The Masters of the Reich
This series sheds a new light on the Second World War by revealing what the masters of the Reich and their acolytes were really saying to each other while being filmed thinking no-one could hear them.
Director: Emmanuel Amara
1929 - 1936: The Ascension
Hitler used confrontations between economic crises and street violence to provoke the need for more authoritarian power; the 'ordinary man with political genius' became the 'Chancellor of Peace'.
1937 - 1939: First Conquests
Decoding tools reveal exchanges between the Führer and his allies; Hitler morphs from political leader to military strategist; the masters of the Reich unleash a world war in seven years.
1939 - 1940: Total War
We look at the conversations at the heart of German power; the deciphering of archive images allows us to understand the motivations of the Nazi regime in their conquest of…
1941 - 1945: Supremacy and Decline
We look at the Nazi hegemony from 1941 to its decline in 1945; deciphered archives show us the greatest offensive of the 20th century in the East as well as…
