Hitler's bodyguard
TV-PG 2010 · 1 season · 13 eps · ★ 6.2 · Documentary
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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.
Created by Robert Powell
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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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