Product Description
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DVD 1: Hitlers Wrath - Program 1: Hitlers War - Rare archival
footage illustrates the chilling account of Hitlers ruthless
aspirations and savage victories as his armies blitz their way
through Northern Europe and efully invade the Soviet Union. We
also examine the disappointment and defeat that followed the
collapse of his Russian adventure and the Allies closing in on
the German capital of Berlin. Program 2: Eva Braun - A side of
Hitler that only his inner circle saw is revealed using home
movies that he with his mistress Eva Braun at Berghof, his
ain retreat. Is this urbane man smiling out at us the same
person who ordered such inhumane acts of savagery? A macabre
record of Eva Brauns years at the center of Hitlers inner circle
is uncovered in this fascinating program. Program 3: Killing
Hitler - The true story of the Valkyrie Plot. Driven by hatred
towards Hitler, courageous co-conspirators set an intricate plan
in motion to bring the Fuhrer to his demise. The most famous
attempt to assassinate Hitler came in July 1944. A bomb ed
in a suitcase and left in a meeting room explodes and creates
great devastation, but as if by a miracle, Hitler escapes with
minor injuries. The plotters paid a terrible price for their
failure. Almost 5,000 were executed in the wake of Hitlers wrath.
DVD 2: Nazi Terror - Program 1: Waffen SS - Hitlers elite
fighting force. The sinister black-clad figures of nightmare, the
Fuhrers Waffen SS hold a unique and dark place in German
history. Their code demanded a lethal combination of bravery and
savagery and they must be held to account for many of the most
hideous crimes of the Nazi period. Program 2: Gestapo - Hitlers
secret . Hermann Goering created a clandestine state
force tasked to arrest and torture confessions and information
from supposed enemies of the Reich. All the powers of the
judiciary were taken into its hands and the courts were rendered
superfluous. A compelling account of one of the true horror
stories of the 20th century. Program 3: Hitlers Secret Weapons -
Hitler asked his industrial quarter for armaments to reinforce
his plan for a mighty new German Army. The finest planes,
artillery and tanks, even submarines and battleships were churned
out to blitz through most of Europe and the Atlantic. His
designers never stopped working. As the Allies gathered their
strength and resources for the invasion of mainland Europe, the
V1 & V2, Hitlers flying bomb and deadly long-range rocket, rained
death and havoc on an already devastated London. Program 4:
Divide and Conquer - Starting in 1939, as the world stood by in
awe and horror, Hitlers armies stormed through one European
country after another as they fell like dominoes: Poland,
Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. This film
uses Allied and German film footage to illustrate the machinelike
precision of Blitzkrieg - Hitlers Lightning War. DVD 3: The
Ultimate Evil - The Occult History of the Third Reich: The
murderous deeds of Hitlers Third Reich are still widely recalled
today, but what is less well known is the strange concoction of
beliefs that underpinned the Nazi regime. Adolf Hitler was
enamored with Germanic mythology and ancient legends, and these
were combined with cutting-edge theories of genetic science. With
this new philosophy, Hitler established the Germans as the Master
Race. The Nazis created a new belief system of arcane rituals and
potent symbols such as the swastika. Hitler evolved an entirely
new faith, complete with holy book, venerated relics and priestly
elite in the form of Himmlers SS. Hitler himself was viewed as
the ultimate leader in Messianic terms. This powerful and
disturbing series uses rare original footage to tell a story that
is as bizarre as it is horrific, and casts a new light on a
national movement that came to see evil as a sacred task.
About the Actor
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Michael Leighton is an actor and writer, known for King Charles
I: The Royal Martyr (1994), Macbeth (1997) and Chasing the Deer
(1994).