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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:18,335 --> 00:00:20,425 "The victor will never be asked if he told truth" 2 00:00:20,865 --> 00:00:21,705 Adolf Hitler 3 00:00:29,679 --> 00:00:30,620 Since the mid-20th century, 4 00:00:31,053 --> 00:00:32,292 the world has ever heard of an incredible story, 5 00:00:32,789 --> 00:00:34,045 the story of a boy from an ordinary family whose ambition it was 6 00:00:34,404 --> 00:00:35,955 to became an artist, but who instead became a drifter. 7 00:00:47,854 --> 00:00:49,773 His destiny however was not to drift into the awaiting oblivion, 8 00:00:50,142 --> 00:00:51,884 but to rise to the greaest heights of power, eventually to become 9 00:00:52,292 --> 00:00:54,223 one of the most influential men who ever lived. 10 00:01:03,127 --> 00:01:05,438 Now for the first time, here is the true and fctual account 11 00:01:06,220 --> 00:01:07,839 of a story many believe to be... 12 00:01:08,377 --> 00:01:10,581 The Greatest Story NEVER Told! 13 00:01:20,981 --> 00:01:23,470 The Untold Story of Adolf Hitler 14 00:01:40,330 --> 00:01:44,078 ADOLF HITLER THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD! 15 00:01:48,075 --> 00:01:49,878 April 20, 1889 Braunau am Inn, Austria 16 00:01:49,913 --> 00:01:52,024 The story began here in the Austrian town of Braunau, 17 00:01:52,785 --> 00:01:55,416 with a child born in this house, Adolf Hitler. 18 00:01:56,351 --> 00:01:59,155 At his peak, the most popular ruler in Europe. 19 00:01:59,993 --> 00:02:01,529 The child born here in Braunau, 20 00:02:02,327 --> 00:02:04,383 belonged to that handful of human beings, 21 00:02:04,727 --> 00:02:06,403 who have clearly and decisively 22 00:02:06,932 --> 00:02:10,088 changed the history of the 20th century. 23 00:02:10,123 --> 00:02:13,943 Linz, Austria, the site of the only memorial to the Hitler family. 24 00:02:13,978 --> 00:02:15,866 The grave of Hitler's parents. 25 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,269 Nothing about his parents or Adolf's early life, 26 00:02:21,304 --> 00:02:25,147 gave any hint of the extra ordinary career that was to come. 27 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:31,506 His father Alois 28 00:02:32,090 --> 00:02:34,056 was a stern short tempered custom's official 29 00:02:34,512 --> 00:02:35,393 who beat his son. 30 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,432 His mother Klara tried to protect him. 31 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,800 When she died young Adolf was broken by grief. 32 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:44,334 He kept her portrait with him for the rest of his life. 33 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:51,600 The infant Adolf was baptized and brought up as a Catholic. 34 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,400 At the age of 6 he entered the monastery school at Lambach. 35 00:02:56,500 --> 00:02:59,400 Soon he was top of his class. 36 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,800 Hitler was a chorister at the Great Abby Church of Lumbach. 37 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:05,854 I used he said, 38 00:03:06,267 --> 00:03:09,959 "to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the services." 39 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:20,400 Every day when he sang in the choir, he saw the memorial to an earlier abbot. 40 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:23,097 Above it was an emblem, which a quarter of a century later, 41 00:03:23,633 --> 00:03:27,104 Hitler was to adopt for the Nazi Party, the Swastika. 42 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,000 In his teens Hitler became a moody adolescent. 43 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:37,360 At secondary school in Linz, 44 00:03:37,969 --> 00:03:39,877 he lost interest in most of his work. 45 00:03:40,494 --> 00:03:44,725 His ambition was to go to Vienna and become an Artist or Architect. 46 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:54,605 Once there he produced architectural drawings and water colors like these. 47 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,669 Competent, but not good enough to win the place he longed for 48 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:01,900 at the Viennese Academy Of Fine Arts. 49 00:04:07,703 --> 00:04:09,496 Vienna, Austria 50 00:04:13,150 --> 00:04:18,050 Little by little all Hitlers early ambitions in Vienna turned sour. 51 00:04:18,150 --> 00:04:20,150 After the shock of being turned down twice 52 00:04:20,250 --> 00:04:23,450 by the Academy of Fine Arts, he became a drifter. 53 00:04:23,550 --> 00:04:29,150 Hitler later called his period in Vienna the most miserable time of my life. 54 00:04:29,250 --> 00:04:31,350 Vienna 1913 Three of those miserable years, 55 00:04:31,450 --> 00:04:33,604 were spent here in a Viennese back street 56 00:04:34,022 --> 00:04:35,822 at this hostile for homeless men. 57 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,850 In this depressing hostile, the future F�hrer passed much of the day 58 00:04:43,950 --> 00:04:47,800 sitting with other inmates churning out drawings of water colors 59 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:49,650 which earned him a modest income. 60 00:04:49,750 --> 00:04:52,882 When he drifted from Vienna to Germany in 1913, 61 00:04:53,322 --> 00:04:56,930 he was still dreaming of becoming a great Artist or famous Architect. 62 00:05:01,850 --> 00:05:04,850 Munich, the first of August 1914. 63 00:05:04,950 --> 00:05:08,347 A cheering crowd welcomes the outbreak of the First World War. 64 00:05:16,150 --> 00:05:18,259 On the right is a photographer, 65 00:05:18,804 --> 00:05:20,572 and among the crowd he's photographing, 66 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,250 is the 25 year old Adolf Hitler. 67 00:05:28,647 --> 00:05:30,510 Adolf Hitler - THE WAR HERO 68 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:39,600 If you look at the tenacity of his service, I mean he's a fanatic. 69 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:44,400 And he petitioned King Ludwig III of Bavaria, 70 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:48,600 to enlist in what is referred to as the King's own regiment. 71 00:05:48,700 --> 00:05:51,300 That's an elite Bavarian unit. 72 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:57,200 He was accepted, but put in the 16th Bavarian reserve infantry. 73 00:05:57,300 --> 00:06:01,550 And World War One is a major influence on Hitler's life. 74 00:06:01,650 --> 00:06:05,800 Now he served his basic training without complaining. 75 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:09,700 But he was always willing to offer his fellow comrades help. 76 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:15,000 He spoke about the evil of tobacco and alcohol to his fellow soldiers, 77 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:19,800 and they liked him because of his drawings that he did for them. 78 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:20,900 He would do sketches for them. 79 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,400 Remember he sketched and did a variety of things you know in his youth, 80 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:28,700 as he was trying to get into Art school. 81 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,300 So he really got along with his fellow soldiers. 82 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:37,200 At one point during the trench duties, in between 1914- 1918, 83 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:41,700 he will have a dog, somebody going to steal from him. 84 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,200 During World War One Adolf Hitler 85 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:49,000 repeatedly, repeatedly volunteered for hazardous duty. 86 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:53,700 His first combat was October the 29th, 1914. 87 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:59,409 Hitler's unit lost 3.000 of its 3.600 men, 88 00:06:59,714 --> 00:07:02,895 after making 5 assaults on the enemy position. 89 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,185 Now Hitler had one of his sleeves shot off. 90 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,900 He walked out of a tent where he'd been talking with some men, 91 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,530 and a couple of seconds later a shell hits and blows it to kingdom come. 92 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,538 And for his fighting in this unit, 93 00:07:18,700 --> 00:07:23,312 he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd Class for Bravery, Bravery Under Fire. 94 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:26,300 And he was promoted to Corporal. 95 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,800 So this is a well deserved award. 96 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:30,676 Later, he became a runner, 97 00:07:31,174 --> 00:07:34,366 which meant he moved messages from the rear to the front, 98 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,600 and it's a very high mortality job. 99 00:07:38,700 --> 00:07:41,222 And he liked it, he always liked that job. 100 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:48,200 Then in December, of 1914, when you have the famous Christmas truce, 101 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:51,685 on December the 25th, Hitler wouldn't leave his trench. 102 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,594 And his comment was, "such a thing should not happen in War time". 103 00:07:57,100 --> 00:07:58,309 Then he told his buddies 104 00:07:59,277 --> 00:08:02,307 that participated, that they were wrong to get involved. 105 00:08:02,709 --> 00:08:07,348 So no fun, while the war goes on, those are your enemies. 106 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:16,193 Now between 1914- 1916, in the final stages of the Battle Of The Somme, 107 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:20,600 Adolf Hitler was wounded in the leg by a shell fragment. 108 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:22,968 This sent him back to Germany to recover. 109 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,060 And he's there for about 5 months. 110 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,994 Hitler could have stayed back in Germany, on light duty 111 00:08:32,776 --> 00:08:33,840 because of his wound, 112 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:37,000 but demanded to be sent back to the front. 113 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:38,503 So this... he's no shirker. 114 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:42,992 You've got to give the guy some due here for not being a chicken. 115 00:08:43,300 --> 00:08:46,245 A lot of people, you know, look for a way to get out of there. 116 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,293 Then you have Hitler back again on trench duty, 117 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,508 and then he shows up again during the of course German offensives. 118 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,692 Now, during the Ludendorff offensives, 119 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,265 he was armed with a pistol and he captured five French soldiers. 120 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,413 And for that he received the Iron Cross 1st Class. 121 00:09:05,513 --> 00:09:09,126 You didn't get those at any time in the war for free. 122 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:11,165 You can't dismiss his decorations. 123 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,089 He wins the Iron Cross 2nd Class in 1914, 1st Class in 1918, 124 00:09:16,189 --> 00:09:20,878 and then in mid October he got another battle field decoration. 125 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,926 But he's never promoted because he had a Captain, Captain Fritz Wiedemann, 126 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:29,358 said he lacked the capacity for leadership. 127 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:32,467 You just can't make these statements. 128 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:38,606 As the war turned against Germany, he believed that the pacifists 129 00:09:38,641 --> 00:09:41,113 and the shirkers, which were people trying to get out of duty, 130 00:09:42,066 --> 00:09:43,712 were losing the war. 131 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:47,189 And the thing that enraged him even worse is what is 132 00:09:47,550 --> 00:09:49,930 referred to as "defeatism" in the ranks. 133 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,276 They're actually non-commissioned officers, who said it was stupid to keep fighting. 134 00:09:56,900 --> 00:09:58,172 He beat one up. 135 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:02,866 So we have a Corporal beating up a non-commissioned officer, 136 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,407 and he doesn't get into trouble for it. He's a fanatic. 137 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:13,198 The end of the war Hitler was gassed by the British forces advancing their Ypres 138 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:15,662 in mid October 1918. 139 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,996 It bloated his face up, in particular his eyelids. 140 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:23,006 Constantly watering eyes, had a hoarse voice. 141 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:31,966 He then had this terrible pain, he referred to it "piercing pain in my eye socket". 142 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:36,374 He hated leaving the front to go to the hospital. 143 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:39,978 He considered it the happiest chapter in his life. 144 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,410 Being there, being something, being with people, 145 00:10:44,100 --> 00:10:47,413 you know he had friends, and he had comrades while he was in the war. 146 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:48,429 He was not a loner. 147 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:50,835 He had the respect of his fellow soldiers. 148 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:52,588 He had purpose. 149 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:58,664 By early November Hitler's spirits had come back, and it's very common 150 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:02,795 for people who had been gassed to plunge into depression, 151 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:06,200 because they're concerned about being blind the rest of their lives. 152 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:09,278 On November the 9th, this is two days before the Armistice, 153 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,867 a local Pastor came to the hospital 154 00:11:12,603 --> 00:11:14,724 and told the patients that on November the 8th, 155 00:11:15,114 --> 00:11:19,099 that the Kaiser had abdicated, and Germany was now a Republic. 156 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:22,196 And he told them that the war was lost. 157 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:27,877 Defeat was followed by a humiliating peace at Versailles. 158 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:33,261 The injustice of Versailles rankled with most Germans for the next 20 years. 159 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,929 Unable to accept that the German army had lost the war, 160 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,564 Hitler convinced himself that the soldiers had been stabbed in the back 161 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:44,100 by Communist revolutionaries and parliamentary Politicians. 162 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,573 The stab in the back he believed was part of a great Jewish conspiracy. 163 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:54,055 Suddenly Hitler discovered the greatest talent he possessed, 164 00:11:54,583 --> 00:11:56,007 the gift of public speaking. 165 00:12:02,799 --> 00:12:05,924 He joined the small group of fanatical Nationalists in Munich. 166 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:10,465 They became the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazis. 167 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:13,761 In 1921, Hitler became their leader. 168 00:12:16,301 --> 00:12:17,895 Munich 1921 169 00:12:23,614 --> 00:12:25,790 The word "Nazi" was used by the Allies as a derogaory term, 170 00:12:26,334 --> 00:12:28,159 popularised by the international media for propaganda purposes. 171 00:12:28,564 --> 00:12:29,486 After World War One, 172 00:12:29,892 --> 00:12:31,476 Germany was in serious danger of a Communist takeover, 173 00:12:31,945 --> 00:12:33,834 with 6 million German Communist Party members in the country. 174 00:12:35,089 --> 00:12:36,907 Adolf Hitler was only the 55th member of the NSDAP, and although membership 175 00:12:37,256 --> 00:12:38,744 rapidly grew under his leadership, the early meetings 176 00:12:39,163 --> 00:12:40,884 were often held under threats of violence. 177 00:12:41,788 --> 00:12:43,744 Vastly outnumbered, the National Sociolist would often find 178 00:12:44,216 --> 00:12:46,232 their meetings infiltrated, where brawls would inevitably break out. 179 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,700 The first film of the apprentice F�hrer campaigning 180 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,200 shows him as still a rather awkward figure. 181 00:12:57,300 --> 00:13:00,000 Not yet certain of his roll as Germany's Messiah. 182 00:13:00,100 --> 00:13:05,000 In 1923, Hitler felt strong enough to try and seize power in Munich. 183 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:10,000 Emil Klein, the only stormtrooper still alive who marched with Hitler, 184 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:12,200 now retraces their steps. 185 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:14,700 Everything went well 186 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,338 until the marchers found armed Police blocking their exit from a narrow street. 187 00:13:23,265 --> 00:13:29,300 "We were still singing as we marched down the street. 188 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,200 Suddenly, we heard shots being fired all around us. 189 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:35,507 Procession started. 190 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,200 We were speechless, we couldn't explain what had happened, 191 00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:46,400 until word came from the front of the march saying Hitler was dead. 192 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:51,800 I saw men with tears in their eyes, 193 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,294 and I myself was very moved to, 194 00:13:55,261 --> 00:13:57,429 and had great difficulty keeping myself under control. 195 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,100 Though Hitler in fact survived the hail of bullets, 196 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,600 he was arrested and locked in a cell in Landsberg prison. 197 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,085 At first he was so depressed, he refused to eat. 198 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,600 Then his confidence returned, 199 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:13,069 as he discovered that the failed uprising had made him a local hero. 200 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,542 At the trial Hitler rounded on his accusers. 201 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:19,401 He told the Judges, who gave him a prison sentence, 202 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:23,218 "history will tear to tatters the verdict of this court!" 203 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,227 You have been accused of 'High Treason' and called 'An Enemy Of The State'! 204 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,132 "If I am guilty of anything, 205 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,817 then I am guilty of fighting to defend the rights to the German people." 206 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:46,148 Herr Hitler, the court finds you Guilty of Treason. 207 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:52,667 You are hereby sentenced to a fine of 200 Gold Marks, 208 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:57,182 and 5 years in Landsberg prison. 209 00:14:59,300 --> 00:15:06,855 You will... you will be eligible for parole in 9 months. 210 00:15:08,022 --> 00:15:10,830 Adolf Hitler will serve next 12 moths in Landsberg prison 211 00:15:17,042 --> 00:15:18,278 To be continued 212 00:15:21,104 --> 00:15:23,074 Part 2 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 213 00:15:26,154 --> 00:15:28,165 After the propaganda triumph at his trial, 214 00:15:28,223 --> 00:15:31,181 Hitler set out to write the Bible of National Socialism. 215 00:15:31,397 --> 00:15:34,031 He dictated much of the text here 216 00:15:34,407 --> 00:15:36,375 in his cell to his faithful follower, Rudolph Hoess. 217 00:15:36,485 --> 00:15:38,877 On Saturday evenings, the other prisoners sat around 218 00:15:39,287 --> 00:15:42,796 as Hitler read out the completed chapters to them. 219 00:15:42,911 --> 00:15:46,782 The book as a whole, dwells on the great obsessions which had come to dominate 220 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:51,621 Hitler's political thought; the Jews, racism, living space for the German people, 221 00:15:52,172 --> 00:15:54,605 the evils of communism and parliamentary democracy. 222 00:15:55,469 --> 00:15:58,086 But it also includes Hitler's views on a variety 223 00:15:58,535 --> 00:16:01,902 of other topics ranging from boxing to syphilis. 224 00:16:02,303 --> 00:16:03,814 Mein kampf 225 00:16:04,855 --> 00:16:06,493 Mein Kampf will become one of the best-selling books of al time, 226 00:16:06,917 --> 00:16:08,619 despite being banned in many countriesfter the war. 227 00:16:13,382 --> 00:16:16,231 The amasing apeal, Hitler was lated to exercise 228 00:16:16,879 --> 00:16:19,145 but he is mastering a spoken word. 229 00:16:19,499 --> 00:16:22,842 After prison, the Leader, or F�hrer as he now called himself, 230 00:16:23,427 --> 00:16:25,056 had a new political strategy. 231 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:29,587 Instead of planning another coup, he aimed to win power at the polls. 232 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,195 What was to win him millions of votes, was instead, 233 00:16:33,557 --> 00:16:35,526 his vision of a great national revival. 234 00:16:39,202 --> 00:16:42,951 Hitler's election opportunity came with the onset of the depression. 235 00:16:43,402 --> 00:16:46,761 In a few years, 1 in 3 of the labor force was out of work. 236 00:16:46,903 --> 00:16:50,286 Ilsa Vemple, was a church social worker during the depression 237 00:16:50,303 --> 00:16:52,907 among the unemployed in the Berlin slums. 238 00:16:52,942 --> 00:16:58,211 "The despair was so terrible as I can't describe it. 239 00:16:58,304 --> 00:17:02,834 You had everywhere beggars, wherever you went in Berlin, you had beggars." 240 00:17:03,205 --> 00:17:06,234 The democratic political parties offered no solution. 241 00:17:06,605 --> 00:17:10,052 To millions of Germans, the only hope was Adolf Hitler. 242 00:17:12,306 --> 00:17:14,252 Have you been to the marketplace? 243 00:17:15,707 --> 00:17:18,375 Do you know how much it costs for a loaf of bread these days? 244 00:17:19,007 --> 00:17:20,951 $500.000 marks. 245 00:17:21,407 --> 00:17:23,095 $500.000 marks! 246 00:17:23,130 --> 00:17:25,597 The wheelbarrows aren't big enough to carry the money in! 247 00:17:29,408 --> 00:17:31,628 He's afraid I'll stir things up. 248 00:17:33,209 --> 00:17:37,860 You tell Commissar Kahr, this is not a time for silence. 249 00:17:38,409 --> 00:17:41,591 "I supported Hitler because he, 250 00:17:42,340 --> 00:17:46,204 after having seen all that depravity, all that poverty here, 251 00:17:46,411 --> 00:17:50,861 was the only one who could do social justice to the people here." 252 00:17:51,812 --> 00:17:55,612 "He had that ability, 253 00:17:55,712 --> 00:18:00,827 the ability derived from his readiness 254 00:18:01,746 --> 00:18:03,979 to throw himself totally open 255 00:18:04,313 --> 00:18:10,326 to... to appear as it were, bare and naked before his audience, 256 00:18:11,215 --> 00:18:13,982 to tear open his heart 257 00:18:14,017 --> 00:18:20,013 and display it, to throw on a few extra generators 258 00:18:20,015 --> 00:18:23,901 and suddenly become absolutely charged with energy." 259 00:18:24,769 --> 00:18:26,821 Presidential Elections 26 April 1925 260 00:18:27,110 --> 00:18:28,422 Nur Paul von Hindenburg 261 00:18:33,957 --> 00:18:35,703 Reichstag, Berlin Nazi Party: 3 seats 262 00:18:35,738 --> 00:18:36,870 April 1925 263 00:18:40,311 --> 00:18:42,820 Election Campaign 264 00:18:44,038 --> 00:18:45,389 It wasn't as though he was using words, 265 00:18:45,733 --> 00:18:48,787 it's as though the emotions came direct without words almost. 266 00:18:49,499 --> 00:18:51,580 There was a rawness about Hitler's power. 267 00:18:52,005 --> 00:18:54,303 Reichstag Election Nazi Party: 107 seats 268 00:18:59,722 --> 00:19:03,022 Six and a half Million votes. 107 seats. 269 00:19:03,122 --> 00:19:04,745 The biggest party in the Reichstag. 270 00:19:05,322 --> 00:19:06,775 Get me Hitler. 271 00:19:09,502 --> 00:19:11,692 Reich Chancellary, Berlin 30 September 1933 272 00:19:27,226 --> 00:19:31,326 Nobody has ever had this power to move audiences so easily. 273 00:19:31,426 --> 00:19:34,026 What he says... it's the way he says it! 274 00:19:39,927 --> 00:19:41,477 Hitler comes to power, 275 00:19:42,142 --> 00:19:44,520 not as he had hoped through outright victory at the polls, 276 00:19:44,828 --> 00:19:46,767 but as head of a coalition government. 277 00:19:46,828 --> 00:19:51,698 As this withering glance suggests, Hitler despises his coalition partners. 278 00:19:51,929 --> 00:19:56,830 He quickly out maneuvers them, and establishes his own dictatorship. 279 00:19:58,129 --> 00:20:00,330 A month after he comes to power, 280 00:20:00,430 --> 00:20:04,031 the Reichstag building, the parliament building, in Berlin is set on fire. 281 00:20:04,131 --> 00:20:05,265 This happens to come The Reichstag Fire 1933 282 00:20:05,792 --> 00:20:08,337 at the time when he is constantly insisting 283 00:20:08,683 --> 00:20:09,904 that there is a communist plot 284 00:20:10,495 --> 00:20:14,022 to overthrow the new government, and to scary out a revolution. 285 00:20:14,231 --> 00:20:17,360 And the Reichstag fire goes up in flames which everybody can see. 286 00:20:18,032 --> 00:20:19,524 Before that night was over, 287 00:20:20,509 --> 00:20:23,404 he had got a set of decrees drawn up, 288 00:20:23,533 --> 00:20:25,760 which transformed the situation politically. 289 00:20:26,083 --> 00:20:29,228 All the guarantees, in which people in any democratic state, 290 00:20:29,623 --> 00:20:30,803 the freedom of speech and so on, 291 00:20:31,118 --> 00:20:33,309 freedom from arrest, all of this is swept away. 292 00:20:44,582 --> 00:20:45,994 In the 1920s, Berlin was known as the center of sexual perversion, 293 00:20:46,511 --> 00:20:47,755 drugs and depravity. 294 00:20:48,219 --> 00:20:50,814 Once in power Hitler ordered the sity ceansed of these elements. 295 00:20:51,275 --> 00:20:52,072 Obscene books, pornography and Communist literature 296 00:20:52,457 --> 00:20:54,467 were all burned by the National Socialist. 297 00:20:56,340 --> 00:20:58,847 The clampdown will fore Jews, promiscuous liberals and gays such as 298 00:20:59,265 --> 00:21:02,215 Marlene Dietrich - a known bisexual - to leave for the US. 299 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:14,185 1933 BERLIN 300 00:21:14,641 --> 00:21:15,600 The burning of pornography and Communist literature 301 00:21:15,635 --> 00:21:18,346 A majority of Germans tolerate the burning of books, 302 00:21:18,776 --> 00:21:20,335 the banning of other political parties, 303 00:21:20,902 --> 00:21:22,293 and the setting up of a police state, 304 00:21:22,895 --> 00:21:25,206 because Hitler offers a way out of the depression. 305 00:21:26,842 --> 00:21:30,243 If he's doing things which are not so good, which happened, 306 00:21:30,343 --> 00:21:34,443 then we said, "well, you have to take the rough with the smooth." 307 00:21:34,543 --> 00:21:38,068 Dictatorship seemed to be the only way to get out of the mess, 308 00:21:38,644 --> 00:21:41,382 and so, I thought that was a good thing 309 00:21:41,726 --> 00:21:44,340 that they cut away all this nonsense and rather 310 00:21:44,845 --> 00:21:48,739 did something, really did something, and that's what Hitler did. 311 00:21:51,645 --> 00:21:57,069 He eliminated the crushing unemployment that Germany suffered. 312 00:21:58,447 --> 00:22:04,837 And he gave millions of people new confidence, and indeed, welfare. 313 00:22:05,048 --> 00:22:09,048 They were doing better; much better. 314 00:22:19,322 --> 00:22:20,792 When Hitler assumed power in 1933, 315 00:22:21,265 --> 00:22:22,809 there were 7 million unemployed Germans, 316 00:22:23,309 --> 00:22:25,302 the highest per capita unemployment rate in Europe, at the time. 317 00:22:25,923 --> 00:22:26,722 In only is first year in office, 318 00:22:27,148 --> 00:22:29,373 an unprecedented 3.374.000 were helped back to work. 319 00:22:30,723 --> 00:22:32,923 Hitler's brilliant and innovative ideas included building motorways 320 00:22:33,258 --> 00:22:36,315 the lenght and breadth of the country, with housing units provided for workers. 321 00:22:36,907 --> 00:22:39,337 The worker's familes would then eagerly spend the newly earned wages, 322 00:22:39,338 --> 00:22:41,307 contributing to a fast-growing economy. 323 00:22:42,835 --> 00:22:44,463 Priority was given to the health and fitness of the nation, 324 00:22:44,818 --> 00:22:46,302 especialy for the youth. 325 00:22:46,337 --> 00:22:49,072 Free healthcare and generous financial support were provided for expectant mothers. 326 00:22:49,605 --> 00:22:54,425 The world's first anti-smoking campaigns are also introduced. 327 00:22:54,460 --> 00:22:54,962 In addition, it was now government policy 328 00:22:55,404 --> 00:22:57,205 to protect the environment and wildlife. 329 00:23:09,649 --> 00:23:10,893 Crime was virtually eliminated, 330 00:23:11,316 --> 00:23:12,552 with city streets made safe to walk again. 331 00:23:12,587 --> 00:23:14,760 Workers, subsidised by the government, would take holidays abroad. 332 00:23:15,445 --> 00:23:17,229 Hitler is the first in Europe to introduce the 40-hour work week, 333 00:23:17,772 --> 00:23:18,971 with extra pay for overtime. 334 00:23:19,451 --> 00:23:22,268 Factories are now required to provide workers with restrooms and a cafeteria. 335 00:23:23,076 --> 00:23:25,671 The NSDAP leadership looked upon the charging of interest on loans as immoral, 336 00:23:26,143 --> 00:23:27,948 and by forsing banks to abolish the practice of usury, 337 00:23:28,388 --> 00:23:30,164 millions were freed from slavery of debt. 338 00:23:31,642 --> 00:23:33,674 It was a spectacular financial recovery not witnessed before or since, 339 00:23:34,257 --> 00:23:36,394 and often reffered to as the greatest economic miracle of all time. 340 00:23:37,553 --> 00:23:40,322 Meanwhile, most Western countries were still mired in the Great Depression. 341 00:23:53,199 --> 00:23:55,808 THE NUREMBERG RALLIES The annual celebration of Nacional Socialism 342 00:24:01,264 --> 00:24:03,517 They came in the tens of thousands, 343 00:24:04,042 --> 00:24:06,638 full of youthful idealism to worship the F�hrer, 344 00:24:06,865 --> 00:24:09,232 the awesome surroundings of the Nuremberg stadium. 345 00:24:09,465 --> 00:24:11,562 Among the worshipers in the Hitler Youth 346 00:24:12,021 --> 00:24:14,974 was Alfons Heck, now a writer of the Nazi period. 347 00:24:22,267 --> 00:24:26,268 The decisive turning point in my life occurred at the age of ten. 348 00:24:26,368 --> 00:24:30,395 From that moment on, I would remain beholden to Adolf Hitler, 349 00:24:30,768 --> 00:24:33,547 long until after our defeat. 350 00:24:33,969 --> 00:24:39,473 I was one of 82.000 members of the Hitler Youth lined up in Zeppelin's Field. 351 00:24:39,669 --> 00:24:40,864 I stood in the first row. 352 00:24:42,069 --> 00:24:43,662 And when Hitler began to speak, 353 00:24:43,970 --> 00:24:48,325 we were just tingling with nervousness, filing to see our God. 354 00:24:48,670 --> 00:24:51,371 Then he appeared on the podium. 355 00:24:51,471 --> 00:24:53,271 I was afraid to look at my neighbor, 356 00:24:53,371 --> 00:24:56,471 because I didn't want him to see the tears in my eyes, 357 00:24:56,571 --> 00:24:57,872 my knees were shaking. 358 00:24:58,372 --> 00:25:00,174 Then Hitler beamed down on us, 359 00:25:01,340 --> 00:25:03,396 he calmed us down by lifting his hands, 360 00:25:03,472 --> 00:25:04,996 both hands several times. 361 00:25:05,673 --> 00:25:09,474 When he began to speak it was in a very conversational tone, 362 00:25:09,574 --> 00:25:12,374 man to boy, father to son. 363 00:25:31,376 --> 00:25:35,977 Then he said how fortunate we were to live in this new age. 364 00:25:36,178 --> 00:25:38,365 And he said from now on you, 365 00:25:39,506 --> 00:25:43,167 no longer have to fear any class distinction, you're all one. 366 00:25:43,579 --> 00:25:47,879 But the essence, and the emphasis occurred in the final sentences. 367 00:25:47,979 --> 00:25:49,212 He leaned over the podium, 368 00:25:50,313 --> 00:25:52,424 and I know he looked straight into my eyes. 369 00:25:52,880 --> 00:26:00,343 And he said, "You, my boys, the young of Germany, 370 00:26:01,767 --> 00:26:03,352 live in a fortunate time, 371 00:26:03,781 --> 00:26:08,177 because you are the standard bearers of the movement. 372 00:26:08,582 --> 00:26:14,095 You will inherit what we have so far created." 373 00:26:14,283 --> 00:26:17,110 And from that moment on, without any doubt, 374 00:26:17,838 --> 00:26:19,293 I was bound to Adolf Hitler. 375 00:26:20,084 --> 00:26:22,683 Long until after our defeat. 376 00:26:23,583 --> 00:26:25,113 Before us lies Germany 377 00:26:25,442 --> 00:26:29,390 within us Germany is stirring 378 00:26:29,963 --> 00:26:31,818 behind us all Germany is following! 379 00:26:50,288 --> 00:26:54,188 The mid 1930s were the halcyon years of Hitler's Germany. 380 00:26:54,288 --> 00:26:59,389 Germany was at peace, her prosperity restored, her national pride recovered. 381 00:26:59,489 --> 00:27:02,618 To those prepared to ignore or justify, the police state, 382 00:27:03,258 --> 00:27:04,771 it seemed a beautiful Germany. 383 00:27:06,191 --> 00:27:08,518 A host of distinguished foreign visitors, 384 00:27:09,089 --> 00:27:11,314 many with impeccable democratic credentials, 385 00:27:11,791 --> 00:27:15,336 came to call on the F�hrer at his mountain retreat, the Berghof. 386 00:27:15,992 --> 00:27:20,992 Among them, was the former British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George. 387 00:27:21,192 --> 00:27:24,525 With LG, was his secretary Albert Sylvester. 388 00:27:24,891 --> 00:27:25,682 BERCHTESGADEN 4t SEPTEMBER 1936 389 00:27:25,693 --> 00:27:29,093 Hitler run down the flight of stairs 390 00:27:29,193 --> 00:27:32,594 to welcome LG as he got out of his car. 391 00:27:32,694 --> 00:27:35,454 Shook hands with him most warmly, 392 00:27:35,836 --> 00:27:39,315 and conducted us into the inside of the Berghof. 393 00:27:39,894 --> 00:27:44,596 This massive room, the only light of which came 394 00:27:44,696 --> 00:27:49,140 from a massive window, which was terrific, I'd never seen such a window. 395 00:27:50,596 --> 00:27:54,548 Lloyd George said, "You have done great things for Germany. 396 00:27:55,297 --> 00:27:57,159 You have restored her honor, 397 00:27:58,020 --> 00:28:01,532 and you have gained for her equal rights." 398 00:28:03,001 --> 00:28:05,016 To be continued 399 00:28:17,989 --> 00:28:20,824 Part 3 Adolf Hitler - The Greatest Story NEVER Told 400 00:28:34,258 --> 00:28:37,084 I've met a few. Arm chair Politicians. 401 00:28:37,669 --> 00:28:39,865 Care more about their money, than they do their own country. 402 00:28:40,210 --> 00:28:42,027 Yes, but surely as your Parties propaganda leader, 403 00:28:42,340 --> 00:28:44,213 you must know, that in order to defend their money 404 00:28:44,564 --> 00:28:45,836 they'll spend it. A good deal of it. 405 00:28:46,367 --> 00:28:48,419 That is if someone they trust tells them that it is a safe bet. 406 00:28:48,992 --> 00:28:49,860 That's where I come in. 407 00:28:50,965 --> 00:28:54,965 Herr Hitler, I can make you very popular. Far more popular than him. 408 00:28:55,417 --> 00:29:03,327 But you have to admit, the color catches the eye. 409 00:29:06,882 --> 00:29:08,803 Unlike the Soviets with their hammer and sickle, the Nacional Socialist 410 00:29:09,283 --> 00:29:10,691 had no such flag or amblem. 411 00:29:11,283 --> 00:29:13,083 Hitler not only wanted a simbol to represent the NSDPA, 412 00:29:13,548 --> 00:29:15,450 but one powerful enough to strikefear into the Communists. 413 00:29:16,093 --> 00:29:18,211 The once failed art student would now set about to design 414 00:29:18,660 --> 00:29:20,393 the most recognised flag in history. 415 00:30:09,810 --> 00:30:12,013 After 1945, the NSDAP flag will be banned and portrayed by the 416 00:30:12,531 --> 00:30:13,875 media as a symbol of hate. 417 00:30:14,843 --> 00:30:16,347 It also be hijacked by extreme political group, 418 00:30:16,889 --> 00:30:19,005 and others such as motocycle gangs, who have no concept 419 00:30:19,509 --> 00:30:21,308 of its oriinal anti-Communist design. 420 00:30:31,043 --> 00:30:33,603 THE BLUTFAHNE SWASTIKA 421 00:30:34,305 --> 00:30:36,603 The Blutfahne displayed at the attempted Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in 1923 422 00:30:37,092 --> 00:30:38,836 ended up covered in the blood of National Socialist members 423 00:30:39,238 --> 00:30:40,989 either wounded or killed by munich police. 424 00:30:41,621 --> 00:30:44,429 It was thereafter treated as a sacred object, used at the Nuremberg Rallies 425 00:30:44,893 --> 00:30:47,205 by Adolf Hitler to "sanctify" new flags. 426 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,559 This most treasured of all NSDAP artefacts was last seen on 18 October 1944. 427 00:30:51,089 --> 00:30:53,426 To this day its whereabouts remain unkown. 428 00:31:13,340 --> 00:31:15,788 On the morning of the 12th of March 1938, 429 00:31:15,823 --> 00:31:19,118 German soldiers crossed the border into neighboring Austria. 430 00:31:19,218 --> 00:31:22,379 They were greeted not with bullets and guns, 431 00:31:23,043 --> 00:31:25,117 but with roses and carnations. 432 00:31:31,416 --> 00:31:35,498 So much so, that the action became known as the "Blumenkrieg", 433 00:31:36,187 --> 00:31:37,576 the "War of Flowers". 434 00:31:39,714 --> 00:31:41,314 Most of the Austrian people, 435 00:31:41,414 --> 00:31:45,613 envying what they saw as the economic success and prestige, 436 00:31:45,713 --> 00:31:46,991 that Hitler had brought to Germany, 437 00:31:47,878 --> 00:31:50,254 now welcomed their German neighbors. 438 00:31:51,312 --> 00:31:53,854 One People, One Reich, One Leader. 439 00:31:58,910 --> 00:32:01,876 In a demonstration of how central he was personally 440 00:32:02,285 --> 00:32:03,188 to this whole system, 441 00:32:03,821 --> 00:32:06,581 Hitler traveled across Austria on a campaign tour. 442 00:32:20,123 --> 00:32:25,849 In the future I want to be nothing other than what I have been in the past: 443 00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:29,845 alerter of my people, teacher of my people, 444 00:32:30,252 --> 00:32:31,765 and the F�hrer of my people. 445 00:32:40,029 --> 00:32:41,914 As German troops cross the border of Austria, 446 00:32:42,442 --> 00:32:44,482 Austrian troops simultaneously enter the German cities of Munich, 447 00:32:44,858 --> 00:32:46,613 Dresden and Berlin, a sign to the rest of world 448 00:32:47,098 --> 00:32:48,690 of a peaceful reunification. 449 00:32:49,503 --> 00:32:51,245 An overhelming 99,7% of Austrian citizens 450 00:32:51,691 --> 00:32:54,300 will deocratically vote to reunite with Germany. 451 00:33:01,394 --> 00:33:02,306 ... and this people... 452 00:33:03,537 --> 00:33:05,670 ... do not come to the Reich... 453 00:33:07,327 --> 00:33:08,603 ... with hat in hand. 454 00:33:11,292 --> 00:33:12,481 I myself... 455 00:33:14,617 --> 00:33:15,997 ... bring you home! 456 00:33:20,093 --> 00:33:22,993 I think the thing... some period 457 00:33:23,093 --> 00:33:27,892 around the end of '37- '38, Hitler feels well this is fine, 458 00:33:27,992 --> 00:33:29,591 but I didn't come to power 459 00:33:29,691 --> 00:33:33,291 just to restore German self confidence and solve this more, 460 00:33:33,391 --> 00:33:35,090 he changed his gear I think. 461 00:33:35,190 --> 00:33:39,243 And then getting rid of a number of the old guard, and the army, 462 00:33:39,343 --> 00:33:43,397 and the foreign office, and so on. And he becomes more aggressive. 463 00:33:45,688 --> 00:33:47,828 It was the 12th of March 1938. 464 00:33:48,519 --> 00:33:50,815 Austria was showered with Swastika's. March 12, 1938 465 00:33:52,087 --> 00:33:55,686 He crossed the border near his birth place at Braunau. 466 00:33:55,786 --> 00:33:57,686 People rejoiced him, the "Anschluss", 467 00:33:57,786 --> 00:34:01,685 which they saw as the fulfillment of an old dream of the German nation. 468 00:34:01,785 --> 00:34:04,205 An emphatic display of self determination. 469 00:34:04,984 --> 00:34:08,083 A right denied to the German people of the Versailles Treaty, 470 00:34:08,183 --> 00:34:10,653 whose terms were generally considered unjust. 471 00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:14,082 Visibly moved he entered Vienna. 472 00:34:14,182 --> 00:34:19,181 The city that had seen his early failures, now gave him a hero's reception. 473 00:34:19,281 --> 00:34:21,081 Homage was being paid to the man 474 00:34:21,181 --> 00:34:24,680 who had achieved the unification of the German people. 475 00:34:49,275 --> 00:34:53,374 The welcome here was the most tumultuous yet. 476 00:35:19,629 --> 00:35:20,862 Heil Adolf Hitler! 477 00:35:32,765 --> 00:35:34,397 While in Leonding, Hitler visits the grave of his parents 478 00:35:34,752 --> 00:35:36,512 situated across the street from his childhood home. 479 00:36:09,168 --> 00:36:10,917 THE BERGHOF - THE BAVARIAN ALPS 480 00:36:12,258 --> 00:36:14,975 It was here, far from the millions of his followers, 481 00:36:15,584 --> 00:36:17,639 that Hitler felt most able to relax. 482 00:36:18,156 --> 00:36:19,687 The inner circle at the "Berghof", 483 00:36:20,356 --> 00:36:24,047 saw a quite different man from the charismatic F�hrer of the party rallies. 484 00:36:34,653 --> 00:36:38,802 Life at Hitler's retreat, was both reassuring and agreeable. 485 00:36:38,902 --> 00:36:43,051 And their was an entertaining side to the off duty F�hrer 486 00:36:43,151 --> 00:36:46,151 as Ribbentrop's private secretary discovered. 487 00:36:46,351 --> 00:36:53,449 "I was overwhelmed by the possibility to meet the F�hrer personally. 488 00:36:53,549 --> 00:37:00,648 And for instance, for the beginning, he was a sort of a Messiah for me. 489 00:37:00,748 --> 00:37:05,247 He was a man who liked to joke. 490 00:37:05,347 --> 00:37:11,445 He could laugh a lot. He didn't accept two sort of jokes. 491 00:37:11,545 --> 00:37:15,344 Dirty jokes and political jokes, they were bad. 492 00:37:15,444 --> 00:37:19,144 But all the other jokes he enjoyed terribly." 493 00:37:19,244 --> 00:37:23,443 Hitler had no close friends in whom to confide his inner most feelings. 494 00:37:23,543 --> 00:37:26,242 He could never admit human weakness to anyone. 495 00:37:26,442 --> 00:37:30,141 But the inner circle discovered one secret of his private life, 496 00:37:30,241 --> 00:37:32,759 which was unknown to ordinary Germans. 497 00:37:32,841 --> 00:37:38,230 "When Hitler was talking for hours and I was standing near to the wall, waiting, 498 00:37:38,940 --> 00:37:41,271 until they want some papers or something? 499 00:37:42,339 --> 00:37:44,938 And the curtain opened, 500 00:37:45,038 --> 00:37:52,837 Eva Braun appeared and says, "Adolf, we must to have lunch now." 501 00:38:44,126 --> 00:38:49,625 And she didn't bother him with political questions. 502 00:38:49,725 --> 00:38:53,224 And he didn't want to give her influence. 503 00:38:53,324 --> 00:38:57,423 And he thought that as long as he is a bachelor, 504 00:38:57,523 --> 00:39:01,021 he has the love of the German women. 505 00:39:01,121 --> 00:39:02,822 Because if he's married, 506 00:39:02,922 --> 00:39:06,291 the impression is not the same on the other women. 507 00:39:07,121 --> 00:39:10,920 And she gave him a little bit... 508 00:39:11,620 --> 00:39:15,234 a home of bourgeois, 509 00:39:15,698 --> 00:39:21,890 a quality with tea, with cake, and I think with sex." 510 00:39:22,518 --> 00:39:25,217 You think it was a sexual relationship? 511 00:39:25,317 --> 00:39:26,338 "Certainly." 512 00:39:55,926 --> 00:39:58,839 In 1919. the Allies at Versailles formed a new country called Czechosovakia. 513 00:39:59,518 --> 00:40:00,746 The population will now consists of... 514 00:40:01,339 --> 00:40:02,946 6.7 million Czechs 3.1 million Germans 515 00:40:03,443 --> 00:40:04,715 2.0 million Slovacs 700.000 Hungarians 516 00:40:05,131 --> 00:40:06,343 460.000 Ukrainians 517 00:40:18,773 --> 00:40:21,180 With Czech violence against ethnic German minorities on the rise, 518 00:40:21,803 --> 00:40:24,841 Sudeten Germans are forced to call for the reunification with Germany. 519 00:40:55,559 --> 00:40:58,242 Czech President Edvard Benes will instead order martial law 520 00:40:58,684 --> 00:41:00,957 imposed on the Sudeten provinces, forcing a furious Adolf Hitler 521 00:41:01,430 --> 00:41:03,021 to demand their return. 