Joachim von Ribbentrop rose from a champagne salesman to Hitler’s most loyal diplomat. As Nazi Foreign Minister, he brokered the pact with Stalin that divided Eastern Europe, gave cover to genocide, and paved the way to world war. This film traces his rise, his role in Nazi crimes, and his humili...

Stanisław Trzeciak was once a respected Polish Catholic priest and scholar. But in the 1930s, he became one of the nation’s loudest antisemitic voices—praising Hitler, spreading conspiracy theories, and collaborating with Nazi Germany. This documentary reveals how he amplified Hitler’s message in...

Josias, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, was no ordinary aristocrat. Cousin to Dutch royalty, he joined Hitler’s SS and rose to power under Himmler. As Higher SS and Police Leader in Weimar, he had supervisory authority over Buchenwald concentration camp, where thousands suffered. Tried at the Buch...

Born a Qing dynasty princess, Yoshiko Kawashima was adopted by a Japanese spy and transformed into the infamous “Mata Hari of the Far East.” She seduced Chinese officials, manipulated the last emperor, and helped Japan conquer Manchuria. From glamour and power to betrayal and execution, witness t...

Captured as a Soviet soldier, Ivan Marchenko became one of Treblinka’s most feared guards. Known as “Ivan the Terrible,” he operated gas chambers, beat victims with a water pipe, and committed unspeakable acts of cruelty. Discover how a prisoner of war became a key player in the Holocaust.

Queen Genepil, Mongolia’s last queen consort, lived a brief but extraordinary life. Chosen to marry Bogd Khan, she became a symbol of monarchy in a land shifting toward communism. After Stalin’s purges reached Mongolia, she was arrested, tortured, and executed in 1938 at just 33 years old—while p...

Werner von Blomberg rose to the highest ranks of Hitler’s military elite, becoming the Third Reich’s first Field Marshal. Once a trusted ally of the Führer, his career was shattered by scandal after marrying a woman with a criminal past. Cast out of power, Blomberg lived in disgrace, abandoned by...

Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria walked a dangerous line during WWII. While allying with Hitler to regain lost territories, he refused to send troops against the Soviet Union and blocked deportations of Bulgaria’s Jews. In August 1943, he died suddenly after a stormy meeting with Hitler—was it natural,...

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...

She was called the “Hyena of Death.” At just twenty-one, Maja Buždon became one of the most feared guards of the Ustaša regime in Croatia’s Jasenovac camp.
Behind her calm appearance hid a woman who commanded torture, killings, and unimaginable cruelty toward women and children. This film uncover...