The Complete Story of Hitler and the Nazis Season 2 Episode release dates & where to watch

1. Hitler's Secret Weapons

One of the key components of Hitler's power stemmed from the industrial capabilities he wielded. Cutting edge armaments of myriad designs were created to reinforce his mighty military forces. Hitler's war machine never ceased production.

2. The Enigma of the Swastika

The swastika has been an important symbol in many cultures throughout the world over the course of human history. To the Nazi Party, the symbol was imbued with feelings of honor, strength, and solidarity for their cruel ambition.

3. Himmler the Mystic

Hitler evolved to practice an entirely new faith, complete with a holy book, venerated relics, and a priestly elite in the form of Heinrich Himmler's SS. Hitler himself was viewed as the ultimate leader in Messianic terms.

4. The SS: Blood and Soil

By 1934, the SS was becoming Hitler's brotherhood of templars. The handpicked, disciplined, and fiercely loyal bodyguard of the furor was being transformed into a mystical order of Aryan elite dedicated to the creation of an empire.

5. The Occult and Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler extensively studied Germanic mythology and legends, and upon combining knowledge he garnered in these areas with cutting-edge theories of genetic science, his new ideology eugenically established Germans as the "Master Race."