Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich

Albert Speer was Hitler's favourite architect and a central figure within the Führer's inner circle. Speer's buildings helped cement Hitler's position and push Germany towards war, while his policies as Armaments Minister caused millions of deaths. So, how did he convince the Nuremberg judges to hand him a mere prison sentence, while his contemporaries were sent to the gallows?

Wernher von Braun was instrumental to NASA's Apollo 11 mission that put a man on the moon. His pioneering work in rocketry made it possible, but his past was kept under wraps-for this 'American hero' had honed his craft at the helm of the Nazis' rocketry programme that created the deadly 'Vengeance Weapons' and claimed the lives of thousands.

Werner Heisenberg is one of the most controversial scientists of the Third Reich. A key figure in the Nazis' efforts to build an atomic bomb, the target of an Allied assassination plot, but a man with motives that remain unclear. The US may have won the race for the bomb, but how close was it, and was Heisenberg trying to help or to hinder the Nazis efforts?

Hans Kammler's fingerprints can be found all over the Third Reich's most prestigious and deadly engineering projects-not as an architect or inventor, but as a project manager. We reveal how, as head of the SS's construction bureau, Kammler was the mastermind that took projects from drawing boards to reality.

Ferdinand Porsche designed one of the most iconic cars in history, but it would never have happened without Hitler's backing. In Hitler, Porsche saw an opportunity to achieve the success he dreamed of-but it would come at a great cost.

Fritz Todt was Hitler's leading engineer and his Minister of Armaments. He was the man the Führer tasked with the most demanding engineering projects including the autobahn network, the West Wall defences, and the Atlantic Wall. But in February 1942, Todt died in suspicious circumstances after a heated encounter with Hitler.