[[http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=83585|]SBS - Hitlers Henchmen Series 1 (1996) Part 2 Doenitz The Successor]

Hitler's Henchmen is the most comprehensive film series ever produced on Nazi Germany and its leaders. In six parts series portrays the men who aided Adolf Hitler in his rise to power and serviced the infernal machinery of the Third Reich. Meticulously researched, it offers an unrivalled insight into the secret lives of the men of the Nazi elite. More than half a century after Hitler's demise ZDF have successfully recovered what was until now “lost” footage of Hitler's aides. This newly discovered archive material and interviews with surviving family members and Nazi insiders draws historical psychograms of Hitler's closest aides. Nuremberg was a historical first the International War Crimes Tribunal sentenced leading Nazi paladins for their unparalled atrocities while exposing to the world the infamy of the Hitler regime and its leaders. They wielded power and enforced it Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, Hess, Speer and Doenitz – 6 lives lived in Germany, six very different careers, but each contributed in its own way to making Hitler's regime what it became. Packed with exclusive interviews, combat film and both public and private German archive film, HITLER'S HENCHMEN takes you inside Nazi Germany as never before to help understand why this murderous regime behaved as it did - and how it came so close to world domination. Series is designed to offer in-depth personal and political profiles of six men who became architects of the destruction of Europe.

Part 2 Doenitz The Successor

To some Doenitz was the saviour of millions of refugees from the East, to others a cold technocrat of the war. To the Allied forces he was a war criminal. In his own mind he saw himself as an apolitical soldier doing his duty. Karl Doenitz was Hitler's Admiral of the Fleet and the creator of the U-boat. Before Hitler committed suicide in the Reich Chancellery bunker, he appointed Karl Doenitz as his successor. Powerless and on the verge of defeat Doenitz's reign lasted just 23 days. The Allies did not permit him to do anything more than wind up the war and at Nuremberg trials accuse him war crimes against humanity. Contemporary witnesses and his nephew Klaus Hessler speak for the first time on film about the largely unknown successor to Hitler.

Full Version Available Upon Request
Episode One Shown Here