Hitler's Handmaidens

Season 1

Hitler's Handmaidens examines the role of women in the Third Reich through a contemporary lens of women as active participants in all aspects of German society.

Where to Watch Season 1

4 Episodes

Female Fuhrers
E1
Female FuhrersA look at the women who surrounded Hitler after he came to power and how they were held up as an Aryan ideal for German society to strive for.
Nazi She-Devil
E2
Nazi She-DevilHow women were active - and often violent participants and perpetrators - in the conflict and its attendant atrocities - especially the Holocaust.
Cougars and Fantasists
E3
Cougars and FantasistsThis episode explores the fanatical women who took Hitler under their wing and, through love and devotion, trained him in the methods of high society to launch him to power, only to be left behind once he achieved it.
Hitler's Lovers
E4
Hitler's LoversEva Braun is perhaps the most famous girlfriend in history - but she was not Hitler's first lover. Piecing together a baffling parade of young women - some related to him - Hitler is revealed as a sexually perverse and often absent lover. Mysteriously, many girlfriends died in mysterious circumstances, and conspircy theories abound.