Hitler's bodyguard — Season 1, Episode 5: Jewish and Emigre Attempts to Kill Hitler

Episode synopsis

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.

About Hitler's bodyguard

Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of fifty million people. An entire nation followed him to ruin. Over a tumultuous 12 years Adolf Hitler went from being a minor rabble-rousing politician, to supreme leader of Nazi Germany. He was hated by those he persecuted, and even by some of his own commanders - yet in twenty-five years no one managed to kill him. This program shows how Hitler's bodyguards helped him cheat death on many occasions. They expanded from a handful of thugs recruited to protect political meetings and fight opponents on the streets, to many thousands - including some of the most fearsome secret police and paramilitary forces the world has ever known.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1How Hitler's Bodyguard Worked
• E2Early Attempts on Hitler's Life
• E3Kill the new Chancellor
• E4Night of the Long Knives
• E6Kill Hitler Before War Starts
• E7Bombs and Paranoia
• E8Dangerous Car Journeys
• E9Flights into Danger
• E10Hitler's Dangerous Train Journeys
• E11Attempts to Kill Hitler at Wolf's Lair
• E12Nearly Assassinated at the Berghof
• E13Poison Gas Plot in the Bunker