Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of fifty million people. An entire nation
followed him to ruin. 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. Winston Churchill had very few bodyguards, whilst Hitler had
thousands - he needed them: during his travels across Europe, there were
over 40 attempts on his life. Now, with access to captured original
S.S. records, the producers... can reveal for the first time in this new
series how fate - and a small number of hand-picked bodyguards - helped
this evil genius to escape death on so many occasions.
Episode 6 Highlights
• As Hitler moved to acquire Austria and the Sudetenland in
Czechoslovakia, British Col. F. Noel Mason-Macfarlane proposed
assassinating Hitler; ultimately, the British government dismissed the
scheme as “unsportsmanlike.”
• Some German generals considered shooting Hitler in the run-up to war
but backed off for lack of clear support from Britain and France.
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