Killing Hitler — Wavelength Entertainment

3 x 1 HOUR

Documentary Series

Killing Hitler reveals the stories of those who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, featuring new scientific evidence, rare archive, and in-depth analysis.

The series combines personal tales of bravery with the suspense of assassination attempts, detailing the devices and plans used, the motives and mindsets of the would-be assassins, and how Hitler and his security responded.

Through scientific reconstruction, we accurately re-create and test the devices used in the attempts to kill Hitler and the top Nazis. We reconstruct controlled explosions using the same materials and detonate them filmed on high-speed camera technology at dedicated scientific establishments.

Episode Outline

Episode 1: The Lone Wolves

Experts reveal, in-depth, the lone wolf assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler. The stories of Georg Elser and Maurice Bavaud show just how close these dedicated individuals got to killing Hitler with detailed scientific and dramatic recreations and rare archive. Yet, piercing Hitler’s sophisticated security system would need a new breed of assassins.

Episode 2: The Rise of the Resistance

Episode 3: Killers From Within

By now Hitler’s Bloodhounds, the secret police and investigators, are hot on the heels of the resistance, some resistors are caught, tortured others are executed by the guillotine or hung on meat hooks in the notorious Plotzensee prison in Berlin. We follow the buildup to the 20th July Plot in 1944 and investigate in detail the location of the bombing attempt on Hitler at the Wolf’s Lair in Eastern Prussia. The last-minute change from the concrete bunker to a wooden cabin for Stauffenberg’s meeting with Hitler was to have a significant effect on the power of the bomb used. We show that if Claus von Stauffenberg had the explosives he originally intended, had met Hitler in the concrete bunker as planned and his briefcase containing his bomb had not been moved 10 cms from where he placed it, Hitler would have died on July 20th 1944, and millions of lives would have been saved.