Nazi Megastructures

Monday 2 June 21:20 CAT

Promo

Season 6
00:30

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Synopsis

From the Skies above the Reich to the Burma Death Railway. This series examines the military mind-set, pioneering tactics and state-of-the-art technologies deployed by both sides.

Clips

Episodes

  • Hitler's British Invasion Plan

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

  • Japan's Death Railway

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    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.

  • Hell Island

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    Guadalcanal is the glittering prize of the Pacific. Japan are determined to build an airfield on it. But the US have their eyes on it, too. Whoever controls Guadalcanal will potentially win the Second World War.

  • Hitler's Desert War

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    Armed with one of the most famous generals of WWII, Erwin Rommel, Hitler takes 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.

  • Hitler's War In The Skies

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    January 1943 - with defeat in Russia and North Africa Hitter now has to face a new battle front. The fight for the skies above the fatherland itself.

  • Hitler's Mediterranean Fortress

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    When allied spies plant false documents on a corpse, they are carrying out one of the most audacious deceptions of World War II. Operation Mincemeat ensures that the allied invasion of Sicily takes the Nazis by surprise.