Well put together series using both actors and historical films and stills. This is essential viewing for anyone who doesn't have good knowledge if the atrocities committed by Germany in WWIi which should never be forgotten or forgiven. Illustrates just how pathetic virtually all the Nazis are after the war, hardly the master race they liked to think they were.
4 Reviews
Kind of frustrated
nickenchuggets1 May 2021
This is one of the few modern shows I actually like. I find it to be well researched and full of information that ww2 aficionados will find intriguing, but it does have a couple of mistakes that I really don't like about it. For one thing, this show no longer seems to be available digitally which means you have to physically pay a corporation or streaming service in order to watch it. I managed to find a couple of its episodes on some backwater website with a russian url but it's an alternate version with a british sounding narrator instead of an american one, which may sound like just a preference related thing but the latter talks much more clearly. I tried searching for it on fios and they don't have it either, even though I know it used to be on AHC. I have a few of them on my dvr that I refuse to delete, but there's still about 7 or 8 I never watched. The show itself goes into detail about various war criminals in nazi Germany and other notorious men who helped the third reich become perhaps the biggest terror in the 20th century. Not everyone featured is a war criminal though. There is an episode on Wernher von Braun who, after the war, was apprehended by the americans and employed at NASA in order to land men on the moon by the end of the 1960s. During the war, he was a major in the SS and helped build Hitler's weapons of mass destruction, the most infamous of which is the v2, a 45 foot tall rocket which was the first man made object to reach space. Disturbingly, v2s launched at London by the germans moved so fast that the explosion would be heard first, followed by the supersonic crack of the missile as it broke the sound barrier. Von Braun's nazi past and dedication to Hitler is largely forgiven and forgotten, but most of the people featured on the show do not escape punishment. In all, this is a good show for those who like history, but it is frustrating how I can't find it anywhere, and because of that it narrowly avoids getting a perfect score.
Interesting
electronica-uk19 September 2021
The Grimmest Documentary You Will Ever See
reymunpadilla2 May 2024
Do not see this if you are at all sensitive to human suffering. Do not see it before you sleep. It is nightmarish in its unflinching depiction of atrocities. Children tortured, piles of bodies, people starved to death, executions in vivid detail.
Obviously this is incredibly important to see and understand, the level of inhumanity inherent in genocide. But again, be warned the films of the camps will leave you shaken for hours after.
Once the Holocaust itself and the trials are no longer the subject, the series is very interesting and admirably detailed. Highly recommended, but with caution.
Obviously this is incredibly important to see and understand, the level of inhumanity inherent in genocide. But again, be warned the films of the camps will leave you shaken for hours after.
Once the Holocaust itself and the trials are no longer the subject, the series is very interesting and admirably detailed. Highly recommended, but with caution.
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