The Nazis allow a film to be made that documents the infrastructure behind the holocaust. Recorded without sound, it provides a glimpse of their worst crime. Rise of the Nazis s4e2: The Manhunt: The Ratline, BBC 2023
The man who organised this transport network was SS Officer Adolf Eichmann. After the war Eichmann was still at large. ibid.
‘Eichmann is one of the most terrifying Nazis. Eichmann encapsulates the essence of Nazism.’ ibid. Dr Christian Soeschel
He obtains false papers … He manages to escape and goes into hiding. ibid.
Eichmann is just one of thousands of wanted Nazis who remain at large. But the hunt is on to find them. ibid.
‘Barbie: He is on his own. He has no place to go. His greatest fear is getting caught and being executed for his crimes. And that is a real possibility.’ ibid. historian
The Americans find Barbie a new home. And offer him a generous monthly salary. ibid.
Armed with false papers, Klaus Barbie and his family travel along the secret escape route the Ratline, used to smuggle wanted Nazis out of danger. ibid.
Draganovic tells Barbie he has already helped many wanted war criminals flee to South America in the hope that the Nazis may one day return and rise again. ibid.
1968: West Germany is now a prosperous democracy … Many former Nazis who have returned to positions of power in Germany … against the backdrop of a world that wants to forget and move on. Rise of the Nazis s4e3: The Manhunt: The Reckoning
But there are a handful of people still determined to bring the thousands of Nazi war criminals still at large to justice. ibid.
One high-ranking Nazi is about to be released from a 20-year prison sentence: Albert Speer. ibid.
Against a backdrop of collective amnesia in West Germany, former Nazis are doing very well for themselves. ibid.
World War II and Hitler plunged the world into chaos killing seventy million people. It seemed there was nothing the Nazis wouldn’t do in pursuit of global domination. History tells us one thing but could that be wrong? Conspiracy s1e2: The Nazis, History 2019
Did World War II really mark the end of Hitler’s reign of terror? Did the Nazi devise a post-war Europe that even today would undermine Britain? And could Hitler, history’s worst mass murderer, have gotten away with it? ibid.
‘I believe that at the end of April 1945 the real Hitler along with Eva Braun were spirited out of the bunker where they escaped.’ ibid. Gerard Williams, journalist
Body doubles were widely used in the Second World War … It’s not clear if the dead man was a Hitler body double or not, but the fact is no-one reported finding the body of the real Adolf Hitler in 1945. ibid.
A suspicion shared at the highest levels: Stalin refused to believe that Hitler had died. The same is true of Eisenhower. ibid.
2009: An American pathologist ran DNA tests on a piece of the skull fragment held by the Russians ... Since then, the Russians have refused to allow anyone else access to the captured remains. ibid.
A year after the U-boats turned up in Argentina, Washington ordered the battle-fleet to the South Pole. ibid.
Did the Nazis burn down their own parliament so they could seize power in Germany? Conspiracy s1e5: The Lockerbie Plot
The Nazis blamed the communists for the fire, but many believe the Nazis started it themselves to demonise the communists and terrify the German people into accepting Nazi rule. ibid.
By his own testimony, as recorded in the pages of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler was a fully formed volkisch German nationalist from an early age … Hitler is personified as the architect of the occult aspects of Nazi party doctrine, but was he really the sole driving force behind this bizarre phenomenon? Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e4: Hitler & the Occult
In every major city cults devoted to spiritualism, astrology, magic and the occult flourished among the disciples of Life Reform. ibid.
‘Racism was one of the fundamental values of the Volkisch movement.’ ibid. Bob Curruthers
The founder of the Theosophic society … The outlandish ideas of Helena Patrovna Blavatsky centred on the idea that there was lost Aryan races which she claimed had perished with the destruction of the lost city of Atlantis. ibid.
A more noble and heroic age … The myth of the Aryan race was readily accepted and was by 1905 so familiar it had become a self-evident truth. ibid.
Pseudo-Masonic principles were quickly added to the eclectic mix of the mystical and the romantic to produce a powerful sense of purpose for what were essentially a pretty disparate bunch of nonsensical ideas. ibid.
‘Hitler did not at any time refer to this design as a swastika.’ ibid. Curruthers
Der Stermer, a viciously anti-Semitic Third Reich journal, published by Julius Streicher in the 1920s.’ ibid. Curruthers
Guido von List … An elite class of priest-rulers … ‘Why do you seek a hell in the next world? Is not the Hell in which we live and which burns inside us sufficiently dreadful?’ ibid.
The mature Hitler clearly recorded his feelings of antipathy toward these diverse Volkisch groups at characteristic length in the pages of Mein Kampf. ibid.
‘Heinrich Himmler was the real driving force behind the adoption of the more obscure and often downright lunatic ideas which were officially sanctioned during the Nazi era. This had very little to do with Hitler.’ ibid. Curruthers
To harmonize science, art and ethics into an occult religion devoted to the purification of the Aryan race in all countries of the world. ibid.
He [Himmler] foresaw a modern brotherhood of Knights Templar dedicated to a quest for a new type of spirituality and seeking a new belief system for Germany on which a new master race could be founded. ibid.
Hitler and Himmler were both bitterly opposed to the Freemasons. ibid.
By 1906 Hitler’s father had died … In 1927 Klara Hitler died. Hitler was obviously distraught. Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e5: Hitler the Drifter
The exact narrative of Hitler’s stay in Vienna becomes impossible to piece together. Hitler found himself friendless and alone. ibid.
It would appear that Hitler had undertaken a series of manual jobs to earn what money he could … He was clearly unsuited to manual labour. ibid.
Policemen arrived at his home to inform Hitler that he was now faced with the immediate prospect of having to report for military service … He failed his medical examination. ibid.
Hitler the recent Austro-Hungarian reject volunteered for service in the Bavarian army. ibid.
That is not to say that Hitler was popular … Hitler was excessive in his dedicated to duty. ibid.
In the pages of Mein Kampf, Hitler recalled the violent events surrounding the launch of the Nazi manifesto. Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e6: Hitler & The Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler was an advocate of political violence. ibid.
‘Hitler didn’t believe that the party could progress through compromise.’ ibid. Curruthers
The Hitler Gang 1944: ‘We must appeal to their emotions … Give them a scapegoat. Someone to blame. Someone to hate.’ ibid. Hitler to gang
Hitler’s enthusiasm for political violence was perverse and rather juvenile. ibid.
The Hitler Gang 1944: ‘I feel my strength growing with every breath.’ ibid. Hitler