World War II is the source of hundreds of unsolved mysteries. `World War Weird' explores some of World War II's most confounding stories, from platoons that disappeared to strange `alien' war machines, each bringing its own set of unique and bizarre twists, turns and revelations. In the fast paced and frantic chaos of battle, there was no way for these inexplicable occurrences to be investigated. However, thanks to extensive archive footage, expert interviews and eyewitness accounts, the truth behind some of these instances can now be unearthed.
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A daring plan devised in 1943 by the inmates of the Death Camp at Sobibor, as they staged an organised rebellion to fight back against their Nazi oppressors.
The story of Herman Goering's younger brother Albert, who was opposed to Nazism and helped Jews and others escape persecution in Germany, but found himself shunned due to his name.
A program set up by the Special Operations Executive, the forerunner to MI6, to undermine German and Japanese officers by spraying them with a foul-smelling substance.
While Nazi scientists were conducting brutal experiments in an attempt to create an Aryan master race, a team of zoologists were overseeing their own bizarre science trials.
The story of Franz Stigler, a German Luftwaffe pilot in the Second World War who risked his own life to save the crew of an American B-17 bomber.
The unfortunate fate of the world's first tank, which failed to make it onto the battlefield, and the case of the Japanese soldier who continued fighting - until 1974.
A Japanese secret society's repeated attempts to kill Charlie Chaplin and Hitler's plan in 1942 to use educated dogs to do a soldier's job.
Bizarre events during wartime, featuring a Nazi anti-gravity device, phantom cities built during the Second World War, Stalin's cursed tomb and poultry of mass destruction.
World War II is the source of hundreds of unsolved mysteries. `World War Weird' explores some of World War II's most confounding stories, from platoons that disappeared to strange `alien' war machines, each bringing its own set of unique and bizarre twists, turns and revelations. In the fast paced and frantic chaos of battle, there was no way for these inexplicable occurrences to be investigated. However, thanks to extensive archive footage, expert interviews and eyewitness accounts, the truth behind some of these instances can now be unearthed.
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