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01 Jan
A secret weapons programme in the heart of Austria could have ended badly for the Allies and may have indicated nuclear plans being concocted by Hitler.
01 Jan
Explore the invasion of Poland at the start of World War II and the creation of the Underground Army, a resistance movement that became the most powerful of its kind in Europe.
01 Jan
Giles Milton visits key D-Day sites along the Normandy coastline - including Omaha Beach and Pegasus Bridge - and we hear the stories of the men and women on both the attacking and defensive lines.
01 Jan
Giles Milton guides us round Normandy - the place where the D-Day invasion proved successful - from the gliders who went behind enemy lines to paratroopers who ambushed vital German generals.
01 Jan
The historical kingdom of Benin in Africa was destroyed in 1897; with its city burned to the ground and precious artefacts looted, did this bloody and violent end lead to a curse?
01 Jan
Why would anyone make a hat decorated with human teeth, and can a golden quiver from a Macedonian tomb prove the existence of the mythical Amazonian female warriors?
01 Jan
One of the richest men on Earth, Aristotle Onassis left a string of broken hearts in his wake, but no romance would catapult him into the limelight like his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.
01 Jan
The Grimaldi family has held their posts as sovereigns of Monaco with the utmost grace, but one thing they have missed time and again is good luck in the love department.
01 Jan
The name Rockefeller is synonymous with wealth, power, and American politics. Generation after generation has been marked by tragedy; is there a debt to pay for their money-motivated actions?
01 Jan
The first episode takes us from the Titanic's construction in Belfast to the final photograph of the ship as she sails into the North Atlantic.
01 Jan
Artefacts at an auction of Titanic memorabilia in the south of England prove that fascination with the Titanic shows no sign of waning over a century after the sinking of the ship.
01 Jan
How could a nobody become a dictator and bring down a democracy in just a few years, what crucial events helped Hitler gain respectability and influence, and who were his supporters?
01 Jan
How did Hitler succeed in transforming a republic into a 'Führer state' in such a short time, how did the 'enforced conformity' of society take place, and how willingly did the Germans fall in line?
01 Jan
Hitler had outwardly emphasised his will for peace, yet he committed his top commanders once he came to power to a war of extermination that would secure the German Reich's supremacy in Europe.
01 Jan
The struggle for victory necessitated development of gun technologies; new inventions would emerge on the battlefields and at times surprise soldiers on both sides of the fight.
01 Jan
A secret weapons programme in the heart of Austria could have ended badly for the Allies and may have indicated nuclear plans being concocted by Hitler.
01 Jan
Hitler used confrontations between economic crises and street violence to provoke the need for more authoritarian power; the 'ordinary man with political genius' became the 'Chancellor of Peace'.
01 Jan
Decoding tools reveal exchanges between the Führer and his allies; Hitler morphs from political leader to military strategist; the masters of the Reich unleash a world war in seven years.
01 Jan
We look at the conversations at the heart of German power; the deciphering of archive images allows us to understand the motivations of the Nazi regime in their conquest of Europe.
01 Jan
We look at the Nazi hegemony from 1941 to its decline in 1945; deciphered archives show us the greatest offensive of the 20th century in the East as well as the apocalypse of a ruined Germany.
01 Jan
January-May 1944: atop the hill in Monte Cassino lies an abbey whose commander has forbidden military use of; the abbey is reduced to rubble despite this and the fight claims over 200,000 deaths.
01 Jan
Explore the invasion of Poland at the start of World War II and the creation of the Underground Army, a resistance movement that became the most powerful of its kind in Europe.
01 Jan
Adolf Hitler was famously against using chemical and biological weapons, but chemistry and biological science still played an incredible role in the Nazis' unquenchable quest for power.
01 Jan
Giles Milton visits key D-Day sites along the Normandy coastline - including Omaha Beach and Pegasus Bridge - and we hear the stories of the men and women on both the attacking and defensive lines.
01 Jan
Giles Milton guides us round Normandy - the place where the D-Day invasion proved successful - from the gliders who went behind enemy lines to paratroopers who ambushed vital German generals.
01 Jan
Dictatorships are almost universally unsustainable; a dictator's thirst for power invariably leads to greater and greater oppression, leaving a nation broken and so all dictatorships eventually fall.
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