The WORST episodes of Nazi Megastructures
Every episode of Nazi Megastructures ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.
#1 - Hitler's Mediterranean Fortress
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/18/2019
When allied spies plant false documents on a corpse, they are carrying out one of the most audacious deceptions of World War II. Operation Mincemeat ensures that the allied invasion of Sicily takes the Nazis totally by surprise. With few reinforcements, German troops must now make clever use of the island's rugged landscape to attempt a fighting retreat to the Italian mainland - and safety.
#2 - Kamikaze Suicide Bombers
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/2015
As America closes in on Japan in 1944, the Japanese turn to desperate new tactics: killer planes and super torpedoes guided by human pilots.
#3 - Hitler's Siegfried Line
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/2015
The campaign to breach Hitler's 400 mile-long Siegfried Line took more than six months and cost the American forces 140,000 casualties.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Russia's War: Blitzkrieg In The East
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/29/2018
Artefacts left over from Hitler's invasion of Russia, from the vast weapons built for the German army to the stronghold at Sevastopol where they met their match.
#6 - Russia's War: The Battle of Kursk
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/6/2018
Examining how Hitler responded to defeat at Stalingrad by increasing Germany's mass production of tanks - leading to the largest clash of armoured vehicles in history at Kursk.
#8 - America's War: Pearl Harbor
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2019
The surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor, revealing how it required months of secret preparation, innovations in torpedo design, and clever counter-intelligence.
#9 - America's War: D-Day
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/2019
How the German army prepared for the D-Day landings, despite having no evidence of exactly where in Europe the Allied forces planned to attack.
#11 - America's War: Fortress Japan
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/2019
This is the story of Japan's final months in WWII - when America threatened to invade and Japan unleashed a terrifying new weapon, suicide bombers.
#12 - Hitler's British Invasion Plan
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/25/2019
As the Nazi war machine reaches the English channel in 1940, Hitler forms a strategy to destroy Britain's air power and land troops in southern England.
#13 - Japan's Death Railway
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/2/2019
Japanese force Allied POWS and Asian laborers to lay 258 miles of track to build the Burma Railway in support of their armed forces during the Burma Campaign.
#14 - Hitler's War in the Skies
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/23/2019
January 1943. With defeat in Russia and North Africa Hitler now has to face a new battle front; the fight for the skies above the Fatherland itself.
#15 - Hitler's Desert War
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/16/2019
Armed with one of the most famous generals of WWII, Erwin Rommel, Hitler takes on the Allies in a campaign which will dictate the course of the war.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.