Fascist Wives and Companions

Fascist Wives and Companions

17 Episodes

Fascism produced infamous male rulers, but beside many of them stood women whose lives became tied to dictatorship, privilege, and repression. They lived in luxury while millions suffered, attended ceremonies while war consumed nations, and stood beside the men who drove Europe toward catastrophe. The wives and companions of fascist leaders—including those linked to Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and allied regimes—played roles both active and silent in sustaining these systems. This collection explores their lives, choices, and fates—showing how proximity to power often meant complicity, tragedy, or disgrace.

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Fascist Wives and Companions
  • She Partied While the World Burned: Hitler's Wife Eva Braun

    Episode 1

    Who was the woman behind the most hated man in history? Eva Braun dreamed of Hollywood, but chose Hitler. She lived in luxury as millions died. Discover the disturbing life of the woman who became Hitler’s wife just hours before death—and how she used her position to enrich herself while others s...

  • Fanatic Nazi Widow Who Ran a Slave Camp in her Castle: Lina Heydrich

    Episode 2

    Lina Heydrich, wife of the notorious “Butcher of Prague” Reinhard Heydrich, lived like royalty in a stolen Czech castle. But behind the fairytale was horror: forced laborers from ghettos and camps, physical abuse, and total impunity. This is the disturbing truth of a fanatical Nazi woman who enri...

  • The “First Lady” of Nazi Germany Who Killed Her 6 Children: Magda Goebbels

    Episode 3

    Magda Goebbels, wife of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels and Hitler’s “First Lady,” enjoyed a life of wealth and influence while turning a blind eye to Nazi crimes. In the final days of WWII, she made a chilling choice—murdering her six children in Hitler’s bunker before taking her own life....

  • From Nazi Germany’s Richest Woman to Poor Widow of War Criminal: Emmy Göring

    Episode 4

    Emmy Göring was once Nazi Germany’s glamorous First Lady, living lavishly on looted Jewish property. But after the war, her life crumbled. Arrested, humiliated, and reduced to poverty, she fell from elite galas to a tiny flat with no electricity. This documentary reveals the shocking fall of a wo...

  • Adolf Hitler's Deadly Sexual Relationship with his Niece Geli Raubal

    Episode 5

    Geli Raubal was more than Adolf Hitler’s niece – she was the woman he called his only love and even planned to marry. Under his constant control, she was denied freedom, friends, and dreams. In 1931, her life ended in his apartment under suspicious circumstances. Was it suicide, or did she know t...

  • Nazi Millionaire Who Changed Her Castle for Cleaning Toilets: H. von Schirach

    Episode 6

    She lived in stolen luxury, watched Jewish families disappear, and was Hitler’s guest. But after the war, Henriette von Schirach—wife of Vienna’s Nazi governor Baldur von Schirach—was thrown into prison and forced to clean toilets with Hitler Youth flags. Discover how a millionaire Nazi elite los...

  • From Nazi Film Star & Goebbels’ Mistress to Criminal & Alcoholic: Lída Baarová

    Episode 7

    Lída Baarová rose from Prague’s stages to the heights of Nazi Germany’s cinema, enchanting audiences and catching the eye of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Their affair caused a scandal so great that even Hitler intervened. This film explores her meteoric rise, forbidden romance, and the do...

  • Wife of the Buchenwald Commandant and the Face of Nazi Cruelty: Ilse Koch

    Episode 8

    Elegant, educated, and merciless — Ilse Koch lived in luxury above Buchenwald, while thousands suffered below.
    As the wife of SS commandant Karl-Otto Koch, she ruled through greed, vanity, and sadism. She rode through the camp on horseback, whipping prisoners, laughing during executions, and stea...

  • Nazi War Criminal Erna Petri: The Housewife Who Became an Executioner

    Episode 9

    1 September 1939. As Nazi Germany invades Poland, propaganda and racial ideology fuel a climate in which ordinary civilians become participants in persecution and mass murder.

    One of them was Erna Petri.

    Living on SS estates in occupied Galicia with her husband, Horst Petri, she abused forced l...

  • Nazi Camp Commandant’s Wife Who Shot Prisoners for Sport: Elisabeth Willhaus

    Episode 10

    After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the city of Lviv fell under brutal German occupation. In the Janowska camp, thousands of Jewish prisoners were subjected to forced labour, torture, executions, and systematic terror carried out by SS personnel and camp authorities.

    Living...

  • The Mistress Who Never Abandoned Mussolini: Clara Petacci

    Episode 11

    Clara Petacci was the woman who remained loyal to Benito Mussolini until the very end.

    Born into a wealthy and influential family in Rome, Clara became fascinated with Mussolini as a teenager and dreamed of meeting the man she regarded as Italy's greatest leader. After a chance encounter in 1932...

  • The ‘Black Widow’ of Dutch Fascism: Florentine Rost van Tonningen

    Episode 12

    When Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands in 1940, most Dutch citizens faced a choice between resistance and collaboration. Florentine Rost van Tonningen chose collaboration. A committed admirer of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism, she devoted her life to the Nazi cause and became one of the ...

  • The Real Dictator in Mussolini's House: Rachele Mussolini

    Episode 13

    Rachele Mussolini was far more than the wife of Benito Mussolini. Behind the scenes of Fascist Italy, she earned the nickname "the real dictator of the house" for her fierce personality, uncompromising will, and influence over her family.

    Born into poverty in rural Italy, Rachele remained a simp...

  • The Fanatical Wife of Hitler's Most Powerful SS Chief: Margarete Himmler

    Episode 14

    While Heinrich Himmler orchestrated the Holocaust and oversaw the SS, his wife Margarete Himmler remained one of his most devoted supporters. A committed Nazi and outspoken antisemite, she embraced Adolf Hitler's ideology, visited concentration camps, and never publicly questioned her husband's r...

  • The British Aristocrat Who Chose Hitler and Fascism: Diana Mosley

    Episode 15

    Diana Mosley was one of Britain's most notorious fascist supporters and one of the few British aristocrats welcomed into Adolf Hitler's inner circle. Born into the famous Mitford family, she abandoned a privileged life to pursue a relationship with Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union o...

  • Commandant's Wife Who Called Auschwitz "Paradise on Earth": Hedwig Höss

    Episode 16

    Hedwig Höss, the wife of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, lived with her five children in a spacious villa only meters from the crematoria where more than one million people were murdered. While prisoners were starved, beaten, and killed, she created a comfortable family home filled with gardens...

  • Eva Braun's Sister Who Married a Nazi General & Mass Murderer: Gretl Braun

    Episode 17

    Explore the life of Gretl Braun, the younger sister of Eva Braun, who became part of Adolf Hitler's inner circle and married SS General Hermann Fegelein in June 1944, just days before the Allied landings in Normandy. It follows her years at the Berghof, her relationship with Hitler and the Nazi e...