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.

Cast

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

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)