Blood Money : Financial Secrets of the Third Reich - Episode 1 : How to Finance a War ? | PURE WW2

When Hitler seized power in 1933, war was already his endgame. Violence lay at the heart of Nazi ideology: the strong must dominate, the weak must fall. But there was a problem—Germany had no modern army, no weapons, and an economy worn down by years of crisis. Far from the myth of a thriving Reich, the country was a middling power, no stronger than a present-day regional state. The Nazi regime then launched one of the most audacious financial operations of the 20th century. Through secret debt schemes, industrial coercion and massive state manipulation, they rebuilt the economy by pouring resources into weapons production.

In 1939, Hitler finally plunged Europe into war — a war financed entirely on credit, using looted assets and anticipated spoils as collateral. A conflict born from a financial illusion that could only survive through expansion.

Thom Hartmann: History Warned Us: Why These 12 Warnings Could Mean It’s Too Late? w/ Laurence Rees

Dec 1, 2025 | Historians are scared - These 12 Warnings show how the Third Reich was built, and under Trump - every single one of them is happening again.

Laurence Reez, author of The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings From History - joins Thom Hartmann for a shocking interview detailing how Hitler took over Germany.

The Nazi mindset is back — Historians are scared - and we’re ignoring the exact same clues

The SS - Blood and Soil - The Occult History of the Third Reich

Nov 21, 2025 | From the occult origins of the Nazi Party to the death of Hitler in the flaming ruins of Berlin, the doctrine of National Socialism created a world of strange rituals and beliefs. Using rare archive footage The Occult History of the Third Reich explores the phenomenon that mesmerised Germany. This fascinating programme tells the strange story of the transformation of Hitler's elite bodyguard into a military-religious order steeped in the doctrines of the occult. It was to be a racially select order intended to fulfil all the extraordinary and terrifying policies of National Socialism.

Journey to Nazi Berlin / Vladimir Raevskiy

Nov 3, 2025 | A journey to a country under a totalitarian regime is surprisingly easy these days - too many of them are open and even welcoming to tourists. But what would you actually see, - and more importantly, notice, - on such a trip? Most travellers come back with ordinary impressions: food, sightseeing, parks, and museums.

But distance lends perspective.

That’s why I decided to travel to Nazi Berlin in 1936, to explore what impressions and observations I might have brought back from that quite remarkable place.

The Aftermath of Kristallnacht: The Nazi Auctioneers Who Profited from the Holocaust

Nov 2, 2025 | Historical data journalism brings to light the true story of Kristallnacht and thereafter. The systematic antisemitism of the Nazis peaked with the pogroms of 1938/39, the outcome of which was incomparable violence and despotism towards Jewish citizens. The events that culminated into the Kristallnacht also led to a massive wave of expropriation. The mind cannot begin to process the vast amount of monetary and material goods taken from the Jews on Kristallnacht and years to follow. But the stolen valuables were meticulously documented by a group known as the auctioneers. Their files place private stories in perspective with the major developments of Nazi-Germany, showing us those who’ve profited most from the property transfers.Tax inspectors and bailiffs, pawnbrokers and auctioneers were the exploiters of Jewish property, from industrial enterprises to silver spoons. Especially the auctioneers are among the major profiteers of the Holocaust. Their files, which in many cities were only recently made accessible, paint a new and more detailed picture of the persecution of Jews in Germany.

Book Burnings: How the Nazis First Burned Books and Then People

May 7, 2023 | Book burnings - in the past and the present - stand as one of the most powerful symbols of intolerance and censorship. On May 10, 1933, only a few months after Hitler's rise to power, tens of thousands of books were burned in more than twenty German cities. Most books were works by Jewish authors. But works by political dissidents were also blacklisted. Numerous writers were forced to go into exile, while many of those who stayed in Germany were imprisoned or murdered. The Nazis replaced the Weimar Republic’s once vibrant culture with Nazi propaganda and a carefully tailored concept of what they wanted “German culture” to be.

In this episode of "Arts Unveiled", DW History Reporter Susanne Spröer sets forth to investigate why the idea to burn books took hold of universities across Germany in 1933. What role did the symbolism of fire play? Which authors were blacklisted? What happened to them afterwards? And what do young people today think about these acts of cultural destruction?

The Path to Nazi Genocide | 2025 | Holocaust Education

Oct 20, 2025 | This 38-minute film introduces the history of the Holocaust. It begins by looking back at the major changes from 1918 to 1933 that created the political climate for the birth and rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. It explores the basis for the party’s support among ordinary Germans and the military, government, and business establishment before and after Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933.

After 1933, Nazi leaders used violence and intimidation, propaganda, laws and decrees, and parliamentary maneuvers to quickly destroy the remains of democratic rule. Having established a dictatorship, leaders began pursuing ideological goals. These included the purification and strengthening of the “superior” German “race” and the return of Germany to great power status through economic revival and the build-up of the military.

Jews, who were viewed in Nazi ideology as a separate and dangerous “race,” went from being German citizens with full equal rights to outcasts. They were pressured to immigrate and excluded from the racially based “people’s community” that gave many Germans, especially youth, a sense of belonging. Other excluded groups included Roma, persons with disabilities, gay men, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and political opponents.

During World War II, which began in 1939, German military conquests and alliances endangered Jews living in countries across German-dominated Europe. The German invasion of the Soviet Union in summer 1941, envisioned by Nazi leaders and the German military as a “war of annihilation,” was a key turning point on the path to the genocide of Europe’s Jews. The murder of 6 million Jewish men, women, and children required the active participation or acquiescence of countless Germans and Europeans from all walks of life.

