Nazis: Threads of Evil

Reinhard Heydrich, the ruthless figurehead behind the Holocaust's planning, wields power through deadly efficiency. His assassination is a dramatic blow to the Nazi elite, but his legacy lives on in the genocide he helps set in motion.

Rudolf Hoss, the commandant of Auschwitz, oversees the industrialized murder of over a million people with chilling detachment and bureaucratic precision. His confessions expose the horrifying mechanics, and mindset, behind the Nazi death camps.

Adolf Eichmann, the meticulous bureaucrat behind the mass deportation of Jews, organizes genocide from behind a desk. After the war, he vanishes-only to be hunted down and tried decades late.

As the Third Reich collapses, the perpetrators scatter-some dead, some hunted, others attempt to rewrite history. A final look at the unraveling threads of power within the Third Reich, asking how a regime of such horror could rise-and what lessons its end leaves behind.