Ian Sayer, Jeremy Dronfield Hitler's Last Plot

Revealed for the first time: how the SS rounded up the Nazi's most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War II

Vienna, ottobre 1939. Gustav Kleinmann, un tappezziere ebreo, e il quindicenne Fritz, suo figlio, vengono arrestati dalla Gestapo, caricati su un vagone merci e deportati a Buchenwald, in Germania. Picchiati, ridotti alla fame, costretti ai lavori forzati per costruire il campo stesso in cui sono tenuti prigionieri, riescono miracolosamente a sopravvivere alla brutalità nazista. Finché, tre anni dopo, Gustav non viene inserito nella lista dei prigionieri che saranno mandati ad Auschwitz. Per Fritz è uno shock senza precedenti. Da tempo circolano voci inquietanti su quel lager e sulle sue speciali camere a gas dove si possono uccidere centinaia di persone alla volta. Il trasferimento laggiù significa una cosa sola… Eppure l'idea di separarsi dal padre non lo sfiora neppure..

Berlin, 1945. Während die alliierten Streitmächte die Hauptstadt des Deutschen Reiches bombardieren, schaffen die Nazis Reichsbank-Gold und Devisen aus der Stadt. Ganze Wagenladungen landen in Stollen in Thüringen und Bayern, wo später Hunderte Tonnen von den Alliierten sichergestellt werden. Doch ein großer Teil bleibt verschwunden und bis heute ist nicht vollständig belegt, wo der deutsche Goldschatz in den Nachkriegswirren schließlich landete.

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime.

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.