522 00:41:31,637 --> 00:41:33,181 26 Sept 1938 523 00:41:39,123 --> 00:41:43,275 I have put an offer to Herr Benes... 524 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:48,733 an offer that is nothing other than reaisation of his promises. 525 00:41:49,406 --> 00:41:52,897 The decision is his now! Be it war or peace? 526 00:41:54,456 --> 00:41:56,481 He can either accept my offer and give the Germans their freedom, 527 00:41:56,977 --> 00:42:02,079 or we Germans will go get it ourselves! 528 00:42:08,335 --> 00:42:13,436 4 POWER CONFERENCE CALLED BY HITLER; AVERTS CZECH INVASION 529 00:42:14,876 --> 00:42:19,139 28 Sept 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain departs for Germany 530 00:42:25,635 --> 00:42:27,457 The Munich Peace Conference 531 00:42:34,298 --> 00:42:35,834 "IT IS PEACE WITH HONOUR" SAYS CHAMBERLAIN 532 00:42:35,869 --> 00:42:38,678 A wave of relief and gratitude for the F�hrer swept Germany. 533 00:42:39,349 --> 00:42:42,577 His iron nerve had freed the Germans in Czechoslovakia, 534 00:42:43,136 --> 00:42:44,735 and yet averted war. 535 00:42:47,714 --> 00:42:49,905 You secured us victory... 536 00:42:50,902 --> 00:42:54,876 now you secure us peace. 537 00:42:55,514 --> 00:42:58,326 Heil Hitler! Sieg heil! 538 00:42:59,735 --> 00:43:01,102 Sieg heil! Sieg heil! 539 00:43:16,016 --> 00:43:17,639 To be continued 540 00:43:21,577 --> 00:43:24,749 Part 4 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 541 00:43:27,050 --> 00:43:27,927 The US state department 542 00:43:28,303 --> 00:43:32,988 in its 3-volume report on the origins of Communism in Russia, published in 1931, 543 00:43:33,748 --> 00:43:35,946 reveals how Jewish controlled German banks 544 00:43:36,355 --> 00:43:37,993 under the leadership of Max Warburg 545 00:43:38,345 --> 00:43:43,036 conspired as early as 1914 to send large payments to Lenin, Trotsky, 546 00:43:43,490 --> 00:43:45,933 and others in their attempts to bring down the Tsar. 547 00:43:46,740 --> 00:43:48,318 When the White Russian patriots 548 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,350 heroically attempted to regain their freedom from the Jews, 549 00:43:52,215 --> 00:43:57,031 the Judaica says compact Jewish masses were utilized by the Bolsheviks 550 00:43:57,384 --> 00:43:59,110 to suppress such counter revolution. 551 00:44:00,289 --> 00:44:03,665 Clearly Jews and native Russians were engaged in a death struggle 552 00:44:04,046 --> 00:44:05,338 over the destiny of Russia. 553 00:44:07,055 --> 00:44:11,631 Unfortunately, the Jewish masses won... the Jewish masses won... the Jewish... 554 00:44:14,765 --> 00:44:17,550 "We will survive", that's what they tell us. 555 00:44:18,451 --> 00:44:21,342 What they mean is, "THEY will survive!" 556 00:44:22,323 --> 00:44:23,637 We surrendered in November, 557 00:44:24,117 --> 00:44:26,966 at a time when we were perched on the edge of victory, 558 00:44:27,763 --> 00:44:31,387 betrayed by the cowards and the traitors within our ranks. 559 00:44:34,064 --> 00:44:35,485 "Lousy Communist pigs!" 560 00:44:36,678 --> 00:44:37,734 How do we fight them? 561 00:44:38,431 --> 00:44:41,920 We unite! We must join together, for a greater Germany! 562 00:44:43,086 --> 00:44:46,149 We will hang the profiteers, crush the Communists, 563 00:44:46,614 --> 00:44:49,555 we will disinfect our country of the Jewish vermin! 564 00:44:51,657 --> 00:44:53,986 We will sacrifice, we will struggle yes, 565 00:44:54,496 --> 00:44:58,618 but only then will we triumph. And we will triumph! 566 00:44:59,608 --> 00:45:05,120 We will triumph! We will triumph! - We will triumph! We will triumph! 567 00:45:05,753 --> 00:45:08,834 We will triumph! We will triumph... 568 00:45:11,653 --> 00:45:14,027 What exactly was the "great stab in the back" 569 00:45:14,691 --> 00:45:16,364 that Hitler had always talked about? 570 00:45:24,768 --> 00:45:26,266 In 1961, former Zionist Benjamin Freedman gave a speech 571 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,257 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. 572 00:45:28,728 --> 00:45:30,534 on the World War One betrayal of the German people. 573 00:45:33,727 --> 00:45:34,432 WORLD WAR ONE 574 00:45:34,752 --> 00:45:38,887 1914 was the year in which World War I broke out. 575 00:45:39,556 --> 00:45:44,001 Within two years, Germany had won that war. 576 00:45:44,677 --> 00:45:47,949 The German submarines, which were a surprise to the world, 577 00:45:48,476 --> 00:45:52,044 had swept all the convoys from the Atlantic Ocean, 578 00:45:52,709 --> 00:45:56,892 and Great Britain stood there without ammunition for her soldiers, 579 00:45:57,533 --> 00:46:03,021 stood there with one week's food supply and after that, starvation. 580 00:46:03,689 --> 00:46:06,352 At that time the French army had mutinied; 581 00:46:06,942 --> 00:46:11,052 they lost 600.000 of the flower of the French youth. 582 00:46:11,604 --> 00:46:15,719 The Russian army was defecting; they didn't like the Tsar, 583 00:46:15,877 --> 00:46:18,025 and the Italian Army had collapsed. 584 00:46:18,425 --> 00:46:22,264 Not a shot had been fired on the German soil. 585 00:46:22,690 --> 00:46:25,273 Not an enemy solider had crossed the border 586 00:46:25,658 --> 00:46:27,231 into Germany and yet, 587 00:46:28,224 --> 00:46:32,439 here was Germany offering England peace terms. 588 00:46:33,425 --> 00:46:39,482 Well, England in the summer of 1916 was considering that, seriously, 589 00:46:40,017 --> 00:46:43,083 they had no choice. While that was going on, 590 00:46:44,369 --> 00:46:49,124 the Zionists in Germany went to the British war cabinet, 591 00:46:49,594 --> 00:46:52,892 "Look here, you can win this war, 592 00:46:53,526 --> 00:46:56,504 if the United States will come in as your Ally. 593 00:46:57,068 --> 00:46:58,461 The price you must pay us, 594 00:46:59,070 --> 00:47:01,476 is Palestine after you have won the war 595 00:47:02,102 --> 00:47:06,325 and defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey." 596 00:47:07,010 --> 00:47:10,366 They made that promise in October of 1916. 597 00:47:11,590 --> 00:47:17,438 Now, that is something that the people in the United States have never been told. 598 00:47:17,990 --> 00:47:21,550 They never knew why we went into World War I. 599 00:47:22,589 --> 00:47:25,048 After we got into the war, Lord Balfour 600 00:47:25,365 --> 00:47:27,869 the Zionists went to Great Britain and they said, 601 00:47:28,901 --> 00:47:30,723 "Let's have something in writing 602 00:47:31,747 --> 00:47:35,835 that shows that you are going to keep your bargain 603 00:47:36,236 --> 00:47:38,558 and give us Palestine after you win the war." 604 00:47:40,211 --> 00:47:43,357 And that was called "The Balfour Declaration". 605 00:47:43,612 --> 00:47:49,132 The Balfour Declaration was merely Great Britain's promise to pay the Zionists 606 00:47:49,668 --> 00:47:50,806 what they had agreed upon 607 00:47:51,472 --> 00:47:55,144 as a consideration for getting the United States into the war. 608 00:47:55,908 --> 00:47:59,481 That is where all the trouble started." 609 00:47:59,860 --> 00:48:01,757 WAR DECLARED BY UNITED STATES Resolution passed by both houses of legislature 610 00:48:01,857 --> 00:48:02,867 Army of 2.000.000. 611 00:48:04,895 --> 00:48:06,150 Munich, Germany April 1919 612 00:48:08,237 --> 00:48:09,470 Down with the Kaiser! 613 00:48:10,261 --> 00:48:12,199 Death to the Kaiser! 614 00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:16,767 The Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 615 00:48:17,287 --> 00:48:18,493 and the Treaty of Saint-Germain on 20 September 616 00:48:18,593 --> 00:48:21,489 of the same year ensured that German people would be thoroughly humiliated. 617 00:48:24,361 --> 00:48:26,631 With millions unemployed, revolucionary Jewish Communist leaders 618 00:48:27,047 --> 00:48:29,479 Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg will atempt a "red" revolution. 619 00:48:31,087 --> 00:48:32,999 British Prime Minister Lloyd George wrote: 620 00:48:34,098 --> 00:48:36,258 "The international bankers swept statesman, politicians and journalists all to one side 621 00:48:36,756 --> 00:48:39,292 and issued their orders with the imperiousness of absolute monarchs." 622 00:48:49,804 --> 00:48:51,316 The Daily Mail reported 10 July 1933: 623 00:48:52,551 --> 00:48:54,416 "The German Nation was rapily falling under control of alien elemens. 624 00:48:54,833 --> 00:48:56,672 In the last days of the pre-Hitler regime there were twenty times more 625 00:48:57,119 --> 00:48:58,886 Jewish gouverment officials in Germany as had existed before the war." 626 00:48:59,679 --> 00:49:01,655 Jews of internationl attachments- and with Communist persuasions- 627 00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,141 had successfully insinuated into the German administrative sistem. 628 00:49:05,292 --> 00:49:06,962 In 1933, as the new National Socialist government is removing these Jews 629 00:49:07,370 --> 00:49:09,210 from influential positions, the worldwide Jewish boycott 630 00:49:09,615 --> 00:49:11,144 of German goods begins. 631 00:49:17,865 --> 00:49:19,985 The German boycott of Jewish business concerns came in April 1933, 632 00:49:20,377 --> 00:49:22,808 only after the Jewish declaration of war was announced earlier in March. 633 00:49:29,296 --> 00:49:31,956 JUDEA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY 634 00:49:38,596 --> 00:49:39,411 Above all, 635 00:49:40,291 --> 00:49:41,940 we must remove the Jews. 636 00:49:43,411 --> 00:49:45,529 They run our banks, they lost us the war. 637 00:49:46,384 --> 00:49:48,430 They alone are responsible for the economic disaster we're in. 638 00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,238 "When you ask, what have the Germans done to the Jews, 639 00:49:53,607 --> 00:49:56,277 you must always ask, what have done the Jews to the Germans. 640 00:49:56,839 --> 00:50:04,816 Since 1850, when the Jews became got all the political rights in Germany, 641 00:50:05,364 --> 00:50:10,212 the German Reich; they have done 3 things which are really dramatic. 642 00:50:10,247 --> 00:50:15,771 Number 1: They were a small minority of 2% of the population. 643 00:50:16,436 --> 00:50:24,001 At the time when Hitler came to power, 500.000 within 60 million German people. 644 00:50:24,528 --> 00:50:28,456 500.000 among 60 million. They were a small minority. 645 00:50:28,831 --> 00:50:34,543 This small minority managed to control of about 50% of the media; 646 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,179 to give about 70% of all judges; 647 00:50:39,824 --> 00:50:44,361 to have a tremendous influence in movie, and in theater, 648 00:50:44,977 --> 00:50:47,978 and in literature, they were over-represented. 649 00:50:48,513 --> 00:50:51,489 This is one thing, they were absolutely overrepresented 650 00:50:51,913 --> 00:50:54,815 as today in England, in France, and in United States. 651 00:50:55,248 --> 00:50:59,813 Second, Jews were at the origin of a lot of 652 00:51:00,198 --> 00:51:08,159 catastrophic financial bank crashes in Germany between 1870 and 1920. 653 00:51:08,813 --> 00:51:12,006 In that time, they made a lot of crashes, which have... 654 00:51:12,566 --> 00:51:15,187 This is all documented, it's not Nazi propaganda, 655 00:51:15,523 --> 00:51:17,627 or anti-Semitic, or Arab propaganda. 656 00:51:18,036 --> 00:51:19,336 It's a lot of books have been published, 657 00:51:19,711 --> 00:51:22,112 even by Jewish-Germans, about this problem. 658 00:51:22,377 --> 00:51:26,776 They have millions of German fathers have lost 659 00:51:27,275 --> 00:51:32,467 their uh, their uh, their incomes their uh their fortune, their savings, 660 00:51:32,899 --> 00:51:38,829 because of these Jewish gangsters, bank gangsters and speculation people. 661 00:51:39,682 --> 00:51:42,563 Then the third point which was psychologically 662 00:51:42,923 --> 00:51:44,243 the most dangerous of all, 663 00:51:44,682 --> 00:51:50,097 they have introduced into German art and culture and theater and movie: 664 00:51:50,677 --> 00:51:52,425 decadence - immorality. 665 00:51:52,886 --> 00:51:58,536 The first homosexual theaters, plays were made in Berlin in the 1920s. 666 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,026 The first adultery theater plays 667 00:52:02,378 --> 00:52:07,266 were made in the 1880s and the 1890s, a hundred years ago, 668 00:52:07,796 --> 00:52:14,074 by Jewish authors, adultery, then sexual perversions of all sorts: 669 00:52:14,419 --> 00:52:19,027 sadism, masochism, lot of homosexuality all these things and 670 00:52:19,387 --> 00:52:23,635 then the decadent art you know, an art which is absolutely ridiculous, 671 00:52:24,018 --> 00:52:27,699 so called modern art, it was all pushed by Jewish intellectuals 672 00:52:28,108 --> 00:52:34,426 and this created among the German people, a big, uh, a big revolt. 673 00:52:34,794 --> 00:52:40,168 And they also, they wrote books, ridiculing Christianity, ridiculing Jesus. 674 00:52:40,679 --> 00:52:42,842 And there were furious reactions in Germany. 675 00:52:43,257 --> 00:52:45,825 And this is why Adolf Hitler came to power. 676 00:52:46,270 --> 00:52:50,028 And you see then Hitler in two years, from '33 to '35, 677 00:52:50,726 --> 00:52:54,560 he brought six million unemployed Germans back into their jobs. 678 00:52:55,070 --> 00:52:57,701 He created 6 million jobs. It's incredible." 679 00:53:04,709 --> 00:53:07,263 KRISTALLNACHT 9-10 november 1938 680 00:53:12,151 --> 00:53:14,384 The November 1938 assassinion of te German diplomat Ernst von Rath in Paris 681 00:53:15,674 --> 00:53:17,535 by te Jew Herschel Grynszpan was the pretext for the progoms 682 00:53:17,957 --> 00:53:19,645 agaist the German Jews that followed. 683 00:53:20,097 --> 00:53:21,277 At the time, Joseph Goebbels was negotiating 684 00:53:21,711 --> 00:53:23,641 to overturn te international Jewish trade embargo. 685 00:53:23,718 --> 00:53:27,105 He moved quicky to halt the vioence, fearing it would derail the talks. 686 00:53:33,976 --> 00:53:35,749 NAZIS SMASH, LOOT AND BURN JEWISH SHOPS AND TEMPLES 687 00:53:36,179 --> 00:53:37,843 UNTIL GOEBBELS CALLS HALT 688 00:53:47,519 --> 00:53:49,667 THE TRANSFER AGREEMENT 689 00:53:52,562 --> 00:53:56,403 Secret negotiations between the Nazis and the Zionists in 1933, 690 00:53:56,657 --> 00:53:57,210 22 April 1984- Channel 5 News 691 00:53:57,245 --> 00:54:00,363 which allowed German Jews and their assets to go to Palestine. 692 00:54:01,349 --> 00:54:03,336 The Transfer Agreement The Dramatic Sory of the Pact Between 693 00:54:03,726 --> 00:54:05,493 the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine 694 00:54:15,016 --> 00:54:16,520 A group of Zionists, at the same time, 695 00:54:16,888 --> 00:54:19,096 was quietly negotiating an agreement with the Nazis, 696 00:54:19,728 --> 00:54:21,389 to allow the immigration of German Jews 697 00:54:21,711 --> 00:54:23,776 and the transfer of their assets to Palestine. 698 00:54:24,741 --> 00:54:28,639 That deal, reported in August 1933, was the Transfer Agreement. 699 00:54:29,351 --> 00:54:31,769 Palestine, sparsely settled by Jews at the time, 700 00:54:32,093 --> 00:54:33,757 was radically changed as a result. 701 00:54:34,491 --> 00:54:37,532 I lived in Palestine from 1933 to 1936. 702 00:54:38,429 --> 00:54:43,215 And uh, we saw, every week, passports of German Jews, 703 00:54:44,318 --> 00:54:45,902 coming to settle in Palestine. 704 00:54:46,534 --> 00:54:50,230 German-Jewish settlement of Palestine was, for a time, official Nazi policy. 705 00:54:50,967 --> 00:54:53,239 These photos, of Jewish life in Palestine, 706 00:54:53,566 --> 00:54:56,217 along with a lengthy text, appeared in 1934, 707 00:54:56,808 --> 00:54:59,513 in the Berlin paper, Der Angriff, the publisher, 708 00:55:00,037 --> 00:55:02,855 Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. 709 00:55:03,508 --> 00:55:06,863 "A Nazi Visits Palestine", was the title of the multi-part series. 710 00:55:07,424 --> 00:55:09,600 A medal was struck by Goebbels in commemoration. 711 00:55:10,199 --> 00:55:14,399 On one side the Swastika, on the other, The Star Of David. 712 00:55:15,207 --> 00:55:17,639 Hitler demanded one concession for the transfer agreement. 713 00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,704 That the call for a Boycott of the Reich, raised by Jews here and elsewhere, 714 00:55:22,145 --> 00:55:23,631 be rejected by the Zionists. 715 00:55:24,458 --> 00:55:25,994 The Zionists made that concession. London, England 716 00:55:26,094 --> 00:55:27,631 Judea declares war on Germany BOYCOTT ALL GERMAN GOODS 717 00:55:32,388 --> 00:55:33,718 THE TRANSFER AGREEMENT 718 00:55:34,557 --> 00:55:36,094 The Transfer Agreement was a pact that allowed Jews to emigrate 719 00:55:36,595 --> 00:55:38,011 from Germany to Palestine with their wealt intact. 720 00:55:38,580 --> 00:55:40,107 This is contrary to all anti-Hitler propaganda. 721 00:55:41,114 --> 00:55:42,682 The agreement was concluded in August 1933, 722 00:55:43,157 --> 00:55:44,893 following talks between German officials 723 00:55:45,484 --> 00:55:47,349 and the Palestine Center of the World Zionist Organisation. 724 00:55:48,259 --> 00:55:50,225 Each Jew bound for Palestine deposited money into a special account in Germany. 725 00:55:50,666 --> 00:55:52,096 The funds were used to purchase German goods 726 00:55:52,545 --> 00:55:54,227 which were exported to Palestine and sold there 727 00:55:54,754 --> 00:55:56,747 by the Jewish-owned Haavara company in Tel Aviv. 728 00:56:06,273 --> 00:56:08,658 Profits from the sales were then given to the Jewish emigrant upon his arrival, 729 00:56:09,082 --> 00:56:10,800 an amount corresponding to the initial deposit in Germany. 730 00:56:15,395 --> 00:56:17,158 Thus, the agreement served the Zionist aim of bringing Jewish settlers 731 00:56:17,571 --> 00:56:19,028 and development capital to Palestine, 732 00:56:19,539 --> 00:56:21,250 whilst simultaneously advancing the German goal 733 00:56:21,666 --> 00:56:23,083 of freeing the country of an unwanted alien group. 734 00:56:23,635 --> 00:56:25,344 As a result, Hitler's government vigorously supported the emigration 735 00:56:25,793 --> 00:56:27,456 of Jews to Palestine from 1933 until 1940-41, 736 00:56:27,890 --> 00:56:29,358 when the Second World War prevented futher collaboration. 737 00:56:42,855 --> 00:56:44,766 HITLER'S JEWISH SOLDIERS 738 00:56:49,570 --> 00:56:51,397 Approximately 150.000 soldiers with Jewish blood would eventually fight 739 00:56:51,734 --> 00:56:53,447 for the armed forces on the Third Reich. 740 00:56:53,909 --> 00:56:54,950 These included: 741 00:56:55,342 --> 00:56:56,414 2 Field Marrshals 742 00:56:56,875 --> 00:56:58,054 15 Generals 743 00:56:58,444 --> 00:56:59,618 8 Lieutenant Generals 744 00:57:00,113 --> 00:57:01,329 5 Major Generals 745 00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:03,656 Together they commanded up to 100.000 troops. 746 00:57:15,963 --> 00:57:17,860 20 Jews would also win the Reich's highest military honour, 747 00:57:18,321 --> 00:57:20,033 the Knight's Cross. 748 00:57:23,215 --> 00:57:24,679 1/2 Jew Werner Goldberg 749 00:57:26,425 --> 00:57:28,579 1/2 Jew Horst Geitner Received Iron Cross 2nd Class 750 00:57:29,090 --> 00:57:30,547 and The Silver Wound Badge 751 00:57:31,170 --> 00:57:32,570 1/2 Jew Johannes Zukertort 752 00:57:34,242 --> 00:57:35,989 1/2 Jew Colonel Walter H. Hollaender 753 00:57:39,535 --> 00:57:41,352 Emil Maurice was a personal friend of Hitler's, 754 00:57:41,754 --> 00:57:43,625 and his one-time chauffer and bodyguard. 755 00:57:44,113 --> 00:57:45,712 He was also an early member of the NSDAP 756 00:57:46,223 --> 00:57:47,704 and one of the founders of the SS. 757 00:57:57,735 --> 00:57:59,175 The F�hrer stood by his old friend 758 00:57:59,658 --> 00:58:01,298 when Maurice's Jewish ancestry was discovered, 759 00:58:01,815 --> 00:58:03,152 declaring him an "Honorary Aryan". 760 00:58:08,359 --> 00:58:10,883 He was allowed to remain in the SS... 761 00:58:20,667 --> 00:58:22,572 To be continued 762 00:58:27,682 --> 00:58:29,842 Part 5 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 763 00:58:50,203 --> 00:58:51,960 On 28 June 1914 Serbian radical Gavrilo Princip assassinated 764 00:58:52,506 --> 00:58:54,078 Austrian Archduke Franc Ferdinand in Sarajevo. 765 00:58:54,566 --> 00:58:56,271 One month later on 28 July 1914 Austria declared war on Serbia, 766 00:58:56,768 --> 00:58:58,536 initiating World War One. 767 00:59:07,479 --> 00:59:08,799 Munich, Germany May 1914 768 00:59:19,617 --> 00:59:20,441 Come closer! 769 00:59:23,305 --> 00:59:24,231 Let me speak! 770 00:59:25,222 --> 00:59:29,055 England, France and Russia are joining forces against our ally Austria. 771 00:59:30,231 --> 00:59:33,126 We must stand with her, united, ready to sacrifice. 772 00:59:38,230 --> 00:59:39,948 Eventually the victorious Allies would hold Germany alone 773 00:59:40,427 --> 00:59:41,826 for World War One. 774 00:59:42,552 --> 00:59:44,368 The next twenty years would see the German population suffer terribly 775 00:59:45,028 --> 00:59:46,929 from the consequences of the Treaty of Versailles. 776 00:59:57,657 --> 00:59:59,185 To understand the causes of World War Two, 777 00:59:59,658 --> 01:00:03,877 we must first studi the aftermath of World War One. 778 01:00:14,948 --> 01:00:16,705 The allied leaders were arguing their way 779 01:00:17,048 --> 01:00:18,816 over the whole future of the German people. 780 01:00:23,376 --> 01:00:25,577 Under their hands the map of Europe was drawn, 781 01:00:26,526 --> 01:00:27,574 and re-drawn again. 782 01:00:28,523 --> 01:00:30,899 At last, after more than three months of discussion, 783 01:00:31,427 --> 01:00:33,663 they presented the terms of their treaty to the Germans. 784 01:00:35,147 --> 01:00:38,303 Germany lost land in the East, the West, and the North. 785 01:00:38,707 --> 01:00:42,060 In the East, the most important of those losses was the wide strip of territory 786 01:00:42,491 --> 01:00:44,271 given to the newly independent Poland, 787 01:00:44,793 --> 01:00:47,373 separating East Prussia from the rest of Germany. 788 01:00:50,248 --> 01:00:54,509 While on the West, France took back the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. 789 01:00:57,651 --> 01:01:00,435 And was also given the right to mine coal in the Saar, 790 01:01:00,889 --> 01:01:03,954 an area placed under League of Nations control for 15 years. 791 01:01:08,366 --> 01:01:12,215 To protect France, Germany was forbidden to station soldiers in the Rhineland, 792 01:01:12,966 --> 01:01:16,879 an area which was to be occupied by Allied troops until 1935. 793 01:01:19,344 --> 01:01:22,191 It was not only the loss of territory which Germany resented, 794 01:01:22,984 --> 01:01:25,600 but also the fact that Czechoslovakia and Poland, 795 01:01:26,831 --> 01:01:28,293 now contained large numbers of Germans. 796 01:01:29,035 --> 01:01:30,509 And as if to add insult to injury, 797 01:01:30,981 --> 01:01:32,889 the treaty forbade German speaking Austria 798 01:01:33,251 --> 01:01:34,665 to unite with Germany. 799 01:01:36,274 --> 01:01:38,043 Her fortifications were to be destroyed. 800 01:01:38,977 --> 01:01:41,858 Her army was to be reduced to a 100.000 men. 801 01:01:43,353 --> 01:01:46,504 No Air Force. No submarines. 802 01:01:46,632 --> 01:01:49,705 And to accept blame for starting the War and pay reparations. 803 01:01:50,031 --> 01:01:52,275 So, in the high summer of 1919, 804 01:01:52,742 --> 01:01:54,557 the German delegates were brought to the great 805 01:01:54,932 --> 01:01:56,989 Hall of Mirrors of Versailles to sign the peace treaty. 806 01:01:57,966 --> 01:01:59,196 It was a compromised peace 807 01:01:59,515 --> 01:02:02,620 that satisfied not even one single Allied leader, 808 01:02:03,410 --> 01:02:05,455 and predictably the Germans loathed it. 809 01:02:06,702 --> 01:02:08,548 The Germans argued that the Germany, 810 01:02:08,868 --> 01:02:10,751 to which they were returning had suffered poverty 811 01:02:11,290 --> 01:02:13,064 and unemployment in the years since the war, 812 01:02:14,190 --> 01:02:16,985 and couldn't afford the vast sums demanded by the Allies. 813 01:02:25,961 --> 01:02:28,089 But these arguments didn't impress the Allies, 814 01:02:28,488 --> 01:02:32,421 who fixed the sum of 6.600.000.000 pounds for the Germans to pay. 815 01:02:35,568 --> 01:02:38,043 That sum would have to be paid in goods as well as money. 816 01:02:38,794 --> 01:02:40,630 Most would come from here in the Ruhr, 817 01:02:41,207 --> 01:02:42,903 the industrial heart of Germany. 818 01:02:44,343 --> 01:02:48,045 But at the end of 1922, the Germans fell behind with their payments, 819 01:02:48,522 --> 01:02:49,842 and Raymond Poincare, 820 01:02:50,256 --> 01:02:52,616 the new French Prime Minister, decided to act. 821 01:02:53,472 --> 01:02:55,859 If Germany wouldn't pay in full and on the nail, 822 01:02:56,538 --> 01:02:58,539 then France would help herself. 823 01:02:59,149 --> 01:03:01,523 So, on the 11th of January, 1923, 824 01:03:02,076 --> 01:03:04,197 French and Belgian troops entered the Ruhr 825 01:03:04,505 --> 01:03:05,808 to force the Germans to pay up. 826 01:03:08,798 --> 01:03:12,354 There was of course, after Versailles, no German army big enough to stop them. 827 01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:16,607 At first, the French believed that they could make the Germans work for them. 828 01:03:17,101 --> 01:03:21,477 But suddenly, German politicians and people were united in a common cause; 829 01:03:21,972 --> 01:03:23,172 hatred of the French. 830 01:03:23,850 --> 01:03:26,523 And huge protest meetings were held all over Germany. 831 01:03:27,312 --> 01:03:30,522 Their attitude towards the Germans in the Ruhr began to harden. 832 01:03:31,257 --> 01:03:33,640 They tried to cut off the Ruhr off from the rest of the country. 833 01:03:34,688 --> 01:03:37,768 German visitors were searched as if they were entering a foreign land. 834 01:03:52,180 --> 01:03:54,665 1923 was disastrous for Germany. 835 01:03:55,228 --> 01:03:57,868 In that year, the great German inflation reached its peak. 836 01:03:58,643 --> 01:04:00,946 For some time the value of the Mark had been dropping. 837 01:04:01,569 --> 01:04:03,083 As the value of the notes decreased, 838 01:04:03,482 --> 01:04:06,676 so the amounts of notes needed to buy things grew. 839 01:04:06,711 --> 01:04:08,251 Banks became more and more hard pressed, 840 01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:10,625 to meet the ever-increasing demand for paper money. 841 01:04:10,725 --> 01:04:11,405 Closed 842 01:04:11,545 --> 01:04:14,109 For their customers, suitcases replaced wallets. 843 01:04:15,161 --> 01:04:16,738 As Germany slipped towards disaster, 844 01:04:17,148 --> 01:04:19,436 Gustav Stresemann was appointed Chancellor. 845 01:04:20,954 --> 01:04:23,996 The loss of production in the Ruhr was making inflation even worse, 846 01:04:24,676 --> 01:04:27,924 and Stresemann realized that the only way to help the economy back to normal, 847 01:04:28,420 --> 01:04:31,836 was to call off resistance there, and get production going again. 848 01:04:32,626 --> 01:04:33,748 The government also announced 849 01:04:34,069 --> 01:04:36,317 that Germany would resume the payment of reparations; 850 01:04:36,811 --> 01:04:39,146 it was the only possible way of getting the French out. 851 01:04:40,048 --> 01:04:41,051 But to the nationalists, 852 01:04:41,387 --> 01:04:44,530 it looked like again another pathetic surrender to Germany's enemies. 853 01:04:45,299 --> 01:04:47,119 General Ludendorff, who had never accepted 854 01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:48,481 that Germany had ever been defeated, 855 01:04:49,327 --> 01:04:51,339 gave his support to Adolf Hitler, 856 01:04:52,005 --> 01:04:54,398 the leader of the new National Socialist party. 857 01:05:00,435 --> 01:05:01,905 1939 THE POLISH CONFLICT 858 01:05:06,711 --> 01:05:08,104 Problems had arisen in Poland over access 859 01:05:08,616 --> 01:05:10,935 to the German territory of East Prussia and coastal city of Danzig. 860 01:05:11,269 --> 01:05:13,029 Hitler on several occasions presented proposals to try 861 01:05:13,501 --> 01:05:14,730 and resolve both situations peaceably, 862 01:05:15,153 --> 01:05:16,642 but the Poles refused to seriously negotiate. 863 01:05:17,489 --> 01:05:19,586 Now in Poland, just like in Czechoslovakia, the safety of ethnic Germans 864 01:05:20,042 --> 01:05:21,729 was again becoming a concern for Hitler. 865 01:05:31,984 --> 01:05:33,081 DANZIG 866 01:05:33,366 --> 01:05:37,076 Until 1934, conflicts between Germany and Poland smoldered. 867 01:05:37,588 --> 01:05:39,179 Danzig, next to East Prussia, 868 01:05:39,522 --> 01:05:41,559 had been completely cut off from the Reich. 869 01:05:45,749 --> 01:05:48,286 Warsaw continued to try to rest total control 870 01:05:48,774 --> 01:05:50,990 over this strategically important harbor city. 871 01:05:52,595 --> 01:05:55,254 In West Prussia, the situation was similar. 872 01:05:55,546 --> 01:05:58,918 East Prussia was now completely cut off from the German Reich. 873 01:06:04,681 --> 01:06:07,404 Bolstered by English and French guarantees of war support, 874 01:06:07,722 --> 01:06:11,260 Poland has no further incentive to negotiate in good faith with Germany, 875 01:06:11,552 --> 01:06:15,042 and in the meantime in Warsaw, maps are suddenly starting to circulate 876 01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:17,459 which contain a new Western-Polish border, 877 01:06:17,802 --> 01:06:19,600 extending to just West of Berlin. 878 01:06:20,311 --> 01:06:24,303 All across Poland, the so-called pogroms against the minorities begin. 879 01:06:25,460 --> 01:06:29,143 Night after night, polish border officials shot at the fleeing Germans. 880 01:06:30,540 --> 01:06:32,703 Shortly before the official outbreak of war, 881 01:06:33,065 --> 01:06:37,036 there were already 80.000 ethnic Germans in refugee camps 882 01:06:37,178 --> 01:06:38,963 in both Danzig and the German Reich. 883 01:06:45,873 --> 01:06:48,562 The misery of the minority Germans in Poland 884 01:06:49,089 --> 01:06:51,683 had now developed the third and most pressing reason 885 01:06:52,109 --> 01:06:54,297 that would lead to the outbreak of war. 886 01:06:57,609 --> 01:06:59,337 "The democratic states should not be vain as to think 887 01:06:59,818 --> 01:07:02,927 this state of affairs will last forever." Adolf Hitler 1939 888 01:07:09,142 --> 01:07:11,852 THE DANZIG MASSACRES 889 01:07:18,017 --> 01:07:21,050 Hitler now has a problem that Britain and France will declare war on them. 890 01:07:21,321 --> 01:07:23,850 At this point, Poland is actually committing, 891 01:07:24,257 --> 01:07:26,785 pretty bad atrocities against the 892 01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:30,625 German minority in West Prussia, 893 01:07:31,144 --> 01:07:34,096 in the German part of Poland at that time. 894 01:07:35,301 --> 01:07:37,184 And so given that Poles are committing atrocities 895 01:07:37,588 --> 01:07:38,828 against the German minority in Poland, 896 01:07:39,663 --> 01:07:42,868 Hitler is now at a very tough situation. 897 01:07:43,496 --> 01:07:47,252 Basically it's like, alright if I don't declare war on 898 01:07:47,653 --> 01:07:49,917 Poland, if I don't go in and help these Germans out, 899 01:07:50,398 --> 01:07:52,986 well then, the German minorities are just going to keep getting slaughtered. 900 01:07:53,644 --> 01:07:57,662 And it's not an insignificant amount of Germans in that area who are being killed, 901 01:07:58,090 --> 01:08:01,830 it was pretty bad what was going on, what the Poles were doing in that area. 902 01:08:02,506 --> 01:08:05,637 And so, he was basically saying well, if we don't go in, 903 01:08:06,030 --> 01:08:07,886 then those Germans are just going to keep getting slaughtered. 904 01:08:09,176 --> 01:08:12,972 If we go in, we're going to find ourselves at war with Poland, 905 01:08:13,504 --> 01:08:17,003 France, and Britain, and possibly the Soviet Union. 906 01:08:20,305 --> 01:08:21,706 But in a move of brilliant cunning, 907 01:08:22,310 --> 01:08:26,142 he astonished the world in the summer of 1939, by doing a deal with Stalin. 908 01:08:26,627 --> 01:08:27,620 With Stalin on his side, 909 01:08:28,219 --> 01:08:31,598 Hitler was sure nobody else would interfere, when he attacked the Poles. 910 01:08:32,382 --> 01:08:33,343 German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop 911 01:08:33,394 --> 01:08:35,463 Whilst the military commissions of the Western powers 912 01:08:35,768 --> 01:08:37,027 are still negotiating in Moscow 913 01:08:37,039 --> 01:08:40,236 with a view of enlisting Russia in their front against Germany, 914 01:08:40,777 --> 01:08:42,148 Reich Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop 915 01:08:42,489 --> 01:08:45,460 flies to the Soviet capital to sign a pact of non-aggression 916 01:08:45,847 --> 01:08:49,253 and consultation with Mr. Stalin and Foreign Commissar Molatov. 917 01:08:52,316 --> 01:08:53,995 1 SEPTEMBER 1939 918 01:08:57,756 --> 01:09:00,018 Applause greets the F�hrer who has just arrived 919 01:09:00,452 --> 01:09:02,917 at the Kroll Opera House to address the Reichstag, 920 01:09:03,365 --> 01:09:04,869 which has been called in an extraordinary session. 921 01:09:12,300 --> 01:09:14,050 "Danzig was and is a German city. 922 01:09:14,658 --> 01:09:17,480 to have only Germany to thank for their cultural development. 923 01:09:33,236 --> 01:09:35,305 I told the Polish ambassador three weeks ago, 924 01:09:35,666 --> 01:09:37,754 that if the situation continued as it was, 925 01:09:38,193 --> 01:09:42,023 if Danzig was persecuted, and if it were attempted by Poland 926 01:09:42,695 --> 01:09:44,062 to ruin Danzig economically, 927 01:09:44,455 --> 01:09:46,036 the situation could not be tolerated." 928 01:09:51,503 --> 01:09:54,543 "We interrupt this broadcast of Adolf Hitler's speech just moments early, 929 01:09:54,904 --> 01:09:58,344 to report a dispatch from Paris, which says that Premier Daladier of France, 930 01:09:58,718 --> 01:10:02,012 has now called the French Council of Ministers for an emergency meeting." 931 01:10:12,731 --> 01:10:13,441 Polish troops are mobilised 932 01:10:13,476 --> 01:10:14,984 "I, therefore, resolve to speak to Poland 933 01:10:15,489 --> 01:10:18,991 in the same language in which Poland has addressed us for such a long time." 934 01:10:31,334 --> 01:10:32,015 Danzig is liberated the same day 935 01:10:32,050 --> 01:10:33,415 "Once again we interrupt very briefly. 936 01:10:33,944 --> 01:10:36,286 This talk by Chancellor Hitler, to announce that, in London, 937 01:10:36,764 --> 01:10:39,429 Parliament has been summoned to meet at 6 pm in London." 938 01:10:51,039 --> 01:10:55,252 "Poland, for the first time, this evening, has shot at regular soldiers upon our territory. 939 01:11:03,723 --> 01:11:06,268 From now on, bomb will be met by bomb." 940 01:11:16,421 --> 01:11:18,108 Poland had greatly underestimate the German armed forces. 941 01:11:19,170 --> 01:11:20,778 The tactic of attacking the enemy with great speed 942 01:11:21,170 --> 01:11:23,127 known as Blitzkrieg, or "lightning war", is utterly devstating. 943 01:11:23,820 --> 01:11:25,363 The plight of the German minorities had become clear. 944 01:11:25,828 --> 01:11:27,124 During the last weeks before the outbreak of war, 945 01:11:27,547 --> 01:11:29,071 racial propaganda in the Polish press played a major role 946 01:11:29,334 --> 01:11:31,182 in the persecution of Germans already hounded and harrassed. 947 01:11:31,877 --> 01:11:33,315 Acts of violence against the Germans continue, 948 01:11:33,753 --> 01:11:36,055 and would eventually include a total of 58.000 slaughtered. 949 01:11:52,998 --> 01:11:55,439 The worst massacres will take place between 31August and 6 September. 950 01:11:55,861 --> 01:11:58,108 The climax came on 3 September in Bromberg, in what is known as "Bloody Sunday". 951 01:11:58,722 --> 01:12:00,547 The mass murders would only end on 18 September 952 01:12:01,099 --> 01:12:02,999 with the arrival of German troops near Lowitsch. 953 01:12:03,911 --> 01:12:05,592 Those found guilty of taking part in the brutal killings 954 01:12:05,998 --> 01:12:07,880 now faced dead by firing squad. 955 01:12:22,060 --> 01:12:23,926 LONDON, ENGLAND 3 SEPTEMBER 1939 956 01:12:27,661 --> 01:12:28,850 "I am speaking to you, 957 01:12:30,169 --> 01:12:33,112 from the Cabinet Room, at 10 Downing Street. 958 01:12:35,172 --> 01:12:38,175 This morning, the British ambassador in Berlin, 959 01:12:39,376 --> 01:12:42,679 handed the German government, a final note, 960 01:12:43,823 --> 01:12:48,072 stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock, 961 01:12:49,215 --> 01:12:50,999 that they were prepared at once, 962 01:12:51,430 --> 01:12:53,528 to withdraw their troops from Poland, 963 01:12:54,432 --> 01:12:57,200 a state of war would exist between us. 964 01:12:59,212 --> 01:13:00,526 I have to tell you now, 965 01:13:01,399 --> 01:13:03,872 that no such undertaking has been received, 966 01:13:05,206 --> 01:13:10,317 and that, consequently, this country is at war with Germany." 967 01:13:16,663 --> 01:13:18,612 To be continued 968 01:13:24,764 --> 01:13:27,554 Part 6 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 969 01:13:31,033 --> 01:13:33,223 Within two days, the issues involving the human rights of German minorities, 970 01:13:33,679 --> 01:13:35,351 as well as the disputies over Danzig and isolated East Prussia, 971 01:13:35,795 --> 01:13:37,455 would turn into World War Tho. 972 01:13:38,888 --> 01:13:41,649 From the beginning the civilian population feels the jmpact of the invasion. 973 01:13:43,266 --> 01:13:45,249 As casualties mount Polish civilians, with the full support of their military, 974 01:13:45,690 --> 01:13:47,928 hunt down any Germans still in Poland. 975 01:13:49,367 --> 01:13:51,551 Following the invasion, there is a wave of house searches; 976 01:13:52,038 --> 01:13:54,501 ethnic Germans are beaten and raped, with at last 5.000 murdered. 977 01:13:55,447 --> 01:13:57,510 The massacres, especially in the sity of Bromberg, will be hidden 978 01:13:57,966 --> 01:13:59,118 from the history books. 979 01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:01,486 They will eventually emerge as one of the most henious of crimes 980 01:14:01,927 --> 01:14:03,582 to be inflicted upon a civil population. 981 01:14:40,900 --> 01:14:42,652 DANZIG 16 SEPTEMBER 1939 982 01:14:49,947 --> 01:14:54,442 As a soldier in the World War who only fought in the West... 983 01:14:55,553 --> 01:14:59,380 I never had the opportunity to witness such deeds... 984 01:15:01,827 --> 01:15:04,681 the thousands of slaughtered Volksgennossen... 985 01:15:06,745 --> 01:15:09,494 the brutally butchered women and children... 986 01:15:12,910 --> 01:15:16,565 the countless German soldiers and officers who fell, wounded... 987 01:15:16,940 --> 01:15:19,526 in the hands of the enemy and who were massacred 988 01:15:20,259 --> 01:15:22,914 and bestially mutilated with their eyes gouged out... 989 01:15:28,889 --> 01:15:31,546 and worse yet, the Polish government has 990 01:15:32,545 --> 01:15:35,434 openly admitted this in a radio broadcast... 991 01:15:36,810 --> 01:15:41,769 the Lufttwaffe soldiers, thet were forced to parachute, 992 01:15:42,674 --> 01:15:44,714 were to be killed in a cowardly fashion. 993 01:15:52,132 --> 01:15:53,968 THE GERMAN-SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT 994 01:15:54,799 --> 01:15:56,651 In securing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviets 995 01:15:57,132 --> 01:15:58,607 and offering Stalin the Eastern half of Poland, 996 01:15:59,725 --> 01:16:01,756 Hitler hopes that the Russian presence there will prevent Britain and France 997 01:16:02,164 --> 01:16:03,540 from declaring war. 998 01:16:03,957 --> 01:16:05,749 This would now allow Hitler to protect the German minorities, 999 01:16:06,257 --> 01:16:08,012 and at same time reclaim the teritories lost at Versailles. 1000 01:16:08,661 --> 01:16:10,299 Although both Germany and Soviets invade Poland, 1001 01:16:10,790 --> 01:16:13,086 war by the Allies is only declared on Germany. 1002 01:16:22,578 --> 01:16:24,646 On 17 September 1939, Stalin invades Poland and claims 1003 01:16:25,102 --> 01:16:26,717 the Eastern teritory as agreed. 1004 01:16:28,070 --> 01:16:29,909 Meanwhile, Hitler on three separate occasions, offers the opportunity 1005 01:16:30,370 --> 01:16:33,560 of uncondicional surrender to the Polish commander in Warsaw. 1006 01:16:35,670 --> 01:16:37,461 Poland refuses all ultimatums und the German assault begins. 1007 01:16:38,085 --> 01:16:40,957 Warsaw capitulates in just 24 hours at the cost of 40.000 dead or injured. 1008 01:16:54,180 --> 01:16:55,620 The war with Poland last just 29 days. 1009 01:16:55,651 --> 01:16:58,147 Hitler didn't want a general war, what he wanted, 1010 01:16:58,570 --> 01:17:02,818 and I have no doubt about this, he wanted a war to destroy Poland. 1011 01:17:04,513 --> 01:17:05,847 That he was prepared for. 1012 01:17:06,384 --> 01:17:10,353 For a moment, he was disconcerted to find that he might be involved in war 1013 01:17:10,737 --> 01:17:14,801 with Britain and France, because, this had never been his plan. 1014 01:17:15,873 --> 01:17:17,994 He had always regarded Britain as his natural allien. 1015 01:17:18,821 --> 01:17:20,403 But, in the end, he accepted. 1016 01:17:20,811 --> 01:17:22,332 'Look, I have a Nazi-Soviet pact, 1017 01:17:22,858 --> 01:17:26,292 which guarantees that this will not develop into a general war. 1018 01:17:26,603 --> 01:17:29,780 I shall be able to knock Poland out in three weeks, which he more or less did. 1019 01:17:30,565 --> 01:17:34,804 After that, the West isn't going to start up a war again. 1020 01:17:43,688 --> 01:17:45,130 PLANS FOR A LONG WAR 1021 01:17:45,230 --> 01:17:47,070 CHURCHILL IS NEW NAVY CHIEF 1022 01:18:00,853 --> 01:18:01,980 MAY 1940 1023 01:18:03,310 --> 01:18:05,310 In theirs quests to prevent Germany from reclaiminig territory 1024 01:18:05,797 --> 01:18:08,686 lost under the Treaty of Versailles, Britain and France refuse any offers of peace. 1025 01:18:10,277 --> 01:18:12,349 In reality, they are worried about Germany's rapid economic growth, 1026 01:18:12,766 --> 01:18:14,528 and will not suffer futher German advancement. 1027 01:18:15,056 --> 01:18:16,647 At stake are the British and French empires, 1028 01:18:17,376 --> 01:18:20,076 with the British alone ruling over 480 million people. 1029 01:18:30,885 --> 01:18:32,621 French Empire 1919- 1939 1030 01:18:34,930 --> 01:18:36,779 British Empire 1919- 1939 1031 01:18:40,611 --> 01:18:41,725 10 May 1940 1032 01:18:42,909 --> 01:18:44,776 With French troops mobilising and more British troops arriving 1033 01:18:45,241 --> 01:18:46,576 on the mainland by the day, 1034 01:18:47,256 --> 01:18:49,072 Germany has no alternative but to go on the offensive. 1035 01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:51,737 The British Establishment replaced Nevil Chamberlain as Prime Minister, 1036 01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:53,360 shoosing Winston Churchill instead. 1037 01:18:53,864 --> 01:18:55,656 The same day Hitler invades France trough Belgium. 1038 01:20:16,676 --> 01:20:17,982 The armies of Britain and France are no much for this 1039 01:20:18,326 --> 01:20:19,389 new German war machine. 1040 01:20:19,846 --> 01:20:21,324 There will be no World War One trench warfare, 1041 01:20:21,771 --> 01:20:23,323 as the tactic of the Blitzkrieg once again proves devastating. 1042 01:20:24,180 --> 01:20:25,746 In a matter of weeks the Germans seize vital territory and resources in Europe, 1043 01:20:26,187 --> 01:20:28,647 and eventually outtlank and trap the Allies on the coast of France. 1044 01:20:29,500 --> 01:20:30,712 With their backs against the English Channel, 1045 01:20:31,123 --> 01:20:33,458 both the world's leading colonial armies face total annihilation. 1046 01:20:53,458 --> 01:20:55,737 Hitler delays the attack for two days, leaving the British time 1047 01:20:56,103 --> 01:20:57,575 for chaotic evacuation from the Port of Dunkirk. 1048 01:20:58,324 --> 01:20:59,669 Althout most histrians see this as a gesture of peace, 1049 01:21:00,085 --> 01:21:01,565 others still insist it was a military blunder. 1050 01:21:02,422 --> 01:21:04,566 Humiliated, the British Empire now has to rely on civilian sailing vessels 1051 01:21:04,974 --> 01:21:06,581 and merchant fishing boats to help ferry troops back 1052 01:21:06,965 --> 01:21:08,213 across the English Channel. 1053 01:21:08,854 --> 01:21:10,076 With all their heavy artillery, tenks and armoured vehicles 1054 01:21:10,428 --> 01:21:11,601 left on the shores of France, they are a spent force, 1055 01:21:12,003 --> 01:21:13,867 but will look for other means of continuing the war. 1056 01:21:24,182 --> 01:21:26,707 Six weeks of German Blitzkrieg defeats France. 1057 01:21:29,508 --> 01:21:30,755 Paris is Hitler's. 1058 01:21:40,226 --> 01:21:41,603 Hitler will have the French authorities surrender at Compiegne 1059 01:21:41,993 --> 01:21:43,850 using the very same carriage in which the Germans had been compelled 1060 01:21:44,208 --> 01:21:45,962 to ask for an armistice in World War One. 1061 01:21:46,937 --> 01:21:48,376 Carriage No. 2149D was rolled out of its protective building 1062 01:21:48,799 --> 01:21:50,791 to the precise spot it occupied on 11 Nov 1919. 1063 01:22:00,197 --> 01:22:00,646 1940 FRANCE 1064 01:22:00,681 --> 01:22:02,418 France asked Hitler for an armistice. 1065 01:22:06,395 --> 01:22:10,124 Shortly before 3 o'clock, on the afternoon of June 21st, 1940, 1066 01:22:10,971 --> 01:22:12,697 he arrived in the forest of Compiegne. 1067 01:22:17,104 --> 01:22:20,142 Hitler himself took the seat where Marshall Foch had sat. 1068 01:22:20,849 --> 01:22:24,544 The French delegation led by General Huntziger followed closely behind. 1069 01:22:26,777 --> 01:22:28,688 When the French delegation entered the carriage, 1070 01:22:29,393 --> 01:22:31,965 Hitler could fully relish the peak of his career. 1071 01:22:33,021 --> 01:22:34,507 Long ago on entering politics, 1072 01:22:35,155 --> 01:22:39,506 he had sworn never to rest until the shame of November 1918 had been wiped out. 1073 01:22:40,617 --> 01:22:41,646 Now, he had done it. 1074 01:22:42,346 --> 01:22:44,945 But the dream of his lifetime, he said, had been fulfilled. 