Tracing the rise to power of the SS, from their ascent in the Weimar Republic to their establishment within the Nazi regime.
Heinrich Himmler's diary provides terrifying insights into the SS leader, revealing details of his private life and his work as the leader of the SS.
Reinhard Heydrich is an orchestrator of mass murder; more than any other Nazi leader, he is responsible for rational planning with cold efficiency.
Nazi propaganda paints them as a military elite, but SS troops fight with contempt for death and slaughter anything that gets in their way.
The Totenkopfverbände or "Death Head Units" of the SS are guards at the concentration camps, torturing and murdering prisoners on a daily basis.
Many Nazi perpetrators flee to exile unscathed, yet some do not escape punishment and are forced to confront their responsibility.
Gabriele Rose
Director
Victoria Vorbröker
Producer
Stefan Bomhof
