They lived in seclusion from their subjects and were guarded around the clock by the security service. For a long time, there were only rumours about the private lives of the Nazi leaders. It was only after the fall of the Third Reich that more and more details came to light: film footage and photos showing the everyday lives of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and Hermann Göring. They document life on the Obersalzberg. They show Göring on his huge »Carinhall« estate, surrounded by precious objects and exotic animals. The Goebbels family's country estate, where Magda dresses up the six children for propaganda while Joseph enjoys himself with young actresses in Babelsberg. But they also show the everyday life of Germans under the dictatorship – frighteningly normal for those who agreed, unimaginably cruel for those who were persecuted. 

The four-part documentary takes us behind the scenes of the Nazi state and looks back at the history of the women and men who were part of the court. SPIEGEL TV has an extraordinary amount of film footage, some of which was even shot in colour. Black and white films are colourised especially for this production. Rare photos from the private photo albums of EvaBraun, Hermann Göring and Ilse Koch, the ‘witch of Buchenwald’, are also being colourised. 

Historians and experts, such as Heike Görtemaker and Tillmann Bendikowski, report on the results of their research. They dispel numerous legends and rumours. Other interviewees are Thomas Weber, Oliver Hilmes, Kathrin Kompisch and Anna-Raphaela Schmitz.