Nazi Megastructures - Episode Guide

Discover the story behind the defensive wall, stretching thousands of kilometres, built by the Third Reich to protect themselves from the Allies.

Discover how Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun heralded the birth of ballistic missiles and laid the technological foundations for the space race.

To create a safe haven in port for their lethal U-boat submarines, the Nazis built massive, impenetrable submarine pens that still survive today.

The story of Nazi engineers tasked with fulfilling Hitler's megalomaniac demand for the construction of a land battleship weighing 1,000 tons.

Explore the story behind one of the most advanced aeroplanes of WWII, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the subterranean bat-cave where it was built.

April 1945. Safe in his heavily fortified Führerbunker in the centre of Berlin, Hitler prepares for the Allies' final attack.

A secret headquarters of concrete and steel is the heart of Hitler's plans for domination and the key to a Nazi conspiracy - the Wolf's Lair.

The Bismarck and Tirpitz were battleships of record breaking proportions, ultimate status symbols of the Third Reich and hunted by the Allies.

In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest, deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history.

In retaliation for Allied bombing raids, Hitler ordered the development of the V1. The first cruise missile, it changed the face of war forever.

As America closes in on Japan in 1944, the Japanese turn to desperate new tactics: killer planes and super torpedoes guided by human pilots

The campaign to breach Hitler's 400 mile-long Siegfried Line took more than six months and cost the American forces 140,000 casualties.

Hitler transformed his Alpine retreat in Bavaria into a fortified fiefdom, home to 2,000 SS troops and protected by a high level security system.

It's June 1940 and the Nazis have taken the Channel Islands, where Hitler orders some of the most fortified structures in the Third Reich.

Ruins across Europe tell the story of Blitzkrieg, a revolution in warfare which almost gave Hitler the chance to create his Thousand Year Reich.

Hitler planned a submarine to outperform all others. The Type 21 was the world's most advanced submarine: Hitler's sea-faring super weapon

In the 1930s the Japanese begin designing the Yamato, the world's most powerful battleship, 30 per cent larger than anything their enemies have..

In 1945 Japanese generals construct a network of defensive lines on Okinawa, creating a devastating killing ground for American troops.

The Luftwaffe, a revolutionary German air force, serves to annihilate the enemy from the skies.

The rail networks most sinister function during World War II was to facilitate the Final Solution, transporting Jew to concentration camps.

Some of the biggest and deadliest weapons built by the Nazis changed the face of modern warfare.

The Nazi occupation and fortification of Norway.

During the brutal Battle of Berlin in 1945, 100,000 German civilians fight to the death and 6,000 commit suicide. How did the Nazis motivate ordinary civilians to fight even when defeat was inevitable? The answer is propaganda, and in Dr Josef Goebbels, Adolf Hitler found a genius of mind-manipulation. This episode reveals the evidence left behind by the Nazi propaganda machine, monuments to the sinister but brilliant brain-washing of an entire nation.

The railways were the lifeblood of the Nazi empire, a vast network of control across Europe and beyond.

The story of Hitler's invasion of Russia with leftover artifacts and vast weapons built for the German army; the devastating clash of arms at one of the worlds most heavily defended strongholds, Sevastopol where Germany met its match.

Following a humiliating defeat at Stalingrad, Adolf Hitler demands a switch to Total War before launching arguably the biggest tank battle in history: Kursk.

The story of the Nazis' fighting retreat from the Baltic to the heart of Berlin; Structures built to prevent a Soviet counter-attack against Germany as Nazi forces retreated in the wake of the failed invasion of Russia.

The story of how the Japanese Navy developed new torpedo technology and planned the devastating surprise attack on the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

How the Japanese army turned to Japan's greatest weapon (the ancient warrior mindset and its traditions) during the battle of Saipan - a conflict where defeat would place US B-29 bombers dangerously close to their home country.

How the German army prepared for the D-Day landings, despite having no evidence of exactly where in Europe the Allied forces planned to attack. The Germans expect an attack in the Spring of 1944, but instead, they find themselves in a fascinating game of cat-and-mouse in the lead-up to June 6. With D-Day approaching, the Germans aim to turn the Normandy beaches into a killing zone.

September 1944 on Peleliu, Japanese soldiers build an island-wide structure creating a killing zone that leads to the death of thousands of Americans.

Hitler's final bid to win the war is the Battle of the Bulge — a surprise winter attack against the Americans and the resulting war crimes against them.

This is the story of Japan's final months in World War II - when America threatened to invade and Japan unleashed a terrifying new weapon, suicide bombers, while turning its islands into a fortress to repel invasion.

As Adolf Hitler's plan for "Total War" fails, the Germans face a vast Soviet army bent on revenge.

Hitler's fight for the skies sees the Reich adopt a policy of 'Total War'. With every man woman and child pushed into producing ever more aircraft and munitions. The result is one of the most effective air defence systems the world has ever seen. One that came very close to destroying the might of the US 8th Army Airforce.

The Nazi war machine reaches the English Channel in May 1940; Hitler plans to destroy Britain's air power and land troops in southern England.

Guadalcanal is the glittering prize of the Pacific. Japan are determined to seize the island and build an airfield on it. But the US have their eyes on it, too. Whoever controls Guadalcanal will dominate the region and, with it, potentially win the Second World War. It's the catalyst for one of the most bloody and brutal episodes of World War Two.

1942, Japan has captured oil rich Burma to secure its growing empire's future. But with its navy decimated at the Battle of Midway it needs a new supply route. The result is a 258 mile railway cut through the toughest terrain known to man. All built using the blood and guts of 200,000 Allied POWs and local laborers. Half of them will die on the tracks or in the terrible camps nearby.

This takes place in the deserts of North Africa. Armed with one of the most famous generals of World War II, Erwin Rommel, Adolf Hitler took on the Allies across Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt in a brutal campaign that pushed the British to their limits and would dictate the course of the war. 

When allied spies plant false documents on a corpse, they carry out one of the most audacious deceptions of World War II. Operation Mincemeat ensures that the allied invasion of Sicily takes the Nazis totally by surprise. With few reinforcements, German troops must now make clever use of the island's rugged landscape to attempt a fighting retreat to the Italian mainland - and safety.