All Episodes of Hitler's bodyguard
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Season 1
7.4/1051 votesLoading...How Hitler's Bodyguard Worked
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/12/2010
Hitler's personal protection squad grew from a few fiercely loyal, handpicked ruffians into an army with a complicated structure and intense internal competition.
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7.2/1040 votesLoading...Early Attempts on Hitler's Life
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/2010
Beer hall brawls, street fighting, and several brushes with death marked Hitler's rise to power in the stormy politics of interbellum Germany.
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7.1/1043 votesLoading...Kill the new Chancellor
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/26/2010
During Hitler's first year in office--as he steered Germany abruptly towards tyranny--he faced no fewer than a dozen attempts on his life.
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7.3/1045 votesLoading...Night of the Long Knives
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/5/2010
In one bloody, well-planned purge, Hitler eliminated his political rivals and ended the looming threat from Ernst Röhm's well-armed Sturmabteilung.
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7.1/1043 votesLoading...Jewish and Emigre Attempts to Kill Hitler
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/12/2010
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.
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7.3/1044 votesLoading...Kill Hitler Before War Starts
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/19/2010
By 1938, people inside and outside Germany--including some of Hitler's senior military personnel--planned preemptive strikes against the Führer.
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7.1/1040 votesLoading...Bombs and Paranoia
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/26/2010
Convinced that a failed bomb plot had roots in England, a Gestapo counterintelligence officer engineered an elaborate sting to snatch British agents.
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7.7/1035 votesLoading...Dangerous Car Journeys
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/2/2010
Hitler liked to tour cheering crowds in a customized, open-top Grosser Mercedes and later a G4-a predilection that gave his bodyguards nightmares.
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7.6/1034 votesLoading...Flights into Danger
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/9/2010
Hitler appreciated the power of aircraft, not only as a military weapon, but as a political tool. During the early 1930s, he hired aircraft for election campaigning, often facing weather and mechanical problems, as well as specific assassination attempts.
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7.5/1037 votesLoading...Hitler's Dangerous Train Journeys
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/16/2010
British operatives targeted Hitler's special train, the Führer-Sonderzug--a rolling fortress on rails--despite its heavy armor and tight security measures.
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7.6/1039 votesLoading...Attempts to Kill Hitler at Wolf's Lair
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/23/2010
Heavily camouflaged and fortified, Hitler's military headquarters in Poland saw several assassination attempts--including one that came closest to succeeding.
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7.6/1031 votesLoading...Nearly Assassinated at the Berghof
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/30/2010
Hitler's Alpine retreat in Bavaria offered opportunities for a pistol-packing German officer, a sniper, a long-range bombing raid, and even an aerial assault by the Allies.
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7.5/1032 votesLoading...Poison Gas Plot in the Bunker
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/7/2010
One member of Hitler's inner circle later claimed to have contemplated flooding the Fuhrer's Berlin bunker with nerve gas as the Allies closed in.
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