Joachim von Ribbentrop rose from a champagne salesman to Hitler’s most loyal diplomat. As Nazi Foreign Minister, he brokered the pact with Stalin that divided Eastern Europe, gave cover to genocide, and paved the way to world war. This film traces his rise, his role in Nazi crimes, and his humili...

Josias, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, was no ordinary aristocrat. Cousin to Dutch royalty, he joined Hitler’s SS and rose to power under Himmler. As Higher SS and Police Leader in Weimar, he had supervisory authority over Buchenwald concentration camp, where thousands suffered. Tried at the Buch...

Roland Freisler, president of Hitler’s infamous People’s Court, turned justice into a weapon of terror. Known for his red robes, furious tirades, and near-automatic death sentences, he condemned thousands. His victims ranged from young students of the White Rose to high-ranking officers who oppos...

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, turned lies into weapons of war. From fiery rallies to his infamous Sportpalast “Total War” speech, he manipulated millions, fueling hatred and paving the way for genocide. In Berlin’s final days, he poisoned his own children before taking his lif...

From the 1920s to 1945, Julius Streicher used words as weapons.
Through his newspaper Der Stürmer, he flooded Germany with antisemitic propaganda, lies, and hatred.
He portrayed Jews as monsters, corruptors, and enemies of the nation — poisoning the minds of millions.
His newspaper was read in sc...

From the early 1920s to the fall of the Third Reich, Alfred Rosenberg shaped the Nazi worldview.
As the Party’s chief ideologue and Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, he transformed antisemitic fantasy into state doctrine — justifying conquest, plunder, and extermination.
His writings...

From 1942 to 1945, Fritz Sauckel built one of the largest systems of human exploitation in history.
As Hitler’s General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment, he orchestrated the deportation of more than 12 million men, women, and children from across occupied Europe — many torn from their homes ...

He helped turn a fragile democracy into a dictatorship. As Reich Minister of the Interior (1933–1943) and later Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, Wilhelm Frick drafted and enforced the laws that dismantled civil liberties, outlawed political parties, and excluded Jews from German life—the l...

He was the bright, cultured face of the Nazi future.
As Reich Youth Leader, Baldur von Schirach shaped millions of German boys and girls into loyal servants of Hitler’s vision — teaching them obedience, sacrifice, and racial purity.
Under his leadership, the Hitler Youth became the regime’s most ...

He wasn’t a soldier. He never fired a shot. But his pen condemned millions.
As State Secretary of the General Government, Josef Bühler turned law into a weapon of genocide. From the corridors of Kraków’s Wawel Castle to the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, he served his master Hans Frank — and the m...

From his role in the Anschluss of Austria to his rule as Reich Commissioner of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart became one of the key enforcers of Nazi occupation policies in Europe.
A lawyer turned dictator, he oversaw mass deportations, forced labor, and the persecution of Dutch Jews.
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Born into privilege and ambition, Hans Frank rose from a young lawyer in Munich to become Adolf Hitler’s personal legal adviser and one of the regime’s highest officials. Appointed Governor-General of occupied Poland, Frank ruled from Kraków’s Wawel Castle like a king — overseeing the exploitatio...