Nazi Mega Weapons

2013 ā€¢ PBS
4.8
56 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (3)

1 Atlantic Wall
7/17/13
Season-only
From PBS - Hitler demanded the construction of a defensive wall stretching thousands of kilometers from France in the south to Norway in the north. This is the story of how Hitler's Atlantic Wall sucked in huge quantities of raw materials and men and faced its ultimate test on D-Day.
2 U-Boat Base
7/24/13
Season-only
From PBS - Examine the impenetrable submarine pens the Nazis built to protect U-boats from Allied attacks. Such was their size and strength that these pens survive today, a testament to their engineering.
3 V2 Rocket
7/31/13
Season-only
From PBS - The first ever long-rangeĀ  rockets were designed and built by the Nazis in a network of top secret research labs, underground silos and hi-tech launch pads. This is the story of how scientist Werner von Braun heralded the birth of ballistic missiles and laid the technological foundations for the space race.

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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