Architects of Darkness

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Explore the roots of the Axis Powers and the individuals who supported the agenda of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany.
Heinrich Himmler
S1 E1

Heinrich Himmler, perhaps the strangest high-ranking individual of the Third Reich, was inspired by mystic visions, runes, horoscopes and a longing for a heroic German past.

Josef Goebbels
S1 E2

Joseph Goebbels is widely known as the master of propaganda because he harnessed the combined power of radio, print, posters, film and oratory to shape the Nazi political agenda.

Julius Streicher
S1 E3

Julius Streicher was the publisher of the notorious Der Stürmer magazine, which formed the anti-Semitic agenda in the Third Reich; often overlooked by history, Streicher was hanged at Nuremberg.

Hermann Goering
S1 E4

The drug addicted dilettante who created the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering was at Hitler's side from the ill-fated Beer Hall putsch of 1923 until the estrangement between the two in April 1945 when Hitler ordered Goering's arrest.

Albert Speer
S1 E5

Speer was Hitler's Architect, the man who designed the Nuremberg Rallies and headed up the slave labor organization which created the V1 and V2 rockets.

Adolf Hitler
S1 E6

Explores the roots of Adolf Hitler and traces the story of his life from the town of his birth to his final days in a Berlin bunker.