Hitler's War Machine

Over six unforgettable episodes, Nazi Megastructures uncovers the hidden remains of Hitler's most ambitious Megastructures, telling the stories of the engineering geniuses that designed them and revealing how these structures sparked a technological revolution that changed warfare forever.

Life in Nazi Germany represented one of the darkest chapters in human history as the regime of Adolf Hitler took dictatorial control while leading the country into war.

In the middle of World War Two, the ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky (1892 – 1961) discovered the existence of many songs written by military and civil people who described the misfortune that happened to Russian Jews. At the head of a group of scientists, he started to gather and record them. During a purge orchestrated by Stalin, they were arrested and their equipment was confiscated. These songs, forgotten for decades, have reemerged during the 1990s in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, where they were stored in anonymous boxes. At the start of the following decade, Anna Shternshis—a historian specialized in Yiddish studies—learnt of their existence and associated herself with musician Psoy Korolenko to bring them back to life. Halfway between musical reconstruction and pure creation, the results are convincing. Around Psoy Korolenko, a Russian-Canadian cast makes those gems shine beautifully.