Germany is losing the war. Destruction now rains down on the homeland … And Hitler is spiralling out of control … The Nazis’ illusion starts to crack. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e8: Plots & Delusions
The plotters are now ready with a plan to seize power … By early July Stauffenberg is ready to assassinate the Fuhrer. ibid.
By the autumn of 1944 Hitler has few military options … Support at home is ebbing away. ibid.
It’s the endgame for Nazi Germany. As the allies advance on all sides Hitler’s thousand-year Reich built on illusion and delusion is crumbling. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e9: End Game
Hitler is a shadow of the man he once was. ibid.
As the Red Army advances on Berlin, preparations are being made for Hitler’s 56th birthday. ibid.
‘It’s a brutal nasty death and quite fitting actually.’ ibid. expert
1945: Germany is defeated. Now the awful reality of what Adolf Hitler and his cronies have been up to is revealed. Germany has been brainwashed and committed the most heinous crimes in history. Nazis: Evolution of Evil s1e10: Aftermath
The allies need to undo years of Nazi indoctrination. ibid.
An unprecedented step – to put them on trial for war crimes. ibid.
Adolf Hitler is the very personification of evil … The most malevolent dictator the world has ever seen. Evolution of Evil s1e2: Hitler: The Benchmark of Evil, 2015
For the Fuhrer he and the German state are one. What he wants, it wants. ibid.
‘Wherever I went I now saw Jews … and became an anti-Semite.’ ibid. Hitler
He is blinded by a British gas attack. ibid.
In 1933 the Nazis become the largest party in parliament. ibid.
Within six weeks Poland is crushed. ibid.
By December 1941 his final solution is underway. ibid.
The Jews are made responsible for their own misery. ibid.
No plunder however was as great or as well organised as just that executed by Nazi Germany in World War II. From the moment he was democratically elected in 1933 Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party lieutenants used their power to personally enrich themselves. Secrets of War s1e5: Nazi Gold
Hitler needed accomplices in Switzerland’s banking community. ibid.
Stealing the gold was only the first part: then the Nazis had to launder it. ibid.
Thus began the tracking down of Nazis: those who had managed to elude punishment … were hunted down all over the world by exceptional characters such as Simon Wiesenthal … They have been tracking down Nazis for 60 years. Hunting Down the Nazis I, Yesterday 2017
As the camps were liberated many Kapos were lynched on the spot … other prisoners helped identify them. ibid.
The [Nuremberg] trial will last a whole year. ibid.
For the first time a definition of Crimes Against Humanity is given in international law. ibid.
Wiesenthal has created a net of surviving victims who write to him from all over the world. ibid.
Eichmann: He is in Argentina. The net of former deportees now locates him in Buenos Aires … Israel wants Eichmann alive. Hunting Down the Nazis II
The Eichmann trial will last six months and arouse the entire world’s acute interest. ibid.
Mengele – the Auschwitz physician … in May 1960 the Mossad almost succeeded in getting him on the same plane as Eichmann. ibid.
Speer has become a true living museum of Nazism. ibid.
Kurt Lischka: Again, a quiet easy-living Nazi … Lischka: sentenced to ten years. ibid.
The Barbie trial starts and it is an historical moment more than four decades after the fall of Nazism. ibid.
Johann Reichhart was the most famous executioner in Nazi Germany. In a career which spans just over twenty years it was said that he put over 3,000 people to death. Jamie Theakston’s Forbidden History s4e1: Hitler’s Executioner: Johann Reichhart, 2017
A family of executioners that went back eight generations. ibid.
20 guillotines were secretly ordered and distributed to prisons across the Reich. ibid.
Out of the ashes of World War I Germany is crying out for a saviour … This small gang of misfits and heroes find each other in the violence and mis-enchantment of their broken nation, and their hunger for vengeance would inspire them to commit the worst crimes in history. Hitler’s Circle of Evil s1e1: Heroes & Misfits, History 2018
In early 1919 [Dietrich] Eckart and the Thules Society’ occultists launch their plan to spread their right-wing message. They form a fledgling political group. ibid.
Eckart has handed Hitler complete control of the Nazi party. ibid.
The coup has ended in complete disaster. ibid.
Winter 1923: A failed Nazi coup has left Hitler’s band of followers broken and split … From the chaos a new voice will galvanize the party and help lay the foundations for an empire of evil. Hitler’s Circle of Evil s1e2: Regrouping
Hess is thrilled to have fought beside his beloved Hitler. ibid.
[Ernst] Rohm: the disgraced army officer has created his own private army. ibid.
In 1928 the fledgling Nazi party is reeling from election and struggling for legitimacy. But global events will throw them a lifeline. Propaganda man Joseph Goebbels devotes himself to tireless electioneering, while former war hero Hermann Goering gets a foothold in parliament … One of them will be destroyed. Hitler’s Circle of Evil s1e3: The Fall of Roehm
America hands this group the national calamity they have been predicting. ibid.
1930: They’re on the map and as the second biggest party in parliament people are taking notice. ibid.
But the SA, in direct competition with the SS, are a major obstacle to his plans. ibid.
Now it’s open season on Rohm and his SA. ibid.
1933: The Nazis are in power. Now they want to turn their twisted ideologies into a reality. Spinmaster Joseph Goebbels turns on the Jews. But his most dangerous enemies are within the inner circle. Among them is Hermann Goering. Hitler’s Circle of Evil s1e4: The Rise of Anti-Semitism
The concentration camp is established specifically to detain enemies of the Nazi state, near Munich and Dachau. The majority are left-wing political opponents along with some Jewish activists. ibid.
Hundreds of synagogues are burnt to the ground. Houses and businesses are ransacked. Nearly 100 Jews are murdered. Over 30,000 are dragged off to concentration camps: for them the horrors have only just begun. ibid.
It’s 1935: as the Nazis make their first moves on the European stage the fortunes of some leaders are up and some are down. Hitler’s Circle of Evil s1e5: The Berghof Set
It’s Rudolf Hess who is the biggest loser. And now they are joined by a dangerous new player: Martin Bormann, cunning and ruthless. ibid.
Speer gets his way and his so-called Cathedral of Light becomes an iconic image of Nazi propaganda. ibid.
Goebbels has created a wave of euphoria in Germany and is in Hitler’s good books. ibid.
Eva is kept out of sight, a closely guarded secret from the German people. ibid.
Throughout 1938 the jostling in the Fuhrer’s entourage continues. ibid.
As Nazi Germany marches ever closer to total war the pressure is on for the leaders of the Third Reich. Hitler’s Circle of Evil s1e6: The Madness of Rudolf Hess
The biggest leader is deputy fuhrer Rudolf Hess. ibid.
His commitment to Hitler is fanatical … Of all Hitler’s courtiers he feels the least able to influence unfolding events. ibid.
His outlandish plan is to go behind the Fuhrer’s back, fly to Britain and try to meet an influential contact who he hopes will introduce him to Winston Churchill. ibid.
One of the most fanatical figures within Hitler’s inner circle – SS boss Heinrich Himmler. To make his dreams a reality, Himmler has within his SS the most ruthless Nazi of them all – his name is Reinhard Heydrich. Hitler’s Circle of Evil s1e7: The Rise and Fall of Reinhard Heydrich
Heydrich’s meteoric rise will make him a target both inside and outside Hitler’s inner circle. ibid.