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Explore the most popular videos on World History. This collection brings together some of our most watched and compelling stories, covering major events, notorious figures, war crimes, battles, extraordinary personal fates, and lesser-known chapters of the 20th century. From World War II and Nazi Germany to forgotten events and remarkable true stories, discover the documentaries that have captured the attention of viewers around the world.

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  • She Partied While the World Burned: Hitler's Wife Eva Braun

    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...

  • Hitler’s Right Hand: Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring

    Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring was one of the most powerful figures of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler’s closest associate. A decorated fighter ace of the First World War, he joined the Nazi movement in its early years and became one of its most ambitious and ruthless leaders. As Prussian Minister ...

  • Nazi Foreign Minister Who Slept with English King’s Wife: Joachim von Ribbentrop

    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...

  • Einsatzgruppe Killings in Yugoslavia and the Conviction of Wilhelm Fuchs

    On 17 April 1941, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia collapsed after just eleven days of fighting against the Axis invasion. In the aftermath, Nazi occupation forces moved swiftly to crush resistance in Serbia. Sabotage, ambushes, and partisan attacks spread across the country, threatening German supply l...

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

    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...

  • Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Propaganda Before D-Day

    During the Second World War, millions of Allied soldiers heard a strange voice on German radio. She spoke perfect American English, joked about home, and warned soldiers they would die far from their families.

    Her name was Mildred Gillars — better known as “Axis Sally.” From Berlin she broadcast...

  • The Hand Axe and Guillotine of the Third Reich: Executioner Carl Gröpler

    30 January 1933. Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, and the machinery of repression begins to accelerate. As the Nazi regime consolidates power, political opponents are arrested, courts tighten their grip, and executions once again become instruments of state control.

    At the centre of t...

  • The Butcher of Poland: Hitler’s Governor of Terror Hans Frank

    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...

  • The Man Who Ran Auschwitz and Turned It into a Death Factory: Rudolf Höss

    Rudolf Höss built Auschwitz into the largest killing center in Nazi history, later claiming he was merely “following orders.” From his early years in the SS to his chilling efficiency in building the camp’s killing apparatus, this documentary uncovers the cold, calculated mind behind one of histo...

  • Georg Duckwitz: From Nazi Official to Jewish Rescuer at Great Risk

    In September 1943, Nazi Germany ordered the deportation of Denmark’s Jewish population. Instead of mass arrests, German police found empty homes. At the center of this extraordinary rescue was Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, a German diplomat who, at great personal risk, warned Danish leaders and secur...

  • Operation Unthinkable: Churchill’s Secret Plan to Attack the Soviet Union

    On 8 May 1945, Europe celebrates victory over Nazi Germany. But behind the scenes, a new fear is already taking shape.

    British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, deeply distrustful of Joseph Stalin and Soviet ambitions in Eastern Europe, secretly orders the creation of a bold and dangerous plan—O...

  • British Traitor Who Betrayed 150 to the Gestapo: Harold Cole

    Early May 1940. Nazi Germany launches its Blitzkrieg across Western Europe, crushing France, Belgium, and the Netherlands in a matter of weeks. As Paris falls and France surrenders, a new reality takes hold—one of occupation, fear, and collaboration.

    Amid the chaos, one man makes a choice that w...

  • The Real “Ivan the Terrible”: Treblinka’s Most Sadistic Guard: Ivan Marchenko

    Captured as a Soviet soldier, Ivan Marchenko became one of Treblinka’s most feared guards. Known as “Ivan the Terrible,” he operated gas chambers, beat victims with a water pipe, and committed unspeakable acts of cruelty. Discover how a prisoner of war became a key player in the Holocaust.

  • The Wannsee Conference: From Mass Shootings to Gas Chambers

    20 January 1942, Berlin.
    Fifteen senior Nazi officials — led by Reinhard Heydrich — gather at a villa in Wannsee to coordinate the “Final Solution.” Mass shootings by Einsatzgruppen had already killed hundreds of thousands across Eastern Europe, but the regime now sought a more systematic method ...

  • From German Field Marshal to Nuremberg Gallows: Hitler's Lackey Wilhelm Keitel

    Wilhelm Keitel rose to the top of Hitler’s war machine as a loyal “yes-man,” signing criminal orders that fueled massacres and repression across Europe. From the invasion of Poland to Operation Barbarossa, his obedience enabled atrocities. At Nuremberg, he pled he was “just following orders,” but...

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

    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...

  • Nikolai Yezhov: Stalin’s “Bloody Dwarf” and the Great Purge

    The 1930s, the Soviet Union. As Joseph Stalin consolidates power, fear spreads through the Communist Party. Convinced that enemies and conspirators surround him, Stalin launches the Great Purge – a campaign of arrests, torture, and executions that will engulf the entire Soviet state.

    At the cent...

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

    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...

  • Gestapo Informer Behind 60% of Arrests in Denmark: Ib Birkedal Hansen

    On 9 April 1940, Nazi Germany launched Operation Weserübung and invaded Denmark. While the country initially experienced a relatively cooperative occupation, growing resistance and sabotage by 1943 pushed the Gestapo to rely increasingly on Danish collaborators to hunt down opponents of the regim...

  • Operation Barbarossa: 5 Myths About Hitler’s Invasion of the Soviet Union

    22 June 1941. Operation Barbarossa begins—the largest land invasion in history. Nazi Germany launches a massive assault on the Soviet Union, expecting a rapid victory. Instead, the campaign turns into a brutal war of attrition that reshapes World War II.

    But what really happened on the Eastern F...

  • Nazi Party Member and Sadistic Serial Killer in Pre-War Munich: Johann Eichhorn

    Johann Eichhorn, a Nazi Party member and railway worker, lived a double life as one of Munich’s most sadistic predators. Between the late 1920s and 1938, he raped over 90 women and girls, murdering at least five victims in brutal fashion. Protected for years by Nazi censorship, his crimes were hi...

  • Nazi SS Guards Beaten, Shot, and Lynched: Dachau Massacre

    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...

  • Swedish Superstar of Nazi Film: "The Diva of the Third Reich" Zarah Leander

    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...

  • From German Prince to Nazi War Criminal: Josias of Waldeck and Pyrmont

    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...