What is the most historically accurate and interesting documentary on Nazi Germany for someone who knows nothing about it?

by RaidTheWorld

This is directed towards the Historians specialized on WW2. The first documentary I came across was the Greatest Story Never Told and it took me 4 episodes and a google search to realize I was watching Neo Nazi propaganda.

Subs-man

There are quite a few out there on everything from Hitler's rise to power to Himmler's fascination with Occultism and everything inbetween. So this will only touch the surface & I'll tag /u/Commiespaceinvader, /u/angelsil & /u/When_Ducks_Attack (unfortunately you can only tag 3 users in a comment otherwise I'd tag everyone in) as they've got a wide range of specialisations in the study of Nazism from Nazi Germany as a whole, the Holocaust & the role Jews played as well as WW2.

General documentaries:

"World War II in HD Colour" - Here's episodes 1-7, 9 & 12. Episode 8, 10, 11 & 13

"The Second World War in Colour" - found here

French documentary: "Apocalypse: The Second World War" found here

"The Nazi's: A Warning from History" can be found here

"Hitler: The Rise of Evil" - a docudrama

BBC's "History File: Nazi Germany": episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, episode 4 & episode 5.

Claude Lanzman's "Shoah" and like the other user mentioned The World at War.

toast_365

The World at War (1974) is the best. It's a 26 episode series with many interviews from high-ranking officials on both sides of the conflict.