Hitler's Last Hostages

The riveting story of Hitler's obsession with art, how it fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state, and the fate of the artwork that was hidden, stolen, or destroyed to "cleanse" German culture

The documentary is a dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to previously unseen Soviet archives, and cutting-edge forensics. In 2017, after two years of painstaking negotiations with the Russian authorities, award-winning investigative journalists Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina gained access to confidential Soviet files that finally revealed the truth about the incredible hunt for Hitler's body.

In Austria after Hitler's suicide, German and American soldiers fight together to save high-profile French prisoners from Nazi SS troops. This is the Battle for Castle Itter on May 5, 1945, the only battle where Americans and Germans fought alongside one another during the war.

A strategic peak on the German border is the source of a violent battle between US Rangers and Nazi forces.

Desperate to feed the Allied advance after D-Day, US forces target a deep water port in France during a month long siege against Nazi paratroopers.

The Allies must capture the Abbaye d’Ardenne, which guards the city of Caen but is held by a notorious Panzer unit accused of horrific war crimes.

From the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, to the surrender of the Third Reich on May 8, 1945, it took 353 days to bring down the Nazi regime. HITLER’S LAST YEAR returns to the eleven months that preceded Hitler’s defeat and unveils entire chapters of the war that are largely unknown. Retrace the war’s final events through rarely seen, remastered and recoloured archival footage.

January 1945. As part of the Allied campaign to liberate France, the Americans 7th Infantry Regiment prepares to capture the village of Houssen in the Colmar Pocket.