S01E01 — Engineering Evil: Inside The Holocaust

Just a few years ago, a German family cleaning their attic discovered the original blueprints to one of history's most gruesome constructions: the infamous concentration camp at Auschwitz. The diagrams, never before seen on television, illustrate in painstaking detail the methods behind the madness of the Holocaust. While the Holocaust has become a symbol of man's gravest inhumanity, it was as much an elaborate machine as any of man's other inventions. This feature-length portrait of the evolution of the Holocaust takes us from the early days of persecution in Nazi Germany to the final days of wanton annihilation. Travel through the archives of Eastern Europe, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. and the restoration labs of Yad Vashem in Israel to hear the story of persecution, theft and murder told through artefacts, rarely seen photographs and motion picture footage.