Hitler's Stealth Fighter

Hitler's Stealth Fighter

2011 · 47 min · ★ 8.0 · Documentary, History

In the final months of World War II, American troops discovered a top-secret facility in Germany with an advanced batwing-shaped jet fighter. If Nazi engineers had had more time, would this jet have ultimately changed the outcome of the war? In this National Geographic documentary they rebuild a jet discovered in a top-secret German facility during the final months of World War II - the Horten 229.

Directed by Michael Jorgensen · Written by Michael Jorgensen

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Bruce Greenwood Narrator
Manuel Sinor Walter Horton
Rainer Kahl Reimer Horton
Ken Beleshko Hermann Göring

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