Hitler's bodyguard
Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of fifty million people. An entire nation followed him to ruin. Over a tumultuous 12 years Adolf Hitler went from being a minor rabble-rousing politician, to supreme leader of Nazi Germany. He was hated by those he persecuted, and even by some of his own commanders - yet in twenty-five years no one managed to kill him. This program shows how Hitler's bodyguards helped him cheat death on many occasions. They expanded from a handful of thugs recruited to protect political meetings and fight opponents on the streets, to many thousands - including some of the most fearsome secret police and paramilitary forces the world has ever known.
Top Cast
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)
Reinhard Heydrich
Self (archive footage)
Claus von Stauffenberg
Self (archive footage)
Erwin Rommel
Self (archive footage)
Martin Bormann
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Eichmann
Self (archive footage)
Rudolf Hess
Self (archive footage)
Ernst Röhm
Self (archive footage)
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Self (archive footage)
Albert Speer
Self (archive footage)
