Overview
Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of fifty million people. An entire nation followed him to ruin. Over a tumultuous 12 years Adolf Hitler went from being a minor rabble-rousing politician, to supreme leader of Nazi Germany. He was hated by those he persecuted, and even by some of his own commanders - yet in twenty-five years no one managed to kill him. This program shows how Hitler's bodyguards helped him cheat death on many occasions. They expanded from a handful of thugs recruited to protect political meetings and fight opponents on the streets, to many thousands - including some of the most fearsome secret police and paramilitary forces the world has ever known.
Cast
- Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)
- Joseph Goebbels as Self (archive footage)
- Hermann Göring as Self (archive footage)
- Heinrich Himmler as Self (archive footage)
- Reinhard Heydrich as Self (archive footage)
- Claus von Stauffenberg as Self (archive footage)
- Erwin Rommel as Self (archive footage)
- Martin Bormann as Self (archive footage)
- Adolf Eichmann as Self (archive footage)
- Rudolf Hess as Self (archive footage)