1075 01:22:46,153 --> 01:22:47,929 1940 BERLIN 1076 01:23:03,175 --> 01:23:05,710 Berlin greeted him with flowers of jubilation. 1077 01:23:06,694 --> 01:23:10,840 Hitler's triumphal return to Berlin, sent a flood of respect and adulation. 1078 01:23:14,413 --> 01:23:15,784 "The church bells rang all day, 1079 01:23:16,848 --> 01:23:21,295 and the mood of elation really penetrated throughout the country." 1080 01:23:25,919 --> 01:23:31,064 "My feelings towards Hitler were such as if he were some super human being 1081 01:23:31,486 --> 01:23:35,211 between man and a God, sent by Providence." 1082 01:24:01,130 --> 01:24:05,011 This was the man who had obliterated the humiliation of The First World War. 1083 01:24:09,027 --> 01:24:10,763 The same day in a speech at the Reichstag Hitler presented Britain 1084 01:24:11,131 --> 01:24:12,426 with yet another offer of peace. 1085 01:24:18,994 --> 01:24:20,506 LONDON, ENGLAND 1086 01:24:27,508 --> 01:24:29,452 Secret government documents reveal that a British received 1087 01:24:29,828 --> 01:24:31,796 over a dozen offers of peace between 1939 and 1941, 1088 01:24:32,260 --> 01:24:34,484 despite their desperate military straits after the evacuation at Dunkirk. 1089 01:24:36,436 --> 01:24:38,616 Prime Minister Winston Churchill however would have none of it. 1090 01:24:39,232 --> 01:24:41,165 Because he is aware Britain cannot defeat Germany alone, 1091 01:24:41,533 --> 01:24:43,670 he will do his utmost to drag the US into the war. 1092 01:24:59,709 --> 01:25:02,292 It will however mean the eventual loss of the British Empire. 1093 01:25:07,730 --> 01:25:09,191 1940 BRITAIN 1094 01:25:11,393 --> 01:25:16,618 Germany was absolutely in a position to direct the course of the war. 1095 01:25:17,128 --> 01:25:20,223 All we had to defeat now, we believed, was Britain. 1096 01:25:21,867 --> 01:25:23,510 The German fighter ace, Adolf Galland, 1097 01:25:23,971 --> 01:25:26,306 also thinks the next priority is the Battle of Britain, 1098 01:25:26,897 --> 01:25:30,386 but when he meets Hitler, he discovers that the F�hrer's priorities are different. 1099 01:25:33,215 --> 01:25:38,558 Galland: "I told him that our good time would come, and we could bomb London 1100 01:25:39,036 --> 01:25:41,475 and the fighters could... the English fighters couldn't take off. 1101 01:25:41,924 --> 01:25:44,372 He said "No, no, no, no... stop this. 1102 01:25:45,372 --> 01:25:46,243 I don't like this. 1103 01:25:47,148 --> 01:25:50,036 I really don't like the fight against England. 1104 01:25:50,490 --> 01:25:54,012 The English people are so similar people to the Germans, 1105 01:25:54,940 --> 01:25:59,907 and I have the highest respect for the English building up an empire. 1106 01:26:01,219 --> 01:26:03,532 So, you must understand, 1107 01:26:03,956 --> 01:26:07,644 I'm forced to fight this fight against England, but I don't like it." 1108 01:26:11,571 --> 01:26:16,203 I think that he himself had not got any great wish to engage 1109 01:26:16,619 --> 01:26:21,493 on an invasion of Britain, because all the time by now we know, 1110 01:26:21,891 --> 01:26:24,761 he was already beginning to get itchy, and wanting to turn eastwards, 1111 01:26:25,595 --> 01:26:26,681 after defeating France. 1112 01:26:27,806 --> 01:26:28,942 But G�ring insisted 1113 01:26:29,357 --> 01:26:32,860 that with the Luftwaffe, with the Air Force alone, he could knock Britain out. 1114 01:26:33,986 --> 01:26:35,724 So he gave him his head to try. 1115 01:26:45,437 --> 01:26:47,746 Initially, Hitler had insisted that only military installations were to be bombed. 1116 01:26:49,938 --> 01:26:51,671 However, on 4 Sept 1940, he explained in a speech to the Reichstag, 1117 01:26:52,047 --> 01:26:54,589 way after months of British targeting German civilians in nightly bombing raids, 1118 01:26:55,047 --> 01:26:56,982 he now has no choice but to retaliate in kind. 1119 01:26:58,430 --> 01:27:00,181 "While the German planes fly over English land day by day 1120 01:27:00,591 --> 01:27:02,910 no Englishman has managed to so much as cross the North Sea by daylight. 1121 01:27:04,171 --> 01:27:05,785 That is way they come at night and drop their bombs, 1122 01:27:06,202 --> 01:27:08,254 you know it well, indiscriminately and on civilian residents, 1123 01:27:08,583 --> 01:27:09,582 farms and villages. 1124 01:27:10,006 --> 01:27:11,892 Wherever they see a light, they drop a bomb. 1125 01:27:13,530 --> 01:27:15,299 I did not answer for three months because I was of an opinion 1126 01:27:15,832 --> 01:27:16,900 they would stop this nonsense. 1127 01:27:17,299 --> 01:27:19,340 Mr. Churchill perceived this as a sign of our weakness. 1128 01:27:21,588 --> 01:27:24,291 You will surely understand that we are now giving our answers night after night, 1129 01:27:24,996 --> 01:27:26,748 and this at an increasing rate." 1130 01:28:25,850 --> 01:28:27,802 To be continued 1131 01:28:34,215 --> 01:28:36,273 Part 7 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 1132 01:28:37,609 --> 01:28:40,471 Hello America, this is Edward Murrow speaking from London. 1133 01:28:41,256 --> 01:28:43,342 There were more German planes over the coast of Britain today 1134 01:28:43,694 --> 01:28:44,934 than at any time since the war begun. 1135 01:28:49,771 --> 01:28:51,981 Despite the British Empire's vast resources, and vast the millions of 1136 01:28:52,461 --> 01:28:54,133 men at her disposal, including... 1137 01:28:54,606 --> 01:28:55,599 1 million Australians 1138 01:28:56,039 --> 01:28:57,239 2 million Indians 1139 01:28:57,676 --> 01:28:58,845 1 million Canadians 1140 01:28:59,672 --> 01:29:02,169 ... Churchill and Roosevelt will push for the US to enter the war. 1141 01:29:03,762 --> 01:29:05,881 However, polls consistently show that ordinary Americans have no 1142 01:29:06,290 --> 01:29:09,984 wish to be involved in what to them is yet another Europian civil war. 1143 01:29:21,423 --> 01:29:23,063 In spite on this, Roosevelt will now force laws through Congress 1144 01:29:23,455 --> 01:29:25,183 making a mockery of the US's supposed neutrality. 1145 01:29:27,571 --> 01:29:29,393 in favor of one-sided supply of arms to Germany's enemies. 1146 01:29:30,288 --> 01:29:32,320 The same year, Roosevelt freezes all assets of defeated European countries, 1147 01:29:32,702 --> 01:29:34,792 refusing to recognise their recognise their new governments. 1148 01:29:43,675 --> 01:29:45,475 The "Destroyers for US Bases" agreement is passed, whereby 50 reconditioned 1149 01:29:45,835 --> 01:29:47,419 US Navy destroyers are transfered to the Royal Navy 1150 01:29:47,761 --> 01:29:48,890 in exchange for British bases in the Caribbean. 1151 01:29:49,473 --> 01:29:50,984 Roosevelt will persuade congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act 1152 01:29:51,385 --> 01:29:53,089 which officially ends his pretense of being neutral. 1153 01:29:53,480 --> 01:29:55,996 He will also allow American citizens to enter the British Air Force. 1154 01:29:58,187 --> 01:30:00,601 Roosevelt freezes all German assets in the US, a violation of international law. 1155 01:30:01,161 --> 01:30:03,425 The US announces an oil embargo against "aggressor" nations. 1156 01:30:04,053 --> 01:30:05,902 $ 1 billion dollars in Lend-Lease aid is sent to Britain. 1157 01:30:06,668 --> 01:30:08,547 The US will eventually ship a total of $ 31.4 billion worth of supplies, 1158 01:30:08,865 --> 01:30:10,871 the equivalent of $ 445 billion in today's money. 1159 01:30:11,365 --> 01:30:12,724 The loans will take Britain 61 years to repay, 1160 01:30:13,101 --> 01:30:15,486 with the last installment made in 2006. 1161 01:30:22,413 --> 01:30:28,085 By an overwhelming majority congress passed Lend-Lease... bill number 1776. 1162 01:30:29,211 --> 01:30:33,490 I've asked this congress for authority and for funds, 1163 01:30:34,315 --> 01:30:40,282 sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds, 1164 01:30:40,890 --> 01:30:45,963 to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war, 1165 01:30:46,847 --> 01:30:49,104 with aggressor nations. 1166 01:30:50,001 --> 01:30:51,943 Our most useful and immediate roll, 1167 01:30:52,823 --> 01:30:57,965 is to act as an arsenal for them as well as for ourselves. 1168 01:30:58,959 --> 01:31:06,167 We shall send in ever increasing numbers: ships, planes, tanks, guns. 1169 01:31:06,727 --> 01:31:09,693 That is our purpose and our pledge. 1170 01:31:13,685 --> 01:31:15,460 The enormous amount of US funds, 1171 01:31:15,764 --> 01:31:17,429 along with the covert US operations in the Atlantic 1172 01:31:17,835 --> 01:31:19,291 help Britain sustain the war against Germany. 1173 01:31:19,292 --> 01:31:20,292 The quick knockout blow G�ring had hoped for now seemed unlikely, 1174 01:31:20,293 --> 01:31:22,962 and the Battle of Britain will shortly give way to a more important fight. 1175 01:31:24,087 --> 01:31:26,068 Hitler will now concentrate on the battle he believes will eventually 1176 01:31:26,541 --> 01:31:28,300 the outcome of World War Two. 1177 01:31:29,259 --> 01:31:31,195 On 11 December 1941, he gives a speech describing the growing Soviet menace. 1178 01:31:32,385 --> 01:31:34,441 "Already in 1940 it became increasingly clear from month to month 1179 01:31:34,856 --> 01:31:36,864 that the plans of the Kremlin were aimed at the domination, 1180 01:31:36,885 --> 01:31:38,738 and thus the destruction of Europe. 1181 01:31:38,868 --> 01:31:40,960 Only a blind person could fail to see that a military build-up of 1182 01:31:41,304 --> 01:31:43,575 unique world-historical proportions was being carried out." 1183 01:31:44,880 --> 01:31:47,718 Clearly the Soviet Union had been expanding West. 1184 01:31:47,744 --> 01:31:49,216 30 November 1939- Finland is atacked. 1185 01:31:49,696 --> 01:31:51,272 21 February 1940- Sweden is bombed. 1186 01:31:52,335 --> 01:31:53,993 18 June 1940- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuaia are invaded. 1187 01:31:55,921 --> 01:31:58,313 27 June 1940- Romania is forced by Stalin to surrender Bessarabia. 1188 01:32:12,676 --> 01:32:14,801 Hitler feels that not only is Germany in grave danger, 1189 01:32:15,049 --> 01:32:16,794 but indeed the whole of Europe. 1190 01:32:16,795 --> 01:32:18,625 He knows the horrors the Bolsheviks will bring. 1191 01:32:19,463 --> 01:32:21,788 Rather than wait, after meeting with his generals, Hitler will now plan 1192 01:32:22,227 --> 01:32:23,963 a pre-emptive strike against the Soviet Union, 1193 01:32:24,402 --> 01:32:26,250 in what will be known as Operation Barbarossa. 1194 01:32:26,739 --> 01:32:28,402 To understand Hitler's fears for Europe, we must first look at 1195 01:32:28,914 --> 01:32:30,600 the Bolshevik regime and Stalin, the man President Roosevelt 1196 01:32:30,992 --> 01:32:33,358 would affectionately call "Uncle Joe". 1197 01:32:43,025 --> 01:32:44,841 STALIN 1198 01:32:48,926 --> 01:32:51,023 Stalin came to power on the death of Lenin, 1199 01:32:51,464 --> 01:32:53,814 and ruled the Soviet Union by fear and torture 1200 01:32:54,232 --> 01:32:55,824 for nearly the next 30 years. 1201 01:32:56,670 --> 01:32:57,619 During that time, 1202 01:32:58,080 --> 01:33:01,951 he was responsible for some 40 million deaths. 1203 01:33:13,870 --> 01:33:17,319 Stalin spent his first years in power consolidating his position. 1204 01:33:18,212 --> 01:33:22,332 He managed to sideline Trotsky, whom he perceived as his major rival. 1205 01:33:32,748 --> 01:33:37,467 In 1929 Stalin implemented a policy known as collectivization. 1206 01:33:39,611 --> 01:33:43,426 Lenin's experiment in nationalizing the land had remained half finished, 1207 01:33:44,071 --> 01:33:46,993 and Russian peasants were still working their own land 1208 01:33:47,367 --> 01:33:49,167 and selling their own produce in the markets. 1209 01:33:58,920 --> 01:34:00,355 By means of collectivization, 1210 01:34:00,834 --> 01:34:03,027 Stalin meant to complete Lenin's initiative, 1211 01:34:03,552 --> 01:34:07,815 and to take away all of the peasants lands and produce in the name of the state. 1212 01:34:09,776 --> 01:34:14,217 In 1930, peasant's produce began to be collected up. 1213 01:34:15,311 --> 01:34:20,289 The Red Army one-by-one seized the produce from every single field. 1214 01:34:28,762 --> 01:34:31,938 Some peasants managed to hide their goods rather than give them up, 1215 01:34:33,041 --> 01:34:36,489 but communist party officials searched every nook and cranny 1216 01:34:37,039 --> 01:34:39,237 eventually discovering the hiding places. 1217 01:34:47,556 --> 01:34:50,957 The officials also seized the peasant's agricultural equipment. 1218 01:34:52,085 --> 01:34:56,709 The peasants were left with nothing to eat, and nothing to work the soil with. 1219 01:35:04,293 --> 01:35:07,655 Eventually, that catastrophe that Lenin had described 1220 01:35:07,991 --> 01:35:09,972 as the most useful for communism 1221 01:35:10,291 --> 01:35:12,724 raised its head again... famine. 1222 01:35:18,478 --> 01:35:23,330 In Ukraine alone, 6 million people starved over the next few years. 1223 01:35:24,074 --> 01:35:28,978 2 million died in Kazakhstan and 1 million in northern Caucasus. 1224 01:35:30,742 --> 01:35:33,681 Children reduced to skin and bone died in agony. 1225 01:35:36,332 --> 01:35:41,493 There was another ghastly result of the famine inspired by Stalin - cannibalism. 1226 01:35:42,246 --> 01:35:45,125 Peasants maddened by hunger began to eat corpses. 1227 01:35:46,981 --> 01:35:48,667 Then an even worse horror emerged, 1228 01:35:49,587 --> 01:35:52,196 some peasants had kidnapped children and eaten them. 1229 01:36:01,803 --> 01:36:05,764 In front of these two Russian peasants caught eating human flesh, 1230 01:36:06,347 --> 01:36:08,954 lay the remains of the children they had snatched. 1231 01:36:17,145 --> 01:36:20,863 Stalin's regime had turned human beings into savage animals 1232 01:36:21,351 --> 01:36:23,670 just as communism had intended. 1233 01:36:38,087 --> 01:36:42,392 Everyone who opposed Stalin's collectivization policy paid with his life. 1234 01:36:44,295 --> 01:36:47,645 Tens of thousands of Kulaks were detained and shot. 1235 01:36:59,990 --> 01:37:00,885 In actual fact, 1236 01:37:01,485 --> 01:37:06,365 the regime branded everyone it saw as opposed to its ideology as Kulaks. 1237 01:37:07,845 --> 01:37:11,283 Large numbers of priests and even members of their congregations, 1238 01:37:11,747 --> 01:37:14,826 who attended church frequently were arrested as Kulaks. 1239 01:37:15,458 --> 01:37:16,626 Some were executed. 1240 01:37:18,228 --> 01:37:19,945 Others were sent to the labor camps, 1241 01:37:20,583 --> 01:37:23,270 where a slow lingering death awaited them. 1242 01:37:24,578 --> 01:37:26,506 These camps were set up all over Russia 1243 01:37:27,050 --> 01:37:30,004 and were simply another of Stalin's killing machines. 1244 01:37:33,714 --> 01:37:38,156 Millions of people regarded as enemies of the state were worked to death in them 1245 01:37:38,443 --> 01:37:40,387 under the most terrible conditions. 1246 01:37:41,425 --> 01:37:44,810 Some were put to work laboring on canals in the blazing heat, 1247 01:37:45,610 --> 01:37:49,499 others were sent off to break rocks in the freezing cold of Siberia. 1248 01:37:50,787 --> 01:37:55,331 These people, forced to perform hard labor under the worst possible conditions, 1249 01:37:56,032 --> 01:37:58,536 soon turned into living skeletons. 1250 01:37:59,368 --> 01:38:01,731 The great majority never left the camps alive. 1251 01:38:05,698 --> 01:38:11,450 The Soviet Union, like every communist country, was an economic basket case. 1252 01:38:11,980 --> 01:38:14,750 It could not produce enough to survive. 1253 01:38:15,367 --> 01:38:20,630 And so, every communist / socialist state has been dependent upon aid from 1254 01:38:21,901 --> 01:38:23,517 the capitalist producing states. 1255 01:38:23,965 --> 01:38:29,964 So, Russia was desperate for our aid, both in terms of direct government aid, 1256 01:38:30,474 --> 01:38:34,491 but also in terms of opening up the spigots for private capital markets, 1257 01:38:35,138 --> 01:38:40,122 particularly New York bankers and corpor- ations to move into Russia in a big way. 1258 01:38:41,705 --> 01:38:46,892 In 1933 the Roosevelt administration invited a Soviet representative to Washington 1259 01:38:47,434 --> 01:38:50,331 to negotiate terms of diplomatic recognition. 1260 01:39:01,157 --> 01:39:02,272 Number of Deaths in Ukraine 1261 01:39:03,354 --> 01:39:05,080 1941 POLAND 1262 01:39:07,748 --> 01:39:10,077 Hans Frank is appointed governor-general of Poland 1263 01:39:10,484 --> 01:39:13,139 and the country disappears from the headlines of the world press. 1264 01:39:15,466 --> 01:39:17,949 Jews must wear the Star of David on their arm, 1265 01:39:18,621 --> 01:39:20,126 not carry it in their pocket. 1266 01:39:21,096 --> 01:39:24,366 In Warsaw there is a streetcar exclusively for Jews. 1267 01:39:26,777 --> 01:39:30,941 A district a mile and a half square is transformed into a ghetto. 1268 01:39:31,916 --> 01:39:34,044 There is condemnation from the Allies over the Jewish ghetto, 1269 01:39:34,418 --> 01:39:36,755 and yet it bears no comparison to the many black ghettos in Amerika, 1270 01:39:37,090 --> 01:39:39,255 a country where Negroes were still being lynched, and hanged from trees. 1271 01:39:39,495 --> 01:39:41,215 Britain's record on the "human rights" of the subjects in her many colonies 1272 01:39:41,576 --> 01:39:43,616 is likewise cruel and racist. 1273 01:39:54,269 --> 01:39:55,686 Winston Churchill served in the Boer War when thousends of women and children 1274 01:39:56,086 --> 01:39:59,209 were left to starve in British concentration camps. 1275 01:39:59,310 --> 01:40:01,680 No one was ever brought to account for the many crimes against humanity in... 1276 01:40:02,241 --> 01:40:02,950 India 1277 01:40:03,389 --> 01:40:04,293 Africa 1278 01:40:04,645 --> 01:40:05,675 Australia 1279 01:40:06,106 --> 01:40:08,146 ... or for the mass drugging of the population of China in the Opium Wars. 1280 01:40:12,181 --> 01:40:13,261 MEXICAN REPATRIATION ACT 1281 01:40:13,741 --> 01:40:15,792 In the US, the years between 1929 and 1939 saw the forced deportation 1282 01:40:16,118 --> 01:40:18,758 of 2 million Mexicans, as first authorised by Presdent Herbert Hoover. 1283 01:40:19,160 --> 01:40:21,007 Of those, 1.2 million were born American citizens. 1284 01:40:32,417 --> 01:40:35,248 The final US Army massacre of the "Indians" occurs, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. 1285 01:40:35,967 --> 01:40:37,665 By 1924, they are almost completely wiped out. 1286 01:40:37,700 --> 01:40:38,903 Children that survive are sent to boarding schools for re-education, 1287 01:40:39,242 --> 01:40:40,516 where teachers are instructed to... 1288 01:40:40,948 --> 01:40:42,793 "kill the Indian in them" 1289 01:40:58,667 --> 01:40:59,996 AMERICAN RACISM 1290 01:41:00,577 --> 01:41:02,014 Throughout World War Two and up until the 1960's, 1291 01:41:02,404 --> 01:41:04,077 a majority of American States enforced segregation 1292 01:41:04,445 --> 01:41:05,932 trough the use of "Jim Crow" laws. 1293 01:41:06,491 --> 01:41:08,290 States could impose legal punishment on those 1294 01:41:08,860 --> 01:41:10,373 consorting with members of different race. 1295 01:41:11,092 --> 01:41:12,851 The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage, 1296 01:41:13,146 --> 01:41:15,529 and mandated that businesses and public institutions 1297 01:41:15,814 --> 01:41:16,885 segregate blacks and whites. 1298 01:41:17,423 --> 01:41:18,812 Here is just a sampling of the various State laws: 1299 01:41:19,517 --> 01:41:20,563 ARIZONA 1300 01:41:20,588 --> 01:41:22,306 Intermarriage: The marriage of a person with Caucasian 1301 01:41:22,341 --> 01:41:24,935 blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malaysian, or Hindu shall be null and void. 1302 01:41:25,996 --> 01:41:27,497 FLORIDA Cohabitation: 1303 01:41:28,665 --> 01:41:30,457 Any Negroes or White person who are not married to each other, 1304 01:41:30,977 --> 01:41:32,038 and occupy the nighttime in the same room, shell be 1305 01:41:32,411 --> 01:41:34,273 punished by imprisonment or fine. 1306 01:41:34,373 --> 01:41:35,171 MISSOURI 1307 01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:36,601 Intermarriage: 1308 01:41:37,521 --> 01:41:39,225 All marriages between... White persons and Negroes or Mongolians 1309 01:41:39,617 --> 01:41:40,873 are prohibited and declared absolutely void. 1310 01:41:57,170 --> 01:41:59,634 President Franklin D. Roosevelt had time and time again resisted any 1311 01:42:00,251 --> 01:42:02,250 Republican Party efforts to pass a Federal law prohibiting lynching. 1312 01:42:12,530 --> 01:42:14,699 In 1922, future President Harry Truman joined the Ku Klux Klan. 1313 01:42:30,961 --> 01:42:33,568 1936 BERLIN THE MYTH OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES 1314 01:42:37,911 --> 01:42:39,774 Anti-Germn propaganda in the US claim that a furious Hitler 1315 01:42:40,183 --> 01:42:42,038 had ignored four-time Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens. 1316 01:42:42,694 --> 01:42:44,142 In his 1970 autobiography Owens wrote: 1317 01:42:44,742 --> 01:42:46,359 "When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, 1318 01:42:46,772 --> 01:42:48,076 and I waved back at him. I think the writers shoved 1319 01:42:48,444 --> 01:42:50,092 bad taste in criticism the man of the hour in Germany." 1320 01:42:57,482 --> 01:42:59,147 On his return to the US, Owens will not be invited to the White House. 1321 01:42:59,507 --> 01:43:01,453 He later said, "Hitler didn't snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me. 1322 01:43:01,852 --> 01:43:03,404 The President didn't even send me a telegram. 1323 01:43:04,267 --> 01:43:07,030 The Olympic champion later had to make a living by racing horses. 1324 01:43:17,981 --> 01:43:19,621 In 1960, almost a quarter of a century later, a young Casius Clay 1325 01:43:20,028 --> 01:43:21,357 threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio river 1326 01:43:21,789 --> 01:43:23,229 after a waitress in a resturant told him... 1327 01:43:30,839 --> 01:43:32,605 "We don't serve Niggers here." 1328 01:43:39,022 --> 01:43:41,326 To be continued 1329 01:43:45,587 --> 01:43:48,036 Part 8 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 1330 01:43:52,986 --> 01:43:54,728 Italy, which had allied with Germany in 1940, was now fighting 1331 01:43:55,180 --> 01:43:56,802 the British in Greece and in the Middle East. 1332 01:43:57,786 --> 01:43:59,671 War had broken out in the Balkans, where the worst atrocites 1333 01:44:00,087 --> 01:44:01,624 of World War Two would soon take place. 1334 01:44:02,428 --> 01:44:03,896 Before Germany could invade the Soviet Union, 1335 01:44:04,295 --> 01:44:05,839 Hitler would first have to send the Vehrmacht 1336 01:44:06,205 --> 01:44:07,677 to help secure these regions. 1337 01:44:08,236 --> 01:44:09,653 Within six weeks, the British would be forced 1338 01:44:10,093 --> 01:44:11,740 to retreat from both Greece and the Middle East. 1339 01:44:12,822 --> 01:44:14,493 In Yugoslavia, the British-backed government is quickly overthrown. 1340 01:44:15,045 --> 01:44:16,724 Croatia is now independent for the first time in 900 years. 1341 01:44:17,310 --> 01:44:19,769 To this day, many Croats honour Adolf Hitler as a liberator. 1342 01:44:26,393 --> 01:44:28,409 THE JAPANESE CONFLICT 1343 01:44:33,291 --> 01:44:34,680 Troughout the 1930's Japan has been at war with China. 1344 01:44:36,656 --> 01:44:38,151 When Japan allied with Germany and Italy in 1940, 1345 01:44:38,663 --> 01:44:40,166 the new Vichy French government consented to the 1346 01:44:40,565 --> 01:44:42,165 Japanese occupation of France's Indochina colonies. 1347 01:44:42,894 --> 01:44:44,574 The British Empire however, which also had colonies in the region, 1348 01:44:44,966 --> 01:44:47,898 together with the US froze Japan's assets in July 1941. 1349 01:44:54,649 --> 01:44:56,552 NEW YORK TIMES, 26 JULY 1941 1350 01:44:57,025 --> 01:44:59,072 "The measures, in effect, bring all financial and import and export trade transactions 1351 01:45:00,409 --> 01:45:02,625 in which Japanese inerests are involved under the kontrol of the US government." 1352 01:45:11,712 --> 01:45:13,592 On 1 August 1941, Roosevelt - still looking for a way to enter the war - 1353 01:45:14,039 --> 01:45:16,979 forced an oil embrgo on Japan, an intentional act of hostility. 1354 01:45:17,642 --> 01:45:20,124 Both these actions were taken before fateful December 7 Pearl Harbour attack. 1355 01:45:21,068 --> 01:45:22,084 The results: 1356 01:45:23,407 --> 01:45:24,824 Japan lost access to 75 % of her oversaes trade 1357 01:45:25,237 --> 01:45:26,581 and 88 % of her imported oil. 1358 01:45:26,950 --> 01:45:28,638 Soon there be insufficient resources to continue war with China. 1359 01:45:30,806 --> 01:45:33,078 To try and resolve this the Japanese entered into negotiations with US officias, 1360 01:45:33,565 --> 01:45:36,310 who demanded that Japan first withdraw from China before the embargoes would end. 1361 01:45:38,094 --> 01:45:40,829 The Japanese would never permit themselves to be humbled in such a way... 1362 01:45:41,692 --> 01:45:43,620 ... a fact which Roosevelt must have known. 1363 01:46:05,921 --> 01:46:08,167 In his book "Icebreaker", Russian historian Victor Suvorov gives compelling proff 1364 01:46:08,647 --> 01:46:10,511 that Hitler was forced into a reluctant pre-emptive strike 1365 01:46:10,910 --> 01:46:12,129 against massive Soviet military machine 1366 01:46:12,537 --> 01:46:14,201 poised to invade whole of Western Europe. 1367 01:46:15,233 --> 01:46:16,970 Suvorov quotes top secret Soviet documents which make it crystal clear 1368 01:46:17,368 --> 01:46:19,561 that Soviet military was being built as an offensive force. 1369 01:46:21,408 --> 01:46:23,225 The collateral damage inflicted on the eleven Europaan countries 1370 01:46:23,689 --> 01:46:25,495 involved in Hitler's defensive measures against Britain and France 1371 01:46:25,919 --> 01:46:27,431 had created an unprecedented situation where their armies, 1372 01:46:27,846 --> 01:46:29,697 governments, and political parties had been destryed. 1373 01:46:30,743 --> 01:46:32,399 Now with Europe totaly exposed, Stalin is hoping Germany will 1374 01:46:32,799 --> 01:46:34,380 expand the war by sending troops to Britain. 1375 01:46:35,989 --> 01:46:37,733 Instead, he is caught completely off guard as 3 million soldiers 1376 01:46:38,158 --> 01:46:39,955 prepare to invade the atheisti Soviet Union wearing 1377 01:46:40,331 --> 01:46:42,587 belt buckles engraved with the words... Gott Mit Uns 1378 01:46:56,874 --> 01:46:58,214 From the Balic to the Black Sea 1379 01:46:58,839 --> 01:47:02,009 three million German soldiers, are moving into position 1380 01:47:02,073 --> 01:47:02,951 22 JUNE 1941 OPERATION BARBAROSSA 1381 01:47:02,986 --> 01:47:04,549 to launch Operation Barbarossa. 1382 01:47:06,796 --> 01:47:09,955 It's the most brutal conflict between two nations in recorded history, 1383 01:47:10,572 --> 01:47:11,528 is about to begin. 1384 01:47:30,761 --> 01:47:34,674 On the first day of Barbarossa alone, 1.200 Soviet aircraft 1385 01:47:35,009 --> 01:47:37,137 are destroyed in a single strike. 1386 01:47:46,135 --> 01:47:50,771 Panzer units sweeping East, are already deep inside Soviet territory. 1387 01:47:54,311 --> 01:47:56,572 Chaos multiplies the catastrophe. 1388 01:47:59,950 --> 01:48:01,153 Without orders from the Kremlin, 1389 01:48:01,674 --> 01:48:04,290 Red Army field Commanders lose control of their units. 1390 01:48:07,440 --> 01:48:11,837 Dazed, cut off, surrounded, thousands of Soviet soldiers surrender. 1391 01:48:14,780 --> 01:48:17,497 And at the height of the Wehrmacht's furious onslaught, 1392 01:48:18,299 --> 01:48:20,387 Stalin disappears completely. 1393 01:48:24,445 --> 01:48:27,234 He has every reason to hide from his people. 1394 01:48:29,496 --> 01:48:31,081 Captured German news real footage, 1395 01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:34,470 shows Soviet frontier troops overwhelmed. 1396 01:48:34,964 --> 01:48:37,418 A retreat under fire in total confusion. 1397 01:48:41,591 --> 01:48:43,433 Whole formations surrendering. 1398 01:48:44,546 --> 01:48:48,696 Hundreds of thousands of men entangled with fleeing civilians 1399 01:48:49,033 --> 01:48:51,456 in scenes of Biblical disorder. 1400 01:48:54,177 --> 01:48:57,928 Yet, there are some Soviet citizens who welcome the invader. 1401 01:49:00,512 --> 01:49:03,427 To many in the Ukraine, the arrival of the Germans 1402 01:49:03,519 --> 01:49:06,888 is a heaven sent opportunity to throw off Stalin's yoke. 1403 01:49:08,168 --> 01:49:10,398 Local women bless the Germans as they pass. 1404 01:49:21,050 --> 01:49:25,059 Their men folk destroy reminders of a man who has terrorized them for years. 1405 01:49:35,379 --> 01:49:39,186 Stalin is above all stunned by the shear speed of the German advance. 1406 01:49:40,978 --> 01:49:42,574 Still the Germans drive East. 1407 01:49:43,239 --> 01:49:46,294 They're at the outskirts of Kiev, Smolensk, and Leningrad. 1408 01:49:57,598 --> 01:50:01,765 Yet fierce pockets of Red Army resistance fight on behind enemy lines. 1409 01:50:04,822 --> 01:50:06,046 The fortress city of Brisk. 1410 01:50:11,421 --> 01:50:13,982 The besieged Red Army garrison fights on and on, 1411 01:50:14,765 --> 01:50:17,781 for more than a month until they are finally compelled to surrender. 1412 01:50:18,973 --> 01:50:21,676 Hitler is so impressed by the tenacity of the Russian troops, 1413 01:50:22,228 --> 01:50:27,179 that he exercises rare clemency. Only one survivor is shot. 1414 01:50:28,188 --> 01:50:31,149 The Political Officer at the fortress Mikhail Fomin. 1415 01:50:32,380 --> 01:50:35,709 The F�hrer sights the defense of Brest as an heroic effort. 1416 01:50:36,365 --> 01:50:38,189 An example to his own soldiers. 1417 01:50:41,477 --> 01:50:43,287 And he visits the fortress with Mussolini, 1418 01:50:43,936 --> 01:50:45,960 to acknowledge a hard earned victory. 1419 01:50:49,164 --> 01:50:52,012 But for Stalin, the defenders of Brest are not heroes. 1420 01:50:52,901 --> 01:50:55,613 Years later, after they're released from German capture, 1421 01:50:56,388 --> 01:50:58,387 he will send survivors to the Gulag. 1422 01:51:01,009 --> 01:51:04,623 The Wehrmacht's rapid relentless advance seems unstoppable. 1423 01:51:06,511 --> 01:51:08,226 Traveling at up to 50 miles a day, 1424 01:51:09,053 --> 01:51:12,323 Panzer divisions are already approaching the heart of Stalin's empire. 1425 01:51:14,485 --> 01:51:15,585 And in the middle of July, 1426 01:51:16,193 --> 01:51:20,029 Stalin is forced to consider offering the Germans a negotiated peace. 1427 01:51:21,102 --> 01:51:23,326 While Stalin contemplates a way out of the war, 1428 01:51:24,082 --> 01:51:27,076 he is drawing up plans to punish his own troops if they surrender. 1429 01:51:27,995 --> 01:51:32,595 In a desperate attempt to halt the route, he issues order No. 270. 1430 01:51:33,568 --> 01:51:36,288 All officers and Political Officials taken prisoner at the front, 1431 01:51:36,881 --> 01:51:38,176 are to be considered traitors. 1432 01:51:38,864 --> 01:51:40,610 If ever they return to the Soviet Union, 1433 01:51:41,273 --> 01:51:43,593 they will be arrested and executed. 1434 01:51:48,840 --> 01:51:52,151 But the barbarity of order 270 does not stop there. 1435 01:51:54,198 --> 01:51:58,145 The wives of captured troops also face imprisonment in the Gulag. 1436 01:52:02,777 --> 01:52:04,441 Hitler now forms the Einsatzgruppen units for the necessry removal 1437 01:52:04,848 --> 01:52:06,465 of the die-hard Bolshevik leadership and NKVD, 1438 01:52:06,896 --> 01:52:08,222 from all Soviet towns and cities. 1439 01:52:08,718 --> 01:52:09,987 However, on hearing of the German invasion, many civilians 1440 01:52:10,435 --> 01:52:12,259 refuse to wait and take immediate revenge on their Communist oppressors 1441 01:52:12,589 --> 01:52:14,066 and associated collaborators. 1442 01:52:46,520 --> 01:52:48,345 Meanwhile, Roosevelt extends the Land-Lease Act, and sends more financial 1443 01:52:48,821 --> 01:52:50,885 and military aid to the Soviet Union 1444 01:52:51,316 --> 01:52:52,949 to help keep the Communist regime in the war. 1445 01:52:53,686 --> 01:52:55,789 Stalin is now rumored to have suffered a breakdown. 1446 01:53:06,508 --> 01:53:08,495 Now with Moscow in range of the Luftwaffe, 1447 01:53:09,119 --> 01:53:12,743 Stalin's own citadel of power comes directly under attack. 1448 01:53:13,855 --> 01:53:15,725 German Armies race for the Capital. 1449 01:53:16,957 --> 01:53:19,915 Elsewhere, army group North heads for Leningrad. 1450 01:53:20,619 --> 01:53:23,546 Army group Center makes a pincer movement towards Smolensk. 1451 01:53:24,179 --> 01:53:27,611 Army group South strikes towards Kiev and the Ukraine. 1452 01:53:28,755 --> 01:53:31,307 The suburbs of Kiev, the beginning of August. 1453 01:53:32,288 --> 01:53:37,904 In a fast pincer movement, German army group South, threatens to encircle the city. 1454 01:53:39,046 --> 01:53:41,160 During August and the first two weeks of September, 1455 01:53:41,854 --> 01:53:45,766 the Wehrmacht encircles a vast area crammed with Red Army troops. 1456 01:53:46,624 --> 01:53:48,205 Four Soviet Armies parish. 1457 01:53:48,930 --> 01:53:51,272 On the 18th of September the city falls. 1458 01:53:52,907 --> 01:53:55,302 The F�hrer is now lord of all he surveys. 1459 01:53:56,134 --> 01:53:58,542 It seems as if he is on course to meet his objective. 1460 01:53:59,030 --> 01:54:01,839 To crush Stalin's Russia before winter sets in. 1461 01:54:01,874 --> 01:54:06,054 Leningrad lies ahead of the Wehrmacht, defenseless. 1462 01:54:07,768 --> 01:54:09,495 As September draws to a close, 1463 01:54:10,430 --> 01:54:15,469 Leningrad is totally cut off with no land link left to the Soviet Union. 1464 01:54:17,770 --> 01:54:19,271 At the end of September, 1465 01:54:19,371 --> 01:54:22,231 the F�hrer launches Operation Typhoon, 1466 01:54:23,136 --> 01:54:25,366 the final drive alone the road to Moscow. 1467 01:54:26,098 --> 01:54:29,396 14 German tank and 74 infantry divisions, 1468 01:54:29,980 --> 01:54:32,697 a total of 1.8 million officers and men, 1469 01:54:32,732 --> 01:54:37,082 take part in the offensive. Stalin has good cause for panic now. 1470 01:54:37,906 --> 01:54:41,002 Facing a disaster that might sweep away the whole Soviet Union, 1471 01:54:41,569 --> 01:54:44,558 they have one last hope, that the weather will save them. 1472 01:54:47,982 --> 01:54:51,158 Sleet is turning to snow. 1473 01:54:52,741 --> 01:54:56,452 The ground frozen at night is now a quagmire during the day, 1474 01:54:56,585 --> 01:54:59,579 paralyzing Hitler's overstretched war machine. 1475 01:55:00,857 --> 01:55:05,659 On the 2nd of December, German units reach Krasnaya Polyana, 1476 01:55:05,759 --> 01:55:08,760 17 miles from the center of Moscow. 1477 01:55:08,860 --> 01:55:13,311 As the weather intensifies and temperatures plummet, 1478 01:55:13,411 --> 01:55:17,863 the bleak truth is time turns decisively against them. 1479 01:55:20,215 --> 01:55:21,900 5 DAYS LATER... 1480 01:55:24,924 --> 01:55:27,461 AND AFTER 5 MONTHS OF US SANCTIONS... 1481 01:55:31,596 --> 01:55:32,908 PEARL HARBOUR, HAWAII 7 DECEMBER 1941 1482 01:55:32,943 --> 01:55:35,170 Two Army Privates running the Opana radar station, 1483 01:55:35,270 --> 01:55:37,771 are suddenly startled by blips on the screen. 1484 01:55:37,871 --> 01:55:39,872 Fifty planes headed for Owahu. 1485 01:55:39,972 --> 01:55:44,574 Immediately they report the sightings to the Army Operations Center. 1486 01:55:44,674 --> 01:55:47,858 They're dismissed as US planes coming from the mainland. 1487 01:55:52,777 --> 01:55:55,719 Aircraft designated for the second wave of the attack take off. 1488 01:55:55,778 --> 01:55:57,979 Messenger boy Tadao Fuchikami, 1489 01:55:58,079 --> 01:56:01,412 picks up General Marshall's urgent cable for delivery to General Short. 1490 01:56:04,682 --> 01:56:07,860 Commander Fuchida's first wave armada is on course. 1491 01:56:13,185 --> 01:56:16,586 Sleepy-eyed sailors and Marines, their breakfast getting cold, 1492 01:56:16,686 --> 01:56:20,388 mistake the attack for some crazy kind of air raid drill. 1493 01:56:20,488 --> 01:56:23,289 They think the planes are American. 1494 01:56:24,990 --> 01:56:30,292 At 7:55 AM, dive bombers hit Hickam and near airfields. 1495 01:56:35,094 --> 01:56:39,896 Two minutes later, torpedo planes start their bomb on battleship row. 1496 01:56:42,096 --> 01:56:45,098 Three minutes later, Zero's strafe other airbases. 1497 01:56:45,198 --> 01:56:51,000 It's Fuchida's first wave of aircraft that hits the Arizona; she erupts like a volcano. 1498 01:56:56,302 --> 01:56:59,603 Flames burst 500 feet in the air. 1499 01:57:02,504 --> 01:57:06,306 Fuchida's deadly first waves sinks the West Virginia. 1500 01:57:06,606 --> 01:57:07,907 Now, the Oklahoma, 1501 01:57:08,007 --> 01:57:13,008 a battle wagon moored outboard of the US Maryland shutters with torpedo hits. 1502 01:57:13,108 --> 01:57:15,009 She begins listing... 1503 01:57:15,509 --> 01:57:17,410 and capsizes. 1504 01:57:17,510 --> 01:57:21,412 More torpedo's rip into the battleships California and Nevada. 1505 01:57:25,713 --> 01:57:27,514 After the last bomb is dropped 1506 01:57:27,614 --> 01:57:31,816 the United States of America virtually has a Pacific Fleet... 1507 01:57:31,916 --> 01:57:33,717 no longer. 1508 01:57:35,329 --> 01:57:37,552 Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor And Then Declares War on U.S. 1509 01:57:41,920 --> 01:57:43,721 Yesterday, 1510 01:57:44,521 --> 01:57:49,523 December 7th, 1941, 1511 01:57:50,923 --> 01:57:55,925 A date which will live in infamy, 1512 01:57:56,425 --> 01:57:59,127 the United States of America 1513 01:57:59,327 --> 01:58:02,728 was suddenly and deliberately attacked 1514 01:58:02,828 --> 01:58:08,930 by Naval and Air Forces of the Empire of Japan. 1515 01:58:11,985 --> 01:58:13,875 On 8 December 1941, the US declares war on Japan 1516 01:58:14,347 --> 01:58:15,665 and officially enters World War Two. 1517 01:58:16,120 --> 01:58:17,883 Britain will declare war the same day. 1518 01:58:23,291 --> 01:58:24,932 Was the attack really such a suprise? 1519 01:58:28,179 --> 01:58:29,861 JAPAN MAY STRIKE OVER WEEKEND 1520 01:58:33,564 --> 01:58:35,771 KURUSU BLUNTLY WARNED NATION READY FOR BATTLE 1521 01:58:47,738 --> 01:58:49,592 To be continued 1522 01:59:01,323 --> 01:59:03,132 Part 9 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 1523 01:59:06,771 --> 01:59:08,619 1941 THE UKRAINE 1524 01:59:14,023 --> 01:59:16,323 We knew there was a war on. 1525 01:59:16,423 --> 01:59:17,723 By that time, 1526 01:59:17,823 --> 01:59:22,925 what was left of us was herded into the cattle trains and shipped to Siberia. 1527 01:59:23,025 --> 01:59:27,125 That was literally a matter of hours if not minutes until our turn. 1528 01:59:27,225 --> 01:59:32,227 And we were already sitting at the railroad station - this was September 1941 1529 01:59:32,327 --> 01:59:35,227 when the German Army overran the Ukraine, 1530 01:59:35,327 --> 01:59:40,128 and stopped the exiling; stopped the trains. They stopped the trains. 1531 01:59:40,228 --> 01:59:44,629 And it was to us as if the Lord had sent us the angels. 1532 01:59:44,729 --> 01:59:50,330 Here were people who stopped the terror that had been upon us for 25 years. 1533 01:59:50,430 --> 01:59:52,731 Who came and opened the churches for us 1534 01:59:52,831 --> 01:59:56,032 and said: "You can have all the services you want". 1535 01:59:56,132 --> 01:59:57,632 It was like heaven. 1536 01:59:57,732 --> 02:00:01,933 My mother, to the day she died, never stopped talking 1537 02:00:02,033 --> 02:00:06,434 about the wonderful 2 years that she had when the German Army came. 1538 02:00:06,534 --> 02:00:09,334 They took over the houses - we gave them gladly! 1539 02:00:09,434 --> 02:00:11,135 It was magnificent! 1540 02:00:11,235 --> 02:00:13,335 And we were absolutely convinced 1541 02:00:13,435 --> 02:00:16,736 that the Germans had come to save us from Communism. 1542 02:00:16,836 --> 02:00:20,737 And never was there any reason for us to change our minds - why should we? 1543 02:00:20,837 --> 02:00:23,137 The Germans were heroes in our eyes. 1544 02:00:23,237 --> 02:00:25,438 We absolutely believed in Adolf Hitler, 1545 02:00:25,538 --> 02:00:31,139 we believed in the, in the nature of his struggle, in the merits of his struggle. 1546 02:00:31,239 --> 02:00:34,940 We had these magnificent German soldiers protecting us, 1547 02:00:35,040 --> 02:00:37,740 so the beginning was not at all unpleasant. 1548 02:00:37,840 --> 02:00:40,541 But then it became grim, then the winter came. 1549 02:00:47,471 --> 02:00:48,823 On 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, 1550 02:00:49,203 --> 02:00:51,143 Hitler spoke to the Reichstag in Berlin and dealt at lenght 1551 02:00:51,634 --> 02:00:53,304 with President Roosevelt hostile policies toward Germany. 1552 02:00:53,898 --> 02:00:55,631 He detailed the increasingly belligernt actions of Roosevelt's government, 1553 02:00:56,068 --> 02:00:57,259 and dramatically announced Germany was now 1554 02:00:57,673 --> 02:00:59,055 joining Japan in the war against the US. 1555 02:00:59,631 --> 02:01:02,733 Italy and Croatia would soon follow suit. 1556 02:01:14,344 --> 02:01:15,977 The Independent State of Croatia, commonly reffered to us the NDH, 1557 02:01:16,491 --> 02:01:17,760 is created 10 April 1941. Led by Ante Paveli�, 1558 02:01:18,180 --> 02:01:19,673 several hundred Usta�e militia will travel from training camps 1559 02:01:20,121 --> 02:01:21,918 in Italy to form the new government. 1560 02:01:22,732 --> 02:01:24,433 They will govern most of modern day Croatia including Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1561 02:01:24,878 --> 02:01:26,819 and will seek to clear out ethnic Serbs, Jews and Romany gypsies. 1562 02:01:27,481 --> 02:01:29,271 However, one third of all ethnic Serbs will be spared death or deportation 1563 02:01:29,836 --> 02:01:31,885 by converting from Serbian Orthodox to Roman Cathoic. 1564 02:01:32,956 --> 02:01:34,369 This is not dissimilar to what English Protestants offered 1565 02:01:34,809 --> 02:01:36,471 the Catholics during the Middle Ages. 1566 02:01:46,687 --> 02:01:48,875 In Jerusalem, Hitler will ally with the Grand Mufti Muhammad Haj Amin al-Husseini, 1567 02:01:49,593 --> 02:01:51,002 and together Croat and Muslim in Bosnia form 1568 02:01:51,404 --> 02:01:53,689 the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar. 1569 02:01:55,496 --> 02:01:57,028 Few historians have ever asked way so many foreigners 1570 02:01:57,433 --> 02:01:58,832 supported a supposedly "racist" Hitler. 1571 02:01:59,273 --> 02:02:00,856 The Arabs and the Japanese would not be 1572 02:02:01,261 --> 02:02:03,598 the only non-Whites to fight on the side of the Third Reich. 1573 02:02:05,297 --> 02:02:07,312 Africans, Slavs, Asians, Hindus, Arabs and numerous other nationalities 1574 02:02:07,759 --> 02:02:09,675 all fought shoulder-to-shoulder with Germans. 1575 02:02:11,452 --> 02:02:13,330 Hitler's Wehrmacht and Waffen SS were in reality the most culturally, 1576 02:02:13,764 --> 02:02:15,819 ethnicaly and religiously diverse military forces in Western history. 1577 02:02:39,978 --> 02:02:41,664 Usta�e 1578 02:02:47,510 --> 02:02:49,644 With uncompromising hatred, fanatical nationalism and die-hard religious beliefs 1579 02:02:50,088 --> 02:02:51,967 all in play, the horrors about to occur in the Balkans are unparalleled. 1580 02:02:53,765 --> 02:02:55,371 Yugoslavia will become a war zone of competing political interests 1581 02:02:55,798 --> 02:02:58,048 and disparate ideologies, including Socialism, Fascism, Commuism, Monarchism, 1582 02:02:58,491 --> 02:03:00,468 and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. 1583 02:03:12,452 --> 02:03:14,481 It is well-documented and undeniable that the fiercely nationalistic and fanatical 1584 02:03:14,855 --> 02:03:16,274 Croatian Usta�e persecuted Jews. 1585 02:03:16,920 --> 02:03:18,340 Communists are perceived enemies of the state, 1586 02:03:18,771 --> 02:03:20,647 holding them in camps such as those at Jasenovac. 1587 02:03:21,613 --> 02:03:23,813 The Croats had been victims themselves however, having suffered terriby 1588 02:03:24,249 --> 02:03:25,705 at the hands of the Serbs and Bolshevik partisans. 1589 02:03:26,753 --> 02:03:28,425 Indeed, the Usta�e's elite unit- the Black Legion - 1590 02:03:28,881 --> 02:03:30,377 was formed on 3 Sptember 1941 by the Croat and Muslim survivors 1591 02:03:30,777 --> 02:03:32,291 who had fled Sarajevo after seeing their families 1592 02:03:32,703 --> 02:03:34,405 butchred by Serbs and Chetniks. 1593 02:03:44,217 --> 02:03:45,881 They eventually earned a reputation as the most brutal and ruthless 1594 02:03:46,794 --> 02:03:48,129 of Usta�e units with a motto of... 1595 02:03:48,761 --> 02:03:50,262 "No quarter asked, none given." 1596 02:03:51,044 --> 02:03:52,819 Their finest hour came in the defence of the town Kupres where, 1597 02:03:53,298 --> 02:03:54,883 although heavily outnumbered, they and other Usta�e units 1598 02:03:55,360 --> 02:03:56,925 successfully defended the civilian population against 1599 02:03:57,408 --> 02:03:59,440 four Communist partisan regiments, preventing their certain death. 1600 02:04:00,303 --> 02:04:02,097 When the war ends, after successfuly escaping the Communists, 1601 02:04:02,545 --> 02:04:04,367 hundreds of thousands of Croat soldiers throw down their weapons 1602 02:04:04,871 --> 02:04:06,923 and surrender to the Western Allies at the Austrian border town of Bleiburg. 1603 02:04:08,488 --> 02:04:10,136 However, the British Army will trick the unarmed POWs and their families 1604 02:04:10,616 --> 02:04:12,430 into boarding trains supposedly heading West. 1605 02:04:14,144 --> 02:04:15,999 The trains will instead trasport them East, over the border to Yugoslavia, 1606 02:04:16,483 --> 02:04:18,354 and towards certain death at the hands of the victorious partisans 1607 02:04:18,764 --> 02:04:20,194 led by Marshal Josip Tito. 1608 02:04:21,357 --> 02:04:22,998 On arrival, they are dragged from the tranis and the men shot. 1609 02:04:23,409 --> 02:04:25,048 The women and children are forced on foot to prison camps where, 1610 02:04:25,486 --> 02:04:27,853 along the way, many are raped, beaten or murdered. 