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World History: True Stories of the 20th Century — 171 episodes

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Joseph Schleifstein: The Little Boy Who Survived Buchenwald Concentration Camp

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Pierre Pucheu: Vichy France's Fascist Minister Executed for Nazi Collaboration

3

Diana Mosley: Britain's Most Famous Fascist Wife and Hitler Supporter

4

Karl Ernst: Nazi SA Leader Executed During the Night of the Long Knives

5

Beisfjord Massacre: Nazi Forces Burned Yugoslav Prisoners Alive in Norway

6

Ib Birkedal Hansen: Denmark's Most Brutal Nazi Collaborator

7

Siegfried Seidl: Nazi Commandant of Theresienstadt Who Sent Thousands to Death

8

Arthur Greiser: Nazi Gauleiter of Warthegau Who Terrorized Occupied Poland

9

Franz Wunsch: The Auschwitz SS Guard Who Fell in Love with a Jewish Prisoner

10

Oswald Mosley: Britain's Fascist Leader and Founder of the Blackshirts

11

Piaśnica Massacre: Nazi Germany's First Mass Extermination of Polish Civilians

12

Hannie Schaft: The Red-Haired Dutch Resistance Hero Who Hunted Nazis

13

Mandel Szkolnikoff: The Richest Nazi Collaborator in Occupied France

14

Margarete Himmler: The Loyal Wife of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler

15

Josef Wagner: Nazi Gauleiter of Westphalia-South and Silesia Executed by Hitler's Own Regime

16

Katyn Massacre: Stalin’s Secret Murder of 22,000 Members of Poland’s Elite

17

Violette Morris: French Sports Star Who Collaborated with the Nazis

18

Hermann Florstedt: Brutal Nazi Commandant of the Majdanek Death Camp

19

Willi Geiger: Nazi Judge Who Later Served on West Germany's Highest Court

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Josef Riegler: Nazi Guard and Hangman at Mauthausen Concentration Camp

21

Döme Sztójay: Hungary's Prime Minister Who Deported 440,000 Jews to Nazi Camps

22

Khatyn Massacre: Nazi Revenge for the Death of a German Olympic Champion

23

Liane Berkowitz: Teenage German Hero Who Defied Hitler's Nazi Regime

24

Magda Hellinger [part 2]: The Auschwitz Prisoner Who Saved Lives Through Compassion

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Magda Hellinger [part 1]: The Auschwitz Prisoner Who Saved Lives Through Compassion

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Hans Biebow: The Nazi Businessman Who Built a Slave Labour Empire

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Rachele Mussolini: The Loyal Wife of Italy's Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini

28

Edmund Heines: Brutal Nazi Leader Purged in the Night of the Long Knives

29

Rüsselsheim Massacre: American Airmen Lynched by Fanatical Nazi German Civilians

30

Alexandre Villaplane: From France's Football Captain to Nazi Collaborator and Killer

31

Max Koegel: Nazi Camp Commandant of Ravensbrück, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg

32

Hans Frank: The "Butcher of Poland" Who Ruled the Nazi General Government Like a King

33

Fritz Becher: Murderer of Catholic Priests at Dachau Concentration Camp

34

Anton Mussert: Dutch Fascist Leader and Hitler Collaborator

35

Tulle Massacre: SS Panzer Division Das Reich Atrocity Against French Civilians in World War II

36

Jan Verleun: Dutch Soldier and Resistance Hero Against the Nazis

37

Gert Schramm: Black Survivor of Nazi Germany's Buchenwald Concentration Camp

38

Louis Renault: French Car Manufacturer Accused of Collaborating with Nazi Germany

39

Florentine Rost van Tonningen: The Dutch "Black Widow" Who Never Renounced Nazism

40

Ernst Röhm: Nazi SA Leader Executed During the Night of the Long Knives

41

Mühlviertel Rabbit Hunt: Nazi Manhunt for Escaped Soviet Prisoners of War in 1945

42

Robert Alesch: Nazi Collaborator Priest Who Betrayed the French Resistance

43

Otto Förschner: Nazi Camp Commandant of Mittelbau-Dora and Kaufering

44

Arthur Seyss-Inquart: Nazi Ruler of the Netherlands and Architect of Occupation Terror

