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.

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)

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