Lutz Rentner

Documentary about the German sex industry after the German reunification.

It was the largest mass shooting of the Second World War, and yet few people are aware of the Babyn Yar massacre. In September 1941, Germans shot 33,771 Jews on the edge of a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

In the 19th Century, huge stone fortresses protected leaders and their people against enemy canons. As weapons technology and warfare changed, countries began to build steel and concrete bunkers, to protect their troops in battle. The first episode examines the bunkers built in Europe before and during World War II, from the Italian Franzensfeste to Churchill’s War Room. In the second episode, we go underground in the nuclear-era shelters, including the thousands built by a paranoid Romanian leader.