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Hitler's Army Powerhouse

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Britain's Sea Fort Complex

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The Italian Dam Disaster

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Battle of Britain Technology Facility

44 min

The Abandoned Nazi Railway

44 min

America's Jungle City

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Germany's Lost Warship

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Lost Highway in the Rainforest

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Abandoned Engineering

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Hitler's Army Powerhouse

Season 2 · Episode 1 · May 8, 2018

A dark past explains why the Pölitz Synthetic Fuel Plant in Northern Poland is now a derelict industrial site littered with tunnels, bunkers and huge crumbling concrete structures lost in dense forest. The site was built in 1937 as part of Nazi Germany's drive to become self-sufficient on fuel, but it was no ordinary refinery. It used the latest technology at the time, at great expense, to turn coal into oil. In 1945 an Allied air raid pulverised the plant, severely wounding the German war machine and leaving the site in ruins. Other structures examined in the first episode include the incredible vertical Phoenix Shot Tower in Baltimore, which was built to provide America's own ammunition, the former American spy instillation called Teufelsberg (or "Devil's Mountain") in Berlin which waged the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and the now derelict Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse which was built on Europe's second-fastest moving sand dune in Denmark.

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Abandoned Engineering

TV Series

201744m7.2

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Hitler's Army Powerhouse

Season 2 · Episode 1 · May 8, 2018

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