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World History: True Stories of the 20th Century — 203 episodes

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Theodore Schurch: British Fascist Who Spied on Allied Prisoners for Nazi Germany

2

Egon Zill: Nazi Camp Commandant Who Tortured and Sexually Abused Prisoners

3

Albert Forster: Nazi Gauleiter Who Turned Danzig–West Prussia Into a Killing Ground

4

Hermann Hackmann: Sadistic Nazi Camp Officer Sentenced to Death by the SS

5

Meinoud Rost van Tonningen: Dutch Nazi Collaborator Who Financed Hitler’s War

6

Courcelles Massacre: Belgian Nazi Collaborators Murdered 27 Civilians

7

Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Soviet Female Sniper Who Killed 309 Nazi Soldiers

8

Helena Citrónová: Jewish Auschwitz Prisoner Loved by an SS Guard Who Saved Her Life

9

Alfried Krupp: Nazi Germany’s Industrial Billionaire Who Exploited Concentration Camp Labour

10

Gretl Braun: Eva Braun’s Sister Who Married SS General and Mass Murderer Hermann Fegelein

11

Irma Grese: The 22-Year-Old Nazi Guard Who Terrorized Women at Auschwitz and Belsen

12

Cephalonia Massacre: German Forces Massacred Thousands of Italian Soldiers After Surrender

13

Harold Cole: British Traitor Who Betrayed 150 Resistance Fighters to the Gestapo

14

Fritz Suhren: Nazi Commandant of Ravensbrück, the Largest Concentration Camp for Women

15

Hans Krebs: Sudeten Nazi Leader Who Helped Hitler Destroy Czechoslovakia

16

Gerhard Palitzsch: Auschwitz SS Executioner Who Claimed He Shot 25,000 Prisoners

17

Victor Matthys: Belgian Fascist Leader Behind the Courcelles Massacre

18

Palmiry Massacre: Nazi Germany’s Secret Murder of Poland’s Political and Cultural Elite

19

Yefrosinya Zenkova: 18-Year-Old Partisan Leader Who Sabotaged the Nazis in Belarus

20

Dita Kraus (part 2): Teenage “Librarian of Auschwitz” Who Risked Her Life for Books

21

Dita Kraus (part 1): Teenage “Librarian of Auschwitz” Who Risked Her Life for Books

22

Friedrich Flick: Nazi Germany’s Billionaire Industrialist Who Rebuilt His Fortune After Nuremberg

23

Hedwig Höss: Auschwitz Commandant’s Wife Who Called Life Beside the Camp “Paradise”

24

Night of the Long Knives: Hitler's Bloody Purge of Röhm and the Nazi SA

25

Grishino Massacre: Nearly 600 German and Axis Prisoners Killed by Soviet Forces

26

Mildred Gillars: American “Axis Sally” Who Broadcast Nazi Propaganda to U.S. Troops

27

Kurt Franz: Sadistic Nazi Commandant of Treblinka Extermination Camp

28

Otto Thierack: Nazi Justice Minister Who Turned German Courts Into Instruments of Terror

29

Wilhelm Dörr: Nazi SS Guard Who Murdered Prisoners on a Death March and Paid for His Crimes

30

Sverre Riisnæs: Norway's Nazi Justice Minister and SS Officer Who Escaped Trial

31

Kleisoura Massacre: Nazi SS Division Massacred Greek Women and Children

32

Jozef Gabčík: Slovak Resistance Hero Who Helped Assassinate Reinhard Heydrich

33

Joseph Schleifstein: The Little Boy Who Survived Buchenwald Concentration Camp

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

Beisfjord Massacre: Nazi Forces Burned Yugoslav Prisoners Alive in Norway

38

Ib Birkedal Hansen: Denmark's Most Brutal Nazi Collaborator

39

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

40

Arthur Greiser: Nazi Gauleiter of Warthegau Who Terrorized Occupied Poland

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

Mandel Szkolnikoff: The Richest Nazi Collaborator in Occupied France

46

Margarete Himmler: The Loyal Wife of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler

47

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

48

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

49

Violette Morris: French Sports Star Who Collaborated with the Nazis

50

Hermann Florstedt: Brutal Nazi Commandant of the Majdanek Death Camp

51

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

52

Josef Riegler: Nazi Guard and Hangman at Mauthausen Concentration Camp

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

Rüsselsheim Massacre: American Airmen Lynched by Fanatical Nazi German Civilians

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

Fritz Becher: Murderer of Catholic Priests at Dachau Concentration Camp

66

Anton Mussert: Dutch Fascist Leader and Hitler Collaborator

67

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

68

Jan Verleun: Dutch Soldier and Resistance Hero Against the Nazis

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

Robert Alesch: Nazi Collaborator Priest Who Betrayed the French Resistance

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

Distomo Massacre 1944: Nazi Reprisal That Killed 228 Greek Civilians

80

Zinaida Portnova: Teenage Soviet Resistance Hero Against Nazi Occupation

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

Lidice Massacre: Nazi Reprisal After the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

92

Lepa Radić: Teenage Anti-Fascist Hero of Occupied Yugoslavia

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

The Rinnan Gang: Nazi Collaborators Who Infiltrated the Norwegian Resistance

97

Mauthausen Liberation: When Prisoners Took Revenge on Their Nazi Guards

98

Antonina Makarova: Soviet Nurse Turned Nazi Executioner

99

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

100

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

101

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

102

Louis Collard: Belgian Fascist Collaborator Behind the Courcelles Massacre

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

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

107

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

108

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

109

Le Paradis Massacre: SS Murder of 97 Surrendered British Soldiers

110

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

111

Hermann Pister: Nazi Buchenwald Commandant Behind Brutal Camp Terror

112

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

113

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

114

Hermannus Reydon: Dutch Nazi Propaganda Leader Assassinated by the Resistance

115

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

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

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

120

Arājs Kommando: Latvian Nazi Unit Behind Massacres During the Holocaust

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

Hermannus Reydon: Dutch Nazi Propaganda Leader Targeted by the Resistance

127

Hisao Tani: Japanese General Executed for the Nanjing Massacre

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

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

134

András Kun: Fascist Priest Who Led Jewish Massacres in Budapest

135

Christian Wirth: Nazi Death Camp Commandant Behind Operation Reinhard

136

Alfred Rosenberg: Top Nazi Ideologue Executed at the Nuremberg Trials

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

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

141

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

142

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

143

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

144

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

145

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

146

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

147

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

148

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

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

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

153

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

154

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

155

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

156

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

157

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

158

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

159

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

160

Joseph Goebbels: Nazi Propaganda Minister and Architect of Holocaust Hate

161

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

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

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

166

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

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

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

171

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

172

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

173

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

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

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

178

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

179

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

180

Sergei Bunyachenko: Soviet Colonel Turned Nazi Collaborator in WW2

181

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

182

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

183

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

184

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

185

Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper Who Terrorized Wartime London

186

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

187

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

188

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

189

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

190

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

191

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

192

Andrey Vlasov: The Soviet General Who Became a Nazi Collaborator

193

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

194

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

195

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

196

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

197

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

198

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

199

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

200

Sophie Scholl: The White Rose Student Who Defied Hitler

201

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

202

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

203

Lina Heydrich: The Fanatical Nazi Widow of Reinhard Heydrich