
Hitler's bodyguard
阿道夫·希特勒造成5000万人死亡。整个国家都跟着他走向毁灭。在动荡的12年里,阿道夫·希特勒从一个煽动乌合之众的小政客,变成了纳粹德国的最高领袖。他被他迫害的人所憎恨,甚至被他自己的一些指挥官所憎恨——然而在25年里,没有人能杀死他。这个节目展示了希特勒的保镖如何在许多场合帮助他欺骗死亡。他们从少数被招募来保护政治会议和在街上与反对派作战的暴徒扩大到数千人——包括世界上已知的一些最可怕的秘密警察和准军事力量。

Hitler's personal protection squad grew from a few fiercely loyal, handpicked ruffians into an army with a complicated structure and intense internal competition.

Beer hall brawls, street fighting, and several brushes with death marked Hitler's rise to power in the stormy politics of interbellum Germany.

During Hitler's first year in office--as he steered Germany abruptly towards tyranny--he faced no fewer than a dozen attempts on his life.

In one bloody, well-planned purge, Hitler eliminated his political rivals and ended the looming threat from Ernst Röhm's well-armed Sturmabteilung.

As the Nazis amped up their anti-Semitic and expansionist activities, Jewish groups, Soviet Communists, and Otto Strasser's rival Black Front all targeted Hitler.

By 1938, people inside and outside Germany--including some of Hitler's senior military personnel--planned preemptive strikes against the Führer.

Convinced that a failed bomb plot had roots in England, a Gestapo counterintelligence officer engineered an elaborate sting to snatch British agents.

Hitler liked to tour cheering crowds in a customized, open-top Grosser Mercedes and later a G4-a predilection that gave his bodyguards nightmares.

Hitler appreciated the power of aircraft, not only as a military weapon, but as a political tool. During the early 1930s, he hired aircraft for election campaigning, often facing weather and mechanical problems, as well as specific assassination attempts.

British operatives targeted Hitler's special train, the Führer-Sonderzug--a rolling fortress on rails--despite its heavy armor and tight security measures.

Heavily camouflaged and fortified, Hitler's military headquarters in Poland saw several assassination attempts--including one that came closest to succeeding.

Hitler's Alpine retreat in Bavaria offered opportunities for a pistol-packing German officer, a sniper, a long-range bombing raid, and even an aerial assault by the Allies.

One member of Hitler's inner circle later claimed to have contemplated flooding the Fuhrer's Berlin bunker with nerve gas as the Allies closed in.

阿道夫·希特勒
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Joseph Goebbels
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Hermann Göring
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Heinrich Himmler
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Reinhard Heydrich
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Claus von Stauffenberg
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Erwin Rommel
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Martin Bormann
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Adolf Eichmann
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Rudolf Hess
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Ernst Röhm
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
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