Graham-Dixon concludes his exploration of German art by investigating the dark times of the 20th century, dominated by fa...

How Hitler becomes Chancellor | Rise of the Nazis

A coalition between von Papen and the Nazis lead to Hindenburg finally agreeing to appoint Hitler as Chancellor.

S19E03: Matt Lucas | Who Do You Think You Are?

Matt Lucas learns what his late grandmother went through as a Jew in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and what happened to the famil...