Nazi Megastructures: Battle Ready — Season 2
About this season
A close look at the engineers who designed powerful military technology for the Nazis and who also encouraged a technological revolution that would forever change warfare.
Episodes (7)
1. War On The Eastern Front
Aired 18 February 2019 • 45 min
The story of history's greatest tank battle and how a vengeful Soviet army made the Germans fight for every inch of ground from the Baltic to Berlin.
2. Hitler's Flying Forces
Aired 25 February 2019 • 44 min
Hitler fast tracked a revolutionary air force in the build-up to WWII, creating two deadly new bombers designed to annihilate the enemy from above.
3. Hitler's Megafortresses
Aired 4 March 2019 • 45 min
Built to hold back the Allies, Hitler set up colossal defences across Norway's coast and lines that stretched across the entire Italian peninsula.
4. Battle For The Pacific
Aired 11 March 2019 • 45 min
As US forces spread across the Pacific, Japan threw suicide bombers into action, built the world's biggest battleship and started building deep beneath Okinawa.
5. Hitler's Henchmen
Aired 18 March 2019 • 45 min
The story of propaganda maestro Joseph Goebbels and Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler: two men who built one of the largest social megastructures ever - Nazi Germany.
6. Hitler's War At Sea
Aired 25 March 2019 • 45 min
Hitler orders the largest battleships ever seen. But how long will they last? He also demands fortified bunkers in a bid to protect his U-boats from the Allies.
7. Hitler's Deadly Tanks
Aired 1 April 2019 • 45 min
Having smashed through Poland and France, the German Panzers finally met their match when they took on the Soviet Union's war-winning T-34 tanks.