Heinrich Himmler creates the infamous Gestapo, the Waffen-SS and the concentration camp network.

Propagandist Joseph Goebbels harnesses the combined power of radio, print, posters, film and oratory to shape the Nazi political agenda.

Describing himself as 'Jew Baiter Number One', Julius Streicher publishes the anti-Semitic Der Sturmer magazine to advance the Third Reich's agenda.

Hermann Goering, the drug-addicted dilettante who created the Luftwaffe, stays at Adolf Hitler's side from the ill-fated Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 until they become estranged in April 1945.

Albert Speer, the man who designed the Nuremberg Rallies and headed up the slave labour organisation which created the V1 and V2 rockets. Speer is consigned to life imprisonment for his crimes.

Tracing the life of Adolf Hitler from his roots in Austria to his military service in World War I, his rise to power in Nazi Germany and his downfall.