Les bases secrètes des nazis

Each episode could be condensed down to ten minutes if you took out the endless repeating of info and dramatic stuffing. Also where the presenter repeats what the expert has just said. Though this extends to other tv productions.

Not as riddled with conspiracy theories as other newly produced WW2 "documentaries", this series adds a few new lesser known locations and their stories.

I was looking forward to this show. I just about managed to get through the first episode.

It didn't break new ground. Most of, if not all the content has been known for decades and has been captured in similar programmes. I'm pretty sure Abandoned Engineering has covered this particular location.

I found some of the experts annoying. Especially when they kept on asking the same question at the end of their segment 'so what were they doing here?'. I'm probably not being fair to the experts as this is probably due to editing and scripting.

In any case, anyone who has any basic knowledge of WW2 history could answer that. I frequently found myself calling out the answers.

This programme could have been very good. The precept is great but it is spoiled by constant repeats throughout each episode. It's almost as if the presenters did not have enough information to fill the hour programme. It would have been much better if it had been aired as 30 minute segments. The use of several presenters is also confusing. I have previously enjoyed Rob Bell as a host, but he let's the side down with this one.

The history of the German world war two sites should have been a great story, but this show just doesn't hold your attention long enough to gain any insight. I certainly will not be watching the second series.

I agree with all the aforementoined reviews. The presenters are very annoying. Everything they say is obviously scripted and is repeated in every episode again and again. And all these so called experts have the same script. But these so called experts are no experts at all. Not of WW2 structures and weapons and tactics. And they like to give us the idea that they have visited the sites themselves but they obviously never did. Only the Polish guy has. But that is how a script (in this case a very bad one) works. Show them some footage first and then give them some lines to speak in fron of a camera that obviously ads no value to the footage at all. These so called experts do there presenting (or better there guessing) in one and the same place so they have done it for all episodes in a mornings time I guess. It is not like James Holland who is a real presenter, expert and historian of Nazi structures, weapons and tactics and who goes out into the field. This is a sad documentary compared to nazi megastructures.