He explores the shocking evidence of a merciless era – and of the shameful omissions of post-war German justice.

Himmler: Hitler's Henchman, by Ian Baxter, is a chilling look at the person who on the outside looks like a bland administrator yet was internally driven to orchestrate cruel and inhuman atrocities. This book covers Goebbels, Goring, Hess, Borman, Himmler, Speer, von Schirach, von Ribbentrop, Rosenberg and Eva Braun. His jobs were very commonplace (at least for Nazis) and he made history by his secret solo flight to Britain in a foolhardy attempt to meet with Churchill to discuss peace while the bombs were falling on London.He completed his doctoral study on German folklore and popular cinema in 2012, and has published extensively in the fields of Film Studies and Gender Studies. All of the men, whatever their role, enabled Hitler's dictatorship, war, and campaign of mass murder. Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz is shown to be anything but the "non-political admiral" and revealed for what he actually was: a fanatical anti-Semite and ruthless pursuer of military objectives, regardless of the lives of Allied- or German- sailors. The Autobahn planner, engineer and Nazi Party member was Fritz Todt, who smoothed the way for the project to continue.

Their dedication to the Fuhrer was absolute, and to gain his validation they were willing to do, or commit anything. Later, of course, he would become the party's propagandist and one of the organizers of the Holocaust. The inside story or the Third Reich, looking at the personalities, roles and rivalries of Hitler's closest associates.Half war monger, half comedian - more than any of Hitler's other helpers Hermann Göring embodied the two-faced deception which permeated the murderous Nazi regime. He was captured and arrested by British forces and committed suicide while in British custody on the 23rd May 1945. It is so easy to picture evil as a bunch of monsters, but evil can look like the man walking down the street or losing a reelection bid. To provide the design for this “people’s car”, Hitler employed the Austrian automobile engineer Ferdinand Porsche. Read describes Göring's WWI service as a fighter pilot and how he became a national hero, especially among those who loathed the Versailles Treaty.

Josef Kramer had the dubious double honor of commanding both Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen (where he was dubbed the "Beast of Belsen").

The volume of photographs of Himmler, as well as Hitler himself, tells another story of how the Nazi regime make such a thing of the use/power of propaganda, yet it gave a gloss to a murderous regime that is still so hard to understand. And, for the first time, they have persuaded key eyewitnesses to tell their stories - with the cameras rolling. As chief of the Reich Chancellery, Hans Lammers held one of the most powerful positions in the Third Reich.

At the outbreak of WW2 he was initially involved in fighting on the Eastern Front, taking part in the German invasions of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. This series from the Contemporary History team at ZDF follows in the footsteps of the internationally acclaimed documentary series "Hitler - An Analysis" and is dedicated to understanding the paladins who so ably served their Führer.Architect and Armaments Minister Albert Speer used his talents to construct Hitler dream buildings and war machine. Speer was the only defendant who took responsibility for his actions and Donitz stated that he would do it all over again. Leader of the Austrian SS and subsequently of all police forces in Nazi Germany, Ernst Kaltenbrunner was a committed anti-Semite and fanatical Hitler loyalist. He controlled the administrative apparatus for carrying out the extermination of European Jewry in 1943–45.