45

Miroslav Filipović: The Fascist Priest Known as “Brother Satan” of Jasenovac

46

Vojtech Tuka: Slovak Prime Minister Behind the Deportation of 58,000 Jews

47

Distomo Massacre 1944: Nazi Reprisal That Killed 228 Greek Civilians

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Zinaida Portnova: Teenage Soviet Resistance Hero Against Nazi Occupation

49

Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim: Gay Survivor of Nazi Persecution and the Holocaust

50

Viktor Abakumov: Stalin’s Secret Police Chief Who Fell Victim to the Purges

51

Clara Petacci: Mussolini’s Companion Who Chose to Share His Final Fate

52

Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler: From Hitler’s Bodyguards to Waffen-SS War Criminals

53

Broniki Massacre 1941: The Killing of 153 German Prisoners of War

54

Karel Čurda: The Czech Traitor Who Betrayed Hundreds to the Gestapo

55

Franz Stangl: Nazi Commandant of Two Holocaust Death Camps Known as the “White Death”

56

Josef Bühler: Nazi Official Who Helped Implement the Holocaust in Poland

57

Soviet Invasion of Poland 1939: Stalin, Hitler, and the Partition of Poland

58

Fernand de Brinon: France's Leading Nazi Collaborator During World War II

59

Lidice Massacre: Nazi Reprisal After the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

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Lepa Radić: Teenage Anti-Fascist Hero of Occupied Yugoslavia

61

Carl Gröpler: Germany's Executioner Who Beheaded the Vampire of Düsseldorf

62

Grigory Shtern: Soviet Commander Who Defeated Japan but Was Executed by Stalin

63

Elisabeth Willhaus: The Nazi Commandant's Wife Who Allegedly Shot Prisoners

64

The Rinnan Gang: Nazi Collaborators Who Infiltrated the Norwegian Resistance

65

Mauthausen Liberation: When Prisoners Took Revenge on Their Nazi Guards

66

Antonina Makarova: Soviet Nurse Turned Nazi Executioner

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Martin Weiss: SS Commandant Who Ran Some of Nazi Germany's Deadliest Camps

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Baldur von Schirach: Nazi Leader Who Indoctrinated Millions of German Children

69

Operation Unthinkable: Churchill's Secret Plan to Attack the Soviet Union

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Louis Collard: Belgian Fascist Collaborator Behind the Courcelles Massacre

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Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre: SS Division Das Reich Murdered 642 Civilians

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Gerrit Kastein: Dutch Doctor Who Led Resistance Attacks on Nazi Collaborators

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Vasily Blokhin: Stalin's Chief Executioner and the Butcher of Katyn

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Lev Shvartzman: Stalin's Torturer During the Great Purge in the Soviet Union

75

Erna Petri: Wife of an SS Officer Who Executed Six Jewish Children

76

SS Division Prinz Eugen: Nazi Unit Responsible for Atrocities in the Balkans

77

Le Paradis Massacre: SS Murder of 97 Surrendered British Soldiers

78

Igo Sym: Polish Actor Turned Nazi Collaborator Executed by the Resistance

79

Hermann Pister: Nazi Buchenwald Commandant Behind Brutal Camp Terror

80

Wilhelm Frick: Nazi Interior Minister Who Created the Laws Behind the Holocaust

81

Operation Anthropoid: Assassination of Nazi Security Chief and “Butcher of Prague” Reinhard Heydrich

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Hermannus Reydon: Dutch Nazi Propaganda Leader Assassinated by the Resistance

83

Lviv Pogroms 1941: Nazi Occupation and the Mass Murder of Jews in Ukraine

84

Tetyana Markus: Jewish Anti-Nazi Hero Who Assassinated German Officers in Kyiv

85

Johann Reichhart: Nazi Executioner Who Guillotined Thousands in the Third Reich

86

Yakov Dzhugashvili: Stalin’s Son Who Died in a Nazi Concentration Camp

87

Ilse Koch: The “Witch of Buchenwald” and Cruel Wife of a Nazi Camp Commandant

88

Arājs Kommando: Latvian Nazi Unit Behind Massacres During the Holocaust

89

Ebensee Liberation: The Camp Where Freed Prisoners Took Brutal Revenge on Nazi Guards

