New PBS series: Nazi Megaweapons

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Episode 1 - The Atlantic Wall

To protect occupied Europe from an Allied invasion, Hitler demanded the construction of a defensive wall stretching thousands of kilometers from France in the south to Norway in the north. This is the story of how this vast engineering project sucked in huge quantities of raw materials and men from all over the Third Reich … and faced its ultimate test on D-Day.

Episode 2 - U-Boat Base - airs July 24.

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Good series, saw the Atlantic Wall episode the other night. Great history there.

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Next week: V2 Rocket



This episode relates the development of the first ever space missiles used by the Nazis as destructive wonder-weapons to bomb the Allies into resignation and the rocket engineer who set the groundwork for the moon landing.

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Check your local PBS listings. A episode airs Tuesday.

"Jet Fighter Me 262"

The story of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the most technologically advanced fighter jet of World War II.

[Apex]

This is a great series, with lots of stuff hitherto unknown by myself. I've seen the ME262 installment twice. Give it all a good view if you can.

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Next week ...

Fortress Berlin.

The bunkers in Berlin employed by the Germans during World War II, including the Führerbunker that housed Adolf Hitler for the war's last months, are recalled.

[Bass]

This might have given a "bang"....Gustav
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/07 ... -all-time/

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Tonight on NOVA.

D-Day's Sunken Secrets

Submersibles, underwater robots and 3D mapping tools are used to discover, identify and plot the relics on the sea floor near Normandy, France, the site of the Allies' D-Day invasion during World War II. Also: engineers, scientists, mathematicians, inventors and meteorologists who contributed to the success of the invasion.

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A new season has started.

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The SS

The history of the SS, which began as Hitler's personal bodyguard and grew to control all aspects of the Third Reich.

[Apex]

Yeah, so it's a new season, I saw the Wolf's Lair & SS installments, wondered if I had missed them previously. This is great history, excellent series.