Programme Overview
Description
Ordered by Keshet International to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2 and Hitler’s death, this six-part historical docuseries tells the stories of the many treasures and religious relics sought out by the Nazi SS, including the Holy Grail and Thor’s hammer.
Heinrich Himmler’s special branch of the SS – known as Das Ahnenerbe – was tasked with finding treasures, artifacts, and religious relics of power, that might win Germany the war and prove Aryan supremacy.
With the aim of erasing Europe’s cultural identity and replacing Christianity with their own beliefs - of the occult, mysterious legends and religious folklore – Himmler used his Ahnenerbe troops’ research and plundering of Europe’s masterpieces to justify Nazi notions of superiority, including the racial purity laws that led to The Holocaust.
To date, Hitler’s Treasure Hunters has been sold more than 60 territories - to Hearst Networks EMEA in a pan-regional deal that will see the six-part docuseries broadcast in Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, and sub-Saharan Africa; to Warner Bros. Discovery in Spain and Andorra; and finally, a free TV second window to Polsat in Poland. Talks are ongoing with other broadcast partners.