39-45, les canons géants de la Manche

For decades, Eva Braun was seen as Adolph Hitler's "dumb blonde" - just a pretty distraction for the Nazi dictator. But more recently, historians have revealed another side to her story. She was an attentive disciple dedicated to the man she called "my Führer," but stayed out of the limelight as World War II unfolded. Eva and Adolph married in April 1945, and the next day they committed suicide.

For decades Eva Braun was seen as Hitlers dumb blonde just a pretty distraction for the Nazi dictator But more recently historians have revealed another side of her as an attentive disciple dedicated to the man she called my Fuumlhrer in public This 52 film draws an intimate portrait of Eva from the day the couple met in 1929 and began their top secret relationship until their death together in an underground bunker on April 30, 1945 hours after exchanging vows in a brief ceremony when Eva Braun became Mrs. Hitler.

From airplane engines to rockets to new types of guns, the Nazis innovated in many military areas. At first it was to equip the army for Hitler's campaigns, and then, as the war went on, they invented bombs and cannons in order to defend the fatherland from the Allies.

Stretching from Belgium to the Alps, designed by an army of ingenious military engineers, the Maginot Line was a network of fortified bunkers connected by high-tech tunnels and defended by relentless artillery crossfire. It was meant to be an impenetrable obstacle. And yet... it failed. What role did it really play in France's WWII campaign? How did the Nazis finally pierce through?