1611 02:04:29,065 --> 02:04:30,654 Hidden from the history books, it is the worst massacre 1612 02:04:31,091 --> 02:04:32,875 of 20th century Europe, and became known in Croatia as: 1613 02:04:34,528 --> 02:04:35,809 "The Bleiburg Massacre" 1614 02:04:57,978 --> 02:04:59,721 THE BATTLE OF MOSCOW 1615 02:05:01,996 --> 02:05:04,896 In the dark days of Autumn 1941, 1616 02:05:04,996 --> 02:05:08,347 the Summers' defeats have decimated the Red Army, 1617 02:05:08,447 --> 02:05:11,798 and Hitler's artillery could strike Moscow itself. 1618 02:05:13,098 --> 02:05:16,599 Soviet Union seems on the brink of total defeat. 1619 02:05:16,999 --> 02:05:19,599 But Stalin has his back to the wall 1620 02:05:19,699 --> 02:05:23,100 and he will stop at nothing to protect his power base. 1621 02:05:26,101 --> 02:05:30,602 Hitler and the Allies, expect the fall of Moscow at any moment. 1622 02:05:35,403 --> 02:05:38,237 In the capital, an agitated Stalin 1623 02:05:38,612 --> 02:05:40,755 entrusts the defense to general Zhukov. 1624 02:05:42,904 --> 02:05:45,755 And it is his suggestion at the end of November, 1625 02:05:45,855 --> 02:05:48,606 of a counter-attack against the German pincers 1626 02:05:48,706 --> 02:05:53,807 that triggers hurried planning for a massive Soviet counter-offensive. 1627 02:06:00,808 --> 02:06:07,009 It is a plan made possible by the seemingly limitless depth of Red Army reserves. 1628 02:06:07,109 --> 02:06:08,915 His agent in Tokyo, Richard Sorge, 1629 02:06:09,439 --> 02:06:12,006 has sent word that Japan will not as feared, 1630 02:06:12,511 --> 02:06:16,011 attack the USSR from Manchuria. 1631 02:06:18,312 --> 02:06:23,513 And for once, crucially, Stalin trusts the advice of a minion. 1632 02:06:25,513 --> 02:06:28,700 He authorizes the transfer West of more than half 1633 02:06:29,213 --> 02:06:31,027 the Soviet strength in the Far East. 1634 02:06:32,715 --> 02:06:38,316 17 fresh divisions, trained regulars with full armored and artillery support, 1635 02:06:38,416 --> 02:06:41,242 that will form the heart of the counter-attack. 1636 02:06:46,518 --> 02:06:50,419 The first days of December are an agony of anticipation, 1637 02:06:50,519 --> 02:06:54,619 but on the 5th Zhukov unleashes his armies. 1638 02:07:05,922 --> 02:07:10,523 Within 48 hours the Soviet thrusts are fully underway. 1639 02:07:13,123 --> 02:07:17,924 Hitler's furious order to hold advanced positions is meaningless. 1640 02:07:19,625 --> 02:07:24,220 The Red Army's new T-34 tanks are rugged, powerful fighting machines 1641 02:07:24,320 --> 02:07:28,916 designed to perform unfailingly in the bitter cold of deepest Winter. 1642 02:07:29,327 --> 02:07:34,723 And swarms of specialist ski troops are too fast for the ill-clad Wehrmacht. 1643 02:07:39,429 --> 02:07:43,330 German troops can only fall back in astonished disarray. 1644 02:07:43,430 --> 02:07:48,793 As army groups enter, the juggernaut that was to crush Moscow, is smashed apart. 1645 02:07:55,232 --> 02:07:57,879 After 6 months of catastrophic defeats, 1646 02:07:58,373 --> 02:08:01,524 the Red Army's hard-fought victory is undeniable. 1647 02:08:03,734 --> 02:08:05,258 And as the year closes, 1648 02:08:05,682 --> 02:08:07,809 Soviet towns and villages west of the capital 1649 02:08:08,435 --> 02:08:11,542 are being freed from their brief Nazi occupation. 1650 02:08:15,636 --> 02:08:17,970 There will be more sweeping Soviet victories, 1651 02:08:18,395 --> 02:08:20,049 but none will burn more brightly 1652 02:08:20,237 --> 02:08:24,388 than this first astounding recovery from the brink of defeat. 1653 02:08:29,039 --> 02:08:32,000 Convinced now that Germany is on the brink of collapse, 1654 02:08:32,340 --> 02:08:35,341 Stalin demands attack after attack. 1655 02:08:36,541 --> 02:08:39,341 Every remaining reserve is thrown into the fray 1656 02:08:39,441 --> 02:08:43,142 as he seeks to drive the invader from Soviet territory. 1657 02:08:45,843 --> 02:08:47,643 But it is impossible. 1658 02:08:47,743 --> 02:08:50,130 Their superhuman effort has taken its toll, 1659 02:08:51,614 --> 02:08:53,110 and the armies are exhausted. 1660 02:08:56,445 --> 02:08:59,746 Dissipated by Stalin's overreaching ambition, 1661 02:08:59,846 --> 02:09:04,495 the offensives make only trivial gains and at a dreadful cost. 1662 02:09:05,447 --> 02:09:08,848 And by the time its attacks peter out in February, 1663 02:09:08,948 --> 02:09:13,416 the Red Army has lost almost a million troops in the battle for Moscow. 1664 02:09:14,149 --> 02:09:18,928 That grim statistic will be hidden from the Soviet people for half a century. 1665 02:09:25,851 --> 02:09:30,152 The majority of Wehrmacht units may have escaped encirclement, 1666 02:09:30,252 --> 02:09:32,853 but they could not save their equipment. 1667 02:09:33,553 --> 02:09:39,354 Now it lies abandoned everywhere; a gigantic German scrapyard. 1668 02:09:51,457 --> 02:09:55,157 It is a fitting sight to show British foreign minister Eden 1669 02:09:55,257 --> 02:09:57,587 when he arrives to survey the battlefields. 1670 02:09:58,558 --> 02:10:01,897 For neither Britain nor Stalin's new ally the United States 1671 02:10:02,159 --> 02:10:05,710 believed that Moscow could survive the German onslaught. 1672 02:10:12,061 --> 02:10:17,662 But if the Western Allies are amazed, this one victory has revealed to Stalin 1673 02:10:17,762 --> 02:10:23,363 a mirage of complete triumph and he is totally committed to further attack. 1674 02:10:25,364 --> 02:10:27,464 But he has miscalculated. 1675 02:10:27,564 --> 02:10:29,465 The Wehrmacht is not yet beaten 1676 02:10:29,565 --> 02:10:34,066 and a furious Hitler is planning massive new offensives. 1677 02:10:37,566 --> 02:10:42,667 His folly will again compel the Red Army to fight in desperate defense. 1678 02:10:46,268 --> 02:10:49,373 And so the Soviet people must struggle on. 1679 02:10:50,669 --> 02:10:53,403 It will be a long, painful journey 1680 02:10:53,885 --> 02:10:57,673 and many will not survive to its conclusion. 1681 02:11:02,889 --> 02:11:04,577 RUSSIAN COSSACKS IN THE BALKANS 1682 02:11:08,292 --> 02:11:10,305 After the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Communist Bolshevik regime brought 1683 02:11:10,690 --> 02:11:11,993 nothing but death and misery to much of the population, 1684 02:11:12,445 --> 02:11:13,681 especially ethnic minorities. 1685 02:11:14,029 --> 02:11:15,325 One such oppresed group was to rise up 1686 02:11:15,733 --> 02:11:16,936 and fight alongside the Germans. 1687 02:11:17,492 --> 02:11:19,192 With their reputation for toughness, mobility and fearles fighting, 1688 02:11:19,535 --> 02:11:21,294 they are well-suited for the rugged terrain of the Balkans. 1689 02:11:21,744 --> 02:11:23,318 Allocated to clear the region of Communist partisans, 1690 02:11:23,554 --> 02:11:26,226 they are led by charismatic German officer... 1691 02:11:28,081 --> 02:11:30,546 General Helmuth von Pannwitz 1692 02:11:48,748 --> 02:11:50,506 During oprations in Serbia and Croatia, there occured a number of atrocities 1693 02:11:50,926 --> 02:11:52,726 against the civilian popuation, including mass rapes and executions. 1694 02:11:56,994 --> 02:11:59,273 But an order by General von Panwitz dated 20 October 1943 1695 02:11:59,649 --> 02:12:01,489 made it absolutey clear to all under his command 1696 02:12:01,990 --> 02:12:03,371 that any crimes of such a nature were to be punished by death. 1697 02:12:04,657 --> 02:12:06,664 On 11 May 1945, General von Pannwitz surrender to the British Army 1698 02:12:07,160 --> 02:12:08,931 in allied-administred Austria, after the Germans were assured 1699 02:12:09,490 --> 02:12:12,532 they would remain in the custody of Western powers. 1700 02:12:23,744 --> 02:12:25,861 By mid-May it was becoming clear that the Cossacks would be 1701 02:12:26,366 --> 02:12:28,918 sent back to the Soviet Union to face execution of the Gulag prison camps. 1702 02:12:29,481 --> 02:12:31,152 This action will forever become known as... 1703 02:12:31,864 --> 02:12:33,582 "The Betrayal of the Cossacks" 1704 02:12:43,650 --> 02:12:45,980 As a German national under the proection of the Geneva Conventios, 1705 02:12:46,460 --> 02:12:49,448 General von Pannwitz was not subject to banishmet to the Soviet Union. 1706 02:12:51,658 --> 02:12:52,792 Knowing full well the consequences, 1707 02:12:53,175 --> 02:12:54,998 he refused to abandon his Cossacks comrades, stating: 1708 02:12:55,659 --> 02:12:57,587 "I was with the Cossacks in good times and I will stay with them in bad times." 1709 02:12:59,111 --> 02:13:01,331 On 26 May, he was relieved of his command and placed under arrest. 1710 02:13:01,890 --> 02:13:03,918 The British Army then set about Cossacks onto railway trucks 1711 02:13:04,547 --> 02:13:05,705 by beating them with baseball bats and rifle butts. 1712 02:13:06,198 --> 02:13:07,386 The fighting lasted for several days. 1713 02:13:08,245 --> 02:13:10,137 Eventually the British would deliver to the Red Army around 40.000 Cossacks, 1714 02:13:10,527 --> 02:13:11,819 and with them their women and children. 1715 02:13:12,378 --> 02:13:14,193 Many are not even Soviet citizens, and those who were not sent 1716 02:13:14,588 --> 02:13:16,122 to the Gulag are subequently executed. 1717 02:13:28,361 --> 02:13:31,327 General Helmuth von Pannwitz was executed in Moscow on 16 January 1947. 1718 02:13:31,783 --> 02:13:33,475 He is to this day known by the Cossacks as... 1719 02:13:34,097 --> 02:13:35,982 "The Last Knight of Europe" 1720 02:13:47,051 --> 02:13:48,719 "Betrayal of the Cossacks" 1721 02:14:03,467 --> 02:14:05,452 To be continued 1722 02:14:13,208 --> 02:14:15,656 Part 10 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 1723 02:14:19,823 --> 02:14:22,443 THE SOVIET UNION 1942 1724 02:14:23,475 --> 02:14:25,514 As the spring campaigning season opens, 1725 02:14:26,202 --> 02:14:28,567 the Red Army's victories of late 1941 1726 02:14:29,221 --> 02:14:31,085 seem suddenly meaningless. 1727 02:14:32,836 --> 02:14:35,156 A hasty Soviet attack in the south against Kharkov 1728 02:14:35,885 --> 02:14:38,256 is swallowed up by a German counteroffensive. 1729 02:14:50,712 --> 02:14:53,714 For Soviet soldiers, this could so easily be the end. 1730 02:14:58,557 --> 02:15:00,581 Even Stalin's son has been captured. 1731 02:15:01,191 --> 02:15:03,245 And his image on propaganda leaflets Yakov Dzhugashvili 1732 02:15:03,577 --> 02:15:06,031 adds credence to German claims of imminent victory. 1733 02:15:07,219 --> 02:15:11,087 And on the brink of catastrophe, he resorts as always, to terror. 1734 02:15:13,672 --> 02:15:18,952 Stalin's secret order number 227, issued under his signature in late July 1942. 1735 02:15:22,937 --> 02:15:27,687 This notorious document makes any unauthorized retreat punishable by death. 1736 02:15:30,637 --> 02:15:34,235 Not one step back. Stalin means it literally. 1737 02:15:36,160 --> 02:15:40,994 And this unique footage shows NKVD troops putting his edict into practice. 1738 02:15:43,432 --> 02:15:44,984 They're known as blocking units. 1739 02:15:46,807 --> 02:15:48,231 Deployed just behind the troops, 1740 02:15:48,714 --> 02:15:52,642 they pass instant sentence on any who disobey order 227. 1741 02:15:53,702 --> 02:15:57,641 Enforcing the supreme commander's will without hesitation or mercy. 1742 02:16:01,404 --> 02:16:03,485 Stalin will reject exchanging German prisoners for the return of his son, 1743 02:16:03,884 --> 02:16:06,133 reportedly stating, "I have no son named Yakov" 1744 02:16:06,907 --> 02:16:08,946 Yakov died in German captivity, although the circumstances are unclear. 1745 02:16:09,329 --> 02:16:10,841 One account says he ran into an electric fence 1746 02:16:11,151 --> 02:16:12,146 surrounding his POW camp. 1747 02:16:12,545 --> 02:16:14,095 Another, that he was shot whilst trying to ecape. 1748 02:16:24,407 --> 02:16:26,407 The F�hrer is confident now, 1749 02:16:26,507 --> 02:16:32,310 certain that the Wehrmacht can seize the vital oil centers of Grozny and Baku. 1750 02:16:32,410 --> 02:16:36,033 Two smaller German armies have been advancing slowly east 1751 02:16:36,312 --> 02:16:39,613 towards the industrial city of Stalingrad. 1752 02:16:40,414 --> 02:16:44,615 He sees a chance to cut all links between Moscow and the Caucasus. 1753 02:16:44,715 --> 02:16:48,234 The city on the Volga becomes his new prime target. 1754 02:16:52,816 --> 02:16:54,592 JAPAN AT WAR 1755 02:16:59,903 --> 02:17:01,681 After the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the Japanese will now seek 1756 02:17:02,095 --> 02:17:03,571 to rid from the region the domineering 1757 02:17:04,016 --> 02:17:05,534 Western powers of Britain and United States. 1758 02:17:06,276 --> 02:17:07,691 On Christmas Day 1941, they capture Hong Kong from British. 1759 02:17:08,195 --> 02:17:09,727 The Phiippines, Burma and British Malaya 1760 02:17:10,120 --> 02:17:11,229 all fall in quick succession. 1761 02:17:11,699 --> 02:17:13,255 However, their greatest prize will be the taking of the British 1762 02:17:13,694 --> 02:17:14,732 stronghold of Singpore. 1763 02:17:15,517 --> 02:17:17,297 Vastly outnumbered, 30.000 Japanese troops force over 100.000 British, 1764 02:17:17,635 --> 02:17:19,328 Australian and Indian soldiers to surrender. 1765 02:17:20,220 --> 02:17:22,238 It will be one of the most humiliating defeats ever for the British Empire. 1766 02:17:35,963 --> 02:17:37,518 Winston Churchill describe the fall of Singapore as... 1767 02:17:38,268 --> 02:17:41,231 "The worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history." 1768 02:17:45,526 --> 02:17:47,043 Later, historians will point the finger at Churchill himself 1769 02:17:47,425 --> 02:17:49,414 and blunder he made in underestimating the Japanese. 1770 02:18:03,411 --> 02:18:03,515 Hours after surrendering to the Japanese, 1771 02:18:03,912 --> 02:18:05,862 Austrlian-born Lieutenant General Gordon Bennett and several of his officers 1772 02:18:06,301 --> 02:18:08,040 deserted their men and absconded to Australia. 1773 02:18:09,766 --> 02:18:11,410 He was never given a major position of command again. 1774 02:18:30,985 --> 02:18:33,302 SINGAPORE SURRENDERS Fighting Ceased at 10 P.M. Sunday 1775 02:18:36,524 --> 02:18:37,343 HONGKONG SURRENDERS! 1776 02:18:37,784 --> 02:18:38,837 ANEMY ASKS FOR ARMISTICE AT 5:50 P.M. THURSDAY 1777 02:18:39,661 --> 02:18:41,091 BRITISH ASIA FLEET SMASHED 1778 02:18:41,575 --> 02:18:43,007 Japanese Land at Guam: Nippon Losses Insignificant 1779 02:18:57,503 --> 02:18:58,701 In 1942, at the height of its power, 1780 02:18:59,127 --> 02:19:01,055 the Japanese Empire ruled over an area spanning 2.847.000 squre miles. 1781 02:19:01,525 --> 02:19:03,315 It was one of the largest maritime empires in history. 1782 02:19:27,633 --> 02:19:29,571 JULY 1942 1783 02:19:29,987 --> 02:19:31,507 The Wehrmacht are at the gates of Stalingrad. 1784 02:19:32,008 --> 02:19:33,704 An order from Stalin will prevent civilians, even women and children, 1785 02:19:34,054 --> 02:19:35,236 from leaving the city. 1786 02:19:35,579 --> 02:19:37,032 His reasoning is that their presence will encourage 1787 02:19:37,430 --> 02:19:39,205 greater resisance from the city's defenders. 1788 02:19:45,295 --> 02:19:48,597 Stalingrad seems there for the taking. 1789 02:19:54,299 --> 02:19:59,201 But this is Stalin's city, the very symbol of his personal prestige. 1790 02:19:59,301 --> 02:20:04,204 And that is something even women and children are expected to defend. 1791 02:20:09,806 --> 02:20:12,076 THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD 23 AUGUST 1942 1792 02:20:49,924 --> 02:20:55,126 But when the thunder finally abates, 50.000 lay dead. 1793 02:21:13,834 --> 02:21:18,408 Now, the Wehrmacht is moving in to claim the rubble for its own. 1794 02:21:21,538 --> 02:21:23,639 As they inch through the suburbs, 1795 02:21:23,739 --> 02:21:27,886 German troops surely expect a rapid conquest. 1796 02:21:31,242 --> 02:21:36,544 Instead, they are entering a savage killing ground, for a duel to the death 1797 02:21:36,644 --> 02:21:39,860 that will rank among the most terrible in human experience. 1798 02:21:43,447 --> 02:21:47,849 For at their approach the ruins spring to furious life. 1799 02:21:54,552 --> 02:21:58,515 Soviet soldiers and citizens do not even contemplate surrender. 1800 02:21:59,655 --> 02:22:02,602 A thousand desperate battles erupt on the streets. 1801 02:22:02,856 --> 02:22:07,559 And a wild labyrinth of constantly shifting front lines swamps the city. 1802 02:22:08,358 --> 02:22:12,773 The front line might be a house, an alley, a tram line or a wall. 1803 02:22:18,963 --> 02:22:20,794 And every street is a minefield, 1804 02:22:21,218 --> 02:22:24,475 virtually impassible for tanks or big guns. 1805 02:22:27,367 --> 02:22:30,453 So that soldiers, denied air and artillery support, 1806 02:22:31,005 --> 02:22:32,479 must fight eyeball to eyeball, 1807 02:22:33,169 --> 02:22:37,660 lives hanging on their wits, their battle skills and their cunning. 1808 02:22:39,972 --> 02:22:43,053 General Chuikov, in command of the 62nd Army, 1809 02:22:43,558 --> 02:22:45,125 mounts a skillful campaign, 1810 02:22:45,475 --> 02:22:49,128 but his outnumbered troops cannot hope to stop the Wehrmacht. 1811 02:22:53,578 --> 02:22:57,280 And by early November it has cut a swath across Stalingrad, 1812 02:22:57,380 --> 02:23:00,181 splitting the 62nd Army in two. 1813 02:23:01,182 --> 02:23:02,911 In a last desperate gesture, 1814 02:23:03,359 --> 02:23:07,341 Chuikov mounts assault after assault on the Mamayev ground, 1815 02:23:07,843 --> 02:23:11,611 a vital patch of high ground, the very hub of the battle zone. 1816 02:23:12,087 --> 02:23:15,488 The hill changes hands no less than eight times, 1817 02:23:15,588 --> 02:23:18,125 as Chuikov throws everything into the fray. 1818 02:23:18,589 --> 02:23:24,192 And from the USA's Alaskan airfields, fighter aircraft fly into Siberia 1819 02:23:24,292 --> 02:23:28,673 to aid a Red Army almost ready to launch its counterstrike. 1820 02:23:29,194 --> 02:23:31,295 And on the 19th of November, 1821 02:23:31,395 --> 02:23:35,871 a huge artillery barrage by the southwest front pierces the front. 1822 02:23:43,801 --> 02:23:48,803 And Yeryomenko's southern wing surges forward on the next day. 1823 02:23:52,404 --> 02:23:56,689 The Wehrmacht, taken utterly by surprise, cannot stop them. 1824 02:23:57,707 --> 02:24:00,308 And as its allies collapse on the flanks, 1825 02:24:00,408 --> 02:24:04,188 there are no reserves to stem the resurgent Red tide. 1826 02:24:05,910 --> 02:24:10,012 Within 3 days the Southwest Front has taken Kalach, 1827 02:24:10,112 --> 02:24:13,214 some 80 kilometers West of Stalingrad. 1828 02:24:16,015 --> 02:24:20,117 And on the 23rd of November, a few miles southwest of Kalach, 1829 02:24:20,217 --> 02:24:23,315 its advanced units meet up with Yeryomenko's forces. 1830 02:24:32,422 --> 02:24:36,624 Suddenly the German's Sixth Army and the Fourth Panzer Army, 1831 02:24:36,724 --> 02:24:39,026 perhaps 300.000 of Hitler's finest troops, 1832 02:24:39,478 --> 02:24:42,102 are surrounded inside Stalingrad. 1833 02:24:45,328 --> 02:24:48,503 The hunter has been captured by his prey. 1834 02:24:53,631 --> 02:24:59,234 An astonished Hitler summons Manstein, his troubleshooter, to Stalingrad. 1835 02:24:59,334 --> 02:25:02,335 Two Soviet armies, the 51st and Second guards, 1836 02:25:02,435 --> 02:25:06,517 are rushed to meet Manstein's relief force and stop it dead in its tracks. 1837 02:25:07,137 --> 02:25:09,996 The guards pay a high price for stopping Manstein. 1838 02:25:11,539 --> 02:25:14,323 Almost two-thirds of the army is killed or wounded. 1839 02:25:15,641 --> 02:25:18,927 There will be no relief now for German troops in Stalingrad. 1840 02:25:20,443 --> 02:25:21,454 The Luftwaffe tries, 1841 02:25:22,107 --> 02:25:24,894 but the Red Army brings up extra AA batteries. 1842 02:25:25,345 --> 02:25:27,118 And the lumbering German transports 1843 02:25:27,451 --> 02:25:29,569 are blown out of the sky in their hundreds. 1844 02:25:34,449 --> 02:25:36,846 Yet, like Soviet troops before them, 1845 02:25:37,501 --> 02:25:39,394 they entertain no thought of surrender. 1846 02:25:40,252 --> 02:25:42,169 For ordinary soldiers on both sides, 1847 02:25:42,553 --> 02:25:45,771 this is the ghastly climax to a long, dark journey. 1848 02:25:50,757 --> 02:25:51,967 In the heart of the cauldron, 1849 02:25:52,570 --> 02:25:55,445 Hitler's gladiators know now that they are doomed. 1850 02:25:59,560 --> 02:26:04,162 They evacuate a few casualties on the last plane out of Stalingrad. 1851 02:26:05,763 --> 02:26:10,982 And with it go their last words to families, lovers, friends. 1852 02:26:52,684 --> 02:26:54,055 But though they fight on, 1853 02:26:54,155 --> 02:26:55,527 the bullets are running out, 1854 02:26:56,319 --> 02:26:58,660 and the Red Army is still coming at them. 1855 02:27:06,490 --> 02:27:09,192 Finally, after five long months, 1856 02:27:09,670 --> 02:27:12,899 a battle that began almost by accident is over. 1857 02:27:20,330 --> 02:27:21,356 2 Feb 1943 1858 02:27:21,456 --> 02:27:23,812 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets. 1859 02:27:30,701 --> 02:27:32,397 300.000 German, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian and Italian soldiers, 1860 02:27:32,839 --> 02:27:34,623 including 35.000 Soviet volunteers fighting the Communists, 1861 02:27:35,034 --> 02:27:36,435 had been surrouded. 1862 02:27:36,999 --> 02:27:39,453 Over 11.000 would refuse to lay down their arms at the official surrender, 1863 02:27:39,840 --> 02:27:42,266 preferring instead a fight to the death with the Bolsheviks. 1864 02:27:52,139 --> 02:27:54,276 By early March all pockets of resistance had been wiped out. 1865 02:27:55,519 --> 02:27:57,332 Of those who remained, many will freeze to death 1866 02:27:57,701 --> 02:27:59,085 on the forced marches East. 1867 02:27:59,552 --> 02:28:01,314 Others die from disease or mistreatmet, or are worked to death 1868 02:28:01,754 --> 02:28:03,229 in the Gulag concenration camps. 1869 02:28:13,249 --> 02:28:14,490 Later, historians would confirm 1870 02:28:14,964 --> 02:28:17,286 that of the 11.237 letters sent by soldiers in Stalingrad to their families, 1871 02:28:17,784 --> 02:28:19,976 almoust all expresed a willingess to fight Communism 1872 02:28:20,418 --> 02:28:23,224 and die for National Socialism and the F�hrer Adolf Hitler. 1873 02:28:33,837 --> 02:28:37,031 Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus was held prisoner in the Soviet Union until 1952, 1874 02:28:37,448 --> 02:28:39,030 when he settled in Dresden, East Germany. 1875 02:28:39,488 --> 02:28:41,031 He would spend the remainder of his days 1876 02:28:41,417 --> 02:28:43,548 defending his actions at Stalingrad. 1877 02:28:44,326 --> 02:28:45,793 Later he would be quoted as saying... 1878 02:28:46,247 --> 02:28:48,161 Communism was the best hope for postwar Europe. 1879 02:28:48,947 --> 02:28:50,379 In 1955, only 6.000 of an estimated 1880 02:28:50,732 --> 02:28:52,732 90.000 prisoners or more would return home. 1881 02:29:01,477 --> 02:29:03,733 Stlingrad would prove to be a turning point in the war. 1882 02:29:14,468 --> 02:29:15,859 To be continued 1883 02:29:18,795 --> 02:29:20,737 Part 11 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 1884 02:29:26,554 --> 02:29:27,399 From early February, 1885 02:29:27,975 --> 02:29:31,337 Stalin orders new offensives all along the southern fronts. 1886 02:29:33,459 --> 02:29:35,538 Though they have fought and survived the Battle of Stalingrad, 1887 02:29:36,244 --> 02:29:38,341 their commanders can permit them no rest. 1888 02:29:39,824 --> 02:29:42,688 Instead they must struggle on through the late winter blizzards, 1889 02:29:43,332 --> 02:29:46,519 instruments of their supreme commander's lust for glory. 1890 02:29:48,467 --> 02:29:52,686 The Red Army drives deep into Nazi held territories fighting exhaustion, 1891 02:29:52,917 --> 02:29:56,870 cold, mud. Inch by inch the infantry advances. 1892 02:30:04,836 --> 02:30:07,085 The F�hrer knows that if his stretched forces 1893 02:30:07,461 --> 02:30:09,815 are to defeat the Red Army in 1943, 1894 02:30:10,255 --> 02:30:11,650 they must attack quickly 1895 02:30:12,075 --> 02:30:14,603 before it can recover from the losses of the winter. 1896 02:30:15,406 --> 02:30:18,338 Hitler's strategy is simple and optimistic. 1897 02:30:19,718 --> 02:30:21,053 In a two-pronged attack, 1898 02:30:21,463 --> 02:30:24,516 he plans to destroy the Soviet position around Kursk. 1899 02:30:24,894 --> 02:30:29,102 On the map, a great bulge 130 miles long and 100 miles deep 1900 02:30:29,659 --> 02:30:31,336 at the center of the eastern front. 1901 02:30:35,408 --> 02:30:39,079 And so now, two gigantic armies are converging. 1902 02:30:39,830 --> 02:30:43,374 The greatest tank battle of all time is about to begin. 1903 02:30:43,722 --> 02:30:45,320 THE BATTLE OF KURSK 1904 02:33:01,662 --> 02:33:04,036 The great barrage of Katyusha rockets and artillery 1905 02:33:04,894 --> 02:33:07,991 announces counteroffensives by 4 more Soviet armies 1906 02:33:08,572 --> 02:33:12,301 sweeping around the rear of the battered German divisions. 1907 02:34:12,856 --> 02:34:14,551 German offensive operations are halted. 1908 02:34:15,524 --> 02:34:17,668 The Wehrmacht can only retreat. 1909 02:34:18,402 --> 02:34:20,881 It leaves behind the mangled debris of war. 1910 02:34:25,156 --> 02:34:28,344 Battle zones littered with charred and broken tanks, 1911 02:34:28,792 --> 02:34:31,286 and the bodies of hundreds of thousands of men. 1912 02:34:42,717 --> 02:34:46,707 For survivors of this savage inferno, shattered, shell-shocked, 1913 02:34:47,123 --> 02:34:50,489 stunned by the horrors they have witnessed, there can be no joy. 1914 02:34:54,470 --> 02:34:56,038 The Battle of Kursk 5 July 1943- 23 August 1943 1915 02:34:56,690 --> 02:34:58,346 Outnumbered by more that two to one, 1916 02:34:58,711 --> 02:35:00,770 the Germans suffer casualties of around 203.000. whilst Communist losses 1917 02:35:01,452 --> 02:35:02,597 amount to some 803.000. 1918 02:35:03,117 --> 02:35:04,978 The Germans however failed to achieve their goal. 1919 02:35:06,060 --> 02:35:08,301 With the US opening a new front in Italy, after the batle of Kursk, 1920 02:35:08,830 --> 02:35:10,896 never again will Germany regain the initiative. 1921 02:35:25,685 --> 02:35:27,783 The Germans will now fight a rearguard action in freezing weather conditions, 1922 02:35:28,263 --> 02:35:30,223 and at the same time offer much-needed protection to refugees fleeing 1923 02:35:30,674 --> 02:35:32,179 the rampaging Communists. 1924 02:35:49,939 --> 02:35:53,697 "1943 the story changed and the Germans were pushed back. 1925 02:35:54,361 --> 02:35:59,371 And in the pushback they moved us with them, and we went willingly. 1926 02:36:01,951 --> 02:36:04,750 There was no moving at gunpoint. 1927 02:36:04,850 --> 02:36:06,250 Had we stayed back 1928 02:36:06,350 --> 02:36:07,922 the Communists would have taken us and executed us 1929 02:36:08,283 --> 02:36:09,590 or shipped us to Siberia. 1930 02:36:10,061 --> 02:36:13,491 So we very willingly retreated with the Germans. 1931 02:36:17,872 --> 02:36:19,275 Food was getting short. 1932 02:36:19,594 --> 02:36:20,753 The horses were getting sick. 1933 02:36:21,969 --> 02:36:23,227 The road was getting narrow. 1934 02:36:23,625 --> 02:36:25,026 It was extremely cold. 1935 02:36:25,382 --> 02:36:28,982 When I think of the war, I do not think of hunger so much as of cold. 1936 02:36:29,514 --> 02:36:31,497 It was always, always cold. 1937 02:36:38,679 --> 02:36:43,237 And then of course once the winter came, it became harder and harder. 1938 02:36:43,990 --> 02:36:47,585 We had to often stay overnight in strange houses. 1939 02:36:48,605 --> 02:36:52,063 The army would confiscate houses, would put the refugees there. 1940 02:36:52,441 --> 02:36:54,154 The army protected us to the end. 1941 02:36:55,008 --> 02:36:59,865 The army never, ever let us down. NEVER let us down, to the very end." 1942 02:37:00,246 --> 02:37:06,345 � And the snow fell, covering the dreams and ideals. 1943 02:37:06,826 --> 02:37:13,829 � And the snow fell, freezing the blood and the wheels. 1944 02:37:14,202 --> 02:37:21,583 � And the snow fell, they had to keep warm for survival. 1945 02:37:21,683 --> 02:37:29,065 � And the snow fell, and defeated the beast's only rival. 1946 02:37:31,544 --> 02:37:37,571 � They took the old roads that Napoleon had taken before. 1947 02:37:39,144 --> 02:37:45,985 � They fought as the forces of light against the darkness in a holy war. 1948 02:37:47,088 --> 02:37:53,137 � One day they were looking around at the sun shining on the cold flowers. 1949 02:37:54,317 --> 02:38:00,393 � The next day they were freezing to death in the snow and the ice cold showers. 1950 02:38:00,806 --> 02:38:07,794 � And the snow fell, covering the dreams and ideals. 1951 02:38:08,202 --> 02:38:15,183 � And the snow fell, freezing the blood and the wheels. 1952 02:38:15,645 --> 02:38:22,020 � And the snow fell, they had to keep warm for survival. 1953 02:38:22,651 --> 02:38:29,986 � And the snow fell, and defeated the beast's only rival." 1954 02:38:36,255 --> 02:38:37,884 PARTISANS - THE RED TEROR 1955 02:38:40,940 --> 02:38:45,339 This secret partisan report declassified for this program 1956 02:38:45,539 --> 02:38:48,739 complains that amongst one large partisan division. 1957 02:38:48,839 --> 02:38:53,005 Drunkenness, robbery, beatings and rape are universal occurrences. 1958 02:38:56,639 --> 02:38:58,722 The widespread terror wrought by the partisans 1959 02:38:59,007 --> 02:39:01,597 was not a story the Communists wished to tell after the war. 1960 02:39:05,756 --> 02:39:08,266 This rare archive shows a woman hanged by the partisans 1961 02:39:08,658 --> 02:39:10,888 and displayed to the rest of the population as a warning. 1962 02:39:19,637 --> 02:39:22,909 These film rushes, never shown to the German public during the war, 1963 02:39:23,811 --> 02:39:27,084 reveal Soviet mutilation of German prisoners. 1964 02:39:35,936 --> 02:39:39,739 Actions like these only served to escalate the level of the German reprisal. 1965 02:39:42,441 --> 02:39:43,641 During our retreat we found 20 soldiers... 1966 02:39:44,736 --> 02:39:46,808 ... murderer in the most bestial manner 1967 02:39:47,545 --> 02:39:51,142 Their ears were cut off, their eyes gouged out, their genitals cut off 1968 02:39:53,295 --> 02:39:56,466 Naturaly, we felt enormous rage 1969 02:40:15,334 --> 02:40:18,898 The partisans became a growing problem for the German occupiers. 1970 02:40:18,998 --> 02:40:22,562 If the Germans suspected a village had been used as a partisan base, 1971 02:40:23,333 --> 02:40:25,702 then it was common practice to burn it to the ground. 1972 02:40:26,332 --> 02:40:28,433 "And we burned the houses. 1973 02:40:28,533 --> 02:40:30,133 On the one hand I didn't regret it too much 1974 02:40:30,233 --> 02:40:32,246 because I knew what was is worth a Russian house? 1975 02:40:33,033 --> 02:40:33,972 They are so primitive anyhow. 1976 02:40:34,633 --> 02:40:38,401 Not comparable to a German house or an English house or French house, or so on. 1977 02:40:39,233 --> 02:40:43,151 Not at all. But all in all, there's not much value in it, in such a house. 1978 02:40:43,831 --> 02:40:45,698 They would survive. That was my feeling." 1979 02:40:57,650 --> 02:40:59,589 In Britain, they have forged a sword, 1980 02:41:00,300 --> 02:41:03,379 a gift to the victor of Stalingrad from King George. 1981 02:41:05,030 --> 02:41:06,518 Earlier, in 1943, 1982 02:41:07,150 --> 02:41:11,395 at Katyn forest near Smolensk, German occupying authorities 1983 02:41:11,694 --> 02:41:15,337 had unearthed the mass graves of 20.000 Polish officers. 1984 02:41:18,329 --> 02:41:21,730 International observers were invited to support Berlin's claim 1985 02:41:22,253 --> 02:41:24,841 that the murders were carried out by the NKVD. 1986 02:41:25,285 --> 02:41:29,690 But Stalin had reacted furiously, denying any link with the massacres. 1987 02:41:33,388 --> 02:41:35,146 But when Allied leaders meet in Teheran, 1988 02:41:35,902 --> 02:41:38,991 Churchill and Roosevelt back their most important ally 1989 02:41:39,430 --> 02:41:42,902 in the face of outraged protest from exiled Poles. 1990 02:41:45,125 --> 02:41:46,364 His sword is presented, 1991 02:41:46,932 --> 02:41:50,211 and Stalin stands as an undisputed world leader. 1992 02:41:52,733 --> 02:41:54,301 THE KATYN MASSACRE 1993 02:41:54,427 --> 02:41:57,769 In March 1940, in a forest near Katyn village, 1994 02:41:58,283 --> 02:42:00,771 eight huge pits were dug. 1995 02:42:01,327 --> 02:42:03,129 Heavy trucks brought in people. 1996 02:42:03,653 --> 02:42:07,628 They were Polish Army Reservists, Doctors, Engineers. 1997 02:42:08,739 --> 02:42:12,425 The Soviets carried out massacres on a regular basis. 1998 02:42:12,637 --> 02:42:16,037 Riga, Tartu, Lviv, Minsk. 1999 02:42:17,043 --> 02:42:19,400 Relatives could not identify many of the corpses. 2000 02:42:20,315 --> 02:42:23,648 Horrific torture had made them unrecognizable. 2001 02:42:24,668 --> 02:42:27,767 The Soviet Union meanwhile had become an Allied power. 2002 02:42:28,836 --> 02:42:32,792 The Soviet officers who pulled out fingernails, cut tongues, 2003 02:42:33,235 --> 02:42:35,979 and perforated the skulls of their victims with nails... 2004 02:42:37,121 --> 02:42:39,496 WERE PAID WITH WESTERN AID! 2005 02:42:41,324 --> 02:42:45,363 The British War Crimes Act gives them immunity from prosecution in Britain, 2006 02:42:46,179 --> 02:42:51,165 because war crimes by definition were committed only by the Germans. 2007 02:42:51,551 --> 02:42:52,615 According to the 1991 BRITISH WAR CRIMECAST 2008 02:42:53,015 --> 02:42:54,807 War crimes by definition were commited ONLY by the Germans. 2009 02:43:00,439 --> 02:43:02,486 In 2012 the World Press reported their recent findings on the Katun Massacre. 2010 02:43:03,447 --> 02:43:05,456 According to documets published Sepember 2012 by US National Archives 2011 02:43:06,049 --> 02:43:07,857 and Records Administration, the US received coded reports in 1943 2012 02:43:08,360 --> 02:43:10,759 from two of its officers taken by they German captors to the Katyn Forest. 2013 02:43:12,539 --> 02:43:14,306 Though the messeges of the US officers reached Washigton, 2014 02:43:14,905 --> 02:43:16,714 they disappeared soon thereafter. 2015 02:43:20,050 --> 02:43:21,982 It has long been suspected that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill 2016 02:43:22,518 --> 02:43:24,682 knew that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has ordered the massacre. 2017 02:43:40,829 --> 02:43:42,828 One thing the World Press forgot to mention... 2018 02:43:52,523 --> 02:43:54,738 Adolf Hitler is now officially exonerated of Katyn Massacre. 2019 02:44:04,904 --> 02:44:06,503 To be continued 2020 02:44:11,137 --> 02:44:13,034 Part 12 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 2021 02:44:18,819 --> 02:44:20,522 On 25 July 1943, Italien leader Benito Mussolini is overthrown and imprisoned. 2022 02:44:20,995 --> 02:44:22,566 Over the next few weeks he will be held in several top secret locations 2023 02:44:22,950 --> 02:44:24,908 on the orders of the new Italien government. 2024 02:44:27,342 --> 02:44:28,918 A hand-picked SS squadron, along with members of Luftwaffe, 2025 02:44:29,684 --> 02:44:30,992 are given the task of finding and rescuing him 2026 02:44:31,364 --> 02:44:32,719 before he can be handed over to the US. 2027 02:44:33,197 --> 02:44:34,917 Hitler had personally interviewed three men to led squadron. 2028 02:44:35,453 --> 02:44:37,072 The men he chose was... Captain Otto Skorzeny. 2029 02:44:42,907 --> 02:44:45,573 With time runing out, Mussolini's whereabouts are finaly discovered at Campo Imperatore 2030 02:44:45,949 --> 02:44:47,220 high in the Apennine Mountains of Italy. 2031 02:44:47,629 --> 02:44:49,629 The plan is to land the commando unit there and assault it. 2032 02:44:51,220 --> 02:44:53,491 German military expert warn Hitler of the high probability of failure 2033 02:44:53,835 --> 02:44:55,435 and to expect an 80 % casaulty rate. 2034 02:44:56,092 --> 02:44:57,735 The codename for the mission is Operation Oak. 2035 02:45:14,141 --> 02:45:17,339 The 12th of September 1943, central Italy. 2036 02:45:18,065 --> 02:45:19,853 High above Mount Gran Sasso. 2037 02:47:48,780 --> 02:47:50,571 The most daring and spectacular raid of World War Two was completed 2038 02:47:50,979 --> 02:47:52,789 in just 12 minutes without a single shot being fired. 2039 02:47:55,556 --> 02:47:56,846 Captain Skorzeny greeted Mussolini with now immortal words... 2040 02:47:57,606 --> 02:47:59,295 "Duce, the Furer has sent me to set you free!" 2041 02:48:00,806 --> 02:48:01,518 To which Mussolini replied... 2042 02:48:01,898 --> 02:48:03,543 "I knew that my friend would not forsake me!" 2043 02:48:04,535 --> 02:48:06,081 On his return, Captain Skorzeny was promoted by Hitler to the rank of Major 2044 02:48:06,482 --> 02:48:08,289 and awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, 2045 02:48:09,441 --> 02:48:11,082 the highest order a German military officer could obtain. 2046 02:48:13,310 --> 02:48:14,930 Mussolini awarded him the Order of 100 Musketeers. 2047 02:48:16,209 --> 02:48:18,497 The Allies would come to know Skorzeny as the most dangerous man in Europe. 2048 02:48:32,006 --> 02:48:33,848 At the Nuremberg Trials, Skorzeny was accused of war crimes but acquitted. 2049 02:48:34,231 --> 02:48:35,543 Whilst awaiting a further trial, he escaped to Spain. 2050 02:48:37,513 --> 02:48:38,953 He then moved to Argentina but return to establish a successful 2051 02:48:39,356 --> 02:48:41,426 construction company that would make him a multi-millionaire. 2052 02:48:42,600 --> 02:48:44,889 Otto Skorzeny finally succumbed to cancer on 5 July 1975, aged 67 in Madrid. 2053 02:48:46,449 --> 02:48:47,863 His ashes were later flown to Viena, Austria to be interred 2054 02:48:47,933 --> 02:48:49,899 in the Skorzeny family plot at D�blinger Friedhof. 2055 02:49:08,864 --> 02:49:10,537 OTTO SKORZENY The most dangerous man in Europe. 2056 02:49:15,258 --> 02:49:18,180 1943 OPERATION GOMORRAH 2057 02:49:21,988 --> 02:49:29,029 On Saturday, July 24th, 792 RAF bombers readied for a night attack on Hamburg. 2058 02:49:31,430 --> 02:49:35,259 Each loaded with tons of high explosives and incendiary bombs. 2059 02:49:38,258 --> 02:49:42,578 It was the first of a series of attacks that would continue for an entire week, 2060 02:49:43,984 --> 02:49:46,821 codenamed Operation Gomorrah. 2061 02:49:53,540 --> 02:49:54,719 By 1943, the US had finally rearmed the British. 2062 02:49:55,172 --> 02:49:57,103 Now the countries of Capitalism and Communism and those they dominate, 2063 02:49:57,462 --> 02:49:59,235 will combine to seek the total annihilation one of most advanced civilisation 2064 02:49:59,682 --> 02:50:00,889 the world had ever seen. 2065 02:50:01,559 --> 02:50:03,045 Under National Socialism, 2066 02:50:03,542 --> 02:50:05,276 Germany in a few short years had arisen 2067 02:50:05,311 --> 02:50:06,843 from financial ruin and social degradation, 2068 02:50:07,192 --> 02:50:09,082 to lead Europe in science, technology art and literature. 2069 02:50:09,586 --> 02:50:10,906 It will now be surrounded. 2070 02:50:11,700 --> 02:50:13,586 The Germany wil eventually be attacked by over 50 countries 2071 02:50:13,995 --> 02:50:15,594 led by the Soviet Union, Britain and the US. 2072 02:50:17,135 --> 02:50:18,415 Over Hamburg, the Americans will strategically bomb 2073 02:50:18,838 --> 02:50:20,484 industrial plants during the day, whilst the British will purposely 2074 02:50:20,890 --> 02:50:22,758 target civilians at night, aiming at the tighty-knit houses 2075 02:50:23,302 --> 02:50:24,673 of the working class communities. 2076 02:50:26,349 --> 02:50:28,085 In what was a heious and barbaric war crime of epic proportions, 2077 02:50:28,583 --> 02:50:30,534 insigned by Churchill and RAF Commander Arthur "Bomber" Harris, 2078 02:50:31,095 --> 02:50:32,981 over 50.000 will be incinerated in the ensuing firestorm 2079 02:50:33,509 --> 02:50:35,604 that will become known as Germany's "Hiroshima". 2080 02:50:39,128 --> 02:50:40,636 The Allies exepect the war to be over by Christmas, 2081 02:50:41,184 --> 02:50:43,186 confident that the firebombing of other cities will force the Germans 2082 02:50:43,643 --> 02:50:45,667 to turn over Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. 2083 02:50:48,545 --> 02:50:50,235 Yet, no matter how many bombs Allies drop on German cities, 2084 02:50:50,683 --> 02:50:52,935 there will never be a hint of an upraising against F�hrer. 2085 02:50:56,408 --> 02:50:59,163 "People were sitting there in the cellar trembling, 2086 02:50:59,548 --> 02:51:03,658 and we saw the walls shivering. 2087 02:51:04,243 --> 02:51:06,416 As it was, but trembling, and... 2088 02:51:08,071 --> 02:51:09,999 those nights we can never forget in our lives. 2089 02:51:10,287 --> 02:51:11,533 I cannot forget it ever. 2090 02:51:13,695 --> 02:51:16,689 We asked ourselves, why are they doing this to our F�hrer? 2091 02:51:16,716 --> 02:51:19,131 And we were told by everyone, 2092 02:51:19,523 --> 02:51:21,810 because they hated the F�hrer. 2093 02:51:22,051 --> 02:51:24,794 Because the F�hrer wanted to create a better world. 2094 02:51:26,817 --> 02:51:28,969 Maybe Churchill and Roosevelt 2095 02:51:29,579 --> 02:51:32,517 thought they could demoralize the German people with bombing? 2096 02:51:33,156 --> 02:51:37,884 And make them surrender? But he reached the opposite of it." 2097 02:52:12,743 --> 02:52:15,341 In the aftermath of the firestorm, 2098 02:52:15,688 --> 02:52:18,365 almost a million refugees fled Hamburg 2099 02:52:18,971 --> 02:52:21,112 and took with them stories of the most terrible 2100 02:52:22,040 --> 02:52:23,517 horror that they'd witnessed. 2101 02:52:24,030 --> 02:52:26,116 This caused a panic across Germany, 2102 02:52:26,627 --> 02:52:29,265 which was unlike anything that they'd ever experienced before. 2103 02:52:31,774 --> 02:52:35,551 In the aftermath of the Hamburg attacks, the American and British commanders 2104 02:52:35,966 --> 02:52:38,781 remained committed to their sharply divergent strategies. 2105 02:52:41,078 --> 02:52:44,342 Eaker continued to press precision attacks on industrial targets. 2106 02:52:44,853 --> 02:52:45,740 Major General Ira C. Eaker 2107 02:52:46,870 --> 02:52:49,317 Harris championed the bombing of cities. Air Chief Marshal Arthur "Bomber" Harris 2108 02:52:49,940 --> 02:52:52,745 And the city he was focused on - Berlin. 2109 02:52:52,776 --> 02:52:53,453 OPERATION "THUNDERCLAP" 2110 02:52:54,981 --> 02:52:56,509 the total devastation of the center of Berlin 2111 02:53:01,063 --> 02:53:02,855 THE RED TERROR MOVES WEST 2112 02:53:05,335 --> 02:53:09,112 Stalin's military troikas come in the wake of the resurgent Red Army. 2113 02:53:10,487 --> 02:53:13,086 They tour a land scorched by the departing Germans, 2114 02:53:13,717 --> 02:53:15,356 convening kangaroo courts 2115 02:53:15,729 --> 02:53:19,706 to purge partisan units of nationalists, anti-Communists. 2116 02:53:29,931 --> 02:53:32,477 There is no hiding place for Nazi collaborators. 2117 02:53:33,107 --> 02:53:35,762 The white card of betrayal hangs round their necks 2118 02:53:36,107 --> 02:53:37,761 as they pay the price of treason. 2119 02:53:47,322 --> 02:53:50,062 There is no pity for the young boys who flocked in innocence 2120 02:53:50,392 --> 02:53:51,649 to join the Hitler Youth. 2121 02:53:53,178 --> 02:53:55,571 His desperate plea for clemency will be in vain. 2122 02:54:12,446 --> 02:54:14,277 THE FLIGHT FROM COMMUNISM 2123 02:54:22,373 --> 02:54:24,140 As the Communists begin to recapture territories formerly occupied by the Germans, 2124 02:54:24,634 --> 02:54:26,274 more and more refugees flee West in a desperate bid to rich safety. 2125 02:54:30,737 --> 02:54:33,183 However, the exodus bring with it poverly, over-crowding and malnutrition. 2126 02:54:33,671 --> 02:54:35,646 These conditions are the perfect breedig ground for what has become known 2127 02:54:36,204 --> 02:54:38,084 over the centuries as the "war disease"... typhus. 2128 02:54:41,306 --> 02:54:42,591 A typhus epidemic had already broken out 2129 02:54:43,096 --> 02:54:44,885 during the summer of 1942 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau POW camp, 2130 02:54:45,357 --> 02:54:47,187 when between 1-19 August, over 4.000 deaths were registered, 2131 02:54:47,682 --> 02:54:49,341 at an average of 216 prisoers a day. 2132 02:54:50,442 --> 02:54:52,197 The Germans managed to save thousands during the outbreak 2133 02:54:52,646 --> 02:54:54,612 using pesticide Zyklon B, but the disease is so deadly 2134 02:54:55,021 --> 02:54:56,678 that the victim's clothing had to be removed after death 2135 02:54:57,155 --> 02:54:59,112 and burned to destroy the typhus-bearing lice. 2136 02:54:59,297 --> 02:55:01,499 In 1943, potentially devastating epidemics in Sicily and throughout Italy 2137 02:55:01,908 --> 02:55:03,780 were only averted by cocerted American delousing campaign 2138 02:55:04,364 --> 02:55:07,128 using the recenty-invented compound called DDT. 2139 02:55:27,672 --> 02:55:31,542 "Germany at that time already was besieged by 51 countries, 2140 02:55:31,838 --> 02:55:33,309 they were struggling for their lives. 2141 02:55:33,637 --> 02:55:34,660 And they took us in. 2142 02:55:37,754 --> 02:55:41,761 We were all put into what looked like a great big bathroom. 2143 02:55:42,171 --> 02:55:45,747 And what happened eventually is that they rained soap and water on us. 2144 02:55:46,099 --> 02:55:48,908 And the reason for that was that we had to be deloused. 2145 02:55:49,234 --> 02:55:50,919 We were so full of lice. 2146 02:55:51,935 --> 02:55:55,175 So, when I hear about the shower heads in the Holocaust, and all of that, 2147 02:55:55,519 --> 02:55:56,429 I know exactly what it was. 2148 02:55:56,755 --> 02:55:59,747 That was soap and water raining down on us to delouse us. 2149 02:56:00,200 --> 02:56:01,393 To wash us down like dogs. 2150 02:56:04,202 --> 02:56:05,470 The same for the cutting of hair. 2151 02:56:05,816 --> 02:56:10,215 I mean we were all shorn bald in order to stop the lice. 2152 02:56:10,515 --> 02:56:12,016 Everybody had lice in the war, 2153 02:56:12,377 --> 02:56:14,032 and this was just common knowledge. 