Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State is a comprehensive look into the decisions that led to the creation of history's largest mass murder site.

The series is narrated by actress Linda Hunt ("The Practice," The Year of Living Dangerously), with epilogues hosted by award-winning journalist Linda Ellerbee. It details with startling new clarity the process by which the concentration camp became the site of the largest mass murder in world history.

Written and produced by award-winning documentary filmmaker Laurence Rees ("Timewatch," "The Nazis: A Warning from History," "War of the Century," "Horror in the East"), the series creates a never-before-seen picture of Auschwitz based on Third Reich files, personal diaries and architectural plans made available only since the fall of East European communist regimes and the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. While never losing sight of the suffering of the victims, the documentary offers a unique and chilling look at the mindset of the perpetrators - killers like the Commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss, camp doctor Josef Mengele and S.S. Commander Heinrich Himmler.

Saturdays, 1/5-19/08 from 12-2 a.m. ET