90

Ivan Marchenko: Former Soviet Soldier Turned Nazi Treblinka Gas Chamber Operator

91

Amon Göth: Nazi Camp Commandant Known as the Butcher of Kraków

92

Fritz Sauckel: High-Ranking Nazi Official Executed for Forced Slave Labor

93

Operation Barbarossa: 5 Myths About Hitler’s Invasion of the Soviet Union

94

Hermannus Reydon: Dutch Nazi Propaganda Leader Targeted by the Resistance

95

Hisao Tani: Japanese General Executed for the Nanjing Massacre

96

Yelena Mazanik: Anti-Nazi Hero Who Assassinated Nazi Governor of Occupied Belarus

97

John C. Woods: American Hangman Who Executed Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg

98

Nikolai Yezhov: Soviet Secret Police Chief Behind Stalin’s Great Purge Executed in 1940

99

Lída Baarová: Actress Whose Affair With Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels Destroyed Her Life

100

Dirlewanger Brigade: Nazi Unit Behind the Wola Massacre and Eastern Front Atrocities

101

Stalingrad 1943: German 6th Army Encircled, Surrendered, and Destroyed

102

András Kun: Fascist Priest Who Led Jewish Massacres in Budapest

103

Christian Wirth: Nazi Death Camp Commandant Behind Operation Reinhard

104

Alfred Rosenberg: Top Nazi Ideologue Executed at the Nuremberg Trials

105

Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Düsseldorf Serial Killer Executed in 1931

106

Fritz Kuhn: The “American Führer” Who Tried to Bring Nazism to America

107

Moritake Tanabe: Japanese General Linked to Nanjing Massacre Executed After WW2

108

Jan Kubiš: Anti-Nazi Hero Who Helped Assassinate Senior Nazi Leader Reinhard Heydrich

109

Krasnodar Mass Public Execution: Nazi Collaborators Hanged in Soviet Russia in 1943

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Boris Rodos: Soviet Secret Police Torturer Executed After Stalin’s Death

111

Henriette von Schirach: Nazi Elite Wife Who Lived on Looted Jewish Wealth

112

1st Mountain Division: Wehrmacht Unit Behind Massacres in Greece and the Balkans

113

Lippach Massacre: US Troops Executed Teenage Nazi Prisoners of War in 1945

114

Ans van Dijk: Dutch Nazi Collaborator Who Betrayed Even Her Own Family and Paid for It

115

Josef Kramer: Nazi Camp Commandant of Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz Executed After Trial

116

Julius Streicher: Nazi Propagandist at Nuremberg Executed for Inciting the Holocaust

117

Adolf Seefeldt: Germany’s “Uncle Tick-Tock” Serial Killer of Children

118

Yoshiko Kawashima: “Mata Hari of the Far East” Executed for Treason After WWII

119

Tomoyuki Yamashita: “Tiger of Malaya” Executed for WWII War Crimes in the Philippines

120

Nancy Wake: The “White Mouse” Who Fought the Nazis and Led the French Resistance

121

Kharkov Mass Public Execution in Ukraine: Nazi War Criminals Hanged in 1943

122

Stanisław Kosior: Top Soviet Official Behind Ukraine’s Man-Made Famine Executed in Stalin’s Purge

123

Geli Raubal: Hitler’s Niece Found Dead in Mysterious Munich Scandal

124

Fyodor Truhin: Soviet General Who Became Nazi Collaborator Executed for Treason

125

Chenogne Massacre: U.S. Troops Executed German POWs After Malmedy in WW2

126

Stanisław Trzeciak: Polish Priest and Nazi Collaborator Who Spread Antisemitic Propaganda

127

Franz Ziereis: Mauthausen Commandant Who Ran One of Nazi Germany’s Deadliest Camps