2154 02:56:17,006 --> 02:56:20,699 We considered ourselves lucky if we could ride those cattle cars. 2155 02:56:21,118 --> 02:56:24,043 And yes, they were crammed full of people, and yes it was very difficult, 2156 02:56:25,041 --> 02:56:26,607 you know, to travel like that. 2157 02:56:27,009 --> 02:56:28,612 You couldn't... often you could not sit, 2158 02:56:29,018 --> 02:56:31,320 you had to stand because they were crammed full. 2159 02:56:31,969 --> 02:56:33,612 This is how it was in those years. 2160 02:56:33,954 --> 02:56:35,369 People were hanging on those cattle cars. 2161 02:56:35,743 --> 02:56:37,930 When you see those pictures, that could have been us. 2162 02:56:38,522 --> 02:56:39,462 We were like that. 2163 02:56:41,300 --> 02:56:42,696 The same when you see the bunk beds. 2164 02:56:43,092 --> 02:56:46,054 My goodness, we were lucky if we had bunk beds where you could sleep at night. 2165 02:56:46,495 --> 02:56:49,178 It meant we did not have to sleep outside in the snow." 2166 02:57:15,828 --> 02:57:17,684 To be continued 2167 02:57:26,426 --> 02:57:28,697 Part 13 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 2168 02:57:34,533 --> 02:57:35,719 BATTLE FOR SICILY ENDS 2169 02:57:36,367 --> 02:57:37,949 Order Non-Resident From British Coastal Areas Today 2170 02:57:39,965 --> 02:57:41,480 ITALY DECLERES WAR ON HITLER 2171 02:57:45,854 --> 02:57:47,396 ALLIED ARMIES LAND IN FRANCE IN THE HAVRE-CHERBOURG AREA; 2172 02:57:47,835 --> 02:57:49,579 GREAT INVASION IS UNDER WAY 2173 02:57:51,335 --> 02:57:53,444 SKY TROOPS POUR INTO FRANCE 2174 02:57:53,763 --> 02:57:55,630 On June 5th, 1944, 2175 02:57:56,327 --> 02:57:59,566 as the greatest armada ever assembled left southern England, 2176 02:57:59,966 --> 02:58:04,990 bound for the coast of France, history remembers it as D-Day. 2177 02:58:08,031 --> 02:58:12,029 As the ships head towards France, the men, many of whom will die, 2178 02:58:12,524 --> 02:58:14,758 take care of some last-minute chores. 2179 02:58:19,335 --> 02:58:23,249 This Hitler impersonator took the men's mind off the task at hand, 2180 02:58:23,742 --> 02:58:25,209 at least for a few moments. 2181 02:58:28,690 --> 02:58:32,959 The time for fun ends as the coast of France comes into view. 2182 02:58:33,922 --> 02:58:36,152 The next day on the morning of June 6th, 2183 02:58:36,636 --> 02:58:40,040 a tremendous barrage strikes Hitler's fortifications at Normandy 2184 02:58:40,495 --> 02:58:44,000 softening it up for the men who will soon be in the beaches. 2185 02:58:45,060 --> 02:58:48,087 The night before, 23.000 airborne troops 2186 02:58:48,512 --> 02:58:52,579 parachuted behind enemy lines to secure the flanks of the landing. 2187 02:58:53,531 --> 02:59:01,013 At Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha beaches, 130.000 Allied troops 2188 02:59:01,475 --> 02:59:04,248 would now attack five heavily defended areas 2189 02:59:04,624 --> 02:59:06,303 of Hitler's Atlantic wall. 2190 02:59:08,575 --> 02:59:10,136 Both Roosevelt and Churchill, after years of providing 2191 02:59:10,552 --> 02:59:12,360 the Soviet Union with financial and military aid, 2192 02:59:12,763 --> 02:59:14,522 finaly send in troops to fight and die for Stalin 2193 02:59:15,018 --> 02:59:16,491 and murderous Bolshevik regime. 2194 02:59:16,840 --> 02:59:18,536 The ideologies of Capitalism and Communism will now combine 2195 02:59:19,062 --> 02:59:20,653 to annihilate not only Germany and her people, 2196 02:59:21,155 --> 02:59:23,146 but the very notion of Nacional Socialism itself. 2197 02:59:42,166 --> 02:59:43,638 JUNE 6, 1944 2198 02:59:46,485 --> 02:59:48,323 DOG GREEN SECTOR OMAHA BEACH 2199 03:02:02,024 --> 03:02:03,548 THE BETRAYAL OF POLAND 2200 03:02:11,701 --> 03:02:15,502 The first overt signal that Stalin comes not as liberator but as conqueror 2201 03:02:15,952 --> 03:02:17,515 is seen in late July, 2202 03:02:18,001 --> 03:02:21,529 as General Rokossovsky takes the eastern Polish city of Lublin. 2203 03:02:22,831 --> 03:02:25,312 Within hours of the red flag's appearance over the city, 2204 03:02:25,914 --> 03:02:29,726 Stalin has installed a puppet Communist government: The Lublin Committee. 2205 03:02:34,116 --> 03:02:36,699 Loud denunciations by nationalist Poles in London 2206 03:02:37,200 --> 03:02:39,806 bring little response from the Allied corridors of power. 2207 03:02:40,462 --> 03:02:41,739 And the London Polish government 2208 03:02:42,175 --> 03:02:44,993 is power-less to prevent this theft of its constituency. 2209 03:02:46,059 --> 03:02:48,402 But its cries will not long go unheeded. 2210 03:02:49,191 --> 03:02:52,480 "Uncle" Joe Stalin is about to drop his mask 2211 03:02:52,991 --> 03:02:55,095 and show his true face to the world. 2212 03:02:57,957 --> 03:02:59,094 On the 29th of July, 2213 03:02:59,900 --> 03:03:03,635 Soviet Radio issues a general plea to the Polish resistance movement, 2214 03:03:04,306 --> 03:03:05,192 "The Home Army". 2215 03:03:05,955 --> 03:03:10,249 The carefully worded broadcast calls for active resistance to the occupying forces. 2216 03:03:11,383 --> 03:03:14,257 It gives the impression without ever directly saying so 2217 03:03:14,863 --> 03:03:17,329 that the Red Army is about to storm the city. 2218 03:03:21,700 --> 03:03:25,210 But the Red Army does not move from its positions just east of the city. 2219 03:03:26,178 --> 03:03:29,640 And Stalin, oblivious to mounting pressure from Western leaders, 2220 03:03:30,271 --> 03:03:32,004 grimly rejects Churchill's request 2221 03:03:32,845 --> 03:03:37,174 for the use of Soviet airfields for RAF planes dropping supplies. 2222 03:03:37,662 --> 03:03:40,452 Without help, the Poles are doomed. 2223 03:03:42,902 --> 03:03:46,843 The battle for the city rages all through August and into September. 2224 03:03:48,031 --> 03:03:53,607 But gradually, inevitably, the Polish resistance movement is decimated. 2225 03:03:56,285 --> 03:03:59,083 Stalin bows to international criticism only in September, 2226 03:03:59,744 --> 03:04:02,407 when an increase in Soviet aid comes too late. 2227 03:04:06,845 --> 03:04:09,973 Last Home Army survivors surrender in early October. 2228 03:04:14,033 --> 03:04:16,167 British Prime Minister Churchill visits Moscow, 2229 03:04:16,557 --> 03:04:18,857 and he has come to discuss the fate of Eastern Europe. 2230 03:04:19,321 --> 03:04:21,350 And he knows that there is little that Britain 2231 03:04:21,695 --> 03:04:23,150 or even the United States can do 2232 03:04:23,791 --> 03:04:27,496 to stop a man whose ambitions are backed by Red Army occupation. 2233 03:04:28,753 --> 03:04:31,842 And so, the two leaders reach a pragmatic agreement. 2234 03:04:32,558 --> 03:04:34,433 Jotted down on a piece of scrap paper, 2235 03:04:34,912 --> 03:04:37,480 he concedes Soviet control over Bulgaria, 2236 03:04:37,863 --> 03:04:38,868 Hungary and Romania, 2237 03:04:39,404 --> 03:04:42,980 in return for Stalin's guarantee of nonintervention in Greek politics. 2238 03:04:44,004 --> 03:04:46,220 The future of Yugoslavia is left open. 2239 03:04:46,923 --> 03:04:49,029 And Stalin refuses even to discuss Poland. 2240 03:04:58,857 --> 03:05:00,488 THE ENEMY WITHIN 2241 03:05:10,508 --> 03:05:12,056 Although Allied propaganda would have us believe otherwise, 2242 03:05:12,544 --> 03:05:13,926 Adolf Hitler was one of the most popular leader 2243 03:05:14,382 --> 03:05:15,702 the world had ever seen. 2244 03:05:17,019 --> 03:05:18,272 However, as in the case of Julius Caesar, 2245 03:05:18,784 --> 03:05:20,518 the danger to the F�hrer would come from withim. 2246 03:05:24,215 --> 03:05:26,458 Hitler had always doubted the loyalty of some officers from the aristocracy, 2247 03:05:26,936 --> 03:05:28,864 and in 1944 he will be proven right. 2248 03:06:35,151 --> 03:06:37,804 Only assassination could snap the bonds of loyalty 2249 03:06:38,169 --> 03:06:39,538 which still bound millions to Hitler. 2250 03:06:41,925 --> 03:06:45,369 The only plotters with access to the F�hrer were army officers. 2251 03:06:45,785 --> 03:06:47,646 The officer who came closest to killing Hitler 2252 03:06:48,180 --> 03:06:50,089 was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. 2253 03:06:50,682 --> 03:06:51,914 Claus von Stauffenberg. 2254 03:06:52,327 --> 03:06:56,713 He had his opportunity at a briefing on the 20th of July, 1944. 2255 03:06:59,335 --> 03:07:02,947 "This was the time precisely when we were at a very... 2256 03:07:04,123 --> 03:07:06,659 precarious military situation. 2257 03:07:07,884 --> 03:07:12,188 And the only man who could possibly stave off disaster was Adolf Hitler. 2258 03:07:12,807 --> 03:07:14,771 That opinion was shared by many Germans, 2259 03:07:15,235 --> 03:07:17,121 Germans who did not belong to the Party." 2260 03:10:05,462 --> 03:10:07,390 ERICH FELLGIEBEL EXECUTED 4 SEPTEMBER 1944 2261 03:10:26,860 --> 03:10:28,424 DR. CARL GOERDELER 2 FEBRUARY 1945 2262 03:10:40,872 --> 03:10:42,041 ERWIN VON WITZLEBEN EXECUTED 8 AUGUST 1944 2263 03:11:05,941 --> 03:11:07,650 At the Wolfschanze, Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia, 2264 03:11:08,132 --> 03:11:09,698 Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators 2265 03:11:10,106 --> 03:11:11,555 fail in their attempt on Hitler's life 2266 03:11:12,033 --> 03:11:13,761 and the coup d'etet they wished to effect. 2267 03:11:15,304 --> 03:11:17,965 On 21 July 1944, at 12:30 A.M., Stauffenberg is executed by firing squad. 2268 03:11:18,599 --> 03:11:20,622 The other conspirators are rounded up - judged to be traitors - 2269 03:11:21,196 --> 03:11:23,085 either shot by firing squad or hung. 2270 03:11:25,392 --> 03:11:27,492 Fearful and deluded, they had tried to negotiate a separate peace treaty 2271 03:11:27,961 --> 03:11:29,576 with Roosevelt and Churchill, in the futile hope 2272 03:11:30,111 --> 03:11:31,903 of preventing Stalin from invading Germany. 2273 03:11:55,678 --> 03:11:57,506 To be continued 2274 03:12:03,550 --> 03:12:04,907 WARNING 2275 03:12:05,971 --> 03:12:08,066 contains graphic images that some viewers may find disturbing. 2276 03:12:11,409 --> 03:12:13,936 Part 14 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 2277 03:12:19,576 --> 03:12:21,488 "MY HONOUR IS MY LOYALITY" 2278 03:12:23,025 --> 03:12:24,686 The following footage features the translated words of L�on Degrelle, 2279 03:12:25,079 --> 03:12:26,606 one of the most famous of the Waffen SS. 2280 03:12:27,193 --> 03:12:28,714 Born in Belgium, he joined as a private 2281 03:12:29,131 --> 03:12:30,846 and earned all stripes from corporal to general 2282 03:12:31,229 --> 03:12:32,485 for exceptional bravery in combat 2283 03:12:32,948 --> 03:12:34,421 and was the recipient of the highest honours. 2284 03:12:35,266 --> 03:12:36,131 the Ritterkreuz 2285 03:12:36,539 --> 03:12:37,619 the Oak Leaves 2286 03:12:38,057 --> 03:12:39,122 the Gold German Cross 2287 03:12:39,629 --> 03:12:40,940 ... and numerous other decorations 2288 03:12:41,412 --> 03:12:43,138 for outstanding vaour under enemy fire. 2289 03:12:44,248 --> 03:12:45,764 One of the last to fight on the Eastern Front, 2290 03:12:45,987 --> 03:12:47,473 he was engaged in 75 heavy hand-to-hand combat actions 2291 03:12:47,946 --> 03:12:49,488 and was wounded on several occasions. 2292 03:12:51,951 --> 03:12:53,217 L�on Degrelle escaped unconditional surrender 2293 03:12:53,615 --> 03:12:55,112 by flying 1500 miles across Europe, 2294 03:12:55,551 --> 03:12:57,210 surviving constant fire along the way 2295 03:12:57,633 --> 03:12:59,249 and managing to crash land on the beach 2296 03:12:59,707 --> 03:13:01,434 of San Sebastian in Spain, critically wounded. 2297 03:13:01,499 --> 03:13:02,576 Against all odds, he survived 2298 03:13:03,008 --> 03:13:04,592 and lived out the rest of his life in Spain 2299 03:13:04,808 --> 03:13:06,536 where he eventually died at the age of 87. 2300 03:13:07,417 --> 03:13:08,744 Adolf Hitler once told him, 2301 03:13:09,208 --> 03:13:11,294 "If I had a son, I would want him to be just like you." 2302 03:13:21,486 --> 03:13:23,214 General L�on Degrelle 2303 03:13:31,219 --> 03:13:34,059 Young men who joined the SS were trained like no other army in the world. 2304 03:13:34,990 --> 03:13:37,638 Military and academic instructions were intensive. 2305 03:13:38,554 --> 03:13:40,889 But it was the physical training that was most rigorous. 2306 03:13:41,910 --> 03:13:43,552 They practiced sports with excellence. 2307 03:13:44,423 --> 03:13:47,605 Each of them could have performed with distinction at the Olympic Games. 2308 03:13:48,596 --> 03:13:51,520 The extraordinary physical endurance of the SS on the Russian front, 2309 03:13:52,288 --> 03:13:55,309 which so amazed the world, was due to their intensive training. 2310 03:13:56,322 --> 03:13:58,169 The most striking feature of the Waffen SS 2311 03:13:59,040 --> 03:14:02,588 was that it was composed of volunteers from some 30 different countries. 2312 03:14:03,827 --> 03:14:04,853 What cause gathered them, 2313 03:14:05,252 --> 03:14:07,754 and why did they volunteer their lives? 2314 03:14:08,525 --> 03:14:09,618 Was it a German phenomenon? 2315 03:14:11,113 --> 03:14:12,176 At the beginning, yes. 2316 03:14:13,433 --> 03:14:14,909 In addition to Germans from Germany, 2317 03:14:15,497 --> 03:14:19,340 northwestern Europeans, descendants of Germans from all across Europe, enlisted. 2318 03:14:19,961 --> 03:14:23,155 Then in 1941, during the great clash with the Soviet Union, 2319 03:14:23,728 --> 03:14:25,761 rose the European Waffen SS. 2320 03:14:27,265 --> 03:14:30,084 It was on the front lines that the results of the SS physical training 2321 03:14:30,429 --> 03:14:31,227 could really be noticed. 2322 03:14:31,857 --> 03:14:34,592 An SS officer had the same rigorous training as the soldiers. 2323 03:14:35,540 --> 03:14:38,769 A relationship of the equality and mutual respect between soldiers and officers 2324 03:14:39,463 --> 03:14:40,446 was always present. 2325 03:14:41,277 --> 03:14:44,181 Half of all division commanders were killed in action - half! 2326 03:14:45,319 --> 03:14:47,232 There is not an army in the world where this happened. 2327 03:14:48,040 --> 03:14:50,801 The SS officer always led his troops into battle. 2328 03:14:51,344 --> 03:14:54,247 To them, Hitler was the most exceptional man ever seen. 2329 03:14:55,316 --> 03:14:56,439 Hitler understood them, 2330 03:14:56,891 --> 03:15:00,251 and had the remarkable idea to open the doors to the SS. 2331 03:15:01,361 --> 03:15:03,507 The response to Hitler's offer was overwhelming. 2332 03:15:04,035 --> 03:15:07,430 Legions from Norway, Denmark, Holland and Flanders were formed. 2333 03:15:08,529 --> 03:15:09,724 Hitler welcomed them home. 2334 03:15:10,961 --> 03:15:13,505 German racialism has been deliberately distorted. 2335 03:15:14,656 --> 03:15:17,701 It was concerned with making the German race strong and healthy in every way. 2336 03:15:18,753 --> 03:15:21,690 Hitler was not interested in having millions of degenerates. 2337 03:15:22,217 --> 03:15:25,303 Today one finds rampant alcohol and drug addiction everywhere. 2338 03:15:26,175 --> 03:15:28,183 Hitler cared that German families be healthy, 2339 03:15:28,751 --> 03:15:31,773 cared that they raised healthy children for the renewal of a healthy nation. 2340 03:15:32,609 --> 03:15:35,953 German racialism meant rediscovering the creative values of their own race, 2341 03:15:36,566 --> 03:15:37,681 rediscovering their culture. 2342 03:15:38,511 --> 03:15:40,492 It was a search for excellence, a noble idea. 2343 03:15:41,837 --> 03:15:44,878 National Socialist racialism was not against the other races. 2344 03:15:45,467 --> 03:15:47,542 It aimed at defending and improving its race, 2345 03:15:47,996 --> 03:15:50,894 and wished that all other races did the same for themselves. 2346 03:15:51,482 --> 03:15:53,193 That was demonstrated when the Waffen SS 2347 03:15:53,588 --> 03:15:57,196 enlarged its rank to include 60.000 Islamic SS. 2348 03:15:58,387 --> 03:16:00,398 The Waffen SS respected their way of life, 2349 03:16:00,828 --> 03:16:02,997 their customs and their religious beliefs. 2350 03:16:03,832 --> 03:16:05,954 Each Islamic SS battalion had an imam. 2351 03:16:06,667 --> 03:16:07,983 Each company had a mullah. 2352 03:16:08,960 --> 03:16:11,888 It was our common wish that their qualities found their highest expression. 2353 03:16:12,499 --> 03:16:13,814 This was our racialism. 2354 03:16:14,742 --> 03:16:16,725 I was present when each of my Islamic comrades 2355 03:16:17,114 --> 03:16:19,196 received a personal gift from Hitler during the new year. 2356 03:16:19,937 --> 03:16:21,550 It was a pendant with a small Koran. 2357 03:16:22,668 --> 03:16:24,921 Hitler was honoring them with this small symbolic gift. 2358 03:16:25,713 --> 03:16:27,207 He was honoring them with what was 2359 03:16:27,541 --> 03:16:30,184 the most important aspect of their lives and their history. 2360 03:16:31,045 --> 03:16:33,566 National Socialist racialism was loyal to the German race 2361 03:16:33,901 --> 03:16:35,451 and totally respected all other races. 2362 03:16:36,240 --> 03:16:38,991 The young European volunteers had observed two things. 2363 03:16:39,975 --> 03:16:43,366 First, that Hitler was the only leader who was capable of building Europe, 2364 03:16:43,930 --> 03:16:44,976 and secondly that Hitler, 2365 03:16:45,737 --> 03:16:48,730 and Hitler alone, could defeat the world threat of Communism. 2366 03:16:49,367 --> 03:16:51,835 The Communists never aimed at serving the interests of Russia. 2367 03:16:52,752 --> 03:16:55,714 Communism does not limit itself to acquire chunks of territories, 2368 03:16:56,352 --> 03:16:58,890 but aims at total world domination. 2369 03:16:59,939 --> 03:17:01,750 Alone among all the leaders of the world, 2370 03:17:02,107 --> 03:17:05,578 Hitler saw this concept as an equal threat to all nations. 2371 03:17:06,405 --> 03:17:08,700 Right through the war the Waffen SS never retreated. 2372 03:17:09,280 --> 03:17:10,679 They would rather die than retreat. 2373 03:17:12,654 --> 03:17:14,172 One cannot forget the figures. 2374 03:17:15,018 --> 03:17:20,967 During the 1941 winter the Waffen SS lost 43.000 men in front of Moscow. 2375 03:17:22,030 --> 03:17:26,042 The regiment "Der F�hrer" fought almost literally to the last man. 2376 03:17:26,305 --> 03:17:28,936 Only 35 men survived out of the entire regiment. 2377 03:17:30,036 --> 03:17:33,160 The Der F�hrer men stood fast, and no Soviet troops got through. 2378 03:17:33,559 --> 03:17:36,098 And that is what Hitler admired most of all: guts. 2379 03:17:37,034 --> 03:17:39,645 For him it was not enough to have intelligent or clever associates. 2380 03:17:40,467 --> 03:17:41,944 These people can often fall to pieces, 2381 03:17:42,693 --> 03:17:45,798 as we will see during the following winter at the Battle of Stalingrad, 2382 03:17:46,206 --> 03:17:47,365 with General Paulus. 2383 03:17:47,732 --> 03:17:50,253 The defeat there was decided by a man without courage. 2384 03:17:50,410 --> 03:17:52,926 He was not capable to face danger with determination. 2385 03:17:53,847 --> 03:17:55,610 To say, "I will not surrender. 2386 03:17:56,529 --> 03:17:58,166 I will stand fast until I win." 2387 03:17:58,843 --> 03:18:01,842 But he was morally and physically gutless, and he lost. 2388 03:18:02,319 --> 03:18:03,257 Without their heroism, 2389 03:18:03,655 --> 03:18:06,452 Germany would have been annihilated by December 1941. 2390 03:18:07,005 --> 03:18:11,052 The Roosevelts and the Churchills sold out Europe in Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam. 2391 03:18:12,833 --> 03:18:14,890 Not since the great religious orders of the middle ages 2392 03:18:15,575 --> 03:18:18,154 had there been such selfless idealism and heroism. 2393 03:18:19,104 --> 03:18:20,529 In this century of materialism, 2394 03:18:20,831 --> 03:18:23,481 the SS stand out as shining light of spirituality. 2395 03:18:24,250 --> 03:18:27,742 "Greatness in adversity'" is the distinction of the SS. 2396 03:18:28,870 --> 03:18:30,109 THE HOLY OATH OF THE WAFFEN SS 2397 03:18:30,536 --> 03:18:33,050 "I swear to thee Adolf Hitler as F�hrer and Chancellor of the German Reih 2398 03:18:33,085 --> 03:18:34,378 loyality and bravery. 2399 03:18:34,439 --> 03:18:36,656 I vow to thee and to the superiors whom thou shall appoint obedience 2400 03:18:36,662 --> 03:18:38,713 until dead so help me God." 2401 03:18:47,646 --> 03:18:49,484 STALIN'S PURGES 2402 03:18:57,617 --> 03:19:01,177 With the return of the Soviet forces in 1944, the mountain peoples, 2403 03:19:02,089 --> 03:19:04,288 Ingushe, Balkars, and above all, Chechens, 2404 03:19:04,774 --> 03:19:07,438 are rounded up in dawn raids of new horror. 2405 03:19:08,212 --> 03:19:11,291 Mobile NKVD units are sent into the hills. 2406 03:19:17,615 --> 03:19:20,232 Whole peoples, uncomprehending of their guilt, 2407 03:19:20,782 --> 03:19:22,924 are marked down for punitive deportation. 2408 03:19:36,810 --> 03:19:41,267 It is the tragedy of a small nation in the hands of a vast and ruthless state. 2409 03:19:42,091 --> 03:19:43,411 They're dragged from their homes, 2410 03:19:43,895 --> 03:19:45,265 their lifestyle destroyed, 2411 03:19:45,897 --> 03:19:48,889 leaving whole areas empty of any inhabitants. 2412 03:19:53,474 --> 03:19:56,295 And when German troops are driven from the Crimea in May, 2413 03:19:56,835 --> 03:20:01,791 Stalin is convinced the Tartar people had been guilty of collaboration with the enemy. 2414 03:20:03,809 --> 03:20:06,401 He immediately dissolves the Muslim autonomous republic 2415 03:20:06,730 --> 03:20:08,154 of the Crimean Tartars, 2416 03:20:08,833 --> 03:20:13,412 and punitively deports 400.000 people, men, women and children. 2417 03:20:17,147 --> 03:20:19,648 And beyond the misery of shocked and frightened people, 2418 03:20:20,728 --> 03:20:22,846 the disregard for military needs. 2419 03:20:24,020 --> 03:20:28,018 This is a time when the Soviet forces need all the transport they can get. 2420 03:20:34,690 --> 03:20:36,117 THE GENOCIDE OF GERMANY 2421 03:20:44,325 --> 03:20:44,828 EAST PRUSSIA 1944 2422 03:20:45,219 --> 03:20:46,531 East Prussia, with its forests and lakes, 2423 03:20:47,138 --> 03:20:50,354 was the first part of prewar German territory the Red Army entered. 2424 03:20:54,286 --> 03:20:57,389 It is estimated that as many as 2 million German women were raped 2425 03:20:57,710 --> 03:20:59,026 by Red Army soldiers. 2426 03:21:01,355 --> 03:21:03,172 "From 1944 to 1947 2427 03:21:03,665 --> 03:21:07,537 what occurred to Germany, in the last year of the war 2428 03:21:07,918 --> 03:21:12,839 and the immediate postwar years was a crime so terrible; 2429 03:21:13,175 --> 03:21:16,008 and the world has never experienced such a crime like this. 2430 03:21:16,621 --> 03:21:20,957 And the fact that it remains a secret doesn't mean it is any less of a crime, 2431 03:21:22,227 --> 03:21:27,002 but it probably was the largest, the darkest and the bloodiest, uh... 2432 03:21:28,051 --> 03:21:30,091 secret in world history. 2433 03:21:30,584 --> 03:21:32,662 The massacres, the rapes, the starvation, 2434 03:21:33,902 --> 03:21:39,081 the deliberate attempt to destroy a nation entirely. Entirely! 2435 03:21:39,544 --> 03:21:42,034 Now I'm not talking about leaving something left. 2436 03:21:42,624 --> 03:21:44,555 Basically, that was the uh... 2437 03:21:45,061 --> 03:21:47,202 uh that's what they were, the Allies were traveling under 2438 03:21:47,531 --> 03:21:51,186 in the last year of the war and the immediate postwar years. 2439 03:21:51,401 --> 03:21:55,396 This nightmarish attempt to destroy Germany. 2440 03:21:55,687 --> 03:21:58,153 A terror bombing toward the late stages of the war. 2441 03:21:58,605 --> 03:21:59,611 A terror bombing: there's no other... 2442 03:22:00,147 --> 03:22:04,475 There's no other phrase that says it quite as well as "terror bombing". 2443 03:22:04,969 --> 03:22:08,527 Long after all military objects had been blown to bits / splinters, 2444 03:22:09,213 --> 03:22:13,043 the American and British Air Forces continued to blast German cities, 2445 03:22:13,597 --> 03:22:15,209 blasting the rubble to even more rubble. 2446 03:22:16,370 --> 03:22:20,004 A lot of folks are still, to this very day, their bones are still buried 2447 03:22:20,531 --> 03:22:21,647 underneath the rubble in Germany; 2448 03:22:22,031 --> 03:22:23,853 that was built over of course, after the war. 2449 03:22:24,373 --> 03:22:27,220 What it was like for... a woman? 2450 03:22:27,618 --> 03:22:32,104 Let us say a... let's say a 45 year old something woman, 2451 03:22:32,463 --> 03:22:37,444 a German who was in a village when the Russians finally came, 2452 03:22:38,027 --> 03:22:40,129 when they finally burst through and the fighting had past. 2453 03:22:40,612 --> 03:22:44,163 And then comes the second echelon of Russian troops, 2454 03:22:44,578 --> 03:22:50,705 for the most part Asiatics and Mongolians from the Rusk Russian eastern republics. 2455 03:22:51,559 --> 03:22:54,015 And the rapes began... and what does a woman do? 2456 03:22:54,519 --> 03:22:55,947 How do you deal with rape? 2457 03:22:56,274 --> 03:22:58,367 And I'm not talking about just one soldier 2458 03:22:59,103 --> 03:23:01,373 perhaps dragging you into a room and raping you. 2459 03:23:01,818 --> 03:23:04,021 I'm talking about 5 maybe 10 at a time; 2460 03:23:04,658 --> 03:23:06,775 for days, for weeks, this goes on. 2461 03:23:08,227 --> 03:23:12,328 Some women, I mean again we're talking in the words of the people themselves 2462 03:23:14,875 --> 03:23:16,919 They did all sorts of things to avoid rapes. 2463 03:23:17,397 --> 03:23:21,107 They become almost indifferent to it... indifferent to it after a while; almost. 2464 03:23:21,684 --> 03:23:22,672 Some of them lost their minds. 2465 03:23:22,984 --> 03:23:26,560 But some women, who were actually good looking prior to the rapes, 2466 03:23:27,214 --> 03:23:30,127 actually started trying to make themselves look uglier. 2467 03:23:31,170 --> 03:23:34,258 They would feign illnesses and act like they were cripples. 2468 03:23:34,981 --> 03:23:36,060 And it still didn't work. 2469 03:23:37,028 --> 03:23:38,122 The madness for the uh... 2470 03:23:39,002 --> 03:23:43,442 among the Russian soldiers for rape was incredible, 2471 03:23:43,929 --> 03:23:48,171 and sometimes women were raped 10, 20 times a night, a 100 times a week. 2472 03:23:48,435 --> 03:23:50,272 Sometimes they were raped to death; 2473 03:23:51,063 --> 03:23:52,466 and then they were raped some more. 2474 03:23:52,895 --> 03:23:56,436 And of course mothers with children 2475 03:23:56,780 --> 03:23:59,516 were frantic to try to protect their little ones. 2476 03:24:00,000 --> 03:24:01,215 They'd do anything they could. 2477 03:24:01,560 --> 03:24:03,074 Of course they would give their bodies gladly; 2478 03:24:03,658 --> 03:24:05,033 if they could protect their children. 2479 03:24:05,406 --> 03:24:06,310 Mostly it didn't work though. 2480 03:24:06,732 --> 03:24:08,400 There was an old saying, "from 8 to 88". 2481 03:24:09,717 --> 03:24:12,816 That was the time... that was the age frame for rapes, 2482 03:24:13,640 --> 03:24:14,565 if you can believe that. 2483 03:24:15,243 --> 03:24:19,084 Even grandmothers were taken and raped repeatedly. 2484 03:24:19,342 --> 03:24:24,250 Even people that were sick and women who were on their periods; nothing was sacred. 2485 03:24:24,637 --> 03:24:28,333 And just very nearly extinguished the German people altogether." 2486 03:24:32,741 --> 03:24:34,303 "Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. 2487 03:24:34,734 --> 03:24:36,344 Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward. 2488 03:24:36,774 --> 03:24:38,270 Kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army!" 2489 03:24:38,671 --> 03:24:40,119 Jewish Soviet Commisar Ilya Ehrenburg 2490 03:24:45,361 --> 03:24:46,655 FYODOR KHROPATIY 27th Soviet Army 2491 03:24:48,229 --> 03:24:50,595 What if you found one of your fellow soldiers had raped someone? 2492 03:24:51,979 --> 03:24:54,164 Nobody took any notice 2493 03:24:54,675 --> 03:24:57,266 on the conrary, soldiers told each other everything 2494 03:24:59,595 --> 03:25:03,170 it was almost considered to be heroic or couageous 2495 03:25:03,732 --> 03:25:09,445 ... to sleep with a women - or several 2496 03:25:14,410 --> 03:25:18,056 Even if someone was murdered - well, it was war 2497 03:25:21,107 --> 03:25:26,913 So it was no big deal if a soldier slept with a women or girl. 2498 03:25:34,463 --> 03:25:35,098 Our valint troops continue their march to the west 2499 03:25:43,865 --> 03:25:46,024 But there were those who had been glad to see the Red Army. 2500 03:25:47,180 --> 03:25:49,966 First, the population of the occupied parts of the Soviet Union, 2501 03:25:51,222 --> 03:25:52,908 and now the Soviet prisoners of war. 2502 03:25:54,466 --> 03:25:57,417 Tatyana Naneva, who had served in the Red Army as a nurse, 2503 03:25:58,081 --> 03:26:00,480 was one of more than a million Soviet prisoners of war, 2504 03:26:00,932 --> 03:26:03,740 who had been transported to camps within the greater German Reich. 2505 03:26:05,908 --> 03:26:07,783 She was overjoyed when the Red Army arrived, 2506 03:26:08,535 --> 03:26:10,335 a feeling that was not reciprocated. 2507 03:26:15,550 --> 03:26:18,716 Nearly 2 million Soviet prisoners of war were liberated by the Red Army. 2508 03:26:19,801 --> 03:26:21,690 All were to suffer at the hands of Stalin. 2509 03:26:23,120 --> 03:26:24,518 For many, like Tatyana Naneva, 2510 03:26:25,269 --> 03:26:28,790 their suffering began here in a filtration camp run by the secret police. 2511 03:26:30,100 --> 03:26:32,566 Their problem was that Stalin maintained that the Soviet Union 2512 03:26:32,934 --> 03:26:36,167 had no prisoners of war, only traitors. 2513 03:26:37,774 --> 03:26:39,684 For the crime of being captured by the Germans, 2514 03:26:40,522 --> 03:26:42,255 volunteer nurse Tatyana Naneva 2515 03:26:42,566 --> 03:26:44,262 was sentenced to six years in the gulag 2516 03:26:45,069 --> 03:26:46,926 and lifetime exile in Siberia. 2517 03:26:55,075 --> 03:26:57,139 To be continued 2518 03:27:02,327 --> 03:27:04,375 Part 15 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 2519 03:27:27,985 --> 03:27:29,908 On 7 July 1944, around 57.000 German prisoners 2520 03:27:30,356 --> 03:27:31,940 were marched through the streets of Moscow 2521 03:27:32,371 --> 03:27:33,741 to be loaded onto cattle trains 2522 03:27:34,181 --> 03:27:35,725 and transported to the other regions of Siberia. 2523 03:27:39,500 --> 03:27:40,884 After the march ended the streets were 2524 03:27:41,318 --> 03:27:42,949 symbolicaly disifected of "fashist" footsteps... 2525 03:27:45,193 --> 03:27:46,784 Between 1939 and 1945, around 7 million German and Axis POWs 2526 03:27:47,257 --> 03:27:48,386 were sent to the Soviet Gulags, 2527 03:27:48,832 --> 03:27:50,408 with estimated German deaths alone over3 million. 2528 03:27:54,551 --> 03:27:56,427 The majority of prisoners sent here will never see 2529 03:27:56,884 --> 03:27:58,744 their home and families again. 2530 03:28:28,742 --> 03:28:30,739 However, one German soldier marching in Moscow 2531 03:28:31,178 --> 03:28:32,855 would defy all odds to see his family again. 2532 03:28:34,858 --> 03:28:36,741 Sentenced to 25 years hard labour in the mines 2533 03:28:37,198 --> 03:28:39,661 of the barren eastern reaches of Siberia, he will eventually escape. 2534 03:28:41,129 --> 03:28:42,750 It will take him 3 years to cross almost 9.000 miles, 2535 03:28:43,460 --> 03:28:45,836 enduring the most inhospitable conditions on earth. 2536 03:29:03,376 --> 03:29:04,988 His name was Cornelius Rost, but to avoid retribution from the KGB 2537 03:29:05,549 --> 03:29:07,460 he would be forced to use the alias of "Clemens Forell". 2538 03:29:07,890 --> 03:29:09,097 His book will be translated into 15 laguages, 2539 03:29:09,489 --> 03:29:11,096 selling over 12 million copies worldwide. 2540 03:29:11,516 --> 03:29:13,421 It was the basis for an award-winning film in 2002. 2541 03:34:12,667 --> 03:34:14,739 October 1949 2542 03:34:44,442 --> 03:34:46,091 Christmas 1952 2543 03:35:18,122 --> 03:35:19,858 DECEMBER 1944 2544 03:35:24,857 --> 03:35:26,773 Setbacks for Germany und the Axis coutriees accelerated during 1944, 2545 03:35:27,256 --> 03:35:29,065 but in December the same year, Hitler devised a brilliant plan 2546 03:35:29,546 --> 03:35:31,106 which would take the Allies completely by suprise 2547 03:35:31,513 --> 03:35:33,090 and almost turn the war on its head. 2548 03:35:33,314 --> 03:35:34,923 Fought in the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Belgium, 2549 03:35:35,323 --> 03:35:37,715 devastating German offensive would become known as... 2550 03:35:39,358 --> 03:35:40,949 THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE 2551 03:35:53,006 --> 03:35:54,183 In December 1944, 2552 03:35:54,655 --> 03:35:58,948 American forces were pummeled by German Panzer divisions in the Ardennes forest. 2553 03:35:59,298 --> 03:36:01,293 It was a decisive moment in World War Two. 2554 03:36:01,984 --> 03:36:04,951 Hitler would either succeed in pushing back the approaching Allied Armies, 2555 03:36:05,583 --> 03:36:07,428 if he can drive the American's and the British 2556 03:36:07,755 --> 03:36:09,035 all the way back to the coast line, 2557 03:36:09,620 --> 03:36:12,680 he may be able to force them into a negotiated peace? 2558 03:36:13,720 --> 03:36:16,944 Late in October, the Germans begin secretly moving their units 2559 03:36:17,264 --> 03:36:20,467 to points East of the Ardennes, without arousing Allied suspicions. 2560 03:36:20,974 --> 03:36:24,293 A quarter million Germans roll towards the Western Front. 2561 03:36:25,516 --> 03:36:28,150 But officers in Allied intelligence refuse to believe it. 2562 03:36:28,692 --> 03:36:32,484 They all agree the Germans don't have the military strength for such an attack. 2563 03:36:32,952 --> 03:36:34,888 Early morning on December 16th, 2564 03:36:35,343 --> 03:36:39,339 a shattering barrage of German artillery and rocket fire, lights the skies. 2565 03:36:48,427 --> 03:36:50,084 Gloomy weather for the next several days, 2566 03:36:50,419 --> 03:36:54,307 provides effective cover for the German might, that churns over the roads. 2567 03:36:55,571 --> 03:36:56,884 Panzer units slash through. 2568 03:36:57,276 --> 03:37:01,637 In the center, the Germans gouge a 12 mile corridor to the approaches of Bastogne. 2569 03:37:02,350 --> 03:37:04,476 They are ordered to surround and bypass this town, 2570 03:37:04,994 --> 03:37:06,579 then drive for the Meuse river. 2571 03:37:11,667 --> 03:37:14,697 There is all out confusion. Communications are sketchy. 2572 03:37:15,223 --> 03:37:18,592 American troops discover Germans in front and behind them. 2573 03:37:20,167 --> 03:37:22,039 Panzers under cover of fog and rain, 2574 03:37:22,543 --> 03:37:26,690 slip into American armored columns, then blast the Americans off the road. 2575 03:37:31,548 --> 03:37:36,193 More than 7.000 soldiers of the 106th destroy their weapons and give up. 2576 03:37:36,824 --> 03:37:40,992 Next to Bataan, this is the largest mass surrender in military history. 2577 03:37:43,968 --> 03:37:45,886 Elsewhere, with communications shattered, 2578 03:37:46,231 --> 03:37:48,583 other Americans fight isolated holding actions. 2579 03:37:49,515 --> 03:37:52,686 Gradually, small scattered units slow the German advance. 2580 03:37:53,061 --> 03:37:54,439 Especially around St. Vith. 2581 03:37:55,057 --> 03:37:59,364 The 5th Panzer Army, had good success, in the Southern part of the invasion. 2582 03:37:59,871 --> 03:38:03,045 However, the effects were not what the Germans had wanted. 2583 03:38:03,228 --> 03:38:05,588 They were trying to race to the Meuse river in two days. 2584 03:38:06,403 --> 03:38:08,560 On the third day, General Dwight Eisenhower, 2585 03:38:08,862 --> 03:38:10,422 orders General Patton's third Army 2586 03:38:10,757 --> 03:38:13,556 to attack the German flank and relieve Bastogne. 2587 03:38:14,180 --> 03:38:17,740 December 20th, the Battle of the Bulge, is in its fifth day. 2588 03:38:18,133 --> 03:38:22,020 American forces are reeling under the impact of the mighty German offensive. 2589 03:38:23,604 --> 03:38:28,109 General Patton and his third Army, are driving North toward Bastogne, to counter attack. 2590 03:38:29,708 --> 03:38:33,436 December 21st, a wintery snow falls throughout the Ardennes. 2591 03:38:37,172 --> 03:38:39,118 St. Vith is taken by the Germans. 2592 03:38:39,483 --> 03:38:42,209 Now the center route across the Ardennes is wide open. 2593 03:38:42,714 --> 03:38:45,316 The Germans flow around Bastogne on all sides, 2594 03:38:45,645 --> 03:38:47,709 encircling the American forces there. 2595 03:38:52,368 --> 03:38:55,184 They thought the Germans were beaten, after the race across France. 2596 03:38:55,961 --> 03:38:57,057 The Germans were not beaten. 2597 03:39:01,459 --> 03:39:06,853 December 22nd: the situation in Bastogne, grows desperate; ammunition is short. 2598 03:39:07,325 --> 03:39:12,652 McAuliffe's artillery battalions are down to 10 rounds per gun; and it's still snowing. 2599 03:39:13,275 --> 03:39:15,126 The cold causes more casualties. 2600 03:39:15,975 --> 03:39:18,102 Frostbite is rampant among the troops. 2601 03:39:18,993 --> 03:39:22,095 The Germans send an emissary to Bastogne, with an ultimatum. 2602 03:39:22,581 --> 03:39:24,213 Since the Americans are surrounded 2603 03:39:24,422 --> 03:39:28,891 and there is only one possibility to save them from death: an honorable surrender. 2604 03:39:29,473 --> 03:39:32,401 General McAuliffe's reply is short and to the point. 2605 03:39:32,809 --> 03:39:36,231 McAuliffe's bravado is based on the expectation of the third Army. 2606 03:39:36,775 --> 03:39:39,141 General Patton's time table is a critical factor. 2607 03:39:39,717 --> 03:39:43,636 If the German's move on Bastogne, they could easily take it at this point. 2608 03:39:44,150 --> 03:39:46,564 The surrounded and undermanned US Army watches 2609 03:39:46,906 --> 03:39:48,925 and waits anxiously for reinforcements. 2610 03:39:49,355 --> 03:39:53,022 The freezing cold conditions don't make it easier for either side. 2611 03:39:53,242 --> 03:39:57,691 The next day, December 23rd, dawns bright and sunny; perfect flying weather. 2612 03:39:58,141 --> 03:39:59,801 American's in Bastogne cheer 2613 03:40:00,136 --> 03:40:03,061 as Allied planes fly overhead to bomb and strafe the enemy. 2614 03:40:04,280 --> 03:40:06,643 To drop supplies, not all that's needed, 2615 03:40:07,035 --> 03:40:09,410 but enough to enable the American's to hang on. 2616 03:40:14,554 --> 03:40:18,161 On Christmas day, news reaches Bastogne that the Western spearhead 2617 03:40:18,496 --> 03:40:22,761 of the German 2nd Panzer division has been stopped, just short of the Meuse. 2618 03:40:23,433 --> 03:40:27,380 When Hitler is told by his Generals, he orders the expected all out attack. 2619 03:40:36,624 --> 03:40:40,606 The Wehrmacht advances on Bastogne with 9 divisions, 4 of them armored. 2620 03:40:41,126 --> 03:40:44,977 A great part of this effort is aimed at closing the American corridor to the South. 2621 03:40:45,466 --> 03:40:49,392 On January 3rd, the Allies launch a 3 pronged counter attack. 2622 03:40:49,793 --> 03:40:54,677 By January 16th, patrols from the 1st and 3rd Armies meet North of Bastogne. 2623 03:40:55,372 --> 03:40:59,364 By early February, the German's have been pushed back to where they started. 2624 03:41:00,531 --> 03:41:03,006 By the end of the Battle of the Bulge, they knew they couldn't win. 2625 03:41:03,455 --> 03:41:04,524 And from that time on, 2626 03:41:05,029 --> 03:41:06,877 the remains of the Panzer Wehr division, 2627 03:41:07,588 --> 03:41:10,301 are sent to the Eastern front, where it was eventually destroyed. 2628 03:41:10,773 --> 03:41:14,285 It became clear the German Army no longer could fight on the Western Front. 2629 03:41:17,283 --> 03:41:18,649 Due to the Soviet taking the oilfields in the east, 2630 03:41:19,128 --> 03:41:20,978 lack of fuel prevented the new German Tiger tanks 2631 03:41:21,419 --> 03:41:22,963 from reaching the Meuse river. 2632 03:41:23,459 --> 03:41:24,933 The Battle of the Bulge was the bloodiest battle 2633 03:41:25,399 --> 03:41:26,781 US forces fought in World WarTwo. 2634 03:41:27,249 --> 03:41:28,029 It resulted in: 2635 03:41:28,503 --> 03:41:29,745 19.000 dead 2636 03:41:30,210 --> 03:41:31,361 47.000 wounded 2637 03:41:31,930 --> 03:41:33,098 23.000 captured 2638 03:41:33,888 --> 03:41:35,400 These figures were not surpassed those of any other battle. 2639 03:41:37,306 --> 03:41:38,335 With official German losses at 84.834, 2640 03:41:38,767 --> 03:41:40,360 the last of the reserves were now exhausted. 2641 03:41:40,784 --> 03:41:43,095 The lack of fuel would eventually leave the Luftwaffe permanently grounded. 2642 03:41:45,273 --> 03:41:46,332 The remaining German forces 2643 03:41:46,820 --> 03:41:48,412 would be bombed incessantly in their retreat to Berlin. 2644 03:42:01,422 --> 03:42:03,163 To be continued 2645 03:42:10,053 --> 03:42:12,657 Part 16 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 2646 03:42:18,572 --> 03:42:20,330 While the Western Allies were held up in the Ardennes, 2647 03:42:20,674 --> 03:42:21,818 fighting the Battle of the Bulge, 2648 03:42:23,273 --> 03:42:26,679 on the Eastern Front, the Red Army was making good progress. 2649 03:42:28,171 --> 03:42:31,363 They entered Warsaw on the 17th of January, 1945. 2650 03:42:44,249 --> 03:42:47,337 The locals cheered as the Polish units in the Red Army passed by. 2651 03:42:48,631 --> 03:42:50,780 They did not know that some of the Officers they applauded 2652 03:42:51,098 --> 03:42:52,186 were from the Soviet Union, 2653 03:42:52,947 --> 03:42:54,812 and were only pretending to be Poles. 2654 03:43:00,899 --> 03:43:03,241 Stalin hadn't just created new Polish Officers, 2655 03:43:04,122 --> 03:43:06,410 he'd created an entire new Polish government. 2656 03:43:07,777 --> 03:43:09,226 Unlike the Polish government in exile, 2657 03:43:09,794 --> 03:43:13,258 this group of tame Poles would do just what Stalin told them to. 2658 03:43:18,970 --> 03:43:22,227 The Red Army continued to push forward further into Eastern Europe. 2659 03:43:22,793 --> 03:43:26,588 Capturing Budapest, the Capital of Hungary, in February, 1945. 2660 03:43:28,217 --> 03:43:29,279 Budapest 2661 03:43:29,616 --> 03:43:31,839 The Hungarians had been Allies of the Nazi's. 2662 03:43:33,629 --> 03:43:36,566 Together with the German's they had fought fiercely against the Red Army. 2663 03:43:39,254 --> 03:43:40,524 Now they would pay for it. 2664 03:43:47,885 --> 03:43:49,237 Report by the Direcors of the Hungarien General Credit Bank 2665 03:43:49,525 --> 03:43:51,342 They opened every safe and strong box. 2666 03:43:52,588 --> 03:43:55,938 They took away 113 Million Pengoe in cash. 2667 03:43:56,696 --> 03:44:00,863 As well as about 800 suitcases and other containers deposited by clients. 2668 03:44:01,424 --> 03:44:04,184 And emptied 1.400 safety deposit boxes. 2669 03:44:13,758 --> 03:44:18,164 Nearby, other Soviets took paintings and other works of Art worth Millions of pounds. 2670 03:44:18,908 --> 03:44:21,870 Including works by Renoir, El Greco, and Goya. 2671 03:44:32,814 --> 03:44:36,449 An estimated 99% of these artworks have never been recovered. 2672 03:44:42,934 --> 03:44:44,062 As well as the wealth of the city, 2673 03:44:45,028 --> 03:44:48,056 the population was also at the mercy of the Soviet occupiers. 2674 03:44:50,877 --> 03:44:53,943 But what happened to them in the aftermath of the Soviet victory in Budapest, 2675 03:44:54,303 --> 03:44:55,478 was to become infamous. 2676 03:44:59,355 --> 03:45:00,872 So bad was the situation in Hungary, 2677 03:45:01,304 --> 03:45:03,737 that a group of Hungarian Communists in Kobanya, 2678 03:45:03,984 --> 03:45:06,665 sent a letter of complaint to the Soviet authorities. 2679 03:45:07,814 --> 03:45:10,373 In January, when the Red Army arrived, 2680 03:45:10,666 --> 03:45:14,859 they committed a series of sexual crimes in an outbreak of savage hatred. 2681 03:45:16,225 --> 03:45:19,941 Drunken soldiers raped mothers in front of their children and husbands. 2682 03:45:21,186 --> 03:45:24,006 Girls as young as 12, were dragged from their fathers and mothers 2683 03:45:24,765 --> 03:45:28,060 and raped in succession by 10 to 15 soldiers. 2684 03:45:28,680 --> 03:45:31,204 From whom many of them caught venereal diseases. 2685 03:45:35,197 --> 03:45:36,710 THE YALTA AGREEMENT 2686 03:45:37,734 --> 03:45:39,867 In February 1945, Stalin traveled here 2687 03:45:40,659 --> 03:45:43,344 to Yalta, on the Black Sea, in the South of the Soviet Union, 2688 03:45:44,583 --> 03:45:47,233 to attend what would become the most famous meeting of the war. 2689 03:45:49,747 --> 03:45:51,947 But the pressures of the war had clearly taken their toll 2690 03:45:52,305 --> 03:45:53,673 on one of the leaders of the Alliance. 2691 03:45:54,771 --> 03:45:59,186 Churchill looked at Roosevelt so very solicitously. 2692 03:45:59,914 --> 03:46:01,736 Churchill, I suppose, had no surprise, 2693 03:46:02,559 --> 03:46:07,045 as I had, and anyone else who had seen Roosevelt previously, 2694 03:46:08,034 --> 03:46:12,248 to see this corked very thin figure. 2695 03:46:12,651 --> 03:46:20,747 His face was waxened, to sort of yellow and waxened, and very drawn, very thin. 2696 03:46:22,248 --> 03:46:25,002 And a lot of the time he was sort of sitting 2697 03:46:25,664 --> 03:46:28,769 sitting there with his mouth open, sort of staring ahead. 2698 03:46:29,808 --> 03:46:32,365 So that was quite a shock to see him in that state. 2699 03:46:32,880 --> 03:46:36,531 The Allies also decided on the formation of the United Nations after the war. 2700 03:46:37,604 --> 03:46:40,123 The news reel coverage was decidedly optimistic. 2701 03:46:41,394 --> 03:46:43,167 This meeting crystallizes the alive resolve 2702 03:46:43,774 --> 03:46:46,142 that Germany shall be beaten unconditionally, 2703 03:46:46,693 --> 03:46:50,102 and that lasting peace shall prevail throughout the world. 2704 03:46:52,466 --> 03:46:54,067 The optimism didn't last long. 2705 03:46:56,424 --> 03:46:58,967 Here in Poland, on the 28th of March, 1945, 2706 03:46:59,519 --> 03:47:01,837 just a few weeks after signing the Yalta Agreement, 2707 03:47:02,702 --> 03:47:05,093 the Soviets showed how sincere they really were 2708 03:47:05,446 --> 03:47:07,662 about Polish political independence. 2709 03:47:13,979 --> 03:47:17,074 Sixteen leading independent political and military figures in Poland, 2710 03:47:17,538 --> 03:47:21,618 arrived for what they had been told was to be a lunch, with senior Soviet officials. 