Rise of the Nazis

At the end of the Second World War, after the defeat and death of Hitler, British troops are confronted with the true horrors of Nazi crimes when they discover the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Preparations begin for a trial at Nuremberg, but not all high-ranking Nazis have been captured. The job of hunting them down and capturing them falls to exhausted Allied soldiers.

The most senior-ranking Nazis have been executed or imprisoned following the international trial at Nuremberg, but many of the worst criminals are still at large. As America shifts its attention to containing communism, it takes its eye off wanted Nazis like Klaus Barbie, before making him an extraordinary offer to work as a US agent, hunting communists in return for his freedom.

In the late 1960s, West Germany is a prosperous democracy. Kurt Kiesinger is the chancellor. But a young German woman, Beate Klarsfeld, knows that Kiesinger is a former Nazi, and she decides to tell the world by publicly slapping him in the face. Beate is one of a handful of people who, more than two decades after the war, are determined to bring Nazis to justice for the murder of millions.