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.

★ 6.2/10 · 8 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
• Joseph GoebbelsSelf (archive footage)
• Hermann GöringSelf (archive footage)
• Heinrich HimmlerSelf (archive footage)
• Reinhard HeydrichSelf (archive footage)
• Claus von StauffenbergSelf (archive footage)
• Erwin RommelSelf (archive footage)
• Martin BormannSelf (archive footage)

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