NOVA
Season 27 Episode 5 - Decoding Nazi Secrets
Most historians agree that by enabling Allied commanders to eavesdrop on German plans, Station X shortened the war by 2 or 3 years. Its decoded messages played a vital role in defeating the U-boat menace, cutting off Rommel's supplies in North Africa, and launching the D-Day landings. Now, for the first time on television, a 2-hour NOVA Special tells the full story of Station X, drawing on vivid interviews with many of the colorful geniuses and eccentrics who attacked the Enigma. Wartime survivors recall such vivid episodes as the British capture of the German submarine U-110; one of its officers describes how he saved a book of love poems inscribed to his sweetheart but failed to destroy vital Enigma documents on board. "Decoding Nazi Secrets" also features meticulous period reenactments shot inside the original buildings at Station X, including recreations of the world's first computing devices that aided codebreakers with their breakthroughs. Station X not only helped reverse the onslaught of the Third Reich, but also laid the groundwork for the invention of the digital computer that continues to transform all our lives.
Episodes in Season 27
Fall of the Leaning Tower
55 min
Time Travel
55 min
The Killer's Trail
55 min
Island of the Spirits
55 min
Decoding Nazi Secrets
55 min
Voyage of Doom
55 min
Electric Heart
55 min
Tales from the Hive
55 min
Lost on Everest
55 min
Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege (1)
55 min
Diamond Deception
55 min
Secrets of Lost Empires: Pharaoh's Obelisk (2)
55 min
Trillion Dollar Bet
55 min
Secrets of Lost Empires: Easter Island (3)
55 min
Mystery of the First Americans
55 min
Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath (4)
55 min
Lost Tribes of Israel
55 min
Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge (5)
55 min
What's Up with the Weather?
55 min
Stationed in the Stars
55 min
The Vikings
55 min
