The Moon Landing and the Nazis
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The Moon Landing and the Nazis
The film "The Moon Landing and the Nazis" documents the involvement of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.
4 oct 2026
Times in Europe/London
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The film "The Moon Landing and the Nazis" documents the involvement of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.
The first programme features four bunkers built before World War Two. We begin with the legendary Franzensfeste in today’s northern Italy, a fortress that was never besieged.
The second programme features shelters in the nuclear era in Lithuania, Germany and Albania.
The documentary addresses the counterfactual question of a Nazi victory in the Second World War and is asking at the same time how history would have evolved without Hitler.
Adolf Hitler’s mastery of propaganda, and his instinctive skill for effective design, helps win huge popular support for the Nazi party, a vital step in its march towards total power.
Adolf Hitler promises to make Germany great again with his ambitious plans to create 22,000 kms of motorway and build one and half million “People’s Cars” every year.
Adolf Hitler is determined to rebuild Germany’s military strength after its humiliating defeat in the First World War by stealing raw materials from abroad.
Adolf Hitler is determined to change the way German people think and feel by creating a new, Nazi form of art and culture. He takes control of all forms of media to spread Nazi propaganda.
Adolf Hitler’s bid for power depends on his most loyal and violent supporters, the SS. They use intimidation, detention, terror and even murder to defeat all the Nazis political enemies.
Hitler uses technology and terror to keep Germans fighting to the bitter end.
The film "The Moon Landing and the Nazis" documents the involvement of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.
After briefly setting the scene, Episode One delves into the early years of Emperor Hirohito’s reign.
Episode Two explores the military’s tightening control over Japanese society, the disbanding of labour unions and influences upon education.
Japan seized more than 2,500,000 km² of land in Southeast Asia and almost the entire western half of the Pacific.
On the day that Nagasaki was bombed, the Trans Baikal and 2nd Far East Fronts of the Red Army invaded Manchuria, the 1st Far East Front moved from Vladivostok.
The final act of the Second World War is its most costly episode. More than one million German soldiers die in 1945 alone.
Adolf Hitler’s mastery of propaganda, and his instinctive skill for effective design, helps win huge popular support for the Nazi party, a vital step in its march towards total power.
Adolf Hitler promises to make Germany great again with his ambitious plans to create 22,000 kms of motorway and build one and half million “People’s Cars” every year.
Adolf Hitler is determined to rebuild Germany’s military strength after its humiliating defeat in the First World War by stealing raw materials from abroad.
Adolf Hitler is determined to change the way German people think and feel by creating a new, Nazi form of art and culture. He takes control of all forms of media to spread Nazi propaganda.
Adolf Hitler’s bid for power depends on his most loyal and violent supporters, the SS. They use intimidation, detention, terror and even murder to defeat all the Nazis political enemies.
Hitler uses technology and terror to keep Germans fighting to the bitter end.
The film "The Moon Landing and the Nazis" documents the involvement of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.
After briefly setting the scene, Episode One delves into the early years of Emperor Hirohito’s reign.
Episode Two explores the military’s tightening control over Japanese society, the disbanding of labour unions and influences upon education.