在这部希特勒秘密的击鼓行动纪录片片中,The world watched in horror as the Twin Towers fell in 2001. Did you know that some 60 years earlier, Adolf Hitler plotted a similar atrocity on American soil? Hitler's Secret Attack on America is the shocking and widely unknown story of Hitler's evil and audacious scheme. Determined to strike a symbolic blow to US morale, Germany made plans to fly fighter planes into Manhattan skyscrapers in an eerie premonition of Osama bin Laden's deadly attack. With Hitler convinced that such a psychological strike could have brought down his rival superpower, contemporary witnesses and archive material combine to examine the plot's origins in full. Hitler's Secret Attack On America provides you with a terrifying insight into Hitler's psyche and reveals the original construction plans that show the extent of his destructive fantasy.
December 11, 1941: Hitler declares war against America. For German Admiral Karl Donitz, Commander of the U-boat submarine fleet, the time is at hand. Donitz devises a plan for a surprise attack on the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard, called "Operation Drumbeat". The message to the United States is clear; Hitler is coming... This story, one of the most deadly attacks off America's East Coast, is covered up and remains largely untold and secreted away for over 60 years --until now. For the first time, the story of these U-boats and their prey is being hunted down, uncovered and filmed by NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries. Using advanced Hi-Def ROV's, side scan sonar, and 3D imaging, this show will piece together the tactics, battles, heroes & villains of, "Operation Drumbeat", one of the most unknown and deadliest attacks on the U.S in history.
