What would it take to bomb the Allies into the ground? This was the question on the minds of top Nazi brass as they mobilized Germany's top scientists to create frightening new bombs. It was a history of firsts, from the Fritz X, the world's first precision guided weapon deployed during combat, through the iterations of V1 and V2 bombs that rained down during the Blitz. What horrifying weapons like the V-3 were never unleashed? And how much longer ? With Hitler's sights set on bombing America, how close did the world come to widespread annihilation?
Up Next in Secret Nazi Science - Season 1
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The Future Aryan Soldier
Far from the front lines, Nazi scientists were tasked with creating the perfect Aryan soldier for the Thousand Year Reich. From mundane questions of survival to creating a stronger and better fighter, the Nazis used science to study the human constitution and its limits. Propaganda indoctrinated ...
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Bending the Elements
In the early days of WWII, the Royal Air Force assumed that the bomber would always get through, so then how were the Germans picking off bombers with incredible efficiency? German radar stations and systems sprung up along coastlines, harnessing the power of frequencies to help them plot their n...
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Reshaping Nature
Blood and soil. For the Nazis, it wasn't just a metaphor. The Nazis would go to any lengths to bend the natural world to their whims. Nazi archaeologists set to work using archaeological finds to assert an ancient Aryan race. Some of Europe's first nature preserves and biodynamic farms were creat...
