Nazi Megastructures

The Wolf's Lair

A secret headquarters of concrete and steel is the heart of Hitler’s plans for domination and the key to a Nazi conspiracy - the Wolf’s Lair.

Hitler's Megaships

The Bismarck and Tirpitz were battleships of record breaking proportions, ultimate status symbols of the Third Reich and hunted by the Allies.

Himmler's SS

In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest, deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history.

V1: Hitler's Vengeance Missile

In retaliation for Allied bombing raids, Hitler ordered the development of the V1. The first cruise missile, it changed the face of war forever.

Kamikaze Suicide Bombers

As America closes in on Japan in 1944, the Japanese turn to desperate new tactics: killer planes and super torpedoes guided by human pilots.

Hitler's Siegfried Line

The campaign to breach Hitler's 400 mile-long Siegfried Line took more than six months and cost the American forces 140,000 casualties.

The Eagle's Nest

Hitler transformed his Alpine retreat in Bavaria into a fortified fiefdom, home to 2,000 SS troops and protected by a high level security system.

Hitler's Island Megafortress

It’s June 1940 and the Nazis have taken the Channel Islands, where Hitler orders some of the most fortified structures in the Third Reich.

Lightning War Machine

Ruins across Europe tell the story of Blitzkrieg, a revolution in warfare which almost gave Hitler the chance to create his Thousand Year Reich.

Hitler's Killer Subs

Hitler planned a submarine to outperform all others. The Type 21 was the world's most advanced submarine: Hitler's sea-faring super weapon.

Pacific Megaships

In the 1930s the Japanese begin designing the Yamato, the world's most powerful battleship, 30 per cent larger than anything their enemies have.

Japanese Superfortress

In 1945 Japanese generals construct a network of defences and tunnels on Okinawa, creating a devastating killing ground for American troops.

Hitler's War Trains

The Nazi empire ran on trains, from the personal trains of the leadership to the locomotives and service depots that serviced the network.

Hitler's Railways of Death

Railways were key to the planning and implementation of the Final Solution, used to bring victims to the death camps from all over Europe.

Hitler's Italian Fortress

The fortifications the Nazis built in northern Italy were meant to slow the Allied advance. Now the team reconstructs their extent and depth.

Hitler's Arctic Fortress

After invading Norway in the spring of 1940, Nazi armed forces proceeded to fortify the entire country for war against Britain and the Soviet Union.

Hitler's Propaganda Machine

The war was lost long before it ended, but the Nazi propaganda apparatus was designed to keep that truth from its subjects for as long as possible.

Hitler's Luftwaffe

The German air force was the most powerful and largest in Europe at the beginning of World War II, and it played a key part in Hitler's conquests.