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...

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...

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...

Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky was the Soviet Union’s youngest military leader, a hero of the Civil War and innovator in modern warfare. But during Stalin’s Great Purge, his name was dragged into a false conspiracy. After days of torture, he confessed, only to be executed hours later. This is the s...

Werner von Blomberg rose to the highest ranks of Hitler’s military elite, becoming the Third Reich’s first Field Marshal. Once a trusted ally of the Führer, his career was shattered by scandal after marrying a woman with a criminal past. Cast out of power, Blomberg lived in disgrace, abandoned by...

Zarah Leander, Sweden’s greatest film star, rose to fame in Hitler’s Germany as the face of UFA’s propaganda cinema. Dubbed the “Diva of the Third Reich,” she earned a fortune and lived in luxury while Europe burned. With her deep voice, striking presence, and iconic roles, she embodied the glamo...

Captured during WWII, Spanish Republican Francisco Boix was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he worked in the photo lab. Risking certain death, he smuggled thousands of incriminating SS photographs out of the camp. After the war, his images exposed SS crimes and linked top Nazi leader...

Erik Jan Hanussen, an Austrian--born clairvoyant and showman, became Hitler’s secret mentor in crowd control and propaganda. He dazzled Berlin with séances, lavish parties, and predictions—including foreseeing the Reichstag fire. But his closeness to Nazi leaders and the debts they owed him seale...

Ferenc Szálasi led Hungary’s fascist regime during WWII, aiding the Nazis in murdering 70,000 Jews. Backed by Hitler, he unleashed terror with public shootings, death marches, and brutal oppression. Captured after the war, he was sentenced to death and publicly hanged in Budapest in 1946. This is...

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...

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...

Carl Værnet, a Danish doctor, became notorious for his Nazi-backed experiments on homosexual prisoners in Buchenwald. Obsessed with creating an “artificial sex gland,” he tested his implants on inmates, leaving death and suffering behind. This film uncovers the story of medicine twisted into crue...

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...

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....

You can watch Francisco Boix's full story here: https://watch.worldhistory.tv/videos/photographer-of-mauthausen-francisco-boix

Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria walked a dangerous line during WWII. While allying with Hitler to regain lost territories, he refused to send troops against the Soviet Union and blocked deportations of Bulgaria’s Jews. In August 1943, he died suddenly after a stormy meeting with Hitler—was it natural,...

In 1945, US troops liberated Hadamar, uncovering one of Nazi Germany’s killing centers. Over 14,000 patients were murdered there under the so-called “Euthanasia Program.” Irmgard Huber, the head nurse, controlled the drugs used for killings and falsified death records. Convicted but spared the g...

Erwin Rommel, known as the “Desert Fox,” rose to fame as Hitler’s favored field marshal, celebrated for his daring tactics in North Africa. Yet behind the myth of a noble soldier lies a far more complex reality—Rommel’s ties to Hitler, his ambiguous stance on Nazism, and his forced suicide after ...

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...

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 ...

Born a Qing dynasty princess, Yoshiko Kawashima was adopted by a Japanese spy and transformed into the infamous “Mata Hari of the Far East.” She seduced Chinese officials, manipulated the last emperor, and helped Japan conquer Manchuria. From glamour and power to betrayal and execution, witness t...

Herta Oberheuser was the only female defendant in the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial. At Ravensbrück concentration camp, she assisted in brutal medical experiments, breaking bones, infecting wounds, and killing women with lethal injections, calling it “medical help.” Once a respected physician, she bec...

Witold Pilecki volunteered to enter Auschwitz to expose Nazi crimes and organize resistance from within. After escaping, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising, only to be executed by the postwar communist regime. This is the story of one of WWII’s bravest men, a hero who defied both Hitler and Stalin.

On April 29, 1945, U.S. troops liberated Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp. They found thousands of corpses and 30,000 survivors reduced to skeletons. Shock and rage swept the soldiers and inmates alike. What followed became known as the Dachau Massacre—SS guards were lined up, shot, beat...