Nazi Megastructures

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Nazi Megastructures
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original release
Release2013 (2013) –
2019 (2019)

Nazi Megastructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel and a spinoff of the broader Megastructures television series. The series also aired as Nazi Mega Weapons on PBS, and as WWII Mega Weapons.

Episodes[edit]

Season 1[edit]

# Title Topics
1 The Atlantic Wall Atlantic Wall
2 U-Boat Base Lorient U-boat base
3 V2 Rocket Bases V-2 rocket, Peenemünde Army Research Center, Mittelwerk
4 Super Tanks Tiger I, Tiger II, Panzer VIII Maus
5 Hitler's Jet Caves Messerschmitt Me 262
6 Fortress Berlin Battle of Berlin, Flak tower, Führerbunker

Season 2[edit]

# Title Topics
1 The Wolf's Lair Wolf's Lair
2 Hitler's Megaships German battleship Bismarck, German battleship Tirpitz
3 Himmler's SS Heinrich Himmler, Schutzstaffel
4 V1: Hitler's Vengeance Missile V-1 flying bomb
5 Kamikaze Suicide Bombers Kamikaze, Kaiten, Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka
6 Hitler's Siegfried Line Siegfried Line

Season 3[edit]

# Title Topic
1 The Eagle's Nest Kehlsteinhaus, Berghof (residence), Obersalzberg
2 Hitler's Island Megafortress German fortification of Guernsey, Fortifications of Alderney, Coastal fortifications of Jersey
3 Lightning War Machine Blitzkrieg, Junkers Ju 87, Leuna works
4 Hitler's Killer Subs Type VII submarine, U-995, V-80 submarine, Type XXI submarine
5 Pacific Megaships Yamato, Musashi
6 Japanese Superfortress ("The Tunnels of Okinawa" in WWII Mega Weapons) Battle of Okinawa

Season 4[edit]

# Title Topics
1 Hitler's War Trains Deutsche Reichsbahn, Holocaust trains, Breitspurbahn
2 Hitler's Railways Of Death Deutsche Reichsbahn, Holocaust trains, Breitspurbahn
3 Hitler's Italian Fortress Gothic Line
4 Hitler's Arctic Fortress Festung Norwegen
5 Hitler's Propaganda Machine Propaganda in Nazi Germany
6 Hitler's Luftwaffe Luftwaffe

Miniseries[edit]

Season subtitle: Russia's War[1]

# Title Topics
1 Blitzkrieg In The East Operation Barbarossa
2 The Battle Of Kursk Battle of Kursk, T-34, Panther tank, Tiger I
3 Hitler's Fighting Retreat Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen

Season 5[edit]

Season subtitle: America's War[2][3]

# Title Topics
1 Japan's Warrior Code Battle of Saipan
2 Japan's Island of Death Battle of Peleliu
3 D-Day D-Day landings
4 Pearl Harbor Attack on Pearl Harbor
5 Hitler's Final Offensive Battle of the Bulge
6 Fortress Japan

Season 6[edit]

# Title Topics
1 Hitler's war in the skies Defence of the Reich
2 Hitler's British invasion plan Operation Sea Lion
3 Hell island Battle of Guadalcanal
4 Japan's death railway The Burma Railway
5 Hitler's desert war North African campaign
6 Hitler's Mediterranean fortress Operation Mincemeat, Allied invasion of Sicily

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Nazi Megastructures: Russia's War".
  2. ^ "Nazi Megastructures Series 5: America's War". Darlow Smithson Productions. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  3. ^ "Nazi Megastructures: America's War". www.nationalgeographic.com.au. Retrieved 2019-06-15.