On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, turning the war in the east into a campaign of racial annihilation. As German forces seize Crimea, the Jewish and Krymchak communities are marked for destruction.

At the center of this killing campaign stands Werner Braune, commander o...

On 6 June 1944, the Allies launch Operation Overlord — the largest amphibious invasion in history — opening a second front in Europe and accelerating the collapse of Nazi Germany. But behind the front lines, a darker story unfolds.

In August 1944, an American B-24 bomber is shot down near Frankf...

From the invasion of Poland to the ruins of Warsaw, Nazi Germany unleashed one of the most brutal formations in the history of the Waffen-SS — a unit built not from soldiers, but from convicted criminals, rapists, and murderers.

At its center stood Oskar Dirlewanger, a decorated First World War ...

From the cheers of the 1938 Anschluss to the genocidal war in the East, Nazi propaganda transformed entire societies into instruments of persecution. Nowhere was this more brutally exposed than in Mauthausen’s Block 20 — the camp’s secret death block for Soviet officers erased from official recor...

On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history, and Belarus quickly falls under German control. What follows is not only a military campaign, but a war of racial extermination, as Jews and civilians across the region are forced into ghettos, starved, ...

As Nazi Germany unleashes mass persecution, Egon Zill emerges as one of the most feared SS camp officers. From Dachau to Ravensbrück, his name becomes synonymous with torture, humiliation, and arbitrary killing.

At Dachau, witnesses later testify that Zill personally ordered and carried out beat...

In the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a battalion of the Wehrmacht is cut off near the Ukrainian village of Broniki during fierce fighting on 1 July 1941. Around 180 German soldiers are surrounded and taken prisoner by retreating Red Army units as t...

From the first days of World War II, Nazi mobile death squads — the Einsatzgruppen — follow the German army into Eastern Europe, turning towns, forests, and ravines into open-air execution sites. At the center of this machinery of mass murder stands Friedrich Jeckeln, a ruthless SS and Police Lea...

When U.S. forces arrive at Mauthausen on May 5, 1945, most SS guards have fled. Those who remain are seized by prisoners who have endured years of forced labor, starvation, executions, and medical experiments in one of the Third Reich’s most lethal camps.

In the chaotic hours after liberation, a...

The liberation of Dachau exposes the full horror of the Nazi camp system—but its foundations were laid years earlier by Theodor Eicke, the man who turned repression into policy.

This documentary traces Eicke’s journey from a disillusioned World War I veteran to one of Heinrich Himmler’s most tru...

On 20 July 1944, a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler unleashes a brutal purge across the collapsing Third Reich. As the Gestapo hunts for enemies real and imagined, Josef Wagner, once a powerful Nazi Gauleiter, is swept into a web of suspicion and vengeance.

From his rise as a regional ...

Born in 1882 in Japan’s Okayama Prefecture, Hisao Tani devoted his life to the Imperial Japanese Army. A graduate of the prestigious Army War College and veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, he was known as an intelligent, disciplined, and ambitious officer who embodied Japan’s growing militarism.
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On the 1st of September, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland and ignites World War II in Europe. As the German war machine spreads across the continent, it brings with it not only occupation and terror, but a hidden system of organized sexual violence.

Behind the front lines, the Wehrmacht and the...

Born in 1889 in Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture, Moritake Tanabe followed his father, a former samurai, into a military career. Rising through the ranks of the Imperial Japanese Army, he became a skilled officer and strategist, serving as a military attaché in France and later as Chief of Staff of th...

Edmund Heines was one of the most violent and feared figures in the Nazi Party’s early years. A decorated war veteran turned fanatic, he joined Hitler’s paramilitary wing, the SA, and quickly built a reputation for brutality. As police chief of Breslau, he oversaw arrests, torture, and murders of...

On December 7, 1941, Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunges the Pacific into war. Within hours, Japanese forces strike across Asia — from Malaya to the Philippines — led by one of Japan’s most capable and feared commanders, General Tomoyuki Yamashita, later known as the “Tiger of Malaya....