22 June 1941. Operation Barbarossa begins, launching the largest invasion in history and turning Eastern Europe into a landscape of fire and mass execution. Behind the advancing Wehrmacht — the German Armed Forces — follow killing units tasked with extermination.

Among the commanders stands Wern...

2 February 1943. After the German surrender at Stalingrad, the tide of war turns. As Soviet forces advance westward, they uncover concentration camps, gas chambers, and mass graves — exposing the scale of Nazi crimes.

One of those who served within this system was Alice Orlowski.

Born in Berlin...

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...

Deported to Theresienstadt in May 1943, just before his twelfth birthday, Horst Cohn — who would later become Zvi Cohen — entered a world of hunger, disease, and daily death.

Presented by the Nazis as a “model Jewish settlement,” Theresienstadt was in reality a transit camp. Nearly 90,000 Jews w...

In 1939, after years of anti-Jewish legislation, fewer than 214,000 Jews remained in Nazi Germany. Among them was Horst Cohn, a Jewish boy born in Berlin in 1931 — the child who would later become Zvi Cohen.

As Hitler consolidated power, the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship and basic ...

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...

Prague, early 1950s. The Communist revolution begins to consume its own architects.

Rudolf Slánský, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, helped build the regime that seized full power after the coup of 1948. Loyal to Stalin and feared within the party, he directed purges a...

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 ...

15 March 1939. German troops march into Prague and the Gestapo establishes control over the occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Milada Horáková — lawyer, women’s rights advocate, and committed democrat — refuses to submit. She joins the underground resistance, helping families of the pe...

Born in the Free City of Danzig in 1922, Wanda Klaff lived an unremarkable early life — until war transformed Europe. In September 1939, Nazi Germany established Stutthof concentration camp near her hometown. Within years, it would become a site of forced labor, gassing, epidemics, and mass death...

15 March 1939. German troops enter Prague and Czechoslovakia disappears as a sovereign state. Under Nazi occupation, repression, surveillance, and the erosion of democratic norms become everyday reality. Yet liberation in 1945 does not end the culture of control — it transforms it.

Bedřich Reici...

After the turning point at Stalingrad in 1943, the Red Army began pushing west — but inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the machinery of death continued. Among the deportees from Belgium was Mala Zimetbaum, a brilliant young Jewish woman fluent in six languages.

Assigned as a translator and runner in th...

As Nazi Germany built its concentration camp system, thousands of women became part of its machinery of terror. At Ravensbrück — the largest concentration camp for women — Dorothea Binz rose from a teenage recruit to deputy chief overseer and trainer of female guards.

Born in 1920, she joined th...

In April 1940, on orders signed by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet NKVD launched a secret execution operation that killed more than 22,000 Polish citizens.

Among them were approximately 8,000 Polish Army officers, around 6,000 police officers and members of other uniformed services, and nearly 8,000 c...

On 1 August 1936, the Olympic Games open in Berlin as a global showcase for Adolf Hitler and his regime. Among the athletes elevated by Nazi propaganda is Hans Woellke, who wins gold in the shot put and becomes the first German Olympic champion in men’s athletics.

Celebrated as a symbol of stren...

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...

In the ruins of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a starving Jewish pianist was hiding alone, expecting death. His name was Władysław Szpilman. The man who saved him wore a German uniform.

Wilhelm Hosenfeld, a German soldier stationed in Warsaw, discovered Szpilman in 1944. Instead of arresting him, Hosenfe...

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...

After the invasion of Poland in 1939, Nazi Germany escalated its campaign of terror into systematic genocide. In 1941, the regime launched Operation Reinhard, establishing extermination camps in occupied Poland, including Sobibor.

This film examines Franz Reichleitner, the last commandant of Sob...

In December 1943, Evelina Merová (née Landová) is deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she is stripped of her name and marked only by a number. Inside the Theresienstadt family camp, she witnesses hunger, brutality, and the terrifying truth behind the chimneys that darken the...

In September 1938, Europe’s leaders meet in Munich and sacrifice Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in exchange for a fragile promise of peace. Within months, Nazi Germany occupies Bohemia and Moravia, and Jewish families in Prague find themselves trapped under a new regime of exclusion, confiscation, ...

On 16 July 1946, inside the former Dachau concentration camp, Allied judges deliver verdicts against the men responsible for one of the most infamous war crimes of the Western Front — the Malmedy Massacre. American prisoners of war and Belgian civilians were lined up in the snow and machine-gunne...

This documentary examines the life and crimes of Arnold Büscher, an SS officer whose career moved through the heart of Nazi Germany’s concentration camp system.

After joining the Nazi Party and the SS in the early 1930s, Büscher served at Flossenbürg, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Neuengamme, and l...

In July 1940, under pressure from Adolf Hitler, Slovakia’s government bends to Nazi demands, setting the stage for one of the earliest state-led deportations of Jews in Europe. By 1942, tens of thousands of Slovak Jews are rounded up, sold to Nazi Germany, and transported to death camps in occupi...