Drug abuse, sex stimulants, and psychological breakdowns. ibid.
Theodor Morell was the Fuhrer’s trusted personal doctor for nine years. ibid.
A Fuhrer off his face. A hapless hypochondriac, a higher Hitler. ibid.
A possible march to mental deterioration … Hitler himself suffered a fateful breakdown long before he became Fuhrer. ibid.
‘Neurotic bordering on psychotic. Masochistic tendencies. And strong sexual perversions’. ibid. Hitler’s medical file
As well as eczema, the Fuhrer was stricken with stomach cramps and chronic flatulence. ibid.
As well as pills and potions he gave Hitler sex hormone injections, some extracted from the prostate glands of young bulls. ibid.
Strychnine, or rat poisoning, in the Fuhrer’s anti-gas pills. An oil which we use to clean gun barrels in another gastric medication that had been banned for human consumption. ibid.
Hitler was riding high in 1941. ibid.
The so-called Wolf’s Lair … The dictator was brought down by a sudden bout of giddiness. ibid.
Up to 28 different potions and pills Hitler swallowed every day. ibid.
‘Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.’ ibid. Professor Richard Evans
[Dr Theodor] Morell first noted Hitler’s tremor in 1941 and put it down to stress. ibid.
A man who destroyed millions of lives did so in the belief that his actions were sane and rational. ibid.
A ghostly hulk … yet this crumbling tomb was once the pride of the Nazi fleet. Nazi Underworld s2e3: The Ghost of U-513
A U-boat sunk off the coast of his native Brazil … The legend that vanished under the waves in 1943 – a lone wolf – the U-513. ibid.
Three in four U-boats never made it home. ibid.
By 1945 the Nazis were on the run. The allies were flying high … Fear grew of a last-ditch Nazi fight-back in the Alps. Nazi Underworld s2e4: Nazi Gold
An alpine fortress stretching into northern Austria … Fear of wonder-weapons was understandable. ibid.
Senior Nazis gathered in the alps. ibid.
The old mining tunnels were ideal places to build weapons. ibid.
The world’s first long-range ballistic missile ... More than a thousand V2s were fired at Britain … Killed almost three thousand people. ibid.
German airfields and factories were overrun. ibid.
Hundreds of millions of dollars of government and private treasure was shipped south. ibid.
The treasures were sent to salt mines for safe keeping. ibid.
Four infamous Second World War special operations that were not what they seemed. Nazi Underworld s2e5: Deadly Missions of World War II
Il Duce disappeared in captivity … Much of Italy was in chaos. ibid.
In Nazi occupied territories like the former Czechoslovakia thousands were tortured or murdered by German occupiers. In 1941 SS security chief Reinhard Heydrich ruled the so-called protectorate with an iron fist. ibid.
1933 marks the beginning of the darkest chapter in German history. Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party assume power in Germany. Chronicle of the Third Reich I II III IV, H2 2013
His hatred of Jews knows no limit. ibid.
The Germans subjugate half the European continent and systematically loot the defeated countries. ibid.
The Social Democrats do not attend the staged event; two days later they are the only party in the Reichstag to vote against Hitler’s enabling act which will systematically strip Germany of the last remnants of democracy. Stormtroopers and police hunt down Social Democrat and Communist functionaries: thousands are murdered or interned in so-called protective custody camps. ibid.
During the first year of his rule Hitler has paid little attention to foreign politics. ibid.
From now on Hitler is the Fuhrer and Chancellor of all Germans. ibid.
The Nazis have been secretly rearming Germany. ibid.
The Germans become a nation of informers. ibid.
Even after almost four years of Nazi rule, sceptics exist among the Germans. ibid.
23rd August: Ribbentrop flies to Moscow to conclude the treaty with a major ideological enemy of the Nazis. ibid.
The Fuhrer is always close to the front ... Hitler is in his element. ibid.
As of November 1939 all Jews have to wear a white armband with a blue Star of David. ibid.
A triumphant Hitler takes a tour around occupied Paris at Dawn. ibid.
Nazi Germany is in a state of triumphant euphoria ... Germans enjoy the summer [1940]. ibid.
The influence of Hitler’s Deputy, Rudolf Hess, has been dwindling since the start of the war. ibid.
The British intensify their air-raids on cities in the Third Reich. ibid.
Nazi Germany sends its U-Boats to the US coast. ibid.
Over one million soldiers from the Russian campaign are dead, missing or captured. ibid.
Rommel distances himself more and more from the Fuhrer. ibid.
8th February: The propaganda minister delivers his famous Total War speech. ibid.
Hitler’s ruthless SS: masters of destruction and plunder. Their biggest heist was the amber room. It is the greatest piece of missing art in the world, and if found could be worth a quarter of a billion dollars. Could the amber room still exist? Mystery Investigator: Olly Steeds: Nazi Treasure, Discovery 2010
It took them [the Nazis] just two weeks to reach Leningrad. But in what appeared to be a well-planned operation they headed straight to seize the amber room. It took them just thirty-six hours to dismantle, and to pack it in twenty-six wooden crates and ship it to Konigsberg. With a German curator in charge the stolen panels were reassembled and put on display in Konigsberg Castle ... Not a single trace of amber was ever found. ibid.
Twenty mummies lost during World War II discovered by chance ... Why did Hitler’s scientists care about ancient death ... What were they trying to prove? Mystery Investigator: Olly Steeds: Hitler’s Mummies
To prove that an Aryan master race really had existed SS scientists mounted expeditions all over the world: to Iran, and Finland and even to remote Tibet in the middle of winter, to prove that Aryans had conquered the Himalayas long ago. ibid.
The SS did have an interest in mummies. In fact, Heinrich Himmler used European mummies to justify some of his most genocidal policies. ibid.
Japan’s devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged America into war. But it was Hitler who struck ever closer to home. U-boat wolfpacks prowled the Atlantic and stalked America’s east coast sending ships and crews to the bottom. Hitler’s Secret Attack on America, National Geographic 2012
A forgotten battlefield ... The graveyard of the Atlantic. It’s a treacherous stretch of water. ibid.
Hitler ordered his wolfpacks to blast American shipping. ibid.
Every U-boat received top secret orders decrypted on the infamous Enigma coding machine. ibid.
Much of the American navy was deployed in the Pacific. ibid.
Large merchant ships were sitting ducks ... German U-boats ruled the waves. ibid.
In America news of the losses on her own doorstep was oppressed. ibid.
Hundreds of ships. Millions of tons of cargo. And thousands of lives were lost. ibid.
This film reveals Hitler’s secret plans to attack the USA. How his engineers worked day and night to develop innovative weapons of mass destruction. Hitler’s 9/11, Channel 5 2013
He ordered his armaments minister Albert Speer to come up with alternative ways to mount an assault on America. ibid.