Nazi Mega Weapons

2013 • PBS
4.8
56 reviews
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Season 2 episodes (3)

1 Super Tanks
4/30/14
Season-only
From PBS - Hitler's megalomaniacal impulses led him to demand the construction of the largest tank the world had ever seen -- a mobile fortress weighing 180 tons. But even this colossus couldn't satisfy Hitler's thirst for enormous weapons of war, as he went on to request a land battleship weighing 1,000 tons. This is the story of the Nazi engineers tasked with fulfilling that dream, and an arms race that resulted in the evolution of super-guns and tanks.
2 Jet Fighter Me262
5/7/14
Season-only
From PBS - Explore the most technologically advanced plane of World War II, the Messerschmitt Me262, a fighter jet that inspired a revolution in aerial warfare. Learn the remarkable story of an awe-inspiring aircraft, the subterranean bat-cave where it was built and the battle for air supremacy that decided the fate of the war.
3 Fortress Berlin
5/14/14
Season-only
From PBS - April 1945. Hitler is in the center of Berlin, 10 meters underground, surrounded by four-meter thick concrete walls, safe from any air attack the Allies can throw at him. But the Russians are advancing on the ground — the Red Army is lined up along the Oder River and going for the Führer. Blocking the way are rings of ingenious defenses, kill zones and strong-points that have turned Berlin into a fortress. At the heart of this fortress is the Führerbunker.

About this show

From PBS - In the quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history. With brilliant, dark minds and a legion of slave labor at their disposal, the Nazis believed the path to ultimate victory was to out-build and out-engineer their enemies. To them, bigger definitely meant better, and better meant more lethal. As Hitler's grip on Europe tightened, he ordered men like Wernher von Braun, Ferdinand Porsche and Alfried Krupp to build increasingly outlandish machines and structures to realize his master plan. Creating huge terror machines, hi-tech superguns and some of the original weapons of mass destruction to control a nation, conquer a continent and win the war. This is World War II told from a new perspective. The series uncovers the engineering secrets of six iconic mega-structures, tells the stories of the evil geniuses that designed them and reveals how these structures sparked a technological revolution that changed warfare forever.

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4.8
56 reviews
Jeff Ivey
March 28, 2015
The documentary shows the length the Nazis would go to win. It's amazing
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yasmina abidi
March 29, 2016
This really delivers the tank episode is best they had some good ideas as far as weapons anyway
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Roninaz
April 22, 2017
Loved every episode. Things that were not in the history books.
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