After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Arthur Greiser became one of the most brutal Nazi officials in annexed western Poland. As Gauleiter and Reich Governor of the Posen region, he oversaw forced Germanization, mass deportations, persecution of the Catholic Church, and the murder o...

28 July 1940. Under pressure from Adolf Hitler at the Salzburg Conference, Vojtech Tuka strengthens his position within the wartime Slovak State and becomes one of Nazi Germany’s closest allies in Central Europe.

From lawyer and nationalist politician to Slovak prime minister and foreign ministe...

In 1943, during the Second World War, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) launched a brutal campaign against the Polish population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. Entire villages were destroyed, churches became death traps, and tens of thousands of civilians — including women and children — were ...

As partisan resistance spreads across Yugoslavia in 1943, German occupation forces launch brutal anti-partisan operations across the Balkans. Villages are burned, civilians executed, and entire communities destroyed in reprisals meant to crush support for Tito’s resistance movement.

One of the u...

22 June 1941. Under the codename Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union and rapidly occupies Lithuania. In the months that follow, the Jews of Vilnius are forced into ghettos, subjected to starvation, terror, and mass executions carried out by Nazi Einsatzgruppen death squads...

After the collapse of France in 1940, Fernand de Brinon emerged as one of the most prominent supporters of collaboration with Nazi Germany. A journalist, political figure, and later Secretary of State in Vichy France, he became a key link between the Vichy regime and the German authorities in occ...

During the Nazi occupation of Denmark in the Second World War, the Danish resistance movement grew through sabotage and underground activities against the German occupiers. Among those connected to the resistance was Grethe Bartram, a young Danish woman who became one of the most notorious inform...

At just 15 years old, Stanisław Szmajzner was deported to the Sobibór extermination camp, where he was forced to work for SS officers as a goldsmith while witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust.

In October 1943, he joined the famous Sobibór uprising led by Alexander Pechersky and escaped the ca...

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Josef Meisinger became one of the most feared Nazi officials in occupied Warsaw. Known as the “Butcher of Warsaw,” he oversaw brutal reprisals, executions, and terror against Polish civilians and Jews, including the Palmiry massacres and the wider campaig...

Louis Collard became one of the leading figures of the Rex movement, the fascist organization that collaborated with Nazi Germany during the occupation of Belgium in World War II. Rising through the ranks under Léon Degrelle, Collard helped direct propaganda, coordinate repression, and strengthen...

Otto Kraus was one of the first prisoners to secretly warn others about the true nature of Auschwitz. Deported from the Theresienstadt Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943, he sent a coded message back to the ghetto using the Hebrew word “MAVET” — meaning “death.” Many could not believe the truth...

On 15 March 1939, Nazi Germany occupied Prague while most of Europe stood aside. Among the few senior German officers who opposed Hitler’s reckless path was Ludwig Beck, former Chief of the German General Staff.

This documentary follows Beck’s rise in the German army, his growing opposition to H...

As the Red Army pushed into the Third Reich in 1945, millions of German civilians faced a wave of terror, revenge, and violence. Fueled by years of suffering under the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, many Soviet soldiers carried out widespread looting, killings, and the mass rape of German wom...

Henry Rinnan became one of the most feared collaborators in occupied Norway during World War II. Working closely with the Gestapo — the Nazi secret police — he led a network of informants known as Sonderabteilung Lola, or the Rinnan Gang, which infiltrated Norwegian resistance groups through dece...

November 1941, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Under Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis establish the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Terezín. Nearby, the Small Fortress becomes a prison run by the Gestapo.

Its commandant, Heinrich Jöckel, rules through fear. Prisoners—including resistance members, ...

In October 1942, the notorious 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen carried out one of the most brutal atrocities in occupied Yugoslavia. During Operation Kopaonik, SS troops entered the Serbian village of Kriva Reka, where hundreds of civilians were murdered, homes destroyed, and villa...

Anton van der Waals was one of the most infamous traitors in the German-occupied Netherlands during the Second World War.

Born in Rotterdam, he joined the Dutch resistance while secretly working for the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the intelligence branch of the Nazi SS. Pretending to be a patriot an...

August Schmidhuber was an SS commander whose forces spread terror across Yugoslavia during World War II. After Nazi Germany invaded the Balkans in 1941, he rose through the Waffen-SS and led units infamous for mass killings, village burnings, deportations, and anti-partisan reprisals.

As an offi...

Hermannus Reydon was a leading Dutch collaborator who helped Nazi Germany tighten control over the Netherlands during World War II. A senior member of the NSB, he became a propaganda chief who spread National Socialist ideology, silenced opposition, and promoted Hitler’s rule.

After the German i...

How did a Jewish woman become one of the most feared collaborators in Berlin during the Nazi era? This documentary tells the shocking true story of Stella Goldschlag, known as “the blonde poison,” who worked with the Gestapo to hunt Jews hiding in the German capital during World War II.

After th...

Arkady Wajspapir was one of the last surviving participants of the Sobibor uprising, one of the most remarkable acts of resistance during the Second World War.

Captured after Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet soldier was sent through German captivity before arriving at Sobibor extermination camp ...

On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, marking the beginning of World War II. Just over two weeks later, the Soviet Union attacked from the east—sealing Poland’s fate.

This video explores the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the secret deal between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin that divided ...

In March 1941, a coup in Belgrade overthrew a pro-Nazi government, provoking the anger of Adolf Hitler, who ordered the destruction of Yugoslavia.

On 6 April 1941, under Operation Retribution, the Luftwaffe — Nazi Germany’s air force — launched a massive air assault on Belgrade. Planned by Alexa...

In 1941, following the launch of Operation Barbarossa, German forces occupied Lithuania and began the systematic destruction of Jewish communities.

In the town of Utena, persecution started immediately. Jews were subjected to forced labour, violence, and imprisonment before being taken to the ne...