Episode list

Although the licenses for journalists were apparently tightly controlled after the war, it was easy for many Nazi journalists to get back into the business - even when the Federal Republic was founded. In the documentation, German post-war journalism is examined and exemplary careers of individual personalities are shown.

According to the will of the victorious Allied powers, there should be no more room in the new Germany for the leading gentlemen of banks and armaments - but things were to be different.

German clinics - crime scenes. Here people were tortured and killed. This documentary is about doctors who put themselves in the service of the National Socialist extermination policy in order to make a career.

1945 - after the disarmament of all German soldiers and officers by the Allies, there should never be a Wehrmacht again. 11 years later, however, the officers are on everyone's lips again: Erich von Manstein planned Hitler's war of aggression and became the idol of the new Bundeswehr. Hans Speidel, who led Hitler through conquered Paris at the time, became the highest military officer in the Bundeswehr. And Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's former chief spy, became the Federal Republic's news chief and adviser on enemy issues. What remains is only the "Legend of the Wehrmacht that stayed clean".

With the aim of finding material against the class enemy - the Federal Republic - a research team made its way to Warsaw at the end of 1964 to scour the "Polish investigative agency for Nazi and war crimes". You will find incriminating material against the West German elites with a Nazi past. Albert Norden announced: "This book contains the names of more than 1,800 leading NAZI functionaries and war criminals who are heavily incriminated and who are today unhindered in key positions in the West German state and economic apparatus or who receive high state pensions for their responsible activities in the Third World get rich".

"Lawyers - acquittal on their own behalf" - "We are the armored force of the administration of justice." "We are the soldiers of the inner front!" "In the judiciary I live like in exile!"