2711 03:47:23,533 --> 03:47:25,460 We will be meeting for lunch. 2712 03:47:26,032 --> 03:47:27,980 It's not far away, nine kilometers from here. 2713 03:47:28,536 --> 03:47:31,869 It's more comfortable then these primitive conditions. 2714 03:47:36,790 --> 03:47:40,861 They weren't just going on a short journey, and they weren't just going for lunch. 2715 03:47:43,257 --> 03:47:46,469 In fact they were all transported over 700 miles to here, 2716 03:47:47,740 --> 03:47:49,636 the Butyrka prison in Moscow. 2717 03:47:54,018 --> 03:47:55,724 The Polish leaders had made a big mistake. 2718 03:47:56,748 --> 03:47:58,732 They'd trusted the Soviet authorities. 2719 03:48:03,628 --> 03:48:05,560 Each of them was imprisoned and interrogated. 2720 03:48:06,911 --> 03:48:10,640 And then they waited to see the final fate Stalin had in store for them. 2721 03:48:17,629 --> 03:48:20,144 Roosevelt was more relaxed about the whole dispute with Stalin. 2722 03:48:21,256 --> 03:48:24,512 Just before Yalta, he'd even remarked that apart from matters concerning Germany, 2723 03:48:25,270 --> 03:48:28,086 he wanted to stay out disputes in Europe, as far as possible. 2724 03:48:31,286 --> 03:48:33,045 He wrote to Churchill in early April, that... 2725 03:48:34,105 --> 03:48:38,062 "I would minimize the general Soviet problem as much as possible, because these problems, 2726 03:48:38,470 --> 03:48:39,453 in one form or another, 2727 03:48:39,861 --> 03:48:43,252 seem to arise every day, and most of them straighten out." 2728 03:48:45,516 --> 03:48:47,444 Roosevelt was still keen to get on with Stalin. 2729 03:48:49,124 --> 03:48:50,233 Partly because the Soviet leader 2730 03:48:50,560 --> 03:48:52,496 had offered to help with what was happening here, 2731 03:48:53,565 --> 03:48:56,244 in the far East, in the war against Japan. 2732 03:49:01,957 --> 03:49:04,085 American's made up the bulk of the Allied forces 2733 03:49:04,477 --> 03:49:07,493 who were engaged in the Pacific in what was known as "Island Hopping", 2734 03:49:08,308 --> 03:49:10,916 the struggle to wrest each island from the Japanese. 2735 03:49:12,479 --> 03:49:13,916 It was a brutal and bloody war. 2736 03:49:15,035 --> 03:49:16,861 Just 8 days after the Yalta Agreement, 2737 03:49:17,834 --> 03:49:20,554 the Americans had launched one of their fiercest assaults here, 2738 03:49:21,413 --> 03:49:25,085 on the Island of Iwo Jima, 750 miles South of Tokyo. 2739 03:49:32,581 --> 03:49:35,827 Just after 9 o'clock in the morning, on the 19th of February, 1945, 2740 03:49:36,778 --> 03:49:39,351 the first wave of US Marines landed on the island. 2741 03:49:52,366 --> 03:49:56,452 But the battle for this piece of volcanic rock, less than 8 miles square, would be horrific 2742 03:49:57,332 --> 03:49:58,354 for both sides. 2743 03:50:05,622 --> 03:50:10,633 Of the 21.000 Japanese defenders, 20.000 would die in the struggle. 2744 03:50:18,413 --> 03:50:23,164 The total American causalities on Iwo Jima, including wounded, were over 25.000, 2745 03:50:24,314 --> 03:50:25,963 more than the Allies suffered on D-day. 2746 03:50:26,810 --> 03:50:27,797 "The injured are carried to the rear." 2747 03:50:28,411 --> 03:50:29,859 So Roosevelt was intensely grateful 2748 03:50:30,259 --> 03:50:33,353 that Stalin had promised the Soviet Union would help the Western Allies, 2749 03:50:34,254 --> 03:50:37,234 and lend to the war against Japan, once Germany was defeated. 2750 03:50:37,793 --> 03:50:42,605 "The wreckage along the beach was only a small part of the cost of 26 days of fighting." 2751 03:50:57,456 --> 03:51:01,009 As for the 16 independent Poles tricked into meeting the Soviet authorities 2752 03:51:01,383 --> 03:51:02,915 by an offer of lunch, 2753 03:51:03,505 --> 03:51:04,587 they were all put on trial. 2754 03:51:09,586 --> 03:51:12,722 The court investigation exposed 2755 03:51:13,027 --> 03:51:16,019 the full extent of the criminal activities of the Polish separatist. 2756 03:51:16,908 --> 03:51:18,317 They were acting on the orders 2757 03:51:18,939 --> 03:51:20,248 of the Polish government-in-exile in London. 2758 03:51:24,511 --> 03:51:29,279 as enemies of democracy, of peace and of the Polish nation. 2759 03:51:30,781 --> 03:51:35,076 Of the 16, 13 were sentenced to various terms in Soviet prisons. 2760 03:51:42,875 --> 03:51:44,291 The US will now change their strategy 2761 03:51:44,669 --> 03:51:46,173 of bombing German industrial and military targets. 2762 03:51:46,637 --> 03:51:48,597 Insteed, the Americans will join the British in the bombing of civilians. 2763 03:51:52,184 --> 03:51:54,137 THE DESTRUCTION OF BERLIN 2764 03:51:55,767 --> 03:51:58,018 Reversing years of American strategic policy, 2765 03:51:58,679 --> 03:52:01,522 would be a massive air assault on Berlin. 2766 03:52:02,376 --> 03:52:03,183 Over 6 months, 2767 03:52:03,590 --> 03:52:08,386 the head of Bomber Command, sent his planes on 19 mass attacks on the Nazi capital. 2768 03:52:10,548 --> 03:52:13,250 As many as 800 bombers on a single mission. 2769 03:52:14,138 --> 03:52:16,664 Nearly 11.000 bombing sorties. 2770 03:52:17,869 --> 03:52:22,360 This attack on Berlin would have significance far beyond causality numbers. 2771 03:52:25,895 --> 03:52:29,805 With this raid, the 8th Air Force crosses a moral threshold. 2772 03:52:30,235 --> 03:52:33,702 And that moral threshold is, we will not deliberately bomb civilians. 2773 03:52:35,863 --> 03:52:39,173 Usually the moral divide for historians 2774 03:52:40,236 --> 03:52:44,644 is the Tokyo raid, which took place the next month, 2775 03:52:45,169 --> 03:52:48,441 where we incinerate the city and kill almost 100.000 people. 2776 03:52:49,169 --> 03:52:50,197 And, but I think, 2777 03:52:52,037 --> 03:52:55,726 once we crossed the moral divide in Berlin, it made everything else, 2778 03:52:56,054 --> 03:52:57,325 including the Atomic Bomb, a little bit easier. 2779 03:53:05,390 --> 03:53:08,462 The world must understand that this state will never surrender 2780 03:53:08,964 --> 03:53:13,404 ... the German Reich may encounter setbacks... 2781 03:53:14,157 --> 03:53:19,008 ... but never will it stray from its chosen path 2782 03:53:20,720 --> 03:53:24,526 The German leadership shares the hardship endured by its people... 2783 03:53:25,029 --> 03:53:27,723 ... but never will it surrender in the face of hardship 2784 03:53:29,818 --> 03:53:34,211 By spring 1945, the situation had become all but hopeless for the Germans. 2785 03:53:35,383 --> 03:53:36,992 The Red Army had reached the river Oder, 2786 03:53:38,290 --> 03:53:40,976 the last great natural obstacle before Berlin. 2787 03:53:55,606 --> 03:53:58,053 12 April 1945, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies from a brain hemorrhage. 2788 03:54:01,292 --> 03:54:02,333 ROOSEVELT IS DEAD! 2789 03:54:02,656 --> 03:54:05,816 Crowds are lining Constitution Avenue, from here to the White House. 2790 03:54:07,287 --> 03:54:11,205 All the soldiers and service men in the crowd, stand firmly at attention. 2791 03:54:13,135 --> 03:54:19,460 And now the caisson will start its solemn sorrowful procession through Washington. 2792 03:54:24,637 --> 03:54:26,234 His Vice-President Henry A. Wallace, a known Communist, 2793 03:54:26,666 --> 03:54:28,250 had been quickly and quietly removed from office 2794 03:54:28,683 --> 03:54:30,262 once it was known Roosevelt's condition was terminal. 2795 03:54:32,199 --> 03:54:33,470 He is replaced by Harry S. Truman. 2796 03:55:03,051 --> 03:55:04,818 28 April 1945, Guilino di Mezzegra, Italy 2797 03:55:10,936 --> 03:55:12,926 Italian Communist partisans, capure Mussolini and his lover Clara Pettacci 2798 03:55:13,359 --> 03:55:15,257 along with several of their comrades in Northern Italy. 2799 03:55:15,931 --> 03:55:17,704 After a sweeping trial they were quickly executed. 2800 03:55:19,218 --> 03:55:20,617 However, recent forensic medicine findings, 2801 03:55:21,103 --> 03:55:22,695 supported by modern digital tehology, 2802 03:55:23,183 --> 03:55:25,210 contradict the official version of Mussolini's death. 2803 03:55:28,073 --> 03:55:29,751 Photographs and films shot in April 1945 in Piazzale Loreto 2804 03:55:30,295 --> 03:55:32,117 and examinated at the Institut of Forensic Medicine, Milan 2805 03:55:32,603 --> 03:55:34,739 conducted that the dictator was undressed prior to being killed. 2806 03:55:38,617 --> 03:55:40,277 It has long been suspected that during their 24 hours of captivity 2807 03:55:40,702 --> 03:55:41,615 Mussolini was tortured 2808 03:55:42,070 --> 03:55:44,373 and that Clara Pettacci was raped several times. 2809 03:56:08,039 --> 03:56:09,614 Their bodies will be brought to Milan the next day 2810 03:56:10,025 --> 03:56:11,687 where before being hanged upside down 2811 03:56:12,054 --> 03:56:13,620 in a heinous public display, 2812 03:56:14,048 --> 03:56:16,231 a baying crowd will stamp, spit and urinate on them. 2813 03:56:48,244 --> 03:56:50,200 Adolf Hitler will hear of Musolini's death whilst in his Berlin bunker. 2814 03:56:50,644 --> 03:56:52,771 By his side is the ever faitful Eva Braun. 2815 03:56:53,339 --> 03:56:54,915 He has been there since 16 January 1945, 2816 03:56:55,380 --> 03:56:57,236 surronded by his High Command. 2817 03:57:14,281 --> 03:57:15,753 To be contiued 2818 03:57:22,786 --> 03:57:25,209 Part 17 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 2819 03:57:28,661 --> 03:57:31,494 The sky is literally falling in on the people of Germany. 2820 03:57:32,114 --> 03:57:35,074 Massive fleets of British and American heavy bombers, 2821 03:57:35,596 --> 03:57:38,307 pound cities to rubble; Germany is surrounded. 2822 03:57:39,372 --> 03:57:43,321 From every frontier enemies are marching on the heart of the Fatherland. 2823 03:57:47,518 --> 03:57:49,211 They are twice as many men as the Wehrmacht, 2824 03:57:49,770 --> 03:57:51,266 four times as many tanks. 2825 03:57:53,305 --> 03:57:54,655 Hitler knows he is surrounded. 2826 03:57:55,329 --> 03:57:57,257 Old men, women and children 2827 03:57:57,603 --> 03:58:00,314 prepare for a desperate fight against hopeless odds. 2828 03:58:01,282 --> 03:58:02,421 Yet, at the same time, 2829 03:58:02,925 --> 03:58:07,121 a people who remain astonishingly loyal in the face of certain defeat. 2830 03:58:08,768 --> 03:58:11,745 Boys of the Hitler youth ready themselves for battle. 2831 03:58:15,818 --> 03:58:18,305 Ordinary people still cheer Hitler's armies. 2832 03:58:21,644 --> 03:58:25,035 These troops are all that stand between Germany and Armageddon. 2833 03:58:31,207 --> 03:58:33,434 Stalin claims he has 6 Million men, 2834 03:58:33,902 --> 03:58:35,379 against less than a million 2835 03:58:35,713 --> 03:58:38,394 armed remnants of every unit the Reich can muster. 2836 03:58:39,226 --> 03:58:43,327 On the 19th of April, Soviet troops reach the Berlin suburbs. 2837 03:58:44,091 --> 03:58:46,481 Now it is street fighting, house by house. 2838 03:58:46,964 --> 03:58:50,217 Everyone a natural redoubt for desperate defenders. 2839 03:58:56,664 --> 03:58:57,700 Casualties mount. 2840 03:58:58,609 --> 03:59:02,466 Resistance stiffens, but the Soviet Armies cannot be halted now. 2841 03:59:14,259 --> 03:59:16,980 Hitler's Reich has been pierced to the heart. 2842 03:59:25,488 --> 03:59:29,089 On the 25th of April, southern units of Konev's front 2843 03:59:29,597 --> 03:59:32,321 make contact with the United States forces at the Elbe. 2844 03:59:33,504 --> 03:59:34,980 No hint of future tensions here. 2845 03:59:38,667 --> 03:59:41,192 Now as Soviet forces converge on the center of Berlin, 2846 03:59:42,053 --> 03:59:45,277 the fighting embraces everything and everyone in the battle field. 2847 03:59:52,410 --> 03:59:53,442 Adolf Hitler Square 2848 04:01:04,800 --> 04:01:07,433 But even now, Hitler has one guardian angel. 2849 04:01:07,533 --> 04:01:08,085 HANNA REITSCH 2850 04:01:08,618 --> 04:01:09,962 Fighter Pilot Hanna Reitsch. 2851 04:01:17,824 --> 04:01:20,588 The only woman to receive an Iron Cross in the Second World War, 2852 04:01:21,250 --> 04:01:22,984 she is utterly devoted to the F�hrer. 2853 04:01:26,295 --> 04:01:30,734 On the 29th of April, she pilots her light aircraft into the heart of Berlin. 2854 04:01:49,013 --> 04:01:50,609 Touching down on the Unter den Linden, 2855 04:01:51,303 --> 04:01:55,250 she makes the perilous journey through the mayhem of battle, to Hitler's bunker, 2856 04:01:57,121 --> 04:01:58,302 where he waits the end; 2857 04:01:59,260 --> 04:02:01,453 accompanied by a few treasured possessions. 2858 04:02:04,211 --> 04:02:09,033 Hanna Reitsch is Hitler's last chance to escape, but he will not leave. 2859 04:02:09,567 --> 04:02:11,605 He chooses to meet his destiny in Berlin. 2860 04:02:18,651 --> 04:02:20,170 REICHSKANZLEIBUNKER, BERLIN 2861 04:02:23,566 --> 04:02:25,584 His grand chancellery now severely damaged, 2862 04:02:26,197 --> 04:02:28,346 he admitted for the first time that all was lost. 2863 04:02:29,758 --> 04:02:32,914 He then stepped into the passage where Eva and the secretaries were waiting. 2864 04:02:34,678 --> 04:02:37,227 "All of a sudden the door was opened, Hitler came out. 2865 04:02:38,174 --> 04:02:39,577 He said everything is lost. 2866 04:02:40,312 --> 04:02:41,518 Pack your things and go, 2867 04:02:42,228 --> 04:02:45,927 you have to leave, and within an hour the last plane will bring you out. 2868 04:02:50,372 --> 04:02:55,146 After a moment of silence, Eva Braun stepped forward, went to him, 2869 04:02:55,665 --> 04:02:58,492 took his hand and said, "but you know I stay with you". 2870 04:03:02,923 --> 04:03:07,016 He smiled, I mean he tried to smile, and he kissed her on the lips. 2871 04:03:07,542 --> 04:03:10,580 At this moment we all said, "we're staying too". 2872 04:03:11,563 --> 04:03:13,981 She came towards me, embraced me, and said, 2873 04:03:14,315 --> 04:03:16,810 "try to go home, try to get out of here. 2874 04:03:17,571 --> 04:03:20,234 And if you are successful, if you come to Bavaria back 2875 04:03:20,817 --> 04:03:22,425 give my regards to everybody." 2876 04:03:24,197 --> 04:03:29,930 And she was very sad and I think she tried to be very brave in this moment. 2877 04:03:34,833 --> 04:03:38,368 He knew what happened to Mussolini, he saw the pictures. 2878 04:03:39,058 --> 04:03:41,357 And he was very very frightened 2879 04:03:42,117 --> 04:03:45,935 to have the same fate, if he would be captured." 2880 04:04:43,638 --> 04:04:45,528 The last known phoograph of Adolf Hitler 2881 04:04:58,280 --> 04:05:00,514 Excerpt from Adolf Hitler's LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT 2882 04:05:06,657 --> 04:05:12,210 After 6 years of struggle, which in spite of all reversals will go down in history 2883 04:05:12,697 --> 04:05:17,065 as the most glorious and most courageous manifestation of a people's will to live. 2884 04:05:18,176 --> 04:05:20,740 I cannot separate myself from the city, 2885 04:05:21,450 --> 04:05:23,072 which is the capital of this Reich. 2886 04:05:24,264 --> 04:05:27,871 Because our forces are too few to permit any further resistance 2887 04:05:28,461 --> 04:05:29,634 against the enemies assaults, 2888 04:05:30,263 --> 04:05:32,182 I desire to share the fate 2889 04:05:32,797 --> 04:05:35,789 that millions of others have taken upon themselves. 2890 04:05:36,476 --> 04:05:38,636 Except I shall remain in this city. 2891 04:05:39,791 --> 04:05:43,957 Furthermore, I do not want to fall into the hands of enemies 2892 04:05:44,477 --> 04:05:47,601 who for the delectation of the hate-riddled masses 2893 04:05:48,010 --> 04:05:51,363 require a new spectacle promoted by the Jews. 2894 04:05:52,430 --> 04:05:54,941 I have therefore resolved to remain in Berlin 2895 04:05:55,878 --> 04:05:58,593 and there to choose death of my own will 2896 04:05:59,237 --> 04:06:01,361 at the very moment when, as I believe, 2897 04:06:02,113 --> 04:06:06,121 the seat of the F�hrer / Chancellor can no longer be defended. 2898 04:06:08,023 --> 04:06:10,169 I die with a joyful heart 2899 04:06:10,652 --> 04:06:14,096 in the awareness the immeasurable deeds and achievements 2900 04:06:14,424 --> 04:06:15,511 of our soldiers at the front, 2901 04:06:16,124 --> 04:06:19,428 of our women at home, the achievements of our workers, 2902 04:06:20,221 --> 04:06:25,581 of the contribution, unique in history, of our youth, which bears my name. 2903 04:06:27,595 --> 04:06:28,702 It goes without saying, 2904 04:06:29,277 --> 04:06:32,589 that I thank them all from the bottom of my heart. 2905 04:07:04,711 --> 04:07:07,204 Defiant to the end, Hitler denounced Field Marshal Hermann G�ring 2906 04:07:07,663 --> 04:07:10,096 and SS chief Heinrich Himmler as traitors for attempting to negotiate 2907 04:07:10,544 --> 04:07:12,208 with the Allies without his knowledge. 2908 04:07:13,324 --> 04:07:15,047 Stripping them of their positions, he hands over 2909 04:07:15,567 --> 04:07:17,167 the leadership of the Third Reich to navy commander Karl D�nitz. 2910 04:07:33,245 --> 04:07:34,697 The Final Days 2911 04:07:40,111 --> 04:07:45,008 On April the 29th, Hitler decided to marry his mistress Eva Braun. 2912 04:07:45,871 --> 04:07:49,381 After the bridal couple had confirmed they were of true Aryan decent, 2913 04:07:50,020 --> 04:07:53,265 the ceremony was concluded with Goebbels and Bormann as the witnesses. 2914 04:07:54,421 --> 04:07:58,010 Hitler signed the wedding certificate, but when it came to Eva's turn, 2915 04:07:58,501 --> 04:08:00,597 she began to write her surname as "Braun" 2916 04:08:01,329 --> 04:08:05,304 before crossing out the letter "B", and writing Eva Hitler. 2917 04:08:09,551 --> 04:08:13,128 Arm in arm, Adolf Hitler led his bride to the study for the wedding reception. 2918 04:08:14,282 --> 04:08:14,824 Traudl Junge: 2919 04:08:15,135 --> 04:08:20,543 "As a gesture of gratitude for her love, for her royalty, for her fidelity, 2920 04:08:22,139 --> 04:08:25,992 and I think he wanted to compensate her for 2921 04:08:27,632 --> 04:08:30,768 to get the figure of history as his wife." 2922 04:08:32,832 --> 04:08:33,412 30 APRIL 1945, BERLIN 2923 04:08:33,690 --> 04:08:36,108 Less than 2 days after the wedding on April the 30th, 2924 04:08:36,722 --> 04:08:39,908 Hitler and his bride retired to his study. Traudl Junge: 2925 04:08:40,252 --> 04:08:46,905 "And there he stood, very quite, very tired, and then he turned and I, 2926 04:08:47,801 --> 04:08:53,315 I felt somehow's like frozen, because I knew now 2927 04:08:54,008 --> 04:08:58,679 that this decisive moment where we were going to see soon he'd end his life." 2928 04:09:00,135 --> 04:09:01,063 They sat on the couch. 2929 04:09:01,726 --> 04:09:03,761 Opposite them was a portrait of Hitler's mother. 2930 04:09:04,960 --> 04:09:06,549 Eva now took a cyanide capsule 2931 04:09:07,163 --> 04:09:10,291 and popped it into her mouth. She died instantly. 2932 04:09:13,401 --> 04:09:14,469 Then Hitler picked up his gun, 2933 04:09:15,180 --> 04:09:17,332 put it to his right temple, and fired. 2934 04:09:19,878 --> 04:09:21,732 Acting in accordance with Hitler's instructions, 2935 04:09:22,312 --> 04:09:24,749 members of his staff wrapped both the bodies in blankets, 2936 04:09:25,165 --> 04:09:26,518 and carried them up to the surface. 2937 04:09:29,505 --> 04:09:31,052 During a pause in the Russian shelling, 2938 04:09:31,354 --> 04:09:33,893 they doused the bodies with what petrol they had managed to collect, 2939 04:09:34,476 --> 04:09:35,523 and set them alight. 2940 04:10:34,362 --> 04:10:38,075 The strugle between the people and hatred between them... 2941 04:10:38,867 --> 04:10:42,395 ... is being nurtured by very specific interested parties. 2942 04:10:43,171 --> 04:10:47,135 It is a small rootless international clique 2943 04:10:47,927 --> 04:10:49,561 that is turning people against each other... 2944 04:10:50,509 --> 04:10:52,663 ... that does not want them to have peace! 2945 04:10:54,941 --> 04:10:57,595 It is a people who are at home nowhere and everywhere! 2946 04:10:58,134 --> 04:11:02,027 Who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up... 2947 04:11:02,524 --> 04:11:04,532 ... but who live in Berlin today... 2948 04:11:05,344 --> 04:11:12,092 ... Brussels tomorrow, Paris the day after, then Prag, Viena or London... 2949 04:11:12,506 --> 04:11:15,123 ... and who feel at home everywhere! 2950 04:11:17,707 --> 04:11:22,205 They are the ones who can really be regarded as international elements... 2951 04:11:22,550 --> 04:11:25,845 ... because they conduct their business everywhere! 2952 04:11:35,441 --> 04:11:37,398 "At the very end of his life, to be sure, his back had become bent, 2953 04:11:37,855 --> 04:11:39,807 but his mind remained as clear as a flash of lightning. 2954 04:11:40,282 --> 04:11:41,804 When has history ever vitnessed so enormous 2955 04:11:42,212 --> 04:11:44,116 a tragedy brought to its end with such iron self-control? 2956 04:11:44,829 --> 04:11:46,710 General L�on Degrelle 2957 04:12:27,724 --> 04:12:29,779 To be continued 2958 04:12:35,724 --> 04:12:38,732 Part 18 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 2959 04:12:43,123 --> 04:12:45,207 In 73 A.D. a huge Roman army lay siege to 1000 rebel Jews 2960 04:12:45,621 --> 04:12:46,580 and their families, 2961 04:12:47,075 --> 04:12:48,508 in the mountain hideaway of Masada. 2962 04:12:50,983 --> 04:12:53,143 On the eve of the batlle, and fearing the rape of their women 2963 04:12:53,600 --> 04:12:55,464 an enslavement of their children, the men to avoid surrender 2964 04:12:55,951 --> 04:12:57,374 drew straws to decide 2965 04:12:57,830 --> 04:12:59,574 which of them would kill their loves ones. 2966 04:13:01,791 --> 04:13:03,670 Once the killigs were completed the men commited suicide, 2967 04:13:04,325 --> 04:13:06,998 leaving the Romans to find not a single survivor the following day. 2968 04:13:11,434 --> 04:13:13,978 Today in Israel, they are remembered as heroic martyrs. 2969 04:13:37,060 --> 04:13:38,459 CENTRAL BERLIN 1945 2970 04:15:01,113 --> 04:15:03,305 April 1945 inside the Reichskanzleibunker, Joseph Goebbels loyal to the end, 2971 04:15:03,765 --> 04:15:05,246 is fully aware that the Bolsheviks are raining death 2972 04:15:05,821 --> 04:15:07,362 and destruction on the population outside. 2973 04:15:08,350 --> 04:15:09,744 With him is his wife Magda and their six children. 2974 04:15:10,145 --> 04:15:11,313 And although they are safe for now, 2975 04:15:11,753 --> 04:15:13,076 with the Soviets just hundreds of yards away, 2976 04:15:13,502 --> 04:15:15,029 he knows that time is running out. 2977 04:15:15,844 --> 04:15:17,676 They too, will choose death for themselves and their six children 2978 04:15:18,138 --> 04:15:19,772 rather than risk escaping brutality of the Commuists. 2979 04:15:21,380 --> 04:15:23,206 Under such circumstances, Magda cannot trust anyone else 2980 04:15:23,653 --> 04:15:25,252 with the responsibility of her children's lives. 2981 04:15:25,763 --> 04:15:26,892 Now she must steel herself 2982 04:15:27,387 --> 04:15:29,091 for what must be every mother's worst nightmare. 2983 04:15:29,792 --> 04:15:31,376 Not once but six times over. 2984 04:16:28,845 --> 04:16:30,785 On 1 May 1945, Joseph and Magda Goebbels will commit suicide. 2985 04:16:31,193 --> 04:16:32,778 The history books will not treat them as kindly, 2986 04:16:33,281 --> 04:16:35,185 nor view them as herically, as the Masada martyrs. 2987 04:16:35,720 --> 04:16:37,355 Magda especially, will be portrayed by the media 2988 04:16:37,755 --> 04:16:38,858 and in future Hollywood movies 2989 04:16:39,388 --> 04:16:41,001 as a sinister perpetrator of evil. 2990 04:17:03,121 --> 04:17:05,210 "A mothers love for her child is like nothing else in the world. 2991 04:17:05,721 --> 04:17:07,137 It knows no law, it knows no pity. It dares all things 2992 04:17:07,694 --> 04:17:09,645 and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." 2993 04:17:23,550 --> 04:17:25,058 GERMANY IS DEFEATED 2994 04:19:23,100 --> 04:19:24,548 On 7 May 1945, Germany officially surrenders. 2995 04:19:25,492 --> 04:19:27,574 Fighting continues in the Balkans where German soldiers and Croat fighers, 2996 04:19:28,038 --> 04:19:29,846 many with their families, continue their battle 2997 04:19:30,287 --> 04:19:32,470 against pursuing Communist partisans in a strugge to reach the Austrian border 2998 04:19:32,938 --> 04:19:34,675 and surrender to the Western Allies. 2999 04:20:04,679 --> 04:20:05,734 Berlin has Fallen. 3000 04:20:07,363 --> 04:20:10,399 Marshall Stalin has just announced the complete capture of 3001 04:20:11,029 --> 04:20:12,215 the capital of Germany. 3002 04:20:12,894 --> 04:20:14,690 There are some reports that Hitler died; 3003 04:20:15,170 --> 04:20:17,210 result of a stroke suffered several days ago. 3004 04:20:17,857 --> 04:20:20,198 There are other reports that Hitler was not in Berlin at all. 3005 04:20:20,943 --> 04:20:23,166 That he's been hiding out, and that he may still be alive. 3006 04:20:23,828 --> 04:20:27,910 That the German story of his death is only a rouse to permit him to escape. 3007 04:20:29,235 --> 04:20:30,971 Many today believe that Hitler escaped 3008 04:20:36,113 --> 04:20:37,277 THE AUSTRIAN BORDER 1945 3009 04:20:42,157 --> 04:20:43,500 THE BLEIBURG MASSACRE 3010 04:20:47,396 --> 04:20:51,143 If people are told the truth, about where they're going, 3011 04:20:51,711 --> 04:20:52,379 Capt. Nigel Nicolson - British 8th Army 3012 04:20:52,663 --> 04:20:56,631 and they refuse to go, because they will be killed, 3013 04:20:57,608 --> 04:20:59,708 the only way to get them onto the trains, 3014 04:21:00,629 --> 04:21:02,995 is to lie to them about their destination. 3015 04:21:18,945 --> 04:21:20,612 And of course if they'd learned the truth, 3016 04:21:21,043 --> 04:21:24,785 that they were going back to Yugoslavia where they didn't expect to survive, 3017 04:21:26,035 --> 04:21:28,966 none of them would have consented to mount the railway tracks. 3018 04:21:32,678 --> 04:21:39,213 Now, I remember asking for... advice from the division. 3019 04:21:40,606 --> 04:21:43,797 Are we to send the civilians as well? 3020 04:21:45,084 --> 04:21:46,161 And the answer came back... 3021 04:21:47,167 --> 04:21:47,944 Yes. 3022 04:21:49,322 --> 04:21:50,818 WAR CRIME 3023 04:21:52,949 --> 04:21:57,214 There were women and children, and old men, and sometimes babies, 3024 04:21:57,721 --> 04:22:01,504 who were in these convoys, which we organized. 3025 04:22:03,827 --> 04:22:05,136 But did you hear the machine guns? - Yes. 3026 04:22:06,978 --> 04:22:07,826 Capt. Colin Gunner - British 8th Army 3027 04:22:09,718 --> 04:22:11,176 On the Yugoslav side of the border? 3028 04:22:11,508 --> 04:22:13,144 Oh for Christ sake! 3029 04:22:15,460 --> 04:22:20,697 Do you think I like to talk about fucking kids being shot down?! 3030 04:22:27,307 --> 04:22:28,633 At Yalta, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin had agreed 3031 04:22:29,033 --> 04:22:30,439 to forced repatriation of enemy POWs and refugees. 3032 04:22:30,466 --> 04:22:31,914 Although the US signed international agreemets opposing forced repatriation, 3033 04:22:32,361 --> 04:22:34,051 they inserted fine print expecting from the ban 3034 04:22:34,463 --> 04:22:35,907 all those who originated from nations 3035 04:22:36,353 --> 04:22:38,049 given over to the Soviets at the end of the war. 3036 04:22:38,631 --> 04:22:40,496 While claiming to "make the world safe for Democracy", Roosevelt and Churchill 3037 04:22:40,951 --> 04:22:42,791 condemned millions to slave labour camps and certain death. 3038 04:22:43,731 --> 04:22:45,289 The Allies even kept secret from the world fact 3039 04:22:45,735 --> 04:22:47,421 that Stalin was holding over 5.000 Allied soldiers as hostages 3040 04:22:47,853 --> 04:22:49,661 to ensure that the West complied with his demands for repatriation. 3041 04:23:15,750 --> 04:23:18,587 "And then for the next 5 days, 3042 04:23:19,641 --> 04:23:25,084 we organized trainloads of Croats to go to Yugoslavia. 3043 04:23:31,513 --> 04:23:38,816 But ah, as they trusted us, when we were telling them the truth, 3044 04:23:40,368 --> 04:23:43,165 there wasn't much trouble about loading them on." 3045 04:23:45,011 --> 04:23:45,952 OPERATION KEELHAUL 3046 04:23:47,110 --> 04:23:48,418 Whilst searching through US military archives 3047 04:23:48,912 --> 04:23:50,688 for the Cogressional investigation of the State Department cover-up 3048 04:23:51,146 --> 04:23:52,473 of Soviet involvement in the Katyn Forest massacre, 3049 04:23:52,860 --> 04:23:54,469 researcher Julius Epstein discovered evidence 3050 04:23:54,925 --> 04:23:56,589 of a top secret program of forced repatriation known as 3051 04:23:57,037 --> 04:23:58,163 Operation Keelhaul. 3052 04:23:59,989 --> 04:24:01,830 US and British troops had to beat, drug and drive at gunpoint 3053 04:24:02,246 --> 04:24:03,890 millions of civilians back to the Communists. 3054 04:24:06,171 --> 04:24:08,094 In spite of this, Stalin never did release the American and British POWs. 3055 04:24:08,634 --> 04:24:10,475 It is suspected they perished in the Gulags, as the US still 3056 04:24:11,800 --> 04:24:13,439 refuses to open the archives revealing their fate. 3057 04:24:27,004 --> 04:24:28,617 THE ALLIES MISTREATMENT OF GERMAN PRISONERS 3058 04:24:36,960 --> 04:24:38,864 Unlike the Soviets, the Allies had signed on 3059 04:24:39,368 --> 04:24:40,526 to the Geneva Convention of 1929. 3060 04:24:40,984 --> 04:24:42,680 But by reclassifaing the German POWs as "disarmed enemy forces", 3061 04:24:43,127 --> 04:24:44,960 they had now found a way of cicumventing the rules. 3062 04:24:45,764 --> 04:24:47,348 The British, French and Americans will now block any attempt 3063 04:24:47,802 --> 04:24:49,630 by the International Red Cross from checking that the prisoners 3064 04:24:50,066 --> 04:24:51,694 are treated according to international law 3065 04:24:52,206 --> 04:24:53,462 in Allied camps across Germany. 3066 04:24:56,555 --> 04:24:58,673 Eisenhower's mistreatment of prisoners in the Rhine Meadow concentration camps, 3067 04:24:59,138 --> 04:25:00,717 where they held under appalling conditions, 3068 04:25:01,205 --> 04:25:03,157 have only recently come to light. 3069 04:25:04,828 --> 04:25:06,431 It is now estimated that at least 1.5 million soldiers 3070 04:25:06,942 --> 04:25:09,021 and civilian POWs died whilst in Allied captivity. 3071 04:25:19,883 --> 04:25:21,316 "This is Deanna Spingola. 3072 04:25:22,170 --> 04:25:25,433 Today I'm going to share some details about World War 2, 3073 04:25:26,213 --> 04:25:28,918 that many of you might not have heard before. 3074 04:25:29,522 --> 04:25:33,624 I base this information on the hundreds of hours of research that I have done. 3075 04:25:34,678 --> 04:25:36,638 Eisenhower's Death Camps. 3076 04:25:37,227 --> 04:25:40,003 In a letter to his wife Eisenhower said, 3077 04:25:40,413 --> 04:25:42,945 and this is the quote, "God I hate the Germans! 3078 04:25:43,341 --> 04:25:46,072 Why? Because the German is a beast", unquote. 3079 04:25:46,993 --> 04:25:51,756 He suggested a new class of prisoner, Disarmed Enemy Forces, 3080 04:25:52,352 --> 04:25:54,478 prisoners the army would not feed. 3081 04:25:55,640 --> 04:25:59,431 Get that? They would not feed! after Germany's surrender. 3082 04:26:00,169 --> 04:26:01,428 Food, water and shelter, 3083 04:26:01,975 --> 04:26:05,449 basic human necessities, were unavailable in the camps; 3084 04:26:06,141 --> 04:26:08,041 per Eisenhower's orders! 3085 04:26:09,258 --> 04:26:09,990 Excuse me. 3086 04:26:11,126 --> 04:26:16,554 On April 22nd, 1945, the US had in Europe, 3087 04:26:17,119 --> 04:26:23,543 50 days worth of 4.000 calorie rations to feed 5 million people 3088 04:26:24,419 --> 04:26:26,645 for an additional 50 days! 3089 04:26:27,177 --> 04:26:28,276 They had the food, 3090 04:26:28,673 --> 04:26:31,555 they just chose not to give it! 3091 04:26:32,655 --> 04:26:37,328 On April 26th, 1945, the combined Chiefs Of Staff in Washington, 3092 04:26:37,977 --> 04:26:42,870 cabled Eisenhower their approval of the Disarmed Enemy Forces status, 3093 04:26:43,517 --> 04:26:46,165 for ALL German citizens! 3094 04:26:47,041 --> 04:26:49,102 Everybody was considered an enemy! 3095 04:26:50,690 --> 04:26:57,183 By April 30th 1945, there was an additional 2.062,865 3096 04:26:57,808 --> 04:27:00,103 of these CIVILIAN prisoners. 3097 04:27:00,674 --> 04:27:06,234 Author Giles Macdonogh wrote, that at least 1.5 million Germans 3098 04:27:06,662 --> 04:27:10,549 died in those camps due to their ill-treatment and starvation. 3099 04:27:11,268 --> 04:27:19,514 In contrast in 1945 the American Red Cross said that "99% of the US POWs 3100 04:27:20,154 --> 04:27:25,026 held in German camps had survived and were soon returning home." 3101 04:27:28,469 --> 04:27:31,587 I was a US Army Guard at a German Prison Camp in Andernach. 3102 04:27:32,642 --> 04:27:36,365 And I was uh silent for 45 years because uh 3103 04:27:37,414 --> 04:27:38,478 I was warned 3104 04:27:39,180 --> 04:27:40,620 it would be futile to say anything, 3105 04:27:41,073 --> 04:27:43,246 and that I would be in serious trouble if I did. 3106 04:27:51,627 --> 04:27:53,205 To be continued 3107 04:27:56,572 --> 04:27:59,946 Part 19 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 3108 04:28:03,302 --> 04:28:05,137 LONDON, ENGLAND 8 MAY 1945 3109 04:28:13,016 --> 04:28:14,077 Victory in Europe. 3110 04:28:14,867 --> 04:28:15,767 V- E Day. 3111 04:28:21,051 --> 04:28:25,720 We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoice. 3112 04:28:30,122 --> 04:28:31,702 But let us not forget for a moment 3113 04:28:32,244 --> 04:28:35,702 the toils and efforts that lie ahead. 3114 04:28:38,730 --> 04:28:43,829 Japan with all her treachery and greed remains unsubdued. 3115 04:28:48,402 --> 04:28:51,642 In Asia and the Pacific the war still raged. 3116 04:30:39,792 --> 04:30:41,659 HIROSHIMA, JAPAN 6 AUGUST 1945 3117 04:30:51,954 --> 04:30:53,464 BERLIN, GERMANY 3118 04:30:57,502 --> 04:31:01,339 In the wake of its unconditional surrender on the 7th of May, 1945, 3119 04:31:01,864 --> 04:31:03,447 Germany lay vanquished. 3120 04:31:04,116 --> 04:31:05,338 Millions had died. 3121 04:31:06,046 --> 04:31:08,730 Those that survived had suffered terribly during the conflict, 3122 04:31:09,248 --> 04:31:11,417 both in combat and on the home front. 3123 04:31:15,996 --> 04:31:18,940 Intensive Allied bombing raids and the ground battle for Germany, 3124 04:31:19,553 --> 04:31:21,931 had forced millions of Germans from their homes. 3125 04:31:23,955 --> 04:31:25,800 On the 5th of June, 1945, 3126 04:31:26,461 --> 04:31:30,461 the Allies announced they would govern Germany through 4 occupation zones. 3127 04:31:31,085 --> 04:31:32,537 One for each of the 4 powers. 3128 04:31:33,473 --> 04:31:38,551 The Soviet Union, Britain, the United States, and France. 3129 04:31:39,480 --> 04:31:42,230 Following the war, hundreds of thousands of former soldiers, 3130 04:31:42,660 --> 04:31:45,702 Nazi party members, were held in POW camps. 3131 04:31:46,229 --> 04:31:50,113 Thousands of officers and members of the Nazi party remained imprisoned. 3132 04:31:50,692 --> 04:31:53,452 Their fate a trial for war crimes. 3133 04:31:58,120 --> 04:32:00,113 THE ALLIED LIBERATION OF POW CAMPS 3134 04:32:14,574 --> 04:32:15,890 BUCHENWALD, GERMANY 3135 04:32:18,609 --> 04:32:20,566 The US army forced the local population to file through the camp 3136 04:32:21,016 --> 04:32:22,656 to view the horrors they had ecountered upon arrival. 3137 04:32:23,050 --> 04:32:24,729 The sight and stench of thousands of emaciated and naked corpes 3138 04:32:25,191 --> 04:32:26,981 will also be experienced by the British at the Bergen-Belsen camp 3139 04:32:27,454 --> 04:32:29,044 and others across Europe. 3140 04:32:53,662 --> 04:32:55,562 Only months before, the Bolsheviks had claimed they had discovered 3141 04:32:56,094 --> 04:32:57,954 homicidal gas chambers i camps across eatern Europe. 3142 04:32:59,367 --> 04:33:01,264 This, as the Germans are purposely led around camps shocked, 3143 04:33:01,753 --> 04:33:03,404 dazed and bewildered, will mark the beginning 3144 04:33:03,880 --> 04:33:05,867 of what will become known as de-Nazifiction. 3145 04:33:18,215 --> 04:33:20,004 The Americans claim they have even more evidence of atrocities. 3146 04:33:20,504 --> 04:33:22,918 A lampshade made from human skin, two shrunken Polish prisoer's heads 3147 04:33:23,390 --> 04:33:25,299 and pieces of tattooed skin are displayed 3148 04:33:25,923 --> 04:33:27,856 for an already sickening crowd. 3149 04:33:29,398 --> 04:33:31,684 There will soon be sories of humans used for soap, 3150 04:33:32,395 --> 04:33:34,227 and even more homocidal gas chambers discovered, 3151 04:33:34,804 --> 04:33:36,788 this time in the camps iberated by the Allies. 3152 04:34:23,917 --> 04:34:26,095 THE DACHAU MASSACRES 3153 04:34:30,946 --> 04:34:31,749 Within the first hour of the liberaion 3154 04:34:32,221 --> 04:34:33,701 of the Dachau POW camp Northwest of Munich, 3155 04:34:34,194 --> 04:34:36,077 122 SS guards are shot after surrendering to the US 45th Division. 3156 04:34:36,511 --> 04:34:38,302 Another 40 SS are beaten to death by inmates. 3157 04:34:52,053 --> 04:34:53,701 A further 358 SS men will be rounded up 3158 04:34:54,182 --> 04:34:55,917 and herded into an encosed coal yard. 3159 04:34:56,547 --> 04:34:58,213 Initially, 12 are machine-gunned. 3160 04:35:13,228 --> 04:35:15,384 The rest are executed shoortly thereafter. 3161 04:35:26,754 --> 04:35:28,324 In total, 560 SS men who had surrendered 3162 04:35:28,840 --> 04:35:30,501 were murdered during the liberation of Dachau. 3163 04:35:31,069 --> 04:35:32,630 The only punishment for the US soldiers involved in the executions 3164 04:35:33,148 --> 04:35:34,637 was the threat of a court-martial. 3165 04:35:41,322 --> 04:35:43,696 Despit claims from prisoners and the US soldiers who liberated them, 3166 04:35:44,117 --> 04:35:46,084 a sign at Dachau will later begrudgingly read... 3167 04:35:46,563 --> 04:35:48,077 No gassing ever took place. 3168 04:36:03,298 --> 04:36:04,921 THE NUREMBERG TRIAL 3169 04:36:10,790 --> 04:36:12,461 Admiral Karl D�nitz and the NSDAP leaders are arrested 3170 04:36:12,928 --> 04:36:14,632 and placed on trial for alleged war crimes. 3171 04:36:14,633 --> 04:36:16,363 It is an event unprecendendted in history. 3172 04:36:16,848 --> 04:36:18,416 For the first time ever, members of a government defeated in war 3173 04:36:18,847 --> 04:36:19,964 will now stand trial for their lives. 3174 04:36:20,486 --> 04:36:21,744 In the court room will be four judges, one each from the 3175 04:36:22,202 --> 04:36:23,801 US, Britain, France and the Soviet Union. 3176 04:36:29,786 --> 04:36:31,145 Admiral Karl D�nitz 3177 04:36:34,928 --> 04:36:36,551 The wer crimes of Stalin are covered up, 3178 04:36:37,112 --> 04:36:39,385 and will only come to light when the Soviet Union colapses 3179 04:36:39,837 --> 04:36:41,170 over half a century later. 3180 04:36:41,859 --> 04:36:43,212 Roosevelt and Churchill deliberate bombing of German civilians 3181 04:36:43,594 --> 04:36:46,011 in Dresden, Hamburg and Berlin are never recognised as war crimes. 3182 04:36:49,375 --> 04:36:50,958 You can light a fag on any of those. 3183 04:36:51,624 --> 04:36:52,376 Bombs doors open. 3184 04:36:52,776 --> 04:36:55,160 Bombs doors open. Bombs away. 3185 04:36:55,552 --> 04:36:56,912 There goes the cookie. 3186 04:36:57,764 --> 04:36:59,114 There go the incendiaries. 3187 04:37:01,741 --> 04:37:03,419 The Allies will use hanging as a method of execution, a practice 3188 04:37:03,769 --> 04:37:05,224 usually associated with a common criminal or murderer 3189 04:37:05,608 --> 04:37:06,785 and not a military tribunal. 3190 04:37:07,805 --> 04:37:09,026 Head of the SS Heinrich Himmler will escape the hangman 3191 04:37:09,442 --> 04:37:10,850 by swallowing cyanide after his arrest. 3192 04:37:12,857 --> 04:37:14,520 A capsule is also discovered on Herman G�ring. 3193 04:37:14,947 --> 04:37:16,678 He will stand trial however, and his commanding presence 3194 04:37:17,173 --> 04:37:18,870 will dominate the proceedings. 3195 04:37:29,169 --> 04:37:32,501 What struck you when you first met him, was his bearing. 3196 04:37:33,463 --> 04:37:36,321 He was a commanding personality; you were impressed. 3197 04:37:36,733 --> 04:37:38,602 You knew that somebody important was there. 3198 04:37:41,357 --> 04:37:44,977 Whenever the prisoners where in their cells 3199 04:37:45,281 --> 04:37:46,227 H. G�ering 3200 04:37:46,262 --> 04:37:51,042 they were constantly under observation; every minute of it. 3201 04:37:53,170 --> 04:37:54,978 As expected, the majority of verdicts are announced as guilty, 3202 04:37:55,506 --> 04:37:57,546 and the leading National Socialist receive either the death penalty 3203 04:37:57,939 --> 04:37:59,233 or long prison sentences. 3204 04:38:00,102 --> 04:38:02,285 After being accused a request for a "soldier's death" by firing squad, 3205 04:38:02,669 --> 04:38:04,347 Hermann G�ering hours away from his execution, 3206 04:38:04,877 --> 04:38:07,512 will also cheat the hangman. 3207 04:38:08,585 --> 04:38:10,310 To this day, it is a mistery how he was able 3208 04:38:10,750 --> 04:38:12,214 to obtain the required cyanide. 3209 04:38:25,967 --> 04:38:27,578 The ethnic cleansig of National Socialist will now commence with a witch-hunt 3210 04:38:28,025 --> 04:38:30,401 against German military leaders, political officials, industrialist and financiers. 3211 04:38:31,883 --> 04:38:32,966 Many of the hangings go so horribly wrong, 3212 04:38:33,398 --> 04:38:34,574 with some deaths taking between 20-30 minutes, 3213 04:38:35,835 --> 04:38:37,035 that the British Army will request the services 3214 04:38:37,458 --> 04:38:39,530 of Britain's top criminal hangman Albert Pierrepoint. 3215 04:38:49,849 --> 04:38:51,505 Pierrepiont, good to see you again. 3216 04:38:52,235 --> 04:38:55,815 We've had the gallows constructed to home office specifications, 3217 04:38:56,581 --> 04:38:57,814 as you've requested. 3218 04:38:58,627 --> 04:39:02,691 And here's the list of tomorrow's condemned prisoners. 3219 04:39:06,059 --> 04:39:07,384 13 in one day. 3220 04:39:08,908 --> 04:39:10,660 No Sir. I'm not with you Sir. 3221 04:39:11,081 --> 04:39:13,123 I thought we had a week to do this job? 3222 04:39:13,503 --> 04:39:17,228 Well yes, but there are different batches each day. 3223 04:39:19,045 --> 04:39:21,746 Well, how many others are there, Sir? 3224 04:39:24,218 --> 04:39:26,490 47 in total. 3225 04:39:27,213 --> 04:39:28,079 47? 3226 04:39:28,575 --> 04:39:29,991 That's just this week. 3227 04:39:30,869 --> 04:39:33,606 I'm afraid you'll find them coming thicker fast, 3228 04:39:33,713 --> 04:39:35,734 now that the courts have delivered their verdicts. 3229 04:39:38,318 --> 04:39:39,100 Jolly good. 3230 04:39:43,989 --> 04:39:45,556 196 pounds. 3231 04:39:48,426 --> 04:39:49,467 Irma Grese. 3232 04:39:51,207 --> 04:39:52,899 Keiner unterhaltung. 3233 04:40:00,326 --> 04:40:02,213 Uh... 5' 3" 3234 04:40:04,109 --> 04:40:05,898 You do the Jews work for them. 3235 04:40:10,639 --> 04:40:11,668 Stehen bleiben. 3236 04:40:12,746 --> 04:40:13,726 113 pounds 3237 04:40:18,862 --> 04:40:19,853 That's the last of them. 3238 04:41:52,913 --> 04:41:53,937 Time for a break? 3239 04:41:57,111 --> 04:41:59,703 No, we don't want to fall behind. 3240 04:42:44,076 --> 04:42:45,572 To be continued 3241 04:42:51,666 --> 04:42:54,304 Part 20 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 3242 04:43:00,418 --> 04:43:01,967 CONFESSION BY TORTURE 3243 04:43:10,182 --> 04:43:11,742 Recently released documents disprove decades of denial, and show 3244 04:43:12,144 --> 04:43:13,929 that the Germans suffered horribly whilst in British captivity. 3245 04:43:14,739 --> 04:43:16,628 Thousands of Germans passed through the unit known as the London Cage, 3246 04:43:17,148 --> 04:43:18,770 run by Lieutenant Colonel Aexander Scotland. 3247 04:43:21,389 --> 04:43:22,897 The London Cage was just one of a series of nine cages in Britain 3248 04:43:23,289 --> 04:43:25,000 where the torture of Germans took place. 3249 04:43:40,003 --> 04:43:41,558 At Nuremberg in 1946, the Allie's "star witness" was Rudof H�ss, 3250 04:43:41,983 --> 04:43:43,813 former commandant at Auschwitz, who they claimed had confessed 3251 04:43:44,239 --> 04:43:45,945 to exterminaing over 3 million Jews. 3252 04:43:47,957 --> 04:43:49,471 Film of emaciated bodies used as evidence of German atrocities 3253 04:43:49,878 --> 04:43:50,951 is intentionally misleading. 3254 04:43:51,383 --> 04:43:53,669 The Allies know that most of the inmates perished from typhus... 3255 04:44:01,743 --> 04:44:04,884 Zyklon B dropped into the death chamber from a small opening. 3256 04:44:06,019 --> 04:44:08,000 It took from 3 to 15 minutes. 3257 04:44:09,476 --> 04:44:10,100 15 DE ABRIL DE 1946 3258 04:44:10,135 --> 04:44:12,965 We knew when the people were dead because their screaming stopped. 3259 04:44:14,739 --> 04:44:19,084 After the bodies were removed our special commandos took off the rings 3260 04:44:19,476 --> 04:44:22,240 and extracted the gold from the teeth of the corpses. 3261 04:44:22,482 --> 04:44:23,565 Jesus 3262 04:44:25,714 --> 04:44:28,759 Children of tender years were invariably exterminated 3263 04:44:30,867 --> 04:44:33,699 since by reason of their youth they were unable to work. 3264 04:44:38,475 --> 04:44:40,040 Is that all true and correct witness? 3265 04:44:42,314 --> 04:44:43,400 Yes. 3266 04:44:46,903 --> 04:44:49,219 It was the British who obtained by torture 3267 04:44:49,620 --> 04:44:51,500 the confession of Rudolf Hoess, 3268 04:44:51,859 --> 04:44:56,172 Commandant of Auschwitz, before turning him over to Soviets and Poles. 3269 04:44:56,612 --> 04:44:59,476 This has been confirmed in a book published in 1983 3270 04:44:59,940 --> 04:45:01,335 titled "Legions of Death", 3271 04:45:01,927 --> 04:45:05,373 which contains the recollections of British sergeant Bernard Clark, 3272 04:45:06,067 --> 04:45:08,219 who brags about having tortured Hoess, 3273 04:45:08,572 --> 04:45:09,907 to get a confession out of him, 3274 04:45:10,400 --> 04:45:11,626 and of threatening his family. 3275 04:45:15,011 --> 04:45:17,724 It was here that Hoess was hanged. 3276 04:45:18,216 --> 04:45:19,094 Auschwitz 3277 04:45:28,399 --> 04:45:29,921 Modern science will ultimately determine the horrific claims 3278 04:45:30,297 --> 04:45:31,987 from Buchenwald and Bergen-Belson to be Allied propaganda. 