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...

In June 1934, Hitler unleashed the Night of the Long Knives, a purge that ended the power of the SA and its leader Ernst Röhm. Once a close friend of Hitler, Röhm dreamed of replacing the German army with his millions of stormtroopers. But his ambition made him dangerous. SA leaders were executed...

In 1941, the Nazis captured Feodosia, Crimea, and murdered over 3,000 Jews in mass shootings. Weeks later, Soviet forces retook the city and carried out their own massacre—killing around 160 wounded and captured German soldiers in acts of brutal revenge. This film uncovers both tragedies: the Hol...

In December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, 11 African American soldiers from the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion sought refuge in the Belgian village of Wereth. Betrayed by a local collaborator, they surrendered to the SS—only to be brutally tortured and executed. Their mutilated bodies, d...

From the beaches of Normandy to the frozen forests of the Ardennes, this episode traces the final brutal months of World War II. It explores the Malmedy Massacre, the retaliatory killings at Chenogne, and the postwar trials that sought justice — and controversy — in the aftermath of one of histor...

They came as liberators, but left behind terror. In Lippach, American soldiers executed surrendered teenage SS troops and assaulted local women — crimes buried for decades under the triumph of victory. A haunting story of how war corrodes even the victors.

On 2 February 1943, the German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad, ending one of history’s bloodiest battles. But for tens of thousands of exhausted soldiers, the true horror was only beginning. Driven into the freezing Soviet steppe, starved, beaten, and executed in revenge for Nazi atrocities, ...

Built into the Austrian Alps as part of Nazi Germany’s desperate underground weapons program, Ebensee became one of the cruelest concentration camps of the war. Thousands were starved, tortured, and worked to death in tunnels meant to house “miracle weapons.” When liberation came, the survivors u...

May 1940. As Allied troops retreat toward Dunkirk, a small British unit makes its final stand in the French village of Le Paradis. Surrounded and out of ammunition, the men of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment surrender—expecting the rights of prisoners of war. Instead, ninety-nine soldie...

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...

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 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 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...

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...