Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich

Name: Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich
Released: 2023-12-08T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Guy Walters, Shalina Patel, Karina Urbach

TV Show · Documentary · History

The Führer’s most prominent planners, designers, architects, and builders tried to downplay their role in the Holocaust, but this series exposes the truth. Meet the architects behind the Nazi war machine.

2023 · 43m

Starring Guy Walters, Shalina Patel, Karina Urbach

Director Tom Williams

EPISODE 1

Albert Speer

Albert Speer was Hitler’s favorite architect and a central figure within the Führer’s inner circle. Speer’s buildings helped cement Hitler’s position and push Germany towards war.
EPISODE 2

Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun was instrumental to NASA’s Apollo 11 mission that put a man on the moon. His pioneering work in rocketry made it possible, but his past was kept under wraps.
EPISODE 3

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg is one of the most controversial scientists of the Third Reich. A key figure in the Nazis’ efforts to build an atomic bomb, the target of an Allied assassination plot.
EPISODE 4

Hans Kammler

Hans Kammler’s fingerprints can be found all over the Third Reich’s most prestigious and deadly engineering projects—not as an architect or inventor, but as a project manager.
EPISODE 5

Ferdinand Porsche

In Porsche, Hitler found a talented designer capable of leading Germany to new heights on the racetrack, while also helping rally the support of the masses at home.
EPISODE 6

Fritz Todt

Fritz Todt was Hitler’s leading engineer and his Minister of Armaments. He was the man the Führer tasked with the most demanding engineering projects.