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Hitler's bodyguard - Season 1

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.

Top Cast

  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler

    Self (archive footage)

  • Joseph Goebbels

    Joseph Goebbels

    Self (archive footage)

  • Hermann Göring

    Hermann Göring

    Self (archive footage)

  • Heinrich Himmler

    Heinrich Himmler

    Self (archive footage)

  • Reinhard Heydrich

    Reinhard Heydrich

    Self (archive footage)

  • Claus von Stauffenberg

    Claus von Stauffenberg

    Self (archive footage)

  • Erwin Rommel

    Erwin Rommel

    Self (archive footage)

  • Martin Bormann

    Martin Bormann

    Self (archive footage)

  • Adolf Eichmann

    Adolf Eichmann

    Self (archive footage)

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.

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