Miroslav Filipović was no ordinary war criminal. Once a Franciscan priest, Filipović became one of the most feared figures in the Jasenovac concentration camp. Known as “Brother Satan,” he personally took part in mass executions, including the brutal killing of children. This documentary uncovers...

Fritz Becher, a prisoner-turned-Kapo at Dachau, became infamous for his brutality toward priests, especially Poles, forcing them into deadly “sport exercises” and beating many to death. He also abused Soviet prisoners of war under his control. After Dachau’s liberation in 1945, Becher faced a US ...

Josef Riegler joined the SS at just 15 and rose to become one of Mauthausen’s most feared guards. Known for brutal beatings, executions, and helping hunt down escapees in the “Mühlviertler rabbit chase,” he left a trail of death and terror. Captured after the war, Riegler confessed to dozens of ...

The Nuremberg Laws banned Jews and “Aryans” from loving each other. At Auschwitz, Franz Wunsch helped send Jews to the gas chambers — and then fell in love with one of them.

Helena Citrónová, a young Slovak Jewish prisoner, sang at his birthday celebration in 1942. From that moment, a secret and...

15 April 1945. British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen and uncover scenes of unimaginable horror — 13,000 unburied bodies and nearly 60,000 starving prisoners. Among the captured SS personnel is 24-year-old Wilhelm Dörr.

Raised in Nazi Germany and shaped by the Hitler Youth, Dörr joined the Waffen...

On 27 January 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, exposing the full scale of Nazi industrialized murder. More than 1.3 million people were deported there — at least 1.1 million were killed.

Among the perpetrators was Gerhard Palitzsch, one of the camp’s most feared SS men. A former guard ...

On 8 April 1945, prisoners inside Buchenwald concentration camp secretly sent a desperate Morse code message to the advancing Allied forces: “SOS. We request help. The SS want to destroy us.” Just three days later, soldiers of General George S. Patton’s Third Army liberated the camp and discovere...

September 1938. After the Munich Agreement forces Czechoslovakia to cede the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany, crowds of ethnic Germans welcome Adolf Hitler’s troops with flags and flowers. Among them is Roland Puhr, a Sudeten German who soon joins the SS and becomes one of the brutal perpetrators in ...

Paul Szczurek served as an SS guard and block leader at Auschwitz, where survivors testified that he became notorious for his extreme brutality. Witnesses described how he beat men, women, and children without provocation, abused prisoners during roll calls, participated in selections for the gas...

Siegfried Graetschus was an SS officer who served in some of Nazi Germany's deadliest killing centers. After taking part in the T4 Euthanasia Program, he was deployed to Belzec, Treblinka, and finally Sobibor, where he became commander of the Trawniki guards. He helped oversee the systematic murd...

Hans Spatzenegger began his concentration camp career as an SS guard at Dachau before being transferred to Mauthausen in 1938. There, he became a supervisor in the notorious Wiener Graben quarry, where prisoners were subjected to exhausting forced labour and forced to carry heavy granite blocks u...