Nazi Germany's wartime research programs get a full accounting here, from Wernher von Braun's V-2 rocket program at Peenemünde to Werner Heisenberg's stalled effort to build an atomic bomb. Archival footage and expert interviews trace how Hitler's regime pushed scientists toward jet engines, guided missiles, and other technological firsts, many of which became the basis for postwar aerospace programs in both the United States and the Soviet Union. The film weighs the actual output of these programs against the propaganda claims made about them, asking how close Germany really came to fielding weapons that could have changed the outcome of the war. It also examines the conditions scientists worked under, including the use of forced labor at production sites like the Mittelwerk factory, complicating any straightforward story of genius overcoming adversity. The result is a survey of Nazi military science that treats the 'wonder weapons' as a serious historical question rather than a legend, weighing hype against documented capability.