Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler refused to see Jewish people being led into death camps and destroyed the paperwork that connected him to the Holocaust, a new documentary will reveal.
On one occasion, the German dictator even pulled down a blind on his train carriage so he could not see genocide victims passing by.
It is believed Hitler never once visited a concentration camp where six million Jews were slaughter before and during the Second World War, and millions more were visibly affected by it for the rest of their lives.
The new details of the Nazi leader's life have emerged in a new documentary series called Private Lives, which will be aired on the Yesterday channel on Monday night.
The show will also document Hitler's abusive childhood, artistic aspirations and relationships with several younger women.
It is presented by Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, Dr Tracy Borman, who traveled to Germany to research to well-known despotic figure.
'While atrocities were being carried out in his name he never visited an extermination camp,' said presenter Tracy Borman.
'When a train carrying Jews to the camps stopped on an adjacent platform to his train he pulled down the blind.
'Hitler never wanted to be confronted with the brutal reality of what was going on. He just wanted to know it was being done.'
During a lunch with his deputy Heinrich Himmler, who organised the Holocaust, he indicated he was 'extremely merciful to the Jews' but in the same sentence said the 'only solution was extermination'.
The documentary suggests a transcript of this conversation is the only written link between Hitler and systematic mass murder, as he usually opted to dictate policy to staff in meetings.
It is believed the only Jew that Hitler saved was a doctor called Eduard Bloch, who had treated his mother for breast cancer, even helping him to emigrate to America in 1940.
The programme also looks more closely at the dictator's life, using the records of his personal valet.
Files show he enjoyed an unusual breakfast of two cups of lukewarm milk, up to 10 Leibniz biscuits and a third to half a bar of chocolate, that he would consume standing up.
The many women in Hitler's life also fall under the spotlight, looking at several of his closest relationships, including with his own niece.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