Young Republicans Group Chat Reveals the Future of the Republican Party

Oct 15, 2025 | After the release of messages found within a Young Republicans group chat, it's clear the next generation of Republicans are trying to follow in the footsteps of Trump. Steve Schmidt reacts to the Politico article and explains why their ideology is so dangerous.

How Switzerland Helped Finance Hitler’s War – Historical Documentary

October 9, 2025 | Suisse : La Banque des Nazis

Gestapo - Hitler's Secret Police

Oct 1, 2023 | Hermann Goering’s Secret State Police were ordered to arrest, and torture supposed enemies of the Reich to get confessions from them. All the powers of the German judiciary were taken into its hands and the courts were rendered superfluous.

This is a compelling account of one of the true horror stories of the century. | Licenced through Mercury Studios

This Was the Life of Jews Under the Nazi Regime

September 5, 2025

Hitler's Unlikely Soldiers: The Jews Who Had to Fight for the Third Reich

Aug 16, 2025 | During the rise of Nazi Germany, many people with even a trace of Jewish ancestry were categorized as "Mischlinge," or "half-breeds," by the Nuremberg Laws. Faced with persecution, some of these individuals made the complex decision to fight for the German military. For many, this was a desperate attempt to prove their loyalty and protect their families from the Nazi regime's growing threat. In this episode of Nazi Collaborators, historians investigate the dark reality of these men who served a nation that sought their destruction, detailing their stories of bravery, deception, and collaboration in an impossible situation. Ultimately, their survival became a small, personal victory against the very system they were forced to fight for.

1933-1935 The Nazification - Chronicle of the Third Reich UNCENSORED

Apr 11, 2025 | The Nazis seized power when Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor on 30 January 1933. What began with great jubilation ended after a world war in which 50 million people were killed. This series takes a unique journey through the bleakest chapter of German history. It traces the story of the Third Reich, painting a picture of Nazi dictatorship behind the propaganda by utilising what in some cases is previously unpublished footage.

After Hitler: The Path to Democracy

Apr 20, 2025 | With the invasion of neighboring Poland by the German armed forces in the fall of 1939, Germany ignited the Second World War. Six years of murder, destruction, expulsion and hunger shaped the fate of people in many parts of the world.

In May 1945, the guns fell silent in Europe. Germany was defeated. An end and a beginning at the same time. But how did the political, social and economic reconstruction take shape in post-war Germany? How did a dictatorship become a democracy?

We look at the first years after the end of the war – and the long road towards a new political order.

Trump’s Dark Blueprint for Presidency Blown Wide Open

Jul 19, 2025 | Is Trumpism really fascism? And which radical regime came first? To craft legal discrimination, the Third Reich studied the United States - and Jim Crow policies. Anthony Davis breaks down Donald Trump’s history of eugenicist beliefs and how it shapes his policies today.

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Gestapo - Hitler's Secret Police

Oct 21, 2023 | Hermann Goering’s Secret State Police were ordered to arrest, and torture supposed enemies of the Reich to get confessions from them. All the powers of the German judiciary were taken into its hands and the courts were rendered superfluous. This is a compelling account of one of the true horror stories of the century. Licenced through Mercury Studios

Nb: For English speakers who are unfamiliar with the intricacies of the German language, it might be of interest to you to learn that the word Gestapo is a portmanteau word combining these German words: Geheime Staatspolizei, meaning ‘secret state police’. ‘Geheim’ is German for secret. ‘Staatspolizei’ means ‘state polce’. So, by taking the first letters of those three words—‘Staatspolizei’ is one word made up from two—we get the word Ge Sta Po = Gestapo. – Mark Alexander

Execution of Nazi Gay Prostitute & Killer Who Personally Tortured His Enemies - Edmund Heines

Apr 27, 2025 | Edmund Heines was born on the 21st of July 1897 in the city of Munich, then part of the German Empire. During the war, he was deployed to the Western Front. In 1915, he sustained a severe head wound that forced him to convalesce for some time. He was recognized for bravery and devotion to duty, receiving military decorations such as the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, and achieved the rank of reserve lieutenant by 1918. In March 1920, Heines participated in what is known as the Kapp Putsch, a failed coup attempt by extreme right-wing factions who aimed to topple the republican government in Germany and restore an authoritarian regime. After the putsch collapsed, Heines and his associates took cover in various parts of Germany. A few months after the failed coup a violent incident occurred, one that deeply marked his reputation and legal standing: the so-called Fememord of Willi Schmidt.. On the 22nd of January 1928, Heines was arrested in Schongau for his involvement in Willi Schmidt's murder. He was transferred to Stettin – today’s Polish Szczecin - as the main defendant in the trial for Schmidt's murder. The prosecution demanded the death penalty for Schmidt's murder, but the judgement of the Stettin court was 15 years in prison for manslaughter, later lowered to 5 years. At the end, on the 14th of May 1929, Heines was released from custody by a decision of the Stettin court on a bail of 5000 Reichsmarks.

Nazis on Drugs | Secret Weapon of WW2 | Forgotten History

Mar 12, 2025

Why Were the Nazis So Stylish? | Secret History Revealed

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The Jews that Fought for Hitler

Feb 3, 2025 | After Jews were made enemies of the state by Nazi Germany before WW2, it wasn't just people of Jewish blood that were used as a scapegoat. Hitler persecuted anyone even remotely related to a Jewish person to be the sworn enemy of the German people. How then, did some of these 'Mischlings' end up fighting on Hitler's side against their own people?