The BEST episodes of Nazi Megastructures
Every episode of Nazi Megastructures ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Nazi Megastructures!
Did you know? In the quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history? Creating huge terror machines, hi-tech superguns and some of the original weapons of mass destruction, their aim was to control a nation, conquer a continent and win the war! Over six unforgettable episodes, Nazi Megastructures uncovers the hidden remains of Hitler’s most ambitious Megastructures, telling the stories of the engineering geniuses that designed them and revealing how these structures sparked a technological revolution that changed warfare forever.
#2 - Fortress Berlin
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/16/2013
April 1945. Safe in his heavily fortified Führerbunker in the centre of Berlin, Hitler prepares for the Allies' final attack.
#3 - Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/14/2017
During the brutal Battle of Berlin in 1945, 100,000 German civilians fight to the death and 6,000 commit suicide. How did the Nazis motivate ordinary civilians to fight even when defeat was inevitable? The answer is propaganda, and in Dr Josef Goebbels, Adolf Hitler found a genius of mind-manipulation. This episode reveals the evidence left behind by the Nazi propaganda machine, monuments to the sinister but brilliant brain-washing of an entire nation.
Watch Now:Apple TV#4 - The Atlantic Wall
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/18/2013
Discover the story behind the defensive wall, stretching thousands of kilometres, built by the Third Reich to protect themselves from the Allies.
#5 - Blitzkrieg Lightning War Machine
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/17/2016
Ruins across Europe tell the story of Blitzkrieg, a revolution in warfare which almost gave Hitler the chance to create his Thousand Year Reich.
#6 - Hitler's Jet Caves
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/9/2013
Explore the story behind one of the most advanced aeroplanes of WWII, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the subterranean bat-cave where it was built.
#7 - The Eagle's Nest
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/3/2016
Hitler transformed his Alpine retreat in Bavaria into a fortified fiefdom, home to 2,000 SS troops and protected by a high level security system.
#8 - Hitler's Arctic Fortress
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/7/2017
It's one of the most daring and bold operations of WW2: The Nazi's occupation and fortification of Norway. Hitler demands breath-taking defences along the country's 1500 mile coastline to prevent an Allied invasion. It includes some of the biggest gun batteries of the entire war. Norway is an Arctic frontline from which the Nazis can attack the Soviet Union, but it also offers Hitler the possible means to make an atomic bomb.
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#9 - Pacific Megaships
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/31/2016
In the 1930s the Japanese begin designing the Yamato, the world's most powerful battleship, 30 per cent larger than anything their enemies have.
#10 - Hitler's Island Megafortress
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/10/2016
It’s June 1940 and the Nazis have taken the Channel Islands, where Hitler orders some of the most fortified structures in the Third Reich.
#13 - Hitler's Megaships
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/27/2015
The Bismarck and Tirpitz were battleships of record breaking proportions, ultimate status symbols of the Third Reich and hunted by the Allies.
#14 - Hitler's Luftwaffe
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/21/2017
The Luftwaffe, a revolutionary German air force, created from nothing and fast-tracked by Hitler to annihilate the enemy from the skies. From the factory where the deadly Heinkel HE111 bombers were mass-produced, to the Baltic and the ruins of the Luftwaffe's top-secret torpedo test facility to the most technologically advanced jet bomber of World War 2, Nazi Megastructures lifts the lid on Hitler's war from above.
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#15 - The Wolf's Lair
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/2015
A secret headquarters of concrete and steel is the heart of Hitler’s plans for domination and the key to a Nazi conspiracy - the Wolf’s Lair.
#16 - Super Tanks
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/2/2013
The story of Nazi engineers tasked with fulfilling Hitler's megalomaniac demand for the construction of a land battleship weighing 1,000 tons.
#17 - V2 Rocket Bases
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/18/2013
Discover how Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun heralded the birth of ballistic missiles and laid the technological foundations for the space race.
#18 - U-Boat Base
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/2013
To create a safe haven in port for their lethal U-boat submarines, the Nazis built massive, impenetrable submarine pens that still survive today.
#19 - Himmler's SS
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/2015
In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest, deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history.
#20 - Japanese Superfortress
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/7/2016
In 1945 Japanese generals construct a network of defences and tunnels on Okinawa, creating a devastating killing ground for American troops.
#21 - Hitler's War Trains
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/17/2017
The railways were the lifeblood of the Nazi empire. It was a vast network that spread Nazi ambition and control across Europe and beyond. Through use of drama, documentary and archive the programme reveals Hitler's personal train, unseen bunkers, massive depots, railway weapons and record-breaking engines that made up what was arguably the Nazis biggest ever megastructure: the railways.
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#22 - Hitler's Killer Subs
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/24/2016
Hitler planned a submarine to outperform all others. The Type 21 was the world's most advanced submarine: Hitler's sea-faring super weapon
#23 - Hitler's Railways of Death
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/24/2017
The rail networks most sinister function was to facilitate the Final Solution. Hitler and the mastermind of the Holocaust, Himmler, used the vast rail network to transport Jews to concentration camps and to their death. But the wider war effort was dwindling and in 1945 in Berlin, Hitler finally abandoned his beloved train and made a dash for his underground bunker - the place that would eventually become his tomb.
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#24 - America's War: Japan's Warrior Code
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2019
How the Japanese army turned to ancient warrior traditions during the battle of Saipan - a conflict where defeat would place US aircraft dangerously close to their home country.
#25 - V1: Hitler's Vengeance Missile
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/10/2015
In retaliation for Allied bombing raids, Hitler ordered the development of the V1. The first cruise missile, it changed the face of war forever.