Hitler's architect, Albert Speer, was considered the most inscrutable Nazi to stand trial at Nuremberg. As this fascinating BBC drama-documentary reveals, Speer was the only defendant who unreservedly accepted responsibility for the Nazis' crimes and narrowly missed a death sentence. But was Speer's apparent remorse genuine, or was it just a clever defense strategy to save his own neck?

Hermann Goering was the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe and Hitler's designated successor. Larger than life, both in size and personality, Goering was the most flamboyant and charismatic of all the defendants at Nuremberg. But, as this innovative BBC drama-documentary reveals, evil resided beneath the jolly facade. What motivated one of the most ruthless, cynical and unrepentant Nazis?

In 1941, Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess undertook a bizarre flight to Scotland offering peace to Britain. He was declared insane by the Fuhrer. As this remarkable BBC drama-documentary reveals, at Nuremberg Hess's fitness for trial was at the heart of his case. He claimed not to remember his Nazi past and suffered from paranoid delusions. But was his strange behavior just a ruse to escape punishment?