Kamikaze attacks by Japanese pilots are familiar to almost anyone with even a passing knowledge of World War II. But few realize that Japan was not the only nation to use these desperate tactics.KAMIKAZES probes the darkest corners of the Third Reich to tell the story of the Nazi suicide soldiers. Military insiders reveal how the program was devised by the highest-ranking female officer in the SS, and how they were the subject of an intense power struggle among the German high command. Though her vision was never completely realized, German soldiers did fly suicide missions, as TIME MACHINETM definitively documents. The program even details how myths and legends from German history were used to inspire the soldiers for their fatal task, along with exploring the vast differences between the German and Japanese KAMIKAZE programs.