The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police

The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police

2004 1 Seasons
Documentary War & Politics

During the darkest days of the Third Reich, the most dreaded sound was a knock at the door after dark. Everyone who lived under Nazi rule lived in fear of the secretive agents known colloquially as "V-Men". Hitler called them his "deadliest weapon", and without them the Fuhrer's ambition could never have been realized.

Seasons

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1. The Sword Is Forged

2004-11-24

The Nazis converted their country from a flawed democracy to a fascist dictatorship in which the rights of the individual were trampled in the interests of the state. Institutions…

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2. The Sword Is Unsheathed

2004-12-01

With opposition quelled in Germany and the annexed territories of Austria and the Sudetenland, Hitler's plans could proceed. When the Nazis faked incidents at the border with Pola…

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3. The Sword Is Shattered

2004-12-08

By 1944 it was clear that the war was lost as the Reich shrank back to the borders of Germany. But there was plenty for the Gestapo to do. Even within the dwindling resources of a…

Top Cast

Struan Rodger
Struan Rodger

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