Arthur Seyss-Inquart, former Nazi Chancellor of Austria and Reich Commissar of the Netherlands, faced justice at Nuremberg in 1946. Responsible for deportations, forced labor, and mass persecution, he gave a final speech before his death sentence.

Though small in number, Black people in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe faced persecution, forced sterilization, and even murder. Afro-Germans, Black POWs, and expatriates endured harsh discrimination, while African American soldiers later witnessed Nazi atrocities firsthand. This documentary sh...

Ngô Đình Diệm rose from a Catholic elite family to become South Vietnam’s first president in 1955. Backed by U.S. support, he built an authoritarian regime marked by corruption, religious repression, and authoritarian rule. His refusal to compromise with Buddhists and critics led to unrest and ul...

On 16 March 1968, U.S. soldiers entered the Vietnamese village of Mỹ Lai expecting Viet Cong fighters. Instead, they encountered civilians - women, children, and the elderly. What followed became the worst atrocity committed by American forces in the 20th century. This documentary examines the ma...

Roland Freisler, president of the Nazi People’s Court, turned trials into brutal theater. Shouting, mocking, and humiliating defendants, he handed down thousands of death sentences. In 1944, his questioning of resistance members became infamous—show trials designed to terrify. This video captures...

When German officers plotted to kill Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944, field marshal Erwin von Witzleben was their choice to command the army afterward. When the plan failed, he was dragged before the People’s Court, mocked, and sentenced to death. This documentary explores his rise, his resistance, ...

At Stalingrad, over 200,000 German troops were encircled and crushed. Leading them was Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, the first German commander of his rank ever to surrender. Refusing to take his own life, Paulus became a symbol of defeat and betrayal in Nazi Germany. This film revisits his bat...

Once Germany’s boxing champion, Johann “Rukeli” Trollmann lost more than his title under Nazi persecution. Denied recognition, forced into humiliating fights, and ultimately killed in a concentration camp, his story is both heartbreaking and heroic. This documentary follows Trollmann’s rise, his ...

Walter von Reichenau was one of Nazi Germany’s most infamous generals. A loyal supporter of Hitler, he commanded the 6th Army during invasions of Poland, France, and the Soviet Union. His infamous “Severity Order” encouraged soldiers to kill Jews and civilians, paving the way for massacres like B...

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...

Erhard Milch, a Nazi Field Marshal with Jewish origins, rose to power as the mastermind of Hitler’s Luftwaffe. He oversaw slave labor in aircraft production, exploited concentration camp prisoners, and played a key role in Germany’s war machine. Tried for war crimes after WWII, Milch denied his r...

Fritz Kuhn, once hailed by his followers as the “American Führer,” sought to bring Hitler’s ideology to the United States. As leader of the German American Bund, he staged mass rallies, met Hitler, and promised to reshape America in the image of Nazi Germany. But scandals, embezzlement, and fraud...

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Erwin Rommel, known as the “Desert Fox,” rose to fame as Hitler’s favored field marshal, celebrated for his daring tactics in North Africa. Yet behind the myth of a noble soldier lies a far more complex reality—Rommel’s ties to Hitler, his ambiguous stance on Nazism, and his forced suicide after ...

Horst Schumann, known as the “Beast of Block 10,” was one of the most sadistic Nazi doctors. From the T4 euthanasia program to Auschwitz, he experimented on men, women, and children with deadly X-ray sterilizations and brutal operations. After the war he fled to Africa, evading justice for decade...

Joachim Mrugowsky, an SS doctor, oversaw some of the most infamous human experiments of the Nazi regime. From typhus and vaccine tests at Buchenwald to poison bullet experiments at Sachsenhausen, he turned prisoners into test subjects. Tried at the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, he was convicted of wa...

Hans Eisele began as a camp doctor praised for kindness, but at Buchenwald he became known as the “Butcher.” He carried out brutal experiments, performed surgeries without anesthesia, ordered killings, and left a trail of corpses. Tried after the war, his sentences were reduced, and he eventually...

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...

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 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...

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...

Richard Sorge lived a life of deception. A German journalist and Nazi Party member on the surface, he was secretly Stalin’s most valuable spy. From his post in Tokyo, Sorge infiltrated the German embassy, seduced diplomats’ wives, and delivered stunning intelligence—including the date of Hitler’s...

Jan Kubiš was a humble Czech soldier who became one of WWII’s most daring heroes. In 1942, during Operation Anthropoid, he and Jozef Gabčík struck down Reinhard Heydrich, the brutal “Butcher of Prague.” Though Kubiš paid with his life, his courage proved that even a small nation could strike at N...

Adolf Seefeldt, known as “Uncle Tick-Tock,” haunted Nazi Germany’s villages with a pocket watch and quiet smile, luring boys into the woods. Authorities dismissed the deaths as accidents, but behind the harmless facade was a predator who killed dozens—possibly 100 children. Tried in 1936, Seefeld...