List of episodes of the series «Hitler's bodyguard»

How Hitler's Bodyguard Worked

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  Hitler's personal protection squad grew from a few fiercely loyal, handpicked ruffians into an army with a complicated structure and intense internal competition.

Early Attempts on Hitler's Life

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  Beer hall brawls, street fighting, and several brushes with death marked Hitler's rise to power in the stormy politics of interbellum Germany.

Kill the new Chancellor

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  During Hitler's first year in office--as he steered Germany abruptly towards tyranny--he faced no fewer than a dozen attempts on his life.

Night of the Long Knives

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  In one bloody, well-planned purge, Hitler eliminated his political rivals and ended the looming threat from Ernst Röhm's well-armed Sturmabteilung.

Jewish and Emigre Attempts to Kill Hitler

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  As the Nazis amped up their anti-Semitic and expansionist activities, Jewish groups, Soviet Communists, and Otto Strasser's rival Black Front all targeted Hitler.

Kill Hitler Before War Starts

• User score: 3
• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  By 1938, people inside and outside Germany--including some of Hitler's senior military personnel--planned preemptive strikes against the Führer.

Bombs and Paranoia

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  Convinced that a failed bomb plot had roots in England, a Gestapo counterintelligence officer engineered an elaborate sting to snatch British agents.

Dangerous Car Journeys

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  Hitler liked to tour cheering crowds in a customized, open-top Grosser Mercedes and later a G4-a predilection that gave his bodyguards nightmares.

Flights into Danger

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 9
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  Hitler appreciated the power of aircraft, not only as a military weapon, but as a political tool. During the early 1930s, he hired aircraft for election campaigning, often facing weather and mechanical problems, as well as specific assassination attempts.

Hitler's Dangerous Train Journeys

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 10
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  British operatives targeted Hitler's special train, the Führer-Sonderzug--a rolling fortress on rails--despite its heavy armor and tight security measures.

Attempts to Kill Hitler at Wolf's Lair

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 11
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  Heavily camouflaged and fortified, Hitler's military headquarters in Poland saw several assassination attempts--including one that came closest to succeeding.

Nearly Assassinated at the Berghof

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 12
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  Hitler's Alpine retreat in Bavaria offered opportunities for a pistol-packing German officer, a sniper, a long-range bombing raid, and even an aerial assault by the Allies.

Poison Gas Plot in the Bunker

• User score: 5
• Episode number: 13
• Episode duration: 46 min.
• Episode description:
  One member of Hitler's inner circle later claimed to have contemplated flooding the Fuhrer's Berlin bunker with nerve gas as the Allies closed in.