Eduard Wirths was the highest-ranking SS physician at Auschwitz, overseeing camp doctors including Josef Mengele and supervising the medical system during some of the camp’s deadliest years. He participated in selections that sent prisoners to forced labour or the gas chambers and oversaw human e...

Martin Sommer was one of the most feared SS guards at Buchenwald concentration camp, where he became known as the “Hangman of Buchenwald.” In charge of the notorious punishment block known as the Bunker, Sommer tortured and murdered prisoners through beatings, injections, starvation, and other me...

Emma Zimmer was the oldest female guard to serve at Auschwitz and became notorious for her brutality toward prisoners. Beginning her concentration camp career at Lichtenburg in 1937, she later served at Ravensbrück, where survivors remembered her vicious beatings and cruel punishments.

As a seni...

Dries Riphagen was one of the most notorious Dutch collaborators of the Second World War. Known as the “Dutch Al Capone,” the Amsterdam gangster exploited the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands to enrich himself through betrayal, theft, and the persecution of Jews.

Working with the Nazi Sicherhe...

Jürgen Stroop was the SS general sent by Heinrich Himmler to crush the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943. Facing determined resistance from Jewish fighters, Stroop ordered the systematic destruction of the ghetto, with buildings burned and demolished as German forces advanced. Thousands were k...

Before Benito Mussolini became Italy’s Fascist dictator, Ida Dalser supported his political ambitions, sold her business to help finance his newspaper, and gave birth to his son, Benito Albino. Dalser later claimed that she and Mussolini had married—but as his power grew, evidence of their relati...

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...

August 1941, German-occupied Ukraine. As Nazi forces advance deeper into the Soviet Union, Einsatzgruppe C and its auxiliaries begin systematically murdering the Jewish population of Bila Tserkva. After hundreds of adults are shot, around 90 Jewish children — some only a few months old — are left...

Captured by the Germans in 1942, Soviet General Andrey Vlasov turned against Stalin and became the figurehead of the Russian Liberation Army – the ROA – composed largely of Soviet citizens who had fallen into German hands.

For years, Hitler refused to permit Vlasov to create a genuine Russian ar...

Gertrud Sauer was a German concentration camp guard whose path through the Nazi camp system took her from Gross-Rosen to Bergen-Belsen. Conscripted as a guard in 1944, she arrived at Bergen-Belsen in February 1945, as overcrowding, starvation, disease, and horrific conditions were killing thousan...

From decorated SS cavalry commander to one of the most notorious perpetrators of Nazi atrocities, Hermann Fegelein built his career through loyalty, ambition, and mass murder. During the invasion and occupation of Poland, his mounted SS units took part in executions of civilians, while on the Eas...

In March 1944, one of the worst massacres in wartime Croatia unfolded beneath Mount Kamešnica. During a brutal anti-Partisan operation, soldiers of the notorious 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" and the 369th Infantry Division swept through Croatian villages, murdering thousands o...

The 369th (Croatian) Infantry Division, known as the Devil's Division, was one of Nazi Germany's most infamous collaborationist military formations. Created after the destruction of the Croatian Legion at Stalingrad, the division was composed of Croatian volunteers under German Wehrmacht command ...

Gerda Bormann was far more than the wife of Adolf Hitler's powerful private secretary. Raised in a household where Hitler was a frequent guest, she absorbed Nazi ideology from childhood and became one of its most fanatical female supporters. As the mother of ten children, she was celebrated by th...

Coco Chanel is remembered as one of the greatest fashion designers in history, but her wartime activities remain deeply controversial.

During the Nazi occupation of France, Chanel entered a relationship with German intelligence officer Hans Günther von Dincklage, attempted to use anti-Jewish law...

September 1943. After Italy surrendered to the Allies, thousands of Italian soldiers on the Greek island of Cephalonia found themselves abandoned and surrounded by their former German allies. Believing they would be treated as prisoners of war after surrendering, they instead became victims of on...

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...

In August 1943, German occupation forces carried out one of the deadliest massacres in occupied Greece. After partisans briefly passed through the village of Kommeno, the Wehrmacht falsely portrayed the incident as a partisan attack and ordered a brutal reprisal. At dawn on 16 August, German moun...

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...

On 29 April 1945, American forces liberated Dachau, the first regular concentration camp established by Nazi Germany. Inside they found thousands of starving survivors, railway cars filled with corpses, and overwhelming evidence of years of mass murder.

This documentary tells the story of Heinri...

When Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands in 1940, not all Dutch citizens resisted. Among the most fanatical collaborators was Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, a leading member of the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB) who became one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal supporters outside Germany.

This...

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...

This is the story of how Nazi Germany and its Latvian collaborators destroyed the Jewish community of Liepāja during the Holocaust. Beginning with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, it follows the arrival of Einsatzgruppe A, the first mass shootings, the anti-Jewish measures im...

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, many White Russian émigrés saw Hitler's war as a chance to destroy the Bolshevik regime they had fought during the Russian Civil War. Among the most determined was former Cossack general Andrei Shkuro, who chose to collaborate with the Third Rei...