128

Joseph Goebbels: Nazi Propaganda Minister and Architect of Holocaust Hate

129

Paul Ogorzow: Serial Killer Who Terrorized Berlin Trains in Nazi Germany

130

Ferenc Szálasi: Hungarian Fascist Leader of Arrow Cross Executed for War Crimes

131

Prince Yasuhiko Asaka: Japanese Imperial Commander of Nanjing Massacre Who Escaped Justice

132

Witold Pilecki: Anti-Nazi Hero Who Volunteered for Auschwitz and Was Executed by Soviets

133

Majdanek Public Execution: Nazi Perpetrators Hanged at Concentration Camp in 1944

134

The Fate of Eight Soviet Generals: Stalin’s Great Purge of Tukhachevsky and Red Army Command

135

Emmy Göring: Nazi “First Lady” Who Lived on Looted Art and War Crimes

136

Bronislav Kaminski: Nazi Collaborator and Leader of Brutal Kaminski Brigade in WW2

137

Wereth 11 Massacre: Black U.S. Soldiers Captured and Killed by Nazis in WWII

138

Son Thang Massacre: U.S. Marines Executed Civilians in Vietnam War

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Hans Loritz: Nazi Camp Commandant of Dachau and Sachsenhausen Who Escaped Justice

140

Roland Freisler: Nazi Judge Who Sent Thousands to Death in Hitler’s People’s Court

141

Marcel Petiot: French Serial Killer Who Murdered Jews Under Nazi Occupation

142

Vidkun Quisling: Norwegian Fascist Leader and Nazi Collaborator Executed for Treason

143

Akira Mutō: Japanese General Responsible for Nanjing Massacre Executed for War Crimes

144

Truus and Freddie Oversteegen: Teenage Dutch Girls Who Killed Nazis in WW2

145

Kyiv Public Execution: Nazis Responsible for the Babi Yar Massacre Hanged After WWII

146

Genrikh Yagoda: Soviet Secret Police Chief and Gulag Architect Executed in Stalin’s Purge

147

Magda Goebbels: Nazi “First Lady” Who Killed Her Children in Hitler’s Bunker

148

Sergei Bunyachenko: Soviet Colonel Turned Nazi Collaborator in WW2

149

Feodosia Massacre: Soviet Killing of Nazi German Prisoners in Crimea, 1942

150

Ngo Dinh Diem: The South Vietnamese Dictator Overthrown During the Vietnam War

151

Max Pauly: The Neuengamme Commandant Linked to the Murder of Children

152

Josias of Waldeck-Pyrmont: The SS Prince Behind the Crimes of Buchenwald

153

Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper Who Terrorized Wartime London

154

Jozef Tiso: The Priest-President Who Led Slovakia as a Nazi Puppet State

155

Kenji Doihara: Japan’s “Narco-General” Behind the Invasion of Manchuria

156

Francisco Boix: The Mauthausen Prisoner Who Smuggled Photos of Nazi Crimes

157

Stutthof Executions: Public Hanging of Nazi Camp Guards in Postwar Poland

158

Lavrentiy Beria: Stalin’s Secret Police Chief and Architect of Soviet Terror

159

Eva Braun: Hitler’s Secret Companion Who Stayed Until the Fall of the Third Reich

160

Andrey Vlasov: The Soviet General Who Became a Nazi Collaborator

161

Dachau Liberation Reprisals: The Killing of SS Guards After the Camp’s Discovery

162

My Lai Massacre: The Vietnam War Atrocity That Shocked the World

163

Rudolf Höss: The Auschwitz Commandant Who Built the Nazi Killing Machine

164

Joachim von Ribbentrop: Hitler’s Foreign Minister and Architect of Nazi Diplomacy

165

Johann Eichhorn: The “Beast of Aubing” Serial Killer in Nazi Germany

166

Pierre Laval: The Vichy Prime Minister Who Collaborated with Nazi Germany

167

Masaharu Homma: The Japanese General Held Responsible for the Bataan Death March

168

Sophie Scholl: The White Rose Student Who Defied Hitler

169

Minsk War Crimes Trial: Public Executions of Nazi Perpetrators in 1946

170

Mikhail Tukhachevsky: Stalin’s Purged Marshal of the Soviet Union

171

Lina Heydrich: The Fanatical Nazi Widow of Reinhard Heydrich