3279 04:45:32,466 --> 04:45:34,018 To this day, many believe them to be true. 3280 04:45:35,569 --> 04:45:37,168 DNA testing proves that the Dachau lampshade are goatskin. 3281 04:45:37,653 --> 04:45:38,709 And the two shrunken heads? 3282 04:45:39,179 --> 04:45:41,299 They conveniently disappeared before they could be tested. 3283 04:45:43,461 --> 04:45:44,847 And though other stories - such as articles made from 3284 04:45:45,279 --> 04:45:46,710 "human tattooed skin" - are equally false, 3285 04:45:47,187 --> 04:45:48,995 they remain embedded in Holocaust mythology. 3286 04:46:04,108 --> 04:46:05,763 Only in Eastern Europian camps, where no invesigation ever occured 3287 04:46:06,244 --> 04:46:08,004 or where alowed, is it still claimed 3288 04:46:08,507 --> 04:46:10,163 that millions of Jews entered the gas chambers. 3289 04:46:14,267 --> 04:46:15,738 Perhaps the most dubios piece of evidence at Nuremberg 3290 04:46:16,163 --> 04:46:17,588 was the story of "human made into soap". 3291 04:46:21,147 --> 04:46:22,866 Deborah Lipstadt, a cosultant for the Hoocaust Memorial museum, 3292 04:46:23,281 --> 04:46:25,721 eventually wrote an article confirming that this was also fabricaion. 3293 04:46:44,220 --> 04:46:45,343 Nazi Soap Rumor During World War Two 3294 04:46:46,584 --> 04:46:47,896 ... The fact is that the Nazis never used the bodies of Jews, 3295 04:46:48,264 --> 04:46:49,416 or for that matter anyone else, for the production of soap. 3296 04:46:49,822 --> 04:46:50,999 The soap rumor was prevalent both during and after the war. 3297 04:46:51,407 --> 04:46:51,910 It may have... 3298 04:46:59,261 --> 04:47:01,407 I rather wished that the F�hrer hadn't stood by his followers, 3299 04:47:02,318 --> 04:47:05,925 and taken the responsibility for his command. 3300 04:47:07,676 --> 04:47:09,123 Think of his position. 3301 04:47:09,870 --> 04:47:13,997 Oh sure. His position as Chief war criminal, right? 3302 04:47:15,829 --> 04:47:16,915 He was our sovereign. 3303 04:47:19,298 --> 04:47:22,878 It would be intolerable for me to have him standing before a foreign court. 3304 04:47:25,947 --> 04:47:27,087 You men knew the F�hrer. 3305 04:47:29,483 --> 04:47:31,034 He would be the first one to stand up and say, 3306 04:47:32,295 --> 04:47:36,169 "I gave the orders and I shall take full responsibility!" 3307 04:47:37,427 --> 04:47:40,298 And I would rather die 10 deaths 3308 04:47:43,325 --> 04:47:46,058 than have the sovereign subjected to such humiliation. 3309 04:47:55,158 --> 04:47:57,049 GERMAN WAR REPARATION 3310 04:48:04,791 --> 04:48:06,672 Germany finally cleared its World War One dept in Ocober 2010. 3311 04:48:07,175 --> 04:48:09,091 It amounted to a total of �22 billion. 3312 04:48:11,028 --> 04:48:12,868 Germany, in 2013, still paying reparation for World War Two. 3313 04:48:13,323 --> 04:48:15,156 The once-proud nation even has pending court cases 3314 04:48:15,573 --> 04:48:17,715 at the United Nations for further reparations concerning Italy and Greece. 3315 04:48:20,519 --> 04:48:21,206 Guilty verdics by the court will most likely open 3316 04:48:21,615 --> 04:48:23,647 the floodgates for other countries to follow suit. 3317 04:48:37,486 --> 04:48:39,498 Jews who survived the conceration camp are known as Holocaust survivors. 3318 04:48:39,998 --> 04:48:41,670 However, other Jews can also qualify. 3319 04:48:42,157 --> 04:48:44,190 According to AMCHA in Israel, a Holocaust survivor is any Jew who... 3320 04:48:47,236 --> 04:48:48,443 in 1933... resided anywhere under... 3321 04:48:49,920 --> 04:48:50,904 A Nazi regime 3322 04:48:51,432 --> 04:48:52,848 Nazi occupation 3323 04:48:53,440 --> 04:48:54,894 The regime of Nazi collaborators 3324 04:48:55,849 --> 04:48:57,854 This qualifies any Jew who left Europe in 1933 for America or elsewhere 3325 04:48:58,296 --> 04:49:00,254 and lived in comfort and safety whilst the war raget on. 3326 04:49:05,472 --> 04:49:07,437 In 2013, Germany will provide compension payments to a new category of vicims: 3327 04:49:07,933 --> 04:49:10,102 some 80.000 Jews who fled the German Army and who eventually resettled 3328 04:49:10,590 --> 04:49:11,918 in former Soviet Union. 3329 04:49:12,539 --> 04:49:14,202 They are eligible for a one-of payment of $ 3.253 3330 04:49:14,668 --> 04:49:16,754 along whit a monthy Holocaust pension. 3331 04:49:31,605 --> 04:49:32,875 Despite the seizure by the Allies 3332 04:49:33,267 --> 04:49:34,795 of millions of documents at the end of the war 3333 04:49:35,284 --> 04:49:36,834 not one single document showing Adolf Hitler ordered 3334 04:49:37,313 --> 04:49:39,890 systematic exterminatios of the Jews has ever been found. 3335 04:50:04,888 --> 04:50:06,159 With no photographs, video footage 3336 04:50:06,546 --> 04:50:08,103 or even a single report of a gassed victim, 3337 04:50:08,644 --> 04:50:10,562 we have had to trust the Soviets at testimonies of former inmates, 3338 04:50:11,101 --> 04:50:13,059 none of whom were cross-examinated at Nuremberg. 3339 04:50:16,202 --> 04:50:17,898 However, some inmates tell a conflicting story 3340 04:50:18,366 --> 04:50:20,596 of their treatment in the Eastern concentration camps. 3341 04:50:27,043 --> 04:50:33,344 We also had an orchestra where some of the musicians stands us together 3342 04:50:34,633 --> 04:50:36,555 and one musician was so good 3343 04:50:37,417 --> 04:50:42,190 that he had the instruments playing and he wrote the notes, 3344 04:50:42,556 --> 04:50:45,316 and later on we had a band show who played over the weekend. 3345 04:50:47,291 --> 04:50:51,719 And that was of course helping us, you know we also did plays and stuff. 3346 04:50:52,109 --> 04:50:54,450 Were there any cultural activities happening in Auschwitz? 3347 04:50:54,961 --> 04:50:59,195 Yes. I told you we had a piano, put into, 3348 04:50:59,687 --> 04:51:02,955 not just a piano, a grand piano, was brought into block one. 3349 04:51:03,473 --> 04:51:05,268 Once that was built, that new block, 3350 04:51:05,820 --> 04:51:08,426 the downstairs room was assigned for theater. 3351 04:51:08,994 --> 04:51:11,878 They said they're going to build a movie in the camp. 3352 04:51:14,207 --> 04:51:17,120 The prisoners sat down and , "you must be crazy, 3353 04:51:17,567 --> 04:51:21,180 you cannot make a movie for us in the camp?" 3354 04:51:21,928 --> 04:51:24,362 But really it happened. They made a movie in the camp. 3355 04:51:24,880 --> 04:51:29,592 Yeah, and we... we went in barracks 3356 04:51:30,060 --> 04:51:33,652 after work we... we could go to see a movie sometimes, 3357 04:51:34,763 --> 04:51:38,233 they brought movies in see. ...in the evenings, and... 3358 04:51:39,296 --> 04:51:41,022 What kind of movies would they show? 3359 04:51:41,468 --> 04:51:42,611 German movies. 3360 04:51:43,369 --> 04:51:45,198 Once I came to the main camp, 3361 04:51:45,703 --> 04:51:48,900 we were allowed twice a month to write home. 3362 04:51:49,466 --> 04:51:51,910 Once a postcard and once a letter. 3363 04:51:53,415 --> 04:51:54,424 They gave you the materials? 3364 04:51:54,833 --> 04:51:58,846 Yeah, they gave us the letter and the materials... the cost. 3365 04:51:59,128 --> 04:52:00,153 You had money? 3366 04:52:00,495 --> 04:52:04,221 Yeah, we got my ways??...still got my w??...money we got through the 3367 04:52:04,617 --> 04:52:08,494 Jewish community from they know who send us... 3368 04:52:09,222 --> 04:52:11,287 everybody some money. 3369 04:52:13,026 --> 04:52:15,742 And in the camp you could have currency? 3370 04:52:16,126 --> 04:52:18,699 Yeah, we could have money, because there was in camp loads 3371 04:52:19,044 --> 04:52:20,390 of what they called a "Cantina", 3372 04:52:21,490 --> 04:52:27,782 and not many times, but once in a while they sold a few cigarettes, 3373 04:52:28,219 --> 04:52:32,460 or they sold something... whatever they had. 3374 04:52:33,459 --> 04:52:37,079 So if you had money you could buy, at the Cantina there. 3375 04:52:37,999 --> 04:52:41,853 Redeemable in... in that Cantina if they had something. 3376 04:52:42,987 --> 04:52:49,413 So, that was their... their way of distributing money. 3377 04:52:51,270 --> 04:52:54,188 To everybody, everyone got this money. 3378 04:52:55,091 --> 04:52:58,799 Soccer teams... were organized very well. 3379 04:52:59,218 --> 04:53:01,860 the event is held in the former barrack's courtyard 3380 04:53:05,674 --> 04:53:09,222 And one of these uh enlisted, top enlisted SS men, 3381 04:53:09,897 --> 04:53:12,244 decided he wants to play for the Polish team. 3382 04:53:13,031 --> 04:53:16,452 So... we say okay, you can play. 3383 04:53:17,576 --> 04:53:21,543 And then the Commandant... Commandant... SS Commandant, 3384 04:53:22,414 --> 04:53:24,322 he was uh like... like a Captain, 3385 04:53:25,474 --> 04:53:28,080 he decided he wanted to play for the German team. 3386 04:53:28,854 --> 04:53:33,932 So he went in the field. But that's happened, so... but it was 1944, see? 3387 04:53:34,588 --> 04:53:36,372 Is what you're saying then that um... 3388 04:53:36,754 --> 04:53:38,664 the closer the end of the war came, uh... 3389 04:53:40,118 --> 04:53:42,492 pressure was let up rather than ah... - Definitely. 3390 04:53:43,149 --> 04:53:44,811 becoming more cruel or...? 3391 04:53:46,140 --> 04:53:47,249 Freddie Hirsch called me... 3392 04:53:47,831 --> 04:53:50,238 to the children's barracks, he was heading then, 3393 04:53:50,952 --> 04:53:54,918 and uh... he asked me if I could paint something on the wall for the children? 3394 04:53:55,294 --> 04:53:57,585 And I said, "well, if you can get the materials?" 3395 04:53:57,998 --> 04:53:59,128 He said, "I'll get the materials." 3396 04:53:59,828 --> 04:54:00,699 And I said, "Okay". 3397 04:54:01,194 --> 04:54:03,866 And then a very handsome young blonde man 3398 04:54:04,198 --> 04:54:06,395 from the man's camp came over one day, 3399 04:54:07,447 --> 04:54:09,781 and Freddie Hirsch called me to come and meet him. 3400 04:54:10,597 --> 04:54:12,131 And he asked me what I need? 3401 04:54:12,491 --> 04:54:15,796 So, I said, "well, if I can get any wall paints, 3402 04:54:16,204 --> 04:54:19,122 so I mean tempera paints, I would like those, 3403 04:54:19,888 --> 04:54:23,524 if you get me some?" And he said, "Yes, anything you want." 3404 04:54:25,104 --> 04:54:30,534 So I made a painting of Dopey standing on another dwarfs head, 3405 04:54:31,069 --> 04:54:33,650 with a cloak around him so he looked like a tall guy. 3406 04:54:34,601 --> 04:54:36,166 So he would be as tall as Snow White. 3407 04:54:36,396 --> 04:54:36,852 Theresienstadt Concentration Camp 3408 04:54:36,880 --> 04:54:39,148 I now understand that there was another painter, 3409 04:54:40,072 --> 04:54:44,059 who continued something painting on the walls after I'd left. 3410 04:54:44,975 --> 04:54:47,350 What did it do, not only for... for you, 3411 04:54:47,625 --> 04:54:50,799 but for the... for the children? 3412 04:54:53,602 --> 04:54:55,524 On, on an emotional level? 3413 04:54:56,051 --> 04:54:59,232 Well it did several things, not just emotional, 3414 04:54:59,557 --> 04:55:01,581 but the children then wrote a play, 3415 04:55:02,041 --> 04:55:05,348 which was a satire of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 3416 04:55:05,639 --> 04:55:07,213 The play was very successful. 3417 04:55:07,893 --> 04:55:12,994 Because the little girl, who was playing Snow White, 3418 04:55:13,043 --> 04:55:14,894 had an incredible voice. 3419 04:55:15,184 --> 04:55:16,317 A gorgeous soprano, 3420 04:55:16,765 --> 04:55:20,098 just like the one that you hear in the movie. 3421 04:55:23,660 --> 04:55:25,187 Apart from ameniutes we know of that included... 3422 04:55:26,146 --> 04:55:28,286 An orchesra, movies, camp money, canteen, postcards, letters, 3423 04:55:28,766 --> 04:55:30,470 theater, musical plays and a football team... 3424 04:55:31,285 --> 04:55:32,516 Facilities at the Auschwitz "death camp" also featured... 3425 04:55:35,428 --> 04:55:37,076 A hospial, a library and an Olimpic size swimming pool 3426 04:55:37,564 --> 04:55:39,173 complete with several diving boards. 3427 04:55:55,670 --> 04:55:58,365 ... AND COMPARED TO STALIN'S GULAGS? 3428 04:56:26,916 --> 04:56:28,547 STALIN'S GULAGS 3429 04:56:37,927 --> 04:56:42,827 Look down, look down, you'll always be a slave 3430 04:56:43,272 --> 04:56:48,374 Look down, look down, You're standing in your grave 3431 04:56:48,875 --> 04:56:53,616 Look down, look down, you'll always be a slave 3432 04:56:54,148 --> 04:56:59,202 Look down, look down, You're standing in your grave 3433 04:57:20,471 --> 04:57:22,195 To be continued 3434 04:57:29,640 --> 04:57:32,086 Part 21 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 3435 04:57:37,016 --> 04:57:38,553 In1992, a brilliant young Jewish revisionist named David Cole, 3436 04:57:39,115 --> 04:57:40,532 made a groundbreaking documentary about the Holocaust. 3437 04:57:41,053 --> 04:57:42,381 This is an edited version of his work. 3438 04:57:42,805 --> 04:57:44,837 The complete documentary "Cole in Auschwitz" can be viewed on the internet. 3439 04:57:50,333 --> 04:57:53,474 I know from years of my own research and the research of others 3440 04:57:54,235 --> 04:57:56,185 that proofs of the Holocaust are few. 3441 04:57:56,937 --> 04:57:58,612 Literally, all there is 3442 04:57:58,977 --> 04:58:02,592 are the "eyewitness" testimonies and postwar confessions. 3443 04:58:03,031 --> 04:58:05,790 There's no picture, plan or wartime document 3444 04:58:06,275 --> 04:58:08,174 dealing with homicidal gas chambers, 3445 04:58:08,646 --> 04:58:11,040 or a plan to exterminate the Jews. 3446 04:58:12,664 --> 04:58:16,022 And we can't use the excuse that the Nazis destroyed all the evidence 3447 04:58:16,468 --> 04:58:18,484 because after we had broken the German code, 3448 04:58:19,200 --> 04:58:21,965 we were able to intercept their secret transmissions 3449 04:58:22,260 --> 04:58:24,308 including those that came from Auschwitz. 3450 04:58:25,027 --> 04:58:27,096 The key to understanding the Holocaust story 3451 04:58:27,425 --> 04:58:29,520 is understanding the true nature of the things 3452 04:58:29,950 --> 04:58:31,798 passed off as "proofs". 3453 04:58:32,547 --> 04:58:34,934 Everything that is used as evidence of the Holocaust 3454 04:58:35,302 --> 04:58:38,590 also can be said to have a perfectly normal explanation. 3455 04:58:40,505 --> 04:58:41,214 For example, 3456 04:58:41,590 --> 04:58:45,950 these exhibits are said to be the material "proofs" of exterminations. 3457 04:58:46,564 --> 04:58:50,010 There's the piles of human hair. But what does that prove? 3458 04:58:50,496 --> 04:58:54,065 It's acknowledged that each inmate had his or her head shaved 3459 04:58:54,465 --> 04:58:55,966 because of the lice problem. 3460 04:58:56,511 --> 04:58:57,446 That's not denied, 3461 04:58:57,798 --> 04:58:59,829 so why wouldn't there be piles of human hair? 3462 04:59:00,319 --> 04:59:03,438 What about the piles of shoes and clothing; is that a proof? 3463 04:59:03,943 --> 04:59:07,196 It's a fact that the prisoners were issued a uniform upon arrival, 3464 04:59:07,877 --> 04:59:09,124 including shoes. 3465 04:59:09,545 --> 04:59:12,338 So why wouldn't there be piles of inmates' shoes and clothing? 3466 04:59:12,719 --> 04:59:14,346 It doesn't prove anybody was killed. 3467 04:59:15,490 --> 04:59:17,427 What about the canisters of gas? 3468 04:59:17,968 --> 04:59:22,810 No one denies that Zyklon B was used to disinfect clothes and also buildings. 3469 04:59:23,291 --> 04:59:27,907 Zyklon B was one of the premier pest control agents in Europe at that time. 3470 04:59:28,474 --> 04:59:31,963 It was present in most of the concentration camps including those 3471 04:59:32,542 --> 04:59:35,860 that are not said to have had homicidal gas chambers in them. 3472 04:59:36,308 --> 04:59:39,571 The typhus epidemic that spread throughout Europe during the war 3473 04:59:40,017 --> 04:59:41,588 and also spread through the camps 3474 04:59:42,053 --> 04:59:44,659 called for stringent lice control procedures. 3475 04:59:45,813 --> 04:59:47,555 So what other proofs are offered? 3476 04:59:47,962 --> 04:59:50,469 Well, there's the usual pictures of sick inmates 3477 04:59:50,782 --> 04:59:54,250 which proves the ground-breaking thesis that people got sick in the camp. 3478 04:59:54,606 --> 04:59:57,162 Once again I'll add that nobody denies the typhus epidemic 3479 04:59:57,474 --> 04:59:58,874 which resulted in many deaths. 3480 05:00:00,337 --> 05:00:01,206 Then there's the artwork 3481 05:00:02,413 --> 05:00:03,576 and the pictures of children. 3482 05:00:04,190 --> 05:00:07,984 But at this point it's looking pretty bad for somebody looking for objective proofs 3483 05:00:08,019 --> 05:00:09,190 of the gas chamber. 3484 05:00:09,225 --> 05:00:14,031 And some of the proofs they present actually work against the concept. 3485 05:00:15,433 --> 05:00:18,613 For example, they have one of several aerial photographs 3486 05:00:18,989 --> 05:00:22,040 taken at Auschwitz by the Allies during the war. 3487 05:00:22,270 --> 05:00:24,221 They don't mention, however, that when blown up, 3488 05:00:24,926 --> 05:00:28,699 these photos don't show people being gassed or bodies being burned, 3489 05:00:29,312 --> 05:00:32,884 even though they were taken during the time killings were said to be going on 3490 05:00:33,464 --> 05:00:34,852 almost non-stop. 3491 05:00:35,673 --> 05:00:40,012 Once inside, we can see why revisionists have had such a field day with this building: 3492 05:00:40,884 --> 05:00:43,260 Obvious marks on the walls and floors, 3493 05:00:43,677 --> 05:00:45,941 where apparently walls had been knocked down. 3494 05:00:46,525 --> 05:00:50,195 Equally obvious holes in the floor where bathroom facilities had been. 3495 05:00:52,218 --> 05:00:53,327 We maintain that, 3496 05:00:53,774 --> 05:00:56,295 unlike the large hollow chamber we now see, 3497 05:00:56,927 --> 05:01:00,566 this room had once been 5 rooms including a bathroom. 3498 05:01:01,093 --> 05:01:05,270 Yet the building does have what appears to be evidence of criminal usage; 3499 05:01:05,868 --> 05:01:07,341 4 holes in the ceiling, 3500 05:01:07,845 --> 05:01:11,076 which lead to the roof where 4 little chimneys stand. 3501 05:01:11,668 --> 05:01:15,748 It is said that through these 4 holes, Zyklon B crystals were dropped. 3502 05:01:16,492 --> 05:01:19,482 And indeed, there seems to be no other explanation for them. 3503 05:01:20,164 --> 05:01:22,477 Do these holes prove homicidal gassings? 3504 05:01:23,171 --> 05:01:25,974 Revisionists have claimed in the past that these holes were added 3505 05:01:26,375 --> 05:01:27,918 after the camp's liberation, 3506 05:01:28,543 --> 05:01:32,293 and that the inside walls were knocked down and the bathroom facilities removed 3507 05:01:32,597 --> 05:01:35,157 to make the room look like a big gas chamber. 3508 05:01:36,773 --> 05:01:40,676 Let's start again talking about this building here. Um this... 3509 05:01:41,804 --> 05:01:43,119 This is a crematorium / gas chamber. 3510 05:01:43,445 --> 05:01:44,473 But this is a reconstruction? 3511 05:01:46,208 --> 05:01:49,693 It is in original state. - Original? -Original state. 3512 05:01:51,006 --> 05:01:52,866 It is an original part. Original. 3513 05:01:53,178 --> 05:01:53,862 Oh, it is original? 3514 05:01:54,206 --> 05:01:57,540 Original, in through this chimney was thrown Zyklon B. 3515 05:02:00,891 --> 05:02:02,766 Later, a senior official would confirm that the holes in the roof 3516 05:02:03,197 --> 05:02:04,524 had been built after the war. 3517 05:02:05,688 --> 05:02:07,373 Are those the original holes in the ceiling? 3518 05:02:07,627 --> 05:02:08,155 No. 3519 05:02:08,409 --> 05:02:09,397 They've been rebuilt? - Yes. 3520 05:02:10,763 --> 05:02:12,410 Okay. After the war? - After the war, yes. 3521 05:02:13,919 --> 05:02:15,770 Dr. Franciszek Piper, the senior curator 3522 05:02:16,185 --> 05:02:18,225 and director or of archives at the Auschwitz State Museum, 3523 05:02:18,655 --> 05:02:20,767 admitted on camera to David Cole that "Krema 1", the alleged 3524 05:02:21,191 --> 05:02:23,139 "homocidal gas chamber" at the Auschwitz main camp was, 3525 05:02:23,555 --> 05:02:25,411 in fact, fabricated after the war by the Soviet Union, 3526 05:02:25,812 --> 05:02:27,714 under direct orders of Stalin. 3527 05:02:28,179 --> 05:02:30,810 This includes the fake chimney, that is not even connected with crematorium. 3528 05:02:37,017 --> 05:02:42,907 This is Auschwitz-Birkenau in an Allied aerial photo from September 1944. 3529 05:02:43,197 --> 05:02:46,310 The train that would come up, carrying the doomed inmates, 3530 05:02:46,677 --> 05:02:49,647 you would have thousands of inmates being marched off the trains 3531 05:02:49,971 --> 05:02:54,264 into one of these two gas chambers in full view of the entire camp. 3532 05:02:54,416 --> 05:02:57,316 This was a spectacle that nobody in the camp could miss; 3533 05:02:57,647 --> 05:02:59,036 they would see thousands of people 3534 05:02:59,523 --> 05:03:03,163 marching into those buildings and nobody coming out. 3535 05:03:03,801 --> 05:03:06,554 These were "gas chambers" that were not isolated from anyone 3536 05:03:07,129 --> 05:03:10,922 and indeed, when these aerial photo- graphs were released in the late 70's, 3537 05:03:11,687 --> 05:03:15,479 they contradicted many supposed eyewitness claims 3538 05:03:15,646 --> 05:03:19,761 about how the Nazis had tried to camouflage the gas chambers at Birkenau. 3539 05:03:20,853 --> 05:03:22,729 Another question that should be asked: 3540 05:03:23,449 --> 05:03:27,042 Is there any Zyklon B residue in the gas chamber, 3541 05:03:27,494 --> 05:03:34,712 knowing that cyanide gas would, in fact, leave a residue? 3542 05:03:35,303 --> 05:03:38,628 conducted forensic examinations on the gas chambers at Auschwitz 3543 05:03:39,102 --> 05:03:40,502 to answer that question. 3544 05:03:40,729 --> 05:03:43,469 He took samples from the 4 gas chambers at Birkenau, 3545 05:03:43,852 --> 05:03:44,877 the one at the main camp 3546 05:03:45,485 --> 05:03:46,513 and the control sample 3547 05:03:46,985 --> 05:03:50,551 from one of the disinfestation chambers that we know did use Zyklon B. 3548 05:03:51,046 --> 05:03:55,150 Now, the gas chamber samples showed almost no appreciable traces 3549 05:03:55,739 --> 05:04:00,316 whereas the dis-infestation sample literally went right off the scale. 3550 05:04:01,148 --> 05:04:04,756 In 1990, the Institute of Forensic Research in Krakow 3551 05:04:05,195 --> 05:04:07,730 decided to conduct their own forensic tests 3552 05:04:08,113 --> 05:04:10,650 to see if they could refute Fred Leuchter's findings, 3553 05:04:11,283 --> 05:04:14,107 and their own tests got back the same results. 3554 05:04:20,796 --> 05:04:21,882 In Canada in 1988, Ernst Z�ndel faced charges 3555 05:04:22,265 --> 05:04:23,857 for Holocaust denial in a second trial. 3556 05:04:24,233 --> 05:04:25,152 He hired American Frederick A. Leuchter, 3557 05:04:25,536 --> 05:04:26,824 a court-certified expert in gas execution technology. 3558 05:04:27,153 --> 05:04:28,391 After secrely conducing scientific experiments 3559 05:04:28,727 --> 05:04:29,879 in camps such as Auschwitz in Poland, 3560 05:04:30,335 --> 05:04:32,271 on his return he pubished his findings in the "Leucher Report". 3561 05:04:37,678 --> 05:04:43,159 I told Mr. Zundel and his defense team prior to my going, 3562 05:04:43,662 --> 05:04:47,830 that if I did in fact find facilities that could have supported executions, 3563 05:04:48,727 --> 05:04:52,668 not only whether they did, did support the executions, 3564 05:04:53,182 --> 05:04:56,417 but only whether or not they could have sustained gas executions, 3565 05:04:56,999 --> 05:04:59,780 I would make that very clear in my report. 3566 05:05:00,169 --> 05:05:04,199 And that is what I would testify to, when I testified in court. 3567 05:05:05,476 --> 05:05:07,512 What aside from the samples convinced you 3568 05:05:07,913 --> 05:05:10,253 that these facilities could not have been used 3569 05:05:10,508 --> 05:05:12,332 then or now as execution facilities? 3570 05:05:13,566 --> 05:05:17,167 You must have gasketed doors, no windows. 3571 05:05:17,819 --> 05:05:21,265 Means of getting the gas in, means of getting the gas out. 3572 05:05:22,612 --> 05:05:26,638 If those persons operating the facilities didn't gas themselves to death 3573 05:05:27,233 --> 05:05:29,398 at the same time that the executies died, 3574 05:05:29,845 --> 05:05:32,647 they certainly would have been blown to bits, 3575 05:05:33,224 --> 05:05:36,974 when the gas exploded from a switch, the heat of a light bulb, 3576 05:05:37,511 --> 05:05:41,335 or the gas approaching and getting in to the crematory furnace. 3577 05:05:42,392 --> 05:05:47,862 We're talking about brick and mortar buildings, without heat, 3578 05:05:49,899 --> 05:05:54,361 with non explosion proof lighting, without gasketed doors. 3579 05:05:54,786 --> 05:05:56,640 In some cases without doors at all. 3580 05:05:57,157 --> 05:06:01,625 And with crematories that opened very close or adjacent to the facility. 3581 05:06:01,946 --> 05:06:05,144 I mean it's just ludicrous to consider 3582 05:06:05,672 --> 05:06:08,704 that these facilities could have been used as gas chambers. 3583 05:06:09,148 --> 05:06:11,272 There's no such a thing as an "eye witness". 3584 05:06:11,942 --> 05:06:14,199 I have never seen a report that was written, 3585 05:06:14,663 --> 05:06:17,573 by anyone, who had a valid description 3586 05:06:18,202 --> 05:06:21,080 of what could of happened at a gassing. 3587 05:06:22,508 --> 05:06:26,336 So, the long and the short of it is, there are no eye witnesses, 3588 05:06:27,821 --> 05:06:29,520 because there were no gassings. 3589 05:06:39,009 --> 05:06:40,863 I think it's necessary to put this matter 3590 05:06:41,206 --> 05:06:43,126 in its proper historical perspective. 3591 05:06:43,817 --> 05:06:45,765 You see, we live in a time now 3592 05:06:46,171 --> 05:06:48,386 when the old Soviet Union has fallen apart 3593 05:06:48,934 --> 05:06:51,617 and it's now okay for both liberals and conservatives, 3594 05:06:51,922 --> 05:06:52,999 as well as everybody else, 3595 05:06:53,464 --> 05:06:55,952 to speak ill of the departed communist state. 3596 05:06:56,873 --> 05:06:58,514 But it was not always that way. 3597 05:06:59,055 --> 05:07:02,977 During World War 2, the Soviets were more than just a military ally; 3598 05:07:03,677 --> 05:07:07,803 their anti-Nazi propaganda was readily accepted by the other Allies 3599 05:07:08,246 --> 05:07:10,339 because it served all of their purposes. 3600 05:07:10,981 --> 05:07:12,963 The point is, that, as the victors, 3601 05:07:13,331 --> 05:07:17,643 the Soviets got to commit their propaganda to the history books as fact. 3602 05:07:19,623 --> 05:07:21,810 With the 20-20 hindsight we now have, 3603 05:07:22,442 --> 05:07:24,280 the knowledge of Stalin's despotism, 3604 05:07:24,720 --> 05:07:27,852 and the KGB's history of misinformation and deception, 3605 05:07:28,570 --> 05:07:30,377 as well as the other camps in Poland; 3606 05:07:30,730 --> 05:07:34,041 Majdanek. Belzec, Chelmno, Treblinka and Sobibor, 3607 05:07:34,659 --> 05:07:38,139 we've had to rely on the Soviets for most of our information. 3608 05:07:43,410 --> 05:07:46,063 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AUSCHWITZ DEATH TOLL 3609 05:07:51,418 --> 05:07:53,854 In Krakov, the trial of the principal culprits 3610 05:07:54,174 --> 05:07:55,494 for the Auschwitz concentration camp 3611 05:07:55,989 --> 05:07:58,718 came to an end before a Polish court. 1945- 300.000 dead. 3612 05:07:59,074 --> 05:08:01,650 Altogether nearly 300.000 people from the most different nations 3613 05:08:02,242 --> 05:08:04,427 died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. 3614 05:08:10,814 --> 05:08:11,155 FOUR MILLION 3615 05:08:11,443 --> 05:08:11,905 PEOPLE SUFERED 3616 05:08:12,168 --> 05:08:12,672 AND DIED HERE 3617 05:08:12,967 --> 05:08:13,416 AT THE HANDS 3618 05:08:13,711 --> 05:08:14,184 OF THE NAZI 3619 05:08:14,463 --> 05:08:14,917 MURDERERS 3620 05:08:15,205 --> 05:08:15,645 BETWEEN THE YEARS 3621 05:08:15,980 --> 05:08:16,445 1940 AND 1945 3622 05:08:16,868 --> 05:08:17,278 1948- 4 Million 3623 05:08:20,155 --> 05:08:20,674 1989- 1.5 Million 3624 05:08:20,709 --> 05:08:21,028 ABOUT ONE AND A HALF 3625 05:08:21,063 --> 05:08:21,283 MILLION 3626 05:08:21,383 --> 05:08:21,711 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, 3627 05:08:22,070 --> 05:08:22,380 MAINLY JEWS 3628 05:08:22,675 --> 05:08:23,015 FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES 3629 05:08:23,263 --> 05:08:23,559 OF EUROPE. 3630 05:08:23,824 --> 05:08:24,256 AUSCHWITZ - BIRKENAU 1940-1945 3631 05:08:28,420 --> 05:08:29,902 Deaths at Auschwitz drop by a huge 2.5 million, 3632 05:08:29,986 --> 05:08:31,620 but still the total 6.000.000 deaths remains the same. 3633 05:08:39,010 --> 05:08:42,320 THE MEDIA HISTORY OF THE "SIX MILLION" 1915- 2013 3634 05:08:53,694 --> 05:08:54,768 ... Six million Jews... 3635 05:09:02,398 --> 05:09:04,002 Six Million Souls... 3636 05:09:09,850 --> 05:09:11,022 6.000,000 3637 05:09:18,080 --> 05:09:19,200 ... the 6.000.000 Jews... 3638 05:09:26,301 --> 05:09:27,575 ... 6.000.000 IN... 3639 05:09:34,603 --> 05:09:35,687 SIX MILLION JEWS 3640 05:09:41,181 --> 05:09:42,455 ... "the Europiean holocaust." 3641 05:09:49,365 --> 05:09:50,721 ... A depressing picture of 6.000.000... 3642 05:09:55,095 --> 05:09:56,555 PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT 2013 3643 05:09:59,652 --> 05:10:00,500 CNN - 2013 3644 05:10:01,256 --> 05:10:02,840 I believe in the inarguable fact, 3645 05:10:03,581 --> 05:10:06,581 that 6 million Jews were killed in the war by Adolf Hitler Nazis. 3646 05:10:07,100 --> 05:10:08,452 I'm merely asking you, 3647 05:10:08,787 --> 05:10:10,956 as a President of Iran, and as a scholar, 3648 05:10:11,757 --> 05:10:14,908 do you believe 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, 3649 05:10:15,202 --> 05:10:16,441 or do you think that is not true? 3650 05:10:17,070 --> 05:10:18,356 In a 2005 speech, Iran's former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 3651 05:10:18,853 --> 05:10:20,117 caused an international uproar by describing the Holocaust 3652 05:10:20,486 --> 05:10:22,104 as a fabricated legend promoted to protect Israel. 3653 05:10:31,946 --> 05:10:33,481 David Cole disappires after his 1994 appearance on the Phil Donahue show 3654 05:10:33,801 --> 05:10:35,066 after receiving several death threats from Jewish extremists. 3655 05:10:35,801 --> 05:10:36,802 He recently emerged from hiding in 2013. 3656 05:10:37,685 --> 05:10:39,109 In Canada in 1988, Ernst Z�ndel was convicted 3657 05:10:39,533 --> 05:10:40,718 and sentenced to a nine-month jail term 3658 05:10:41,158 --> 05:10:42,510 after the court dismissed Leucher's testimony. 3659 05:10:43,386 --> 05:10:45,410 Later, Ernst Z�ndel will spent 2 years in solitary confinement in a Canadian jail 3660 05:10:45,849 --> 05:10:47,305 before being deported to Germany to stand trial. 3661 05:10:53,105 --> 05:10:54,826 Fred Leuchter asked for a joint scientific investigation into the Holocust. 3662 05:10:55,194 --> 05:10:55,880 It never happened. 3663 05:10:56,206 --> 05:10:57,773 Insteed he was targeted by Jewish extremists and his career ruined. 3664 05:10:58,730 --> 05:10:59,880 Since its publication the Leuchter Report has earned 3665 05:11:00,273 --> 05:11:01,640 legendary status in the world of Hoocaust Revisionism. 3666 05:11:04,167 --> 05:11:05,366 Denying the Holocaust is a criminal offence 3667 05:11:05,734 --> 05:11:06,942 and carries a custodial sentence in several European counries. 3668 05:11:07,684 --> 05:11:09,201 The Holocaust is the ONLY event in history to be enforced by law. 3669 05:11:23,353 --> 05:11:23,881 Notable Political Prisoers: 3670 05:11:28,025 --> 05:11:28,441 1998. 3671 05:11:28,817 --> 05:11:29,888 J�rgen Graf, Swiss Court 15 months imprisonment 3672 05:11:31,475 --> 05:11:31,945 1998. 3673 05:11:32,270 --> 05:11:33,272 Gerhard F�rster, Swiss Court 12 months imprisonment 3674 05:11:35,341 --> 05:11:35,921 2000. 3675 05:11:36,369 --> 05:11:37,784 Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, Swiss Court 1 year imprisonment. 3676 05:11:39,399 --> 05:11:39,983 2006. 3677 05:11:40,527 --> 05:11:41,722 David Irving, Austrian court. 1 year imprisonment. 3678 05:11:43,218 --> 05:11:43,814 2006. 3679 05:11:44,183 --> 05:11:45,238 Germar Rudolf, German court. 21/2 years imprisonment. 3680 05:11:48,206 --> 05:11:48,645 2007. 3681 05:11:48,973 --> 05:11:50,178 Ernst Z�ndel, German court. 5 years imprisonment. 3682 05:11:51,804 --> 05:11:52,300 2008. 3683 05:11:53,247 --> 05:11:54,545 Wolfgang Fr�hlich, Austrian court. 6 years imprisonment. 3684 05:11:56,311 --> 05:11:56,911 2008. 3685 05:11:57,379 --> 05:11:58,376 Sylvia Stolz, German court. 31/2 years imprisonment. 3686 05:12:00,094 --> 05:12:00,804 2009. 3687 05:12:01,242 --> 05:12:02,139 Horst Mahler, German court. 5 years imprisonment. 3688 05:12:02,890 --> 05:12:03,506 2009. 3689 05:12:04,050 --> 05:12:04,929 Dirk Zimmerman, German court. 9 months imprisonment. 3690 05:12:13,599 --> 05:12:15,695 But I don't think 6 million Jews were gassed. 3691 05:12:16,982 --> 05:12:19,154 Now be... be careful, I beg of you. 3692 05:12:19,918 --> 05:12:21,601 This is against the law in Germany. 3693 05:12:22,421 --> 05:12:24,700 If there was a German, or somebody with the German state, 3694 05:12:25,209 --> 05:12:27,212 you could have me thrown in prison, before I leave Germany. 3695 05:12:27,826 --> 05:12:29,309 I hope that's not your intention. 3696 05:12:29,864 --> 05:12:30,505 2009. 3697 05:12:30,981 --> 05:12:32,326 Bishop Richard Williamson, German court � 12.000 fine 3698 05:12:38,458 --> 05:12:40,032 To be continued 3699 05:12:45,110 --> 05:12:48,068 Part 22 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 3700 05:12:51,619 --> 05:12:53,192 9 August 1945, Nagasaki, Japan 3701 05:13:01,232 --> 05:13:02,596 10 days earlier 3702 05:13:13,574 --> 05:13:14,958 THE OCEAN OF DEATH 3703 05:13:24,438 --> 05:13:25,998 After delivering the first atomic bomb for the drop over Hiroshima, 3704 05:13:26,421 --> 05:13:27,622 the USS Indianapolis is hit by two torpedoes 3705 05:13:28,070 --> 05:13:29,205 fired from a Japanese submarine. 3706 05:13:30,022 --> 05:13:31,605 The ship with a crew of 1197 sank in only 12 minues. 3707 05:13:32,126 --> 05:13:33,926 It is estimated that 300 sailors initially perished. 3708 05:13:44,055 --> 05:13:45,725 They were the lucky ones. 3709 05:14:00,707 --> 05:14:01,783 DAY ONE 3710 05:14:34,856 --> 05:14:36,280 DAY TWO 3711 05:15:06,682 --> 05:15:08,185 DAY 3 3712 05:15:11,906 --> 05:15:13,353 The terrified sailors are cold, hungry and thirsty. 3713 05:15:13,733 --> 05:15:15,085 Many are unable to resist drinking sea water, 3714 05:15:15,467 --> 05:15:16,771 which will not only cause them to vomit and hallucinate, 3715 05:15:17,114 --> 05:15:18,683 but will eventually be fatal in less then six hours 3716 05:15:29,484 --> 05:15:30,522 The USS Indianapolis is now long overdue 3717 05:15:30,929 --> 05:15:32,604 and US officials are still unaware of the plight of the crew. 3718 05:15:33,059 --> 05:15:35,077 The tragedy will be the largest maritime disaster in US naval history. 3719 05:15:47,748 --> 05:15:49,315 DAY FOUR 3720 05:15:58,112 --> 05:15:59,735 Out of the almost 900 that survived the initial torpedo attack 3721 05:16:00,065 --> 05:16:01,295 only 317 are rescued from the shark-infested waters. 3722 05:16:01,814 --> 05:16:03,336 Captain Charles B. McVay survived the disaster, 3723 05:16:03,752 --> 05:16:05,168 but was later court-martialed and find guilty 3724 05:16:05,585 --> 05:16:07,781 of endangering the ship in a government cover-up in November 1945. 3725 05:16:08,597 --> 05:16:09,804 After years of being plagued by abusive phone calls 3726 05:16:10,150 --> 05:16:12,397 from family members of the crow, he commited suicide in 1968. 3727 05:16:13,782 --> 05:16:14,898 He was exoerated of all charges 3728 05:16:15,378 --> 05:16:17,158 by the United States Congress in October 2000. 3729 05:16:28,941 --> 05:16:31,683 Six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, hostilities between the US and Japan cease. 3730 05:16:32,209 --> 05:16:33,873 World War Two finaly ends. 3731 05:16:39,042 --> 05:16:40,373 From the Mediterranean to the Baltic, 3732 05:16:40,869 --> 05:16:43,178 the victors were shaping Europe in their own image. 3733 05:16:45,022 --> 05:16:48,820 Poland, the invader's route to Russia, obsessed Stalin. 3734 05:16:50,787 --> 05:16:53,239 Eastern Poland had been annexed by the Soviet Union. 3735 05:16:54,469 --> 05:16:57,639 As compensation the Allies shifted the whole country westward, 3736 05:16:58,281 --> 05:17:00,293 giving Poland the eastern territories of Germany. 3737 05:17:01,708 --> 05:17:03,863 The Germans were expelled. 3738 05:17:05,888 --> 05:17:07,184 Soviet zone 3739 05:17:09,349 --> 05:17:11,655 From all over Europe some 12 million Germans 3740 05:17:12,108 --> 05:17:15,144 were expelled from lands they had lived in for centuries. 3741 05:17:20,855 --> 05:17:22,977 Today it's called ethnic cleansing. 3742 05:17:23,348 --> 05:17:25,963 Then, the Allies called it population transfer. 3743 05:17:26,786 --> 05:17:28,885 And the British helped to move the Germans out. 3744 05:17:32,549 --> 05:17:33,787 The Allies will now strip factories of machinery 3745 05:17:34,207 --> 05:17:35,215 and plunder German inventions 3746 05:17:35,604 --> 05:17:37,079 50 years or more ahead of their time. 3747 05:17:37,809 --> 05:17:39,162 In just 12 jears under Adolf Hitler and National Socialism, 3748 05:17:39,543 --> 05:17:40,911 Germany had become the world leader in the fields 3749 05:17:41,351 --> 05:17:42,432 of medicine, science and techology. 3750 05:17:43,661 --> 05:17:44,989 It is the greatest theft of nation's intellect ever, 3751 05:17:45,581 --> 05:17:47,141 with 1554 tons of patented documents worth billions, 3752 05:17:47,575 --> 05:17:49,446 collected and sent back to the US alone. 3753 05:17:56,393 --> 05:18:00,332 The Allies had decided that Germany should compensate them for war damage. 3754 05:18:05,176 --> 05:18:09,492 The German population was forced to help the Russians seize industrial resources. 3755 05:18:11,733 --> 05:18:12,701 Not just machines, 3756 05:18:13,280 --> 05:18:16,778 thousands of craftsmen and scientists were kidnapped 3757 05:18:16,878 --> 05:18:18,112 and taken to the Soviet Union. 3758 05:18:23,377 --> 05:18:24,256 THE WONDER OF GERMAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 3759 05:18:24,565 --> 05:18:26,504 This part of the story is an amazing one. 3760 05:18:26,767 --> 05:18:29,309 And few people even today know about it. 3761 05:18:29,493 --> 05:18:31,211 Werner von Braun - Leading German rocket scientist 3762 05:18:40,586 --> 05:18:41,913 Watch it Chuck, keep your eyes open. 3763 05:18:42,299 --> 05:18:43,553 There's a break at 11, break at 11. 3764 05:18:44,157 --> 05:18:45,569 Planes 9 o'clock coming around. 3765 05:18:55,746 --> 05:18:57,049 Fire at 10:30. Coming around. 3766 05:18:57,609 --> 05:18:58,862 10:30 upper or lower? 3767 05:19:02,044 --> 05:19:03,802 B-17 out of control at 3 o'clock. 3768 05:19:04,577 --> 05:19:06,496 Come on you guys, get out of that plane. Bail out. 3769 05:19:07,080 --> 05:19:08,518 There's one, he come out of the bomb bay. 3770 05:19:10,469 --> 05:19:11,452 What was that? What the hell was that? 3771 05:19:13,178 --> 05:19:14,544 It went by like we were standing still. 3772 05:19:16,206 --> 05:19:17,652 Blue leader to grouping. Get on the air. 3773 05:19:19,596 --> 05:19:21,561 Going by at 2 o'clock. What the hell is it? 3774 05:19:23,666 --> 05:19:28,506 It was the Messerschmidt 262, the world's first operational jet fighter. 3775 05:19:29,326 --> 05:19:33,125 It flies a 150 miles an hour faster than our fastest fighter. 3776 05:19:37,044 --> 05:19:39,783 On becoming airborne, the undercarriage was jettisoned, 3777 05:19:40,189 --> 05:19:42,822 and the aircraft demonstrated an amazing rate of climb. 3778 05:19:54,534 --> 05:19:56,767 Later, Dittmar was towed to altitude 3779 05:19:57,149 --> 05:20:01,132 to conserve fuel when he achieved 623 miles per hour, 3780 05:20:01,677 --> 05:20:03,958 easily breaking the existing world speed record. 3781 05:20:04,819 --> 05:20:07,451 Hanna Reitsch also test flew one of the early models, 3782 05:20:08,001 --> 05:20:09,712 from the Messerschmidt airfield in Lechfeld. 3783 05:20:10,336 --> 05:20:12,088 And she later flew a more powerful version, 3784 05:20:12,560 --> 05:20:15,498 now named Komet, which made a great impression on her. 3785 05:20:16,325 --> 05:20:17,378 "And I can only tell you, 3786 05:20:17,657 --> 05:20:20,535 it was like thundering through the skies 3787 05:20:20,895 --> 05:20:22,567 sitting on a cannonball." 3788 05:21:41,967 --> 05:21:44,217 OPERATION PAPERCLIP The US hunt for Hirler's scientists 3789 05:21:51,154 --> 05:21:55,247 By mid-June 1945, 1000 ex-Nazi scientists 3790 05:21:55,872 --> 05:21:57,384 from various German weapons programs 3791 05:21:57,599 --> 05:22:00,912 had been hastily moved to the safety of the American zone. 3792 05:22:04,452 --> 05:22:07,424 There they could be kept away from anyone who might prosecute them. 3793 05:22:14,030 --> 05:22:16,847 Russia's leader Joseph Stalin was outraged. 3794 05:22:17,693 --> 05:22:21,155 "We defeated the Nazis. We occupied Berlin and Peenemunde. 3795 05:22:21,897 --> 05:22:24,061 But the Americans got the rocket engineers. 3796 05:22:24,425 --> 05:22:25,574 How could this happen?" 3797 05:22:27,700 --> 05:22:31,113 What's more, over a 100 V-2's were making their way to America 3798 05:22:31,627 --> 05:22:33,267 under Special Mission V-2. 3799 05:22:34,028 --> 05:22:36,129 The Americans had stolen the V-2 team 3800 05:22:36,458 --> 05:22:40,039 and much of its equipment from under the Russians' noses. 3801 05:22:46,933 --> 05:22:48,846 TO THE VICTOR THE SPOILS... 3802 05:22:53,367 --> 05:22:55,705 ... AND WITH DEFEAT RETRIBUTION 3803 05:22:59,653 --> 05:23:00,496 Even though the war has ended, 3804 05:23:01,030 --> 05:23:02,582 most of Europe is still a violent and dangerous place. 3805 05:23:03,069 --> 05:23:04,796 Many will seek revenge on Axis soldiers, ethnic Germans 3806 05:23:05,250 --> 05:23:06,910 and especially any known "Nazi" collaborators. 3807 05:23:11,854 --> 05:23:14,243 Central Europe was reverting to the Dark Ages. 3808 05:23:14,637 --> 05:23:15,531 FRANCE 3809 05:23:16,503 --> 05:23:19,887 This was a space without law, shelter or mercy. 3810 05:24:21,785 --> 05:24:22,847 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 3811 05:24:42,910 --> 05:24:44,389 In Czechoslovakia German soldiers are beaten to death 3812 05:24:44,775 --> 05:24:47,065 and their bodies spat on 3813 05:25:14,969 --> 05:25:16,665 To be contiued 3814 05:25:18,992 --> 05:25:21,486 Part 23 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 3815 05:25:29,391 --> 05:25:31,114 Of the Soviet's 7 million World War Two captives, 3816 05:25:31,619 --> 05:25:32,992 more than half were German. 3817 05:25:33,860 --> 05:25:35,283 In 1953, an article in The Pittsburg Press admitted 3818 05:25:35,764 --> 05:25:37,349 2.8 million German POWs capures by the Soviet Union had died, 3819 05:25:37,829 --> 05:25:39,524 and that another 700.000 were in slavery. 3820 05:25:41,213 --> 05:25:42,644 Only around 20.000 German POWs held in the Soviet Union 3821 05:25:43,092 --> 05:25:44,435 would be repariated to Germany. 3822 05:25:44,971 --> 05:25:46,651 The last survivors were not relesed until 1955. 3823 05:25:48,984 --> 05:25:50,431 Thus, an esimated 3.480.000 German POWs 3824 05:25:50,928 --> 05:25:52,848 perished whilst in Soviet captivity. 3825 05:26:05,687 --> 05:26:08,549 11/4 Million German POWs Vanish in Russia 3826 05:26:18,324 --> 05:26:20,708 1955 WOCHENSHAU, GERMANY 3827 05:26:24,727 --> 05:26:25,879 Wochenschau Oktobar 1955 3828 05:26:44,788 --> 05:26:45,653 Heinz Kr�ger 3829 05:28:32,273 --> 05:28:34,065 Their war was over, but POWs return to an occupied, 3830 05:28:34,478 --> 05:28:35,962 divided and de-Nazified Germany. 3831 05:28:36,877 --> 05:28:38,753 The Allies had learned their lesson well after World War One. 3832 05:28:39,185 --> 05:28:40,969 The NSDAP, along with its official insignia the Swastika, 3833 05:28:41,370 --> 05:28:42,759 had be banned. 3834 05:28:43,524 --> 05:28:44,571 School teachers would be replaced, 3835 05:28:44,645 --> 05:28:46,434 and National Socialist books and documents burned or taken away. 3836 05:28:46,866 --> 05:28:48,778 Meanwhile, the war trials had served their intended purpose 3837 05:28:49,190 --> 05:28:50,889 of demonising the NS leadership and dehumanising the German people. 3838 05:28:51,832 --> 05:28:53,146 This time there was to be no peace treaty. 3839 05:28:53,555 --> 05:28:55,843 Germany would instead remain occupied, with the history of World War Two 3840 05:28:55,930 --> 05:28:57,445 to be dictated by the victorious Alien. 3841 05:29:01,457 --> 05:29:03,092 Former Natioal Socialists will be portrayed as "Evil Nazis" 3842 05:29:03,514 --> 05:29:04,673 with the help of the media, 3843 05:29:05,241 --> 05:29:07,063 future television documentaries and Hollywood movies. 3844 05:29:09,519 --> 05:29:11,343 In Germany, Adolf Hitler's name is not to be spoken of. 3845 05:29:11,718 --> 05:29:13,608 I will be instead replaced by those who still secretly admire the F�hrer 3846 05:29:14,000 --> 05:29:15,432 with the ironic code word "USA". 3847 05:29:15,870 --> 05:29:17,407 Unser Seeliger Adolf 3848 05:29:18,390 --> 05:29:19,830 This was confirmed by Winifred Wagner, daugher-in-law 3849 05:29:20,301 --> 05:29:21,973 of German composer Richard Wagner. 3850 05:29:35,612 --> 05:29:38,053 "We old national socialists found a new pseudonym after the war 3851 05:29:38,354 --> 05:29:39,906 because you couldn't talk about him in public... 3852 05:29:43,494 --> 05:29:46,430 ... if you wanted to talk about him, we called him USA. 3853 05:29:47,120 --> 05:29:49,530 In German this stands for "Our Blessed Adolf". 3854 05:31:18,295 --> 05:31:19,845 On 8 May 1945, the High Command of the German Armed forces, 3855 05:31:20,339 --> 05:31:22,012 General Alfred Jodl, signed a Deed of Surrender. 3856 05:31:22,513 --> 05:31:23,650 It was not however signed by 3857 05:31:24,094 --> 05:31:26,070 the appointed head of the Third Reich, Admiral Karl D�nitz. 3858 05:31:27,900 --> 05:31:29,387 Therefore legally, Germany, as a country 3859 05:31:29,866 --> 05:31:31,619 did not surrender after World War Two. 3860 05:31:34,986 --> 05:31:36,726 This means that the Federal Republic of Germany, installed by the Soviets, 3861 05:31:37,231 --> 05:31:39,159 as well as the Democratic Republic of Germany as estabished by West, 3862 05:31:39,587 --> 05:31:41,200 were both illegal under international law, 3863 05:31:41,647 --> 05:31:43,543 as each had been constructed over an existing sovereign State. 