Nazi Megastructures

In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history. This is the stories of the engineers who designed them and how these structures sparked a technological revolution that changed warfare forever.

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 0h 45m

Release: 2013

Rating: 7.5

Season 1 - Nazi Megastructures
2013-11-18
"This is the story of the greatest fortification project of the 20th century, Hitler\u2019s ambitious Atlantic Wall, and the ultimate test it faced on D-Day."
2013-11-18
"This episode relates the development of the first ever space missiles used by the Nazis as destructive wonder-weapons to bomb the Allies into resignation and the rocket engineer who set the groundwork for the moon landing."
2013-11-25
"This episode describes the immense and impenetrable concrete and steel submarine pens that the Nazis built to protect their precious and deadly U-boats from Allied attacks."
2013-12-02
"The story of Nazi engineers tasked with fulfilling Hitler's megalomaniac demand for the construction of a land battleship weighing 1,000 tons."
2013-12-09
"Explore the story behind one of the most advanced aeroplanes of WWII, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the subterranean bat-cave where it was built."
2013-12-16
"April 1945. Safe in his heavily fortified F\u00fchrerbunker in the center of Berlin, Hitler prepares for the Allies' final attack."
Season 2 - Nazi Megastructures
2015-01-20
"A secret headquarters of concrete and steel is the heart of Hitler\u2019s plans for domination and the key to a Nazi conspiracy - the Wolf\u2019s Lair."
2015-01-27
"The Bismarck and Tirpitz were battleships of record breaking proportions, ultimate status symbols of the Third Reich and hunted by the Allies."
2015-02-03
"In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest, deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history."
2015-02-10
"In retaliation for Allied bombing raids, Hitler ordered the development of the V1. The first cruise missile, it changed the face of war forever."
2015-02-17
"As America closes in on Japan in 1944, the Japanese turn to desperate new tactics: killer planes and super torpedoes guided by human pilots."
2015-02-24
"The campaign to breach Hitler's 400 mile-long Siegfried Line took more than six months and cost the American forces 140,000 casualties."
Season 3 - Nazi Megastructures
03 May 2016
"The design, construction and use of Hitler's retreat in the Bavarian Alps, Eagle's Nest."
10 May 2016
"In yet another example of Hilter's folly he orders impregnable fortresses built on the Channel Islands. Despite the incredible expense of construction the fortifications prove useless when ..."
11 May 2016
"Guderian's book \"Achtung Panzer\" introduces the concept of the combined arms offensive. Hitler seizes upon it as the way to use modern weapons technology in Germany's tradition of fighting ..."
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"U-boat innovations that were advanced well beyond any other submarine designs of WW2, including the Walter propulsion system, the Type XVII the Type XXI."
31 May 2016
"The design, construction and operational history of the two greatest battleships ever built - the Japanese super-battleships Yamato and Musashi."
07 Jun 2016
"Details the formidable Japanese defenses on the island of Okinawa during WW2, and the ultimate test of them."
Season 4 - Nazi Megastructures
2017-07-17
"The Nazi empire ran on trains, from the personal trains of the leadership to the locomotives and service depots that serviced the network."
2017-07-24
"Railways were key to the planning and implementation of the Final Solution, used to bring victims to the death camps from all over Europe."
2017-07-31
"The fortifications the Nazis built in northern Italy were meant to slow the Allied advance. Now the team reconstructs their extent and depth."
2017-08-07
"After invading Norway in the spring of 1940, Nazi armed forces proceeded to fortify the entire country for war against Britain and the Soviet Union."
2017-08-14
"The war was lost long before it ended, but the Nazi propaganda apparatus was designed to keep that truth from its subjects for as long as possible."
2017-08-21
"The German air force was the most powerful and largest in Europe at the beginning of World War II, and it played a key part in Hitler's conquests."
Season 5 - Nazi Megastructures
2019-01-07
"From a bold idea through months of preparation, training, innovations and clever ruses, this is the story of Japan\u2019s surprise WWII attack on Hawaii."
2019-01-14
"June 1944, Japanese fighters are preparing for a battle. But if they lose, a deadly weapon will be aimed at their country for the first time."
2019-01-21
"Spring 1944 and the Germans know an attack is coming but what they get is a fascinating game of cat and mouse all the way up to 6th June, D-Day."
2019-01-28
"September 1944 on Peleliu, Japanese soldiers build an island-wide structure creating a killing zone that lead to the death of thousands of Americans."
2019-02-04
"Hitler\u2019s final attempt to win the war was a surprise winter attack. What resulted were some of the worst war crimes ever committed against America."
2019-02-11
"This is the story of Japan's final months in WWII - when America threatened to invade and Japan unleashed a terrifying new weapon, suicide bombers."
Season 6 - Nazi Megastructures
2019-11-13
"May 1940 and the Nazi war machine reaches the English Channel. Hitler plans to destroy Britain's air power and land troops in southern England."
2019-11-20
"Hitler's fight for the skies sees the Reich adopt a policy of 'Total War'. With every man woman and child pushed into producing ever more aircraft and munitions. The result is one of the most effective air defence systems the world has ever seen. One that came very close to destroying the might of the US 8th Army Airforce."
2019-11-27
"Guadalcanal is the glittering prize of the Pacific. Japan are determined to seize the island and build an airfield on it. But the US have their eyes on it, too. Whoever controls Guadalcanal will dominate the region and, with it, potentially win the Second World War. It's the catalyst for one of the most bloody and brutal episodes of World War Two."
2019-12-04
"1942, Japan has captured oil rich Burma to secure its growing empire's future. But with its navy decimated at the Battle of Midway it needs a new supply route. The result is a 258 mile railway cut through the toughest terrain known to man. All built using the blood and guts of 200,000 Allied POWs and local laborers. Half of them will die on the tracks or in the terrible camps nearby."
2019-12-11
"place in the deserts of North Africa. Armed with one of the most famous generals of WWII, Erwin Rommel, Hitler takes on the Allies across Tunisia, Libya and Egypt - in a brutal campaign that pushed the British to their limits and would dictate the course of the war."
2019-12-18
"When allied spies plant false documents on a corpse, they are carrying out one of the most audacious deceptions of World War II. Operation Mincemeat ensures that the allied invasion of Sicily takes the Nazis totally by surprise. With few reinforcements, German troops must now make clever use of the island's rugged landscape to attempt a fighting retreat to the Italian mainland - and safety."