8.1/1084 votesLoading...#1 - V2 Rocket Bases
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/18/2013
This episode relates the development of the first ever space missiles used by the Nazis as destructive wonder-weapons to bomb the Allies into resignation and the rocket engineer who set the groundwork for the moon landing.
Director: N/A
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8.1/1061 votesLoading...#2 - Himmler's SS
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/2015
In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest, deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history.
Director: N/A
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8.0/1081 votesLoading...#3 - U-Boat Base
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/2013
This episode describes the immense and impenetrable concrete and steel submarine pens that the Nazis built to protect their precious and deadly U-boats from Allied attacks.
Director: N/A
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8.0/1040 votesLoading...#4 - Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 8/14/2017
The war was lost long before it ended, but the Nazi propaganda apparatus was designed to keep that truth from its subjects for as long as possible.
Director: N/A
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7.9/1072 votesLoading...#5 - Hitler's Jet Caves
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/9/2013
Explore the story behind one of the most advanced aeroplanes of WWII, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the subterranean bat-cave where it was built.
Director: N/A
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7.9/1076 votesLoading...#6 - Fortress Berlin
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/16/2013
April 1945. Safe in his heavily fortified Führerbunker in the center of Berlin, Hitler prepares for the Allies' final attack.
Director: N/A
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7.9/1065 votesLoading...#7 - The Wolf's Lair
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/20/2015
A secret headquarters of concrete and steel is the heart of Hitler’s plans for domination and the key to a Nazi conspiracy - the Wolf’s Lair.
Director: N/A
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7.8/10107 votesLoading...#8 - The Atlantic Wall
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/18/2013
This is the story of the greatest fortification project of the 20th century, Hitler’s ambitious Atlantic Wall, and the ultimate test it faced on D-Day.
Director: N/A
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7.8/1068 votesLoading...#9 - Hitler's Megaships
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/27/2015
The Bismarck and Tirpitz were battleships of record breaking proportions, ultimate status symbols of the Third Reich and hunted by the Allies.
Director: N/A
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7.8/1057 votesLoading...#10 - V1: Hitler's Vengeance Missile
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/10/2015
In retaliation for Allied bombing raids, Hitler ordered the development of the V1. The first cruise missile, it changed the face of war forever.
Director: N/A
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7.8/1059 votesLoading...#11 - Kamikaze Suicide Bombers
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/2015
As America closes in on Japan in 1944, the Japanese turn to desperate new tactics: killer planes and super torpedoes guided by human pilots.
Director: N/A
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7.8/1045 votesLoading...#12 - Lightning War Machine
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/17/2016
Ruins across Europe tell the story of Blitzkrieg, a revolution in warfare which almost gave Hitler the chance to create his Thousand Year Reich.
Director: N/A
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7.8/1042 votesLoading...#13 - Japanese Superfortress
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/7/2016
In 1945 Japanese generals construct a network of defences and tunnels on Okinawa, creating a devastating killing ground for American troops.
Director: N/A
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7.8/1041 votesLoading...#14 - Hitler's Luftwaffe
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 8/21/2017
The German air force was the most powerful and largest in Europe at the beginning of World War II, and it played a key part in Hitler's conquests.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1076 votesLoading...#15 - Super Tanks
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/2/2013
The story of Nazi engineers tasked with fulfilling Hitler's megalomaniac demand for the construction of a land battleship weighing 1,000 tons.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1056 votesLoading...#16 - The Eagle's Nest
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 5/3/2016
Hitler transformed his Alpine retreat in Bavaria into a fortified fiefdom, home to 2,000 SS troops and protected by a high level security system.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1051 votesLoading...#17 - Hitler's Island Megafortress
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 5/10/2016
It’s June 1940 and the Nazis have taken the Channel Islands, where Hitler orders some of the most fortified structures in the Third Reich.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1043 votesLoading...#18 - Hitler's Arctic Fortress
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 8/7/2017
After invading Norway in the spring of 1940, Nazi armed forces proceeded to fortify the entire country for war against Britain and the Soviet Union.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1026 votesLoading...#19 - Pearl Harbor
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2019
From a bold idea through months of preparation, training, innovations and clever ruses, this is the story of Japan’s surprise WWII attack on Hawaii.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1042 votesLoading...#20 - Hitler's Killer Subs
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/24/2016
Hitler planned a submarine to outperform all others. The Type 21 was the world's most advanced submarine: Hitler's sea-faring super weapon.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1047 votesLoading...#21 - Pacific Megaships
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/31/2016
In the 1930s the Japanese begin designing the Yamato, the world's most powerful battleship, 30 per cent larger than anything their enemies have.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1097 votesLoading...#22 - Hitler's War Trains
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/17/2017
The Nazi empire ran on trains, from the personal trains of the leadership to the locomotives and service depots that serviced the network.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1025 votesLoading...#23 - Hitler's British Invasion Plan
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 11/13/2019
May 1940 and the Nazi war machine reaches the English Channel. Hitler plans to destroy Britain's air power and land troops in southern England.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1022 votesLoading...#24 - Hitler's Desert War
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 12/11/2019
place in the deserts of North Africa. Armed with one of the most famous generals of WWII, Erwin Rommel, Hitler takes on the Allies across Tunisia, Libya and Egypt - in a brutal campaign that pushed the British to their limits and would dictate the course of the war.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1023 votesLoading...#25 - Hitler's Mediterranean Fortress
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 12/18/2019
When allied spies plant false documents on a corpse, they are carrying out one of the most audacious deceptions of World War II. Operation Mincemeat ensures that the allied invasion of Sicily takes the Nazis totally by surprise. With few reinforcements, German troops must now make clever use of the island's rugged landscape to attempt a fighting retreat to the Italian mainland - and safety.
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of Nazi Megastructures
Every episode of Nazi Megastructures ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Nazi Megastructures!
In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history. This...
Genres:DocumentaryWar & Politics
Network:National Geographic Channel
Best Episodes Summary
"V2 Rocket Bases" is the best rated episode of "Nazi Megastructures". It scored 8.1/10 based on 84 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/18/2013. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Himmler's SS".