In recent years, the history of science in the Third Reich has become a field of growing importance,and in-depth research of a new generation of German historians provides us with new, important insights into the Nazi system and the complicated relationship between an elite and the dictatorship.This documentary portrays the attitudes of scientists facing National Socialism and uncovers the continuities and discontinuities of German science from the beginning of the Third Reich to the postwar period.It looks at ideas,examines major disciplines and traces the careers of individual scientists like Werner von Braun and Heisenberg.We will consult with the top scientists and historians of our times to reveal what would have happened ad the Nazi party not fallen and these technologies had been implemented.

At the very end of World War II, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler still hoped that state-of-the-art-technology could turn the tide in his favor. The film presents some of these: the Fieseler Fi 103 (more familiar as the V-1), the V-2 ballistic missile (also known to its designers as the Aggregat 4), the jet fighter V-3 Messerschmidt 262, the jet fighter Horten IX, the rocket-powered long distance aircraft Silbervogel (Silverbird) and the Water Wizard (a propulsion system based on the researches by the Austrian Viktor Schauberger).