Hitler's Holocaust Railways with Chris Tarrant

Sky History HD

1:50 AM to 3:15 AM

Wednesday 28 January

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The broadcaster explores the use of trains in transporting millions of prisoners to ghettos and death camps during the Holocaust. The programme retraces how the implementation of Nazi Germany's first anti-Jewish laws coincided with a drive to construct the world's most extensive rail network, and features contributions from survivors, including a Polish man who worked as a child slave in building the railway, who reveals how he narrowly escaped being transported to Auschwitz by hiding in a cemetery