Hitler's Blueprint for the World, and Why It Was Built to Break

In a quiet corner of Berlin stands a 12,650-tonne block of concrete. It was poured in 1941 to test whether the ground could carry the capital of a new world empire. Hitler never hid his ambitions. His officials drew them up as maps, budgets and population tables, and many of those documents survived the war. This documentary takes a calm, careful look at that blueprint: the giant capital Germania, the Greater Germanic Reich, Generalplan Ost and the Hunger Plan, the plans for Africa, the navy and America, and the 1942 line dividing Asia with Japan. It also asks how close it all came, and why, even in victory, the Nazi empire may have been built to break. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro: a block of concrete in Berlin 2:33 Part One: Written Down in Advance 4:50 Part Two: How Close It Came 8:04 Part Three: Germania, Capital of the World 11:06 Part Four: The Greater Germanic Reich 13:16 Part Five: The Master Plan for the East 18:08 Part Six: The Hunger Plan 20:26 Part Seven: Beyond Europe 24:34 Part Eight: Built to Break 28:25 Epilogue: What Remains This video is an educational history documentary. It covers genocide, mass deportation and starvation, and discusses Nazi ideology only to explain and condemn it. Maps and animations are simplified illustrations: borders, zones and lines are approximate, and modern borders are shown for reference. Some scenes use illustrative stock footage. SOURCES Generalplan Ost planning documents and the Wetzel memorandum (1942); see also the Wikipedia overview and its cited scholarship Minutes of the State Secretaries' meeting of 2 May 1941 (Hunger Plan); Herbert Backe's planning figures Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands (estimates of deaths by starvation) Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction (the Nazi economy, Mefo bills, forced labour) Albert Speer / Generalbauinspektor plans for Berlin; Schwerbelastungskörper information site, Berlin-Tempelhof Plan Z (January 1939); Amerikabomber and Messerschmitt Me 264 programme The Madagascar Plan (Rademacher, Eichmann, 1940) German–Japanese–Italian military agreement of 18 January 1942 (70th meridian line) Andrew Denning, research on Nazi and Fascist colonial plans for Africa (Journal of Modern History) PHOTO CREDITS (Wikimedia Commons) KaterBegemot (CC BY 3.0) · Glavarkhiv Moscow, Russian Ministry of Defence, Willy Pragher (CC BY 4.0) · Dieter Brügmann, Georgy Zelma, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Bundesarchiv, Bundesarchiv / Binder, Bundesarchiv / Fritz Gerlach, Bundesarchiv / Heinrich Hoffmann (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE) · Wikimedia user 0000ff (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Anton Huttenlocher, Eric W. Taylor, Joachim Joachimczyk, No. 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Soviet and German governments, US Army photographer, War Office official photographers, Wikimedia Commons, Work of the United States Government (Public domain) Stock footage: Pexels (pexels.com) #history #documentary #ww2 #secondworldwar #germany