SECRETS OF HITLER’S SPECIAL FORCES tells the inside story of this elite company’s daring operations, soaring with glider pilots to the Belgian fortress of Eben Emael, parachuting into Crete, freeing Benito Mussolini from a mountaintop prison. Filled with rare photos, information gleaned from once secret documents and never before seen footage filmed by Nazi cameramen, it is a captivating look inside one of the most extraordinary military teams ever assembled. Although they fought for a brutal and evil regime, the courage and skill of many of Hitler’s Special Forces cannot be denied.[/center]

As the Second World War began to draw to a close, the scientists and designers of Hitler s Germany were employed in a frantic race to create new ideas that would turn the tide of the conflict. They developed some of the most sophisticated and advanced weaponry of the age the so called Wunderwaffen or Wonder Weapons. From missiles and enormous tanks, to the biggest gun ever built and the prototype of a plane capable of launching a suicide bombing raid on the skyscrapers of New York. Hitler s Secret Weapon shows how they helped the technology of war advance generations in little more than a decade. Using archive footage, reconstructions and interviews with experts, this fascinating show.

U-BOATS - Iron Coffins: Britain finally won the war against the deadly German U-Boats that lurked in the freezing waters of the Atlantic ocean. But what was life really like in the cramped and claustrophobic conditions aboard the vessels that became known as Iron Coffins?

This programme analyzes the very latest neurological research into Shell Shock and trauma, it retraces Hitler s time as a frontline soldier, and examines the medical history of Hitler s gas poisoning and his period at a psychiatric wartime hospital that the Nazi Party later tried to cover-up; and it explores an American top-secret report from 1943 to discover how Hitler s war experiences led to him suffering what some historians believe to be an extreme psychological disorder, Hysterical Blindness, known today as Conversion Disorder.