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Hitler's bodyguard

62% | Feb 12, 2010 | Documentary

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.

Robert Powell
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Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
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Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
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Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
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Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)
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Reinhard Heydrich
Self (archive footage)

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