3864 05:31:47,009 --> 05:31:48,789 In 1961 after years of tension between the Soviet Union and West, 3865 05:31:49,307 --> 05:31:51,053 Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe will close its border, 3866 05:31:51,535 --> 05:31:53,296 inflicting more misery on the people of Berlin. 3867 05:32:12,728 --> 05:32:14,552 1961 BERLIN 3868 05:32:20,841 --> 05:32:22,680 Freedom to travel to the West for millions now living 3869 05:32:23,188 --> 05:32:24,889 under Commuist occupation is forbidden. 3870 05:32:25,538 --> 05:32:27,314 These restrictions and others become known as the 3871 05:32:27,921 --> 05:32:29,364 "Iron Curtain". 3872 05:32:32,131 --> 05:32:35,020 The pupppet government of East Germany will build the Berlin Wall, 3873 05:32:35,160 --> 05:32:37,724 subsequently cutting off 19 million Germans from family and friends. 3874 05:32:43,824 --> 05:32:46,790 Many risk their lives in a desperate bid to reach West Berlin. 3875 05:35:05,403 --> 05:35:06,881 In 1989, as Communism is collapsing in Soviet Union, 3876 05:35:07,303 --> 05:35:08,917 many in Eastern Europe will seek refuge in Western embassies. 3877 05:35:09,764 --> 05:35:11,063 After 28 years of divison, presure now mount 3878 05:35:11,477 --> 05:35:13,310 on East German authorities to open their border. 3879 05:35:23,071 --> 05:35:24,284 Astonishing news from East Germany, 3880 05:35:24,706 --> 05:35:26,346 where the East German authorities have said 3881 05:35:26,446 --> 05:35:28,870 in essence that the Berlin Wall doesn't mean anything anymore. 3882 05:35:28,989 --> 05:35:29,437 9 NOVEMBER 1989 3883 05:35:29,468 --> 05:35:33,080 The wall that the East Germans put up in 1961 to keep its people in 3884 05:35:33,519 --> 05:35:35,966 will now be breached by anybody who wants to leave. 3885 05:35:36,827 --> 05:35:39,186 It is perhaps the most important announcement made in 3886 05:35:39,679 --> 05:35:42,191 Central Europe since the end of World War 2 certainly... 3887 05:36:05,618 --> 05:36:08,161 THE GREAT ALLIED "EAST GERMAN" DECEPTION 3888 05:36:15,696 --> 05:36:17,941 Most outside Germany believe that the country is once again whole, 3889 05:36:18,366 --> 05:36:19,721 when in fact it was only central Germany 3890 05:36:20,187 --> 05:36:21,457 that was reunified on 3 Oct 1990. 3891 05:36:22,209 --> 05:36:23,097 The Eastern territories, 3892 05:36:23,567 --> 05:36:25,192 as defined by the Allies at the Postdam Conference in 1945 3893 05:36:25,679 --> 05:36:27,507 still remain under Polish and Russian control. 3894 05:36:41,735 --> 05:36:43,622 On 23 May 1949, the Western Allies ratified a new German constitution 3895 05:36:44,118 --> 05:36:46,015 known as the Basic Law 3896 05:36:49,337 --> 05:36:51,044 However, two days prior, a secret state treaty 3897 05:36:53,042 --> 05:36:54,216 was also signed. 3898 05:36:54,759 --> 05:36:57,233 It granted complete Allied control over education and all licensed media 3899 05:36:59,562 --> 05:37:01,112 until the year 2099. 3900 05:37:01,807 --> 05:37:03,415 This was cofirmed by Major-General Gerd-Helmut Komossa, 3901 05:37:03,871 --> 05:37:05,447 former head of German Millitary Intelligence in his book 3902 05:37:05,926 --> 05:37:07,743 "Die Deutsche Karte" 3903 05:37:27,583 --> 05:37:29,282 On 19 September 2000, a limited liability company was formed 3904 05:37:29,680 --> 05:37:31,610 to organise the financial affairs for the Federal Republic of Germany. 3905 05:37:32,042 --> 05:37:33,058 It was called the: 3906 05:37:33,521 --> 05:37:35,379 "Bundesrepublik Deutschland Finanzagentur GmbH" 3907 05:37:37,916 --> 05:37:39,380 The German GmbH is an economic branch of the huge Jewish 3908 05:37:39,836 --> 05:37:41,404 financial conglomerates that incude 3909 05:37:41,870 --> 05:37:44,204 Rothschild, Goldman Sachs and Federal Reserve. 3910 05:37:44,734 --> 05:37:46,077 These forces of Inernational Jewry are the very same 3911 05:37:46,542 --> 05:37:48,243 about Adolf Hitler tried to forewarn the German people. 3912 05:37:50,728 --> 05:37:52,074 All of Germany's gold reserves are now held 3913 05:37:52,721 --> 05:37:54,545 in the US Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 3914 05:37:56,802 --> 05:37:58,794 Now as then, the German people find themselves in the same state of 3915 05:37:59,290 --> 05:38:02,748 economic servitude the F�hrer sought to correct. 3916 05:38:29,544 --> 05:38:33,017 THE DECEPTION CONTINUES 3917 05:38:39,700 --> 05:38:41,777 On the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Poland in 2009, 3918 05:38:42,326 --> 05:38:44,165 German Chancellor Angela Merkel apologised 3919 05:38:44,529 --> 05:38:46,660 and publicly blamed Germany alone for starting World War Two. 3920 05:38:49,228 --> 05:38:50,377 "Seventy years ago today, 3921 05:38:53,056 --> 05:38:54,593 with Germany's attack on Poland, 3922 05:38:54,987 --> 05:38:59,080 began the most tragic chapter in the history of Europe. 3923 05:39:00,808 --> 05:39:02,566 This war instigated by Germany 3924 05:39:03,374 --> 05:39:05,797 brought immeasurable suffering on many peoples, 3925 05:39:06,603 --> 05:39:10,836 years of disenfranchisement, humiliation, and destruction. 3926 05:39:12,093 --> 05:39:15,969 I commemorate the many millions of people who lost their lives in that war, 3927 05:39:16,463 --> 05:39:17,974 and in resistance to Germany. 3928 05:39:18,872 --> 05:39:20,419 I commemorate those 60 million 3929 05:39:20,931 --> 05:39:24,553 who died in this war, instigated by Germany." 3930 05:39:29,129 --> 05:39:32,361 Was she speaking as the Chancellor of Germany? 3931 05:39:39,109 --> 05:39:41,987 Or on behalf of a private non-government Zionist organisation? 3932 05:39:54,935 --> 05:39:56,827 Germany today is still an occupied country, with 100.000 foreign troops 3933 05:39:57,131 --> 05:39:58,267 stationed on her soil. 3934 05:39:58,555 --> 05:40:00,235 After 68 years there still has been no peace treaty 3935 05:40:00,676 --> 05:40:02,251 concluded with any of the Allied powers. 3936 05:40:08,547 --> 05:40:10,008 Boundary of training area of the US forces 3937 05:40:10,388 --> 05:40:11,827 WARNING 3938 05:40:12,057 --> 05:40:13,350 Entry at own risk 3939 05:40:13,942 --> 05:40:15,426 The community commander 3940 05:40:19,809 --> 05:40:22,252 To be continued 3941 05:40:24,666 --> 05:40:27,357 Part 24 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 3942 05:40:33,308 --> 05:40:34,580 CENTRAL BANK So, what is a central bank? 3943 05:40:35,898 --> 05:40:37,281 A central bank is an institution 3944 05:40:37,567 --> 05:40:39,448 that produces the currency of an entire nation. 3945 05:40:40,382 --> 05:40:41,746 Based on historical precedent, 3946 05:40:42,114 --> 05:40:45,436 two specific powers are inherent in central banking practice. 3947 05:40:45,966 --> 05:40:47,488 The control of interest rates, 3948 05:40:47,488 --> 05:40:48,086 INTEREST RATES INFLATION (MONEY SUPPLY) 3949 05:40:48,121 --> 05:40:50,163 and the control of the money supply or inflation. 3950 05:40:51,524 --> 05:40:54,500 The central bank does not simply supply a government's economy with money, 3951 05:40:54,914 --> 05:40:56,927 it loans it to them at interest! 3952 05:40:58,350 --> 05:41:01,152 Then through the use of increasing and decreasing the supply of money, 3953 05:41:01,684 --> 05:41:05,427 the central bank regulates the value of the currency being issued. 3954 05:41:06,763 --> 05:41:09,067 It is critical to understand the entire structure 3955 05:41:09,626 --> 05:41:14,913 of this system can only produce one thing in the long run: debt. 3956 05:41:15,355 --> 05:41:15,986 DEBT! 3957 05:41:16,065 --> 05:41:18,828 It doesn't take a lot of ingenuity to figure this scam out. 3958 05:41:19,138 --> 05:41:23,779 For every single dollar produced by the central bank is loaned at interest. 3959 05:41:24,311 --> 05:41:27,619 That means every single dollar produced is actually the dollar plus 3960 05:41:28,081 --> 05:41:31,211 a certain percent of debt based on that dollar. 3961 05:41:31,708 --> 05:41:33,681 And since the central bank has a monopoly 3962 05:41:34,201 --> 05:41:36,472 of the production of the currency for the entire country, 3963 05:41:37,296 --> 05:41:41,228 and they loan each dollar out with immediate debt attached to it, 3964 05:41:42,291 --> 05:41:44,321 where does the money to pay for the debt come from? 3965 05:41:45,777 --> 05:41:47,351 It can only come from the central bank again. 3966 05:41:48,155 --> 05:41:51,944 Which means the central bank has to perpetually increase its money supply 3967 05:41:52,507 --> 05:41:56,062 to temporarily cover the outstanding debt created, which in turn, 3968 05:41:56,507 --> 05:41:59,166 since that new money is loaned out at interest as well, 3969 05:41:59,639 --> 05:42:01,688 creates even more debt. MORE DEBT 3970 05:42:01,612 --> 05:42:03,128 The end result of this system without fail, 3971 05:42:03,577 --> 05:42:04,437 is slavery. DEBT = SLAVERY 3972 05:42:04,781 --> 05:42:07,230 For it is impossible for the government, and thus the public, 3973 05:42:07,901 --> 05:42:10,374 to ever come out of the self-generating debt. 3974 05:42:11,229 --> 05:42:14,168 Now, the control of the economy and the perpetual robbery of wealth 3975 05:42:14,708 --> 05:42:18,196 is only one side of the Rubik's cube the bankers hold in their hands. 3976 05:42:18,620 --> 05:42:21,280 The next tool for profit and control is war. 3977 05:42:21,630 --> 05:42:22,311 WAR! 3978 05:42:22,966 --> 05:42:25,306 It's important to understand that the most lucrative thing 3979 05:42:25,640 --> 05:42:28,077 that could happen with international bankers is war, 3980 05:42:28,451 --> 05:42:30,727 for it forces the country to borrow even more money 3981 05:42:31,147 --> 05:42:34,699 from the Federal Reserve Bank at interest... at interest... at interest... 3982 05:42:40,657 --> 05:42:44,705 HITLER'S ECONOMIC MIRACLE The real reason for World War Two? 3983 05:42:49,374 --> 05:42:50,261 "Germany is too strong. 3984 05:42:50,702 --> 05:42:52,736 We must destroy her." - Winston Churchill Nov 1936 3985 05:43:00,404 --> 05:43:02,292 When Hitler came to power, Germany was hopelessly bankrupt. 3986 05:43:02,845 --> 05:43:05,083 For years, the Allies had demanded crushing reparation payments, 3987 05:43:05,593 --> 05:43:07,791 and private currecy speculators would now cause 3988 05:43:08,256 --> 05:43:09,584 the German Mark to plummet. 3989 05:43:10,107 --> 05:43:11,301 It was a total destruction of national curency 3990 05:43:11,780 --> 05:43:12,875 and wiped out savings and businesses, 3991 05:43:13,361 --> 05:43:15,185 leaving ordinary Germans to starve. 3992 05:43:17,560 --> 05:43:18,765 Hitler devised a national credit program 3993 05:43:19,356 --> 05:43:20,782 which included the construction of new roads, 3994 05:43:21,309 --> 05:43:22,779 bridges, canals and port facilities. 3995 05:43:24,193 --> 05:43:26,653 Jews at this point were removed from prominent financial positions 3996 05:43:27,110 --> 05:43:28,863 and instead of borrowing from the banks at interest, 3997 05:43:29,391 --> 05:43:31,502 the government issued bills of exchange called... 3998 05:43:32,063 --> 05:43:33,549 Labour Treasury Certificates. 3999 05:43:36,990 --> 05:43:38,793 This issuance of currency was backed by the productivity 4000 05:43:39,242 --> 05:43:40,881 and economic of Germany's labour force, 4001 05:43:41,306 --> 05:43:43,353 and it came on the authority - not of some privately-owned central bank- 4002 05:43:43,793 --> 05:43:45,970 but that of the National Socialist government itself. 4003 05:43:48,144 --> 05:43:49,677 Germany even succeeded in exporting goods 4004 05:43:50,093 --> 05:43:51,885 abroad despite the 1933 international Jewish boycott, 4005 05:43:52,349 --> 05:43:55,650 using a barter system that again cut out the banks competely. 4006 05:44:14,571 --> 05:44:16,622 As a result, Germany - despite the worldwide depression - became 4007 05:44:17,044 --> 05:44:19,160 the most powerful and prosperous state in Europe in only 5 years. 4008 05:44:23,578 --> 05:44:26,240 According to the 1978 book "Which Way Western Man?" 4009 05:44:26,822 --> 05:44:28,412 by William Gayey Simpson 4010 05:44:31,291 --> 05:44:33,079 "The German peasant, who had been on the verge of utter ruin, 4011 05:44:33,579 --> 05:44:36,226 was given an honored status as the source of the nation's food supply, 4012 05:44:36,730 --> 05:44:38,936 his land was released from the grip of the Jewish usurer and measures 4013 05:44:39,419 --> 05:44:42,138 taken to ensure that it should, 4014 05:44:42,139 --> 05:44:43,139 remain permanently in the possession of one family, 4015 05:44:43,239 --> 05:44:44,323 handed down from father to son." 4016 05:44:45,194 --> 05:44:47,249 The Jews could not let continue as they knew it would spell the death 4017 05:44:47,750 --> 05:44:49,748 of their dept-driven monetary system. 4018 05:44:50,236 --> 05:44:52,485 World War Tho starts in earnest that year. 4019 05:44:53,712 --> 05:44:55,928 It was not war between Germany and the Allies, 4020 05:44:56,351 --> 05:44:58,502 it was a war between Germany and Jewish powers 4021 05:44:58,909 --> 05:45:00,743 who controled the Allied governmens and their media, 4022 05:45:01,254 --> 05:45:02,820 using both to propagandize the Allied populace 4023 05:45:03,324 --> 05:45:05,662 into fearing and hating German people. 4024 05:45:08,825 --> 05:45:10,831 In the end, it took the entire Capitalist and Communist world 4025 05:45:11,277 --> 05:45:13,533 to destroy the German revolution, and bring Europe back 4026 05:45:14,086 --> 05:45:16,990 under the heel of the bankers, where it remains to this day. 4027 05:45:33,686 --> 05:45:35,377 "If Hitler had not come to Germany in 1933? 4028 05:45:37,432 --> 05:45:41,239 Germany had 270.000 suicides the year before. 4029 05:45:41,830 --> 05:45:42,809 Germany was, in Berlin, 4030 05:45:43,459 --> 05:45:46,958 the sin capital of the world, thanks to largely Jewish entrepreneurs, 4031 05:45:47,381 --> 05:45:51,702 who ran the smut films and the cabarets and so on. 4032 05:45:52,049 --> 05:45:54,414 Germany was dope capital for Europe. 4033 05:45:54,895 --> 05:45:57,055 German industry was virtually dead. 4034 05:45:58,072 --> 05:46:00,171 Without Adolf Hitler, Germany would have 4035 05:46:00,731 --> 05:46:04,230 died with a whimper in 1934 or 1935. 4036 05:46:04,543 --> 05:46:07,095 Adolf Hitler saved Germany. 4037 05:46:07,623 --> 05:46:12,688 At least he gave the Germans 12 years of liberation and freedom... 4038 05:46:13,149 --> 05:46:17,931 liberation and freedom... liberation and freedom... liberation and freedom..." 4039 05:46:32,298 --> 05:46:33,458 MEDIA VENGEANCE 4040 05:46:33,881 --> 05:46:35,794 With the Hollywood movie industry and majority of US television networks, 4041 05:46:36,266 --> 05:46:38,344 newspapers and publishing houses Jewish-owned, 4042 05:46:38,401 --> 05:46:40,309 for nearly 70 years the demonization of Adolf Hitler 4043 05:46:40,344 --> 05:46:41,987 has been almost relentless. 4044 05:46:54,737 --> 05:46:56,167 HITLER The rise of evil 4045 05:47:00,438 --> 05:47:01,464 You made a fool out of me! 4046 05:47:01,886 --> 05:47:03,956 Tried to humiliate me! 4047 05:47:04,936 --> 05:47:06,796 You must learn to sit down! 4048 05:47:07,355 --> 05:47:08,427 Learn to... - That's enough. 4049 05:47:14,757 --> 05:47:16,758 Of the many hundreds of anti-"Nazi" films released since 1945, 4050 05:47:17,244 --> 05:47:18,904 one film more than any other has influenced 4051 05:47:19,443 --> 05:47:21,115 how millions perceive Germany's role in World War Two. 4052 05:47:22,068 --> 05:47:23,895 Filmed in black and white for a claim to authenticity, 4053 05:47:24,332 --> 05:47:26,401 it was then sold to the public as a true story. 4054 05:47:27,367 --> 05:47:29,096 Despite the scenes of nudity and violence 4055 05:47:29,606 --> 05:47:32,448 it was shown to children in schools in the US and Europe as mandatory viewing. 4056 05:47:48,098 --> 05:47:50,221 Schindler's List 4057 05:47:51,554 --> 05:47:55,198 First of all, the film is based upon this book, 4058 05:47:55,795 --> 05:48:02,326 Schindler's List, which won the L.A. Times book award for FICTION. 4059 05:48:06,558 --> 05:48:08,032 SCHINDLER'S LIST Tomas Keneally 4060 05:48:08,116 --> 05:48:13,007 Here we have a film that's being shown to our schoolchildren as truth, 4061 05:48:13,615 --> 05:48:16,702 when it's based on the book that says this is a work of fiction. 4062 05:48:17,086 --> 05:48:18,284 In other words, it's not true. 4063 05:48:19,659 --> 05:48:22,682 "Names, characers, places and incidents 4064 05:48:23,146 --> 05:48:27,287 are either product of the author's imagination 4065 05:48:27,589 --> 05:48:29,063 or are used ficiously". 4066 05:48:35,781 --> 05:49:03,434 THESE SCENES ARE BASED ON A BOOK OF FICTION 4067 05:49:15,118 --> 05:49:16,674 7 OSCARS WINNER 4068 05:49:26,478 --> 05:49:29,453 WHAT IF GERMANY HAD WON? 4069 05:49:35,276 --> 05:49:37,152 A war-torn Europe would have been spectaculary rebuilt, 4070 05:49:37,614 --> 05:49:39,234 supervised by Hitler's architect Abert Speer. 4071 05:49:39,827 --> 05:49:42,122 Berlin, now renamed Germania, would be the capital of Europe. 4072 05:49:42,539 --> 05:49:44,531 All Europeans would have benefied from the German "Economic Miracle". 4073 05:49:44,736 --> 05:49:46,577 No USSR and thus no Cold War or "Iron Curtain". 4074 05:49:46,708 --> 05:49:48,836 No Red China and the subsequent killing of 40-60 million Chinese. 4075 05:49:48,875 --> 05:49:50,276 No Communism anywhere. 4076 05:49:50,809 --> 05:49:52,541 The end of the political ideology known as Zionism. 4077 05:49:53,678 --> 05:49:55,851 A Palestine free from Israeli and the relocation of Jews to Madagascar. 4078 05:49:56,417 --> 05:49:58,296 Greater stability in a Middle East without Israel. 4079 05:49:58,917 --> 05:50:00,367 No fictious "War of Terror". 4080 05:50:00,707 --> 05:50:03,054 A ban on usury and privately-owned central banks. 4081 05:50:03,444 --> 05:50:05,094 Abolishment of Freemasonry. 4082 05:50:05,777 --> 05:50:07,851 No depraved Hollywood movie industry. 4083 05:50:08,441 --> 05:50:10,121 No "political correctness". 4084 05:50:10,440 --> 05:50:12,698 An emphasis on traditional family values. 4085 05:50:13,605 --> 05:50:17,759 No Cultural Marxism or Liberalism and their devastating consequences: 4086 05:50:17,794 --> 05:50:18,622 Drugs 4087 05:50:19,057 --> 05:50:20,081 Abortion 4088 05:50:20,557 --> 05:50:21,524 Pornography 4089 05:50:22,040 --> 05:50:23,125 Open homosexuality 4090 05:50:23,686 --> 05:50:25,024 Radical feminist movement 4091 05:50:25,670 --> 05:50:27,917 No multiculturalism and present Jewish policy of forced Third World, 4092 05:50:28,383 --> 05:50:30,378 non-Western immigration to the West. 4093 05:50:35,251 --> 05:50:36,901 Jews Unite Behind Push for Immigration Reform 4094 05:50:37,700 --> 05:50:39,316 "It's in our strategic interest." 4095 05:50:41,292 --> 05:50:42,506 "It has gotten so bad 4096 05:50:42,874 --> 05:50:44,327 in this sick world we live in, 4097 05:50:44,639 --> 05:50:46,495 that now some leaders of nations are 4098 05:50:46,903 --> 05:50:51,943 openly promoting genocide of the European people. 4099 05:50:52,959 --> 05:50:54,381 Sarkozy went on to say that... 4100 05:51:11,354 --> 05:51:13,303 "I think there's a resurgence of anti-Semitism 4101 05:51:13,623 --> 05:51:15,485 because at this point in time 4102 05:51:15,851 --> 05:51:18,514 Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. 4103 05:51:18,973 --> 05:51:21,284 And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that... 4104 05:51:21,669 --> 05:51:24,429 of that transformation which must take place. 4105 05:51:24,845 --> 05:51:27,028 Europe is not going to be the monolithic 4106 05:51:29,077 --> 05:51:31,251 societies that they once were in the last century. 4107 05:51:31,602 --> 05:51:33,178 Jews are going to be at the center of that. 4108 05:51:33,554 --> 05:51:35,873 It's a huge transformation for Europe to make. 4109 05:51:36,528 --> 05:51:38,683 They are now going into a multicultural mode. 4110 05:51:39,271 --> 05:51:41,743 And Jews will be resented because of our leading role. 4111 05:51:42,207 --> 05:51:43,660 But without that leading role, 4112 05:51:44,038 --> 05:51:46,527 and without that transformation, Europe will not survive. 4113 05:51:49,638 --> 05:51:52,031 jewish world "Isamization of Europe a good thing" 4114 05:51:57,950 --> 05:51:59,167 "It's nature to want to be with your own." 4115 05:51:59,735 --> 05:52:01,015 Muhammad Ali 4116 05:52:02,639 --> 05:52:05,063 And I'm sure no intelligent white person watching this show, 4117 05:52:05,782 --> 05:52:09,803 or no intelligent white man in his or her right white mind, 4118 05:52:10,441 --> 05:52:13,607 want black boys and black girls marrying their white sons and daughters, 4119 05:52:14,169 --> 05:52:17,006 and in return introducing their grandchildren as half brown 4120 05:52:17,630 --> 05:52:18,685 kinky haired black people. 4121 05:52:19,053 --> 05:52:19,872 I wouldn't... - And I am sure... 4122 05:52:20,415 --> 05:52:21,085 I wouldn't object to that. 4123 05:52:21,397 --> 05:52:22,584 Well you wouldn't but a lot of them would. 4124 05:52:22,792 --> 05:52:24,462 Well, I will tell you you're sad... that it's... it is sad 4125 05:52:24,532 --> 05:52:25,923 It ain't sad cause I want my child to look like me. 4126 05:52:26,260 --> 05:52:28,084 Every intelligent person wants his child to look like him. 4127 05:52:28,611 --> 05:52:31,849 I'm sad because I want to blot out my race and lose my beautiful identity? 4128 05:52:32,178 --> 05:52:32,905 You can do what you want! 4129 05:52:33,068 --> 05:52:34,997 But it's nature to want to be with your own. 4130 05:52:35,985 --> 05:52:36,925 I want to be with my own... 4131 05:52:42,674 --> 05:52:45,738 UTOPIA LOST? 4132 05:53:38,102 --> 05:53:39,785 WELCOME TO HELL 4133 05:53:42,696 --> 05:53:44,567 Just Married! 4134 05:55:12,697 --> 05:55:14,927 To be continued 4135 05:55:18,257 --> 05:55:21,013 Part 25 Adolf Hitler - The Gretest Story NEVER Told! 4136 05:55:28,646 --> 05:55:31,104 General Otto Ernst Remer - in Conversation with Adolf Hitler 4137 05:55:36,937 --> 05:55:39,177 In 1944, General Otto Ernst Remer 4138 05:55:39,696 --> 05:55:41,497 commander in charge of the defence of the Wolfsschanze 4139 05:55:42,159 --> 05:55:44,437 aseked the F�hrer if he could have waited before invading Poland? 4140 05:55:45,134 --> 05:55:46,311 Hitler replied: 4141 05:55:46,913 --> 05:55:47,850 "You are mistaken. 4142 05:55:48,384 --> 05:55:50,216 I knew as early as March 1939 that Roosevelt had determined 4143 05:55:50,744 --> 05:55:53,609 to bring about a world war, and I knew that British were cooperating in this, 4144 05:55:54,127 --> 05:55:55,487 and Churchill was involved. 4145 05:55:56,226 --> 05:55:58,554 God knows that I certainly did not want a world war. 4146 05:55:59,128 --> 05:56:01,212 That's why I sought to solve the Polish problem in my own way 4147 05:56:02,104 --> 05:56:04,457 with a kind of punishment expedition, without a deklaration of war. 4148 05:56:05,688 --> 05:56:07,825 After all, there had been thousend of murders of ethnic Germans 4149 05:56:08,660 --> 05:56:10,581 and 1.2 million ethnic German refugees. 4150 05:56:11,317 --> 05:56:12,588 What should I have done? 4151 05:56:13,419 --> 05:56:15,561 I had to act. And for that reason, 4152 05:56:16,145 --> 05:56:18,167 four weeks after this campain, I made the most generous offer 4153 05:56:18,694 --> 05:56:21,213 of peace that any victorious leader could ever have made. 4154 05:56:22,461 --> 05:56:24,211 Unfortunately, it wasn't successful... 4155 05:56:27,095 --> 05:56:28,974 If I had ot acted as I did with regard to the Polish question, 4156 05:56:29,790 --> 05:56:32,079 to prevent a second world war, by the end of 1942 at latest 4157 05:56:32,916 --> 05:56:35,588 we would have experiecing what we are now experieced in 1944." 4158 05:56:55,290 --> 05:56:56,576 WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY 4159 05:57:14,609 --> 05:57:16,676 After the war, General George S. Patton, commander of the US Third Army, 4160 05:57:17,248 --> 05:57:20,124 openly admitted that the Allies had fought the wrong people. 4161 05:57:21,509 --> 05:57:22,676 He said about Soviets: 4162 05:57:24,328 --> 05:57:26,567 "Let's not give them time to build up their supplies. 4163 05:57:27,312 --> 05:57:30,079 If we do, then... we have had a victory over the Germans, and disarmed them, 4164 05:57:30,608 --> 05:57:33,490 but we have failed in the liberation of Europe; we have lost the war!" 4165 05:57:34,463 --> 05:57:35,800 He wrote to is wife: 4166 05:57:36,694 --> 05:57:38,702 "If we have to fight them, now is the time. 4167 05:57:39,694 --> 05:57:41,600 From now on we will get weaker and they stronger." 4168 05:57:56,586 --> 05:57:59,607 The media would now begin a campaign to discredit General Patton. 4169 05:58:00,438 --> 05:58:01,988 Patton, on 22 September 1945: 4170 05:58:02,801 --> 05:58:04,634 "There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. 4171 05:58:05,305 --> 05:58:07,797 They are traying to do two things: first, implement Communism. 4172 05:58:08,419 --> 05:58:10,320 And second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry 4173 05:58:10,855 --> 05:58:12,483 an non-Jewish entcendents are thrown out of their jobs... 4174 05:58:12,997 --> 05:58:14,933 ... in my opinion and most nonpolitical officers, 4175 05:58:15,557 --> 05:58:17,477 it is vitally necessary for us to build Germany up now 4176 05:58:18,140 --> 05:58:19,779 as a buffer state against Russia. 4177 05:58:20,296 --> 05:58:21,822 In fact, I am afraid we have waited too long." 4178 05:58:22,574 --> 05:58:24,625 And in a letter later that night to his wife: 4179 05:58:25,553 --> 05:58:27,823 "I can't tell them the truth that unless we restore Germany 4180 05:58:28,447 --> 05:58:30,399 we will ensure that Communism takes America." 4181 05:58:39,960 --> 05:58:41,867 George S. Patton Jnr. died in a Heidelberg, 4182 05:58:42,444 --> 05:58:44,507 Germany hospital 21 December 1945, 4183 05:58:45,057 --> 05:58:47,866 do to complications from a broeken neck he sustained eleven days earlier 4184 05:58:48,530 --> 05:58:50,095 in a minor automobile accident. 4185 05:58:50,929 --> 05:58:53,390 No official report was made of the incident, and there was to be no autopsy. 4186 05:58:54,318 --> 05:58:56,678 The postmortem findings remain classified to this day. 4187 05:59:11,699 --> 05:59:14,068 Patton's prophetic warnings ultimately went unheeded. 4188 05:59:31,745 --> 05:59:34,054 General George S. Patton 1885- 1945 4189 05:59:44,660 --> 05:59:46,972 WE FOUGHT TO SAVE EUROPE 4190 05:59:52,861 --> 05:59:56,061 A group of German Wor War Two veterans explain to a Dutch journalist 4191 05:59:56,729 --> 05:59:58,905 how they fought to save from te wrath of the Bolsheviks 4192 05:59:59,425 --> 06:00:01,337 not only Germany, but all of Europe. 4193 06:00:07,242 --> 06:00:10,539 We didn't fight againt you. - Just against the Russians? 4194 06:00:11,442 --> 06:00:16,446 To be exact, not against the Russians, but against bolshevism. 4195 06:00:17,862 --> 06:00:22,902 They were people like you and I. - Against Stalinist bolshevism. 4196 06:00:23,590 --> 06:00:29,022 We defended our country against it, and more importantly, all of Europe. 4197 06:00:30,110 --> 06:00:35,964 If we hadn't stopped it, it would have reached your country and France too. 4198 06:00:37,095 --> 06:00:39,591 Right up to the Channel. Tht was their plan. 4199 06:00:40,064 --> 06:00:43,311 We also had to fight the Americans when they landed... 4200 06:00:43,825 --> 06:00:46,407 in France, Italy and Africa. 4201 06:00:47,416 --> 06:00:52,623 In the end the Russians sometimes outnumbred us by twelwe to one. 4202 06:00:53,592 --> 06:00:57,399 And we still tried to keep them away from the borders of the Reich. 4203 06:01:00,190 --> 06:01:01,673 To defend our people. 4204 06:01:12,311 --> 06:01:15,657 The French Charlemagne SS were the last defenders of Hitler's bunker, fighting until 4205 06:01:16,402 --> 06:01:18,798 2 May to prevent the Bolscheviks from capturing it on May Day. 4206 06:01:19,828 --> 06:01:22,417 Reduced from over 7.000 to approximately 30 able men, most of those who made it 4207 06:01:23,056 --> 06:01:25,242 back to France were denounced and sent to Allied prison camps. 4208 06:01:26,458 --> 06:01:29,437 French General Philippe Leclerc was presented with a defiant group of 12 captured 4209 06:01:30,036 --> 06:01:31,677 Charlemagne SS men. 4210 06:01:33,506 --> 06:01:35,946 The General immediatrely asked them way they wore a German uniform, 4211 06:01:36,569 --> 06:01:39,341 to which one of them replied by asking the General way he wore an American one? 4212 06:01:41,907 --> 06:01:44,657 The 12 French Charlemagne SS men were later executed without any form of 4213 06:01:45,335 --> 06:01:47,031 due process. 4214 06:02:11,655 --> 06:02:14,023 Henri Joseph Fenet, one of the last recipiens of the Knight's Cross, 4215 06:02:14,566 --> 06:02:16,521 was sentenced to 20 years hard labour. 4216 06:02:17,009 --> 06:02:17,710 He was released in 1959. 4217 06:02:19,297 --> 06:02:22,070 We didn't think of death at all. 4218 06:02:23,311 --> 06:02:24,575 Henry Frenet, French volonteer 4219 06:02:24,885 --> 06:02:26,042 Not at all. 4220 06:02:26,491 --> 06:02:29,058 Only on fighting, keeping on fighting. 4221 06:02:35,337 --> 06:02:38,476 We lived and fought only to fight. 4222 06:02:44,443 --> 06:02:45,564 Loyal to the end. 4223 06:02:50,427 --> 06:02:52,019 Loyal to the end. 4224 06:03:00,779 --> 06:03:04,818 More French soldiers died fighting for Germany than for France aiding Communism. 4225 06:03:05,395 --> 06:03:07,962 Many more volunters travelled from around the world to stand 4226 06:03:08,531 --> 06:03:09,803 alongside the Germans in the defence of Europe. 4227 06:03:10,307 --> 06:03:12,545 Those captured faced either execution, enslavement or imprisonment. 4228 06:03:13,193 --> 06:03:15,322 Some would starveand die alongside the Germans in Eisenhower's death camps. 4229 06:03:16,121 --> 06:03:18,809 Volunteers from the following countries would fight for the Third Reich: 4230 06:03:19,865 --> 06:03:21,279 ALBANIA ARGENTINA 4231 06:03:21,952 --> 06:03:23,213 BELGIUM BRAZIL 4232 06:03:24,261 --> 06:03:25,691 BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA CHILE 4233 06:03:26,658 --> 06:03:28,014 CROATIA DENMARK 4234 06:03:29,437 --> 06:03:30,709 EIRE ESTONIA 4235 06:03:31,558 --> 06:03:32,862 FINLAND GREECE 4236 06:03:34,030 --> 06:03:35,231 HUNGARY INDIA 4237 06:03:35,949 --> 06:03:37,038 IRAN IRAQ 4238 06:03:37,916 --> 06:03:39,284 ITALY LATVIA 4239 06:03:40,004 --> 06:03:41,959 LITHUANIA LUXEMBURG 4240 06:03:42,517 --> 06:03:43,887 NETHERLANDS NORWAY 4241 06:03:44,461 --> 06:03:45,701 POLAND ROMANIA 4242 06:03:46,342 --> 06:03:47,526 SERBIA and MONTENEGRO SLOVAKIA 4243 06:03:48,037 --> 06:03:49,020 SPAIN SOVIET UNION 4244 06:03:49,660 --> 06:03:50,324 SWEDEN SWITZERLAND 4245 06:03:50,912 --> 06:03:52,632 UNITED KINGDOM USA 4246 06:04:03,122 --> 06:04:04,739 "Now, I have only one regret... 4247 06:04:07,136 --> 06:04:09,744 ... I wished an earlier involvement" Henri Joseph Fenet 4248 06:04:15,963 --> 06:04:18,009 The Freikorps Oberland was a unit in the early years of Weimar Republic, 4249 06:04:18,601 --> 06:04:20,735 known for their street battles against Communist and Polish insurgens. 4250 06:04:22,126 --> 06:04:24,129 Fridolin von Spaun, the last living member, describes meeting 4251 06:04:24,945 --> 06:04:26,550 Adolf Hitler for the first time. 4252 06:04:36,637 --> 06:04:39,170 He was indeed observing me. 4253 06:04:43,082 --> 06:04:47,402 And that was one of the most curious moment of my life. 4254 06:04:48,873 --> 06:04:52,410 I had the feeling that he was searching somehow- 4255 06:04:53,201 --> 06:04:56,865 the gaze which at first rested competely on me 4256 06:04:57,409 --> 06:05:04,421 suddenly went straight through me and into an unknown distance. 4257 06:05:05,965 --> 06:05:08,223 It was so strange. 4258 06:05:14,585 --> 06:05:18,260 And the long gaze which he had given me 4259 06:05:19,131 --> 06:05:21,688 convinced me completely 4260 06:05:23,066 --> 06:05:26,568 that he was a man of honourable intentions. 4261 06:05:28,160 --> 06:05:31,210 I can only say I am glad 4262 06:05:31,553 --> 06:05:38,543 that I saw Hitler's most beautiful side. 4263 06:05:40,687 --> 06:05:42,743 Surely there must have been dark sides, 4264 06:05:45,293 --> 06:05:48,193 but I saw his wonderful side. 4265 06:05:49,288 --> 06:05:51,389 And nobody can take that away from me. 4266 06:06:04,059 --> 06:06:06,717 "Lord God, give us the strength that we may retain our liberty for our children 4267 06:06:07,341 --> 06:06:09,531 and our children's children, not only for ourselves, but also 4268 06:06:10,084 --> 06:06:12,486 for the other peoples opf Europe, for thi is a war which we all wage, 4269 06:06:13,015 --> 06:06:15,552 this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it 4270 06:06:16,133 --> 06:06:19,314 in the long run, for all of mankind."... Adolf Hitler 1942 4271 06:06:33,538 --> 06:06:35,698 THE END 4272 06:06:47,170 --> 06:06:49,334 The consequences of Germany's defeat are still being felt today. 4273 06:06:50,008 --> 06:06:51,815 In the decades since the end of World War Two, 4274 06:06:52,479 --> 06:06:54,830 the German birth rate has fallen below the repacement level. 4275 06:06:55,534 --> 06:06:57,716 Millions of racially and culturally alien migrants have been welcomed as settlers 4276 06:06:58,371 --> 06:06:59,331 in Germany. 4277 06:06:59,923 --> 06:07:01,996 The number of children of mixed ethnicity has sharply increased. 4278 06:07:02,829 --> 06:07:04,807 As a result, the ethnic and cultural character of much of the country 4279 06:07:05,328 --> 06:07:06,778 has been drastically altered. 4280 06:07:07,441 --> 06:07:08,991 Germany remains occupied. 4281 06:07:24,696 --> 06:07:25,959 Joseph Stalin 4282 06:07:26,471 --> 06:07:28,257 Real name: Josif Vissarionovich Dzhgashvili 4283 06:07:29,366 --> 06:07:31,188 Died 5 March 1953, aged 74. 4284 06:07:32,077 --> 06:07:33,826 Stalin had collapsed amids rumours he had been poisoned. 4285 06:07:35,298 --> 06:07:37,529 After the fall of Communism, document No. 103202/06, signed by 4286 06:07:38,215 --> 06:07:40,268 Soviet Chief of Staff Kirill Mereskov on 18 September, 1940 4287 06:07:40,938 --> 06:07:42,908 revealed that Stalin was preparing to invade western Europe on 4288 06:07:43,430 --> 06:07:44,729 10 July, 1941 4289 06:07:45,298 --> 06:07:46,889 in a massive military offensive operation code-named 4290 06:07:47,616 --> 06:07:49,206 OPERATION THUNDER 4291 06:07:50,269 --> 06:07:52,332 Germany had invaded the Soviet Union to only 3 weeks to spare. 4292 06:08:01,968 --> 06:08:02,954 Franklin D. Roosevelt 4293 06:08:03,547 --> 06:08:05,556 Died April 12, 1945 aged 63 from a brain hemorrhage. 4294 06:08:07,411 --> 06:08:09,490 Despite funding one of history's most murderous regimes, 4295 06:08:10,083 --> 06:08:12,097 and despite his knowledge that US had broken Japanese code 4296 06:08:12,724 --> 06:08:14,673 prior to the strike on Pearl Harbor, FDR remains one of 4297 06:08:15,225 --> 06:08:17,032 America's most popular president. 4298 06:08:24,154 --> 06:08:25,084 Winston Churchill 4299 06:08:25,593 --> 06:08:27,752 Died 24 January 1965, aged 90 after suffering a stroke. 4300 06:08:29,406 --> 06:08:31,113 Although he is regarded as Britain's greatest statesman, 4301 06:08:31,665 --> 06:08:34,479 Winston Churchill has never been forgiven by the Welsh for sending the British Army 4302 06:08:35,039 --> 06:08:36,688 to break up the 1910 Miners' strike in South Wales. 4303 06:08:37,225 --> 06:08:39,442 The result was the death of two miners and a bayonet charge on an unarmed crowd. 4304 06:08:39,943 --> 06:08:42,601 In 1965, the Welsh Valleys celebrated upon hearing of Churchill's death. 4305 06:08:51,896 --> 06:08:53,072 Harry S. Truman 4306 06:08:53,855 --> 06:08:55,800 Died on 26 December 1972, aged 88 after a complexity of organ failures. 4307 06:08:56,902 --> 06:08:58,741 He will be remembered most for ending the worst war in history 4308 06:08:59,436 --> 06:09:01,044 by the heinous act of dropping the atomic bomb 4309 06:09:01,667 --> 06:09:03,569 on civilian targets without warning... twice. 4310 06:09:10,946 --> 06:09:13,481 According to official reports and eyewitness testimonies: 4311 06:09:15,914 --> 06:09:17,274 Adolf Hitler 4312 06:09:18,033 --> 06:09:20,482 Died 30 April 1945, aged 56, defending his beloved Germany. 4313 06:09:24,640 --> 06:09:27,080 "Adolf Hitler, son of the Catholic Church, died while defending Christianity. 4314 06:09:27,752 --> 06:09:29,799 It is therefore understandable that words cannot be found 4315 06:09:30,392 --> 06:09:33,294 to lament over his death, when so many were found to exalt his life. 4316 06:09:34,054 --> 06:09:36,223 Over his mortal remains stands his victorious figure. 4317 06:09:36,958 --> 06:09:39,078 With the palm of the martyr, God gives Hitler the laurels of Victory." 4318 06:09:40,413 --> 06:09:42,369 Francisco Franco Head of Spain 4319 06:09:42,847 --> 06:09:44,166 3 May 1945 4320 06:09:58,229 --> 06:10:00,030 "It is necessary that I should die for my people; 4321 06:10:00,733 --> 06:10:03,810 but my spirit will rise from the grave and the world will knowthat I was right." 4322 06:10:04,507 --> 06:10:06,131 Adolf Hitler 1945 4323 06:10:16,299 --> 06:10:19,193 In memory of the many thousands massacred at Bleiburg... 4324 06:10:23,410 --> 06:10:26,101 ... and the millions who fought for a better world. 4325 06:10:37,111 --> 06:10:38,892 Since the making of this documentary, in 2012 the headstone overlooking 4326 06:10:39,370 --> 06:10:41,698 the grave of Adolf Hitlers's parents Alois and Klara was removed. 4327 06:10:55,059 --> 06:10:58,557 No one knows what it's like 4328 06:10:58,657 --> 06:11:01,855 To be the bad man 4329 06:11:02,355 --> 06:11:05,653 To be the sad man 4330 06:11:06,652 --> 06:11:09,950 Behind blue eyes 4331 06:11:10,950 --> 06:11:12,949 No one knows 4332 06:11:13,049 --> 06:11:17,846 What it's like to be hated 4333 06:11:18,845 --> 06:11:26,291 To be faded to telling only lies 4334 06:11:26,391 --> 06:11:33,837 But my dreams they aren't as empty 4335 06:11:33,937 --> 06:11:41,332 As my conscious seems to be 4336 06:11:42,332 --> 06:11:49,827 I have hours, only lonely 4337 06:11:49,927 --> 06:11:53,575 My love is vengeance 4338 06:11:53,675 --> 06:11:57,323 That's never free 4339 06:12:03,020 --> 06:12:06,218 No one knows what it's like 4340 06:12:06,318 --> 06:12:09,916 To feel these feelings 4341 06:12:10,016 --> 06:12:17,411 Like I do, and I blame you! 4342 06:12:19,210 --> 06:12:22,508 No one bites back as hard 4343 06:12:22,608 --> 06:12:26,006 On their anger 4344 06:12:26,106 --> 06:12:29,404 None of my pain woe 4345 06:12:29,504 --> 06:12:32,803 Can show through 4346 06:12:34,102 --> 06:12:41,298 But my dreams they aren't as empty 4347 06:12:42,397 --> 06:12:48,294 As my conscious seems to be 4348 06:12:50,093 --> 06:12:57,288 I have hours, only lonely 4349 06:12:57,788 --> 06:13:01,286 My love is vengeance 4350 06:13:01,786 --> 06:13:05,184 That's never free 4351 06:14:35,732 --> 06:14:39,130 No one knows what it's like 4352 06:14:39,230 --> 06:14:43,277 To be the bad man 4353 06:14:43,377 --> 06:14:46,900 To be the sad man 4354 06:14:47,000 --> 06:14:50,523 Behind blue eyes 4355 06:14:53,421 --> 06:14:55,320 No one knows 4356 06:14:55,420 --> 06:15:00,397 What it's like to feel these feelings 4357 06:15:00,497 --> 06:15:07,313 Like I do, and I blame you! 4358 06:15:07,713 --> 06:15:11,911 But my dreams 4359 06:15:12,011 --> 06:15:15,009 They aren't as empty 4360 06:15:15,608 --> 06:15:22,704 As my conscience seems to be 4361 06:15:23,704 --> 06:15:30,700 I have hours, only lonely 4362 06:15:31,599 --> 06:15:34,598 My love is vengeance 4363 06:15:35,497 --> 06:15:38,995 That's never free 4364 06:16:46,816 --> 06:16:48,270 Without the miracle of the internet 4365 06:16:48,798 --> 06:16:50,140 this documentary could not have been possible. 4366 06:17:08,998 --> 06:17:10,318 ... And the women was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, 4367 06:17:10,774 --> 06:17:12,294 and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, 4368 06:17:12,683 --> 06:17:13,826 having a golden cup in fer hand 4369 06:17:14,339 --> 06:17:15,710 full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 4370 06:17:16,109 --> 06:17:18,070 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, 4371 06:17:18,517 --> 06:17:19,885 The Mother Of Hurlots And Abominations Of The Earth. 4372 06:17:20,381 --> 06:17:21,875 Book of Revelation Chapter 17 4373 06:17:31,668 --> 06:17:33,152 During the1920's, Berlin became known as the cesspit of Europe, 4374 06:17:33,662 --> 06:17:35,102 a city where any and every depraved sexual acivity 4375 06:17:35,510 --> 06:17:36,820 could be had at a price. 4376 06:17:37,256 --> 06:17:39,118 With drugs, prostitution, peadophilia and homosexuality 4377 06:17:39,581 --> 06:17:41,052 and even bestiaity rampant, it was a place dangerous and unfit 4378 06:17:41,539 --> 06:17:43,003 for any self-respecting German family to reside. 4379 06:17:43,551 --> 06:17:45,782 Against all odds, in 1933 one man would drive the "Whore of Babyon" from Berlin 4380 06:17:46,215 --> 06:17:48,551 and out of Germany, restoring family morals once again. 4381 06:18:00,526 --> 06:18:02,124 BABYLON BEFORE HITLER 4382 06:18:11,611 --> 06:18:15,470 After the armistice, the guns went silent across Europe, 4383 06:18:15,570 --> 06:18:19,429 but not in Berlin, where Germans were fighting Germans. 4384 06:18:20,310 --> 06:18:23,690 News of the loss by the Fatherland, had come as a shock to Berliners, 4385 06:18:24,188 --> 06:18:26,136 and now the old order was gone. 4386 06:18:27,109 --> 06:18:29,200 In its place came chaos. 4387 06:18:31,509 --> 06:18:34,865 The streets of what was once a quiet conservative town, 4388 06:18:35,314 --> 06:18:36,953 became free fire zones. 4389 06:18:37,908 --> 06:18:39,551 The Nationalists in the extreme right, 4390 06:18:39,904 --> 06:18:42,540 battling it out with the Communists of the extreme left. 4391 06:18:43,164 --> 06:18:44,086 And out of this struggle, 4392 06:18:44,666 --> 06:18:48,910 emerged a new democratic state, the Weimar Republic. 4393 06:18:53,534 --> 06:18:56,188 In the 20th century, after the First World War, 4394 06:18:56,923 --> 06:19:00,419 the world's great metropolis of vice was Berlin. 4395 06:19:04,859 --> 06:19:08,714 Berlin in the 1920s was the sex capital of Europe. 4396 06:19:22,204 --> 06:19:25,048 If you knew what to look for you could find anything, 4397 06:19:25,395 --> 06:19:27,090 anything known to man David Clay Large - Author 4398 06:19:27,648 --> 06:19:30,960 in the sexual world was available on the streets of Berlin. 4399 06:19:32,694 --> 06:19:33,754 On any given night, 4400 06:19:34,258 --> 06:19:37,599 as many as a 100.000 prostitutes walked the streets, 4401 06:19:38,040 --> 06:19:40,175 or worked the sex clubs across the city. 4402 06:19:41,318 --> 06:19:44,191 There were all different whores with, um... 4403 06:19:44,512 --> 06:19:45,974 different kinds of make-up on the street. 4404 06:19:46,591 --> 06:19:48,139 For instance, one was called "Munzi". 4405 06:19:49,126 --> 06:19:53,669 Munzis, who were prostitutes who hung out on just one street, munzstrasse, 4406 06:19:54,196 --> 06:19:55,821 and these were pregnant prostitutes. 4407 06:19:56,601 --> 06:19:58,389 There were prostitutes who looked horrible, 4408 06:19:58,821 --> 06:20:02,234 who had massive scared faces or hunched backs or 4409 06:20:02,587 --> 06:20:06,594 were lame or crippled, these were called "grasshoppers". 4410 06:20:09,307 --> 06:20:12,778 You had mother and daughter teams on one street, that dressed exactly alike. 4411 06:20:16,177 --> 06:20:16,909 Here in Berlin, 4412 06:20:17,493 --> 06:20:20,570 sex for sale offered every sort of perversion 4413 06:20:21,018 --> 06:20:22,649 or fetishism imaginable. 4414 06:20:23,264 --> 06:20:24,827 There was not a sexual appetite 4415 06:20:25,298 --> 06:20:27,754 that could not be satisfied; in the city. 4416 06:20:30,813 --> 06:20:35,860 There were clubs where lesbians liked to whip school boys 4417 06:20:36,780 --> 06:20:41,436 and you'd find military officers sitting there with children sitting on their laps. 4418 06:20:42,745 --> 06:20:44,405 So a lot of it was play acting. Ean Wood - Author 4419 06:20:44,971 --> 06:20:48,170 But there were quite a lot of people who also indulged in it. 4420 06:20:49,443 --> 06:20:53,637 Berlin in the 1920s was the sex capital of Europe. 4421 06:20:54,849 --> 06:20:58,018 Its very name became synonymous with perversion, 4422 06:20:58,466 --> 06:21:01,202 debauchery, and creativity. 4423 06:21:01,302 --> 06:21:05,171 Places that you hadn't noticed would turn into outrageous strip clubs. 4424 06:21:05,885 --> 06:21:07,263 The basements of the restaurants 4425 06:21:07,571 --> 06:21:11,822 would be homosexual or lesbian romper rooms and sex clubs. 4426 06:21:12,793 --> 06:21:14,983 Every intellectual was Leftish. 4427 06:21:15,774 --> 06:21:20,500 The whole political right wing, which basically came from Munich, 4428 06:21:20,960 --> 06:21:22,984 did not play any roll in the beginning. 4429 06:21:23,470 --> 06:21:26,728 The whole town was in the hands of Leftist ideas. 4430 06:21:27,918 --> 06:21:29,184 But outside Berlin, 4431 06:21:29,926 --> 06:21:31,719 the right wing Nationalist movement 4432 06:21:31,855 --> 06:21:34,536 was attracting scores of disillusioned Germans, 4433 06:21:35,099 --> 06:21:38,173 including one obscure Austrian Corporal 4434 06:21:38,702 --> 06:21:40,694 by the name of Adolf Hitler. 4435 06:21:41,786 --> 06:21:45,716 Hitler, like many of the right wingers, hated this new Berlin. 4436 06:21:46,338 --> 06:21:51,430 A city bursting with Bolsheviks, socialists, revolutionaries, and Jews. 4437 06:21:51,989 --> 06:21:53,930 But in the early 1920s, 4438 06:21:54,486 --> 06:21:56,928 Berliners had more immediate concerns. 4439 06:21:57,689 --> 06:22:02,630 By 1922, inflation was spiraling wildly out of control. 4440 06:22:03,028 --> 06:22:05,063 People would be paid in the morning, 4441 06:22:05,435 --> 06:22:07,266 and have suitcase fulls of bank notes. 4442 06:22:07,743 --> 06:22:09,750 And they would have to then run to the shops, 4443 06:22:10,120 --> 06:22:11,792 because in the time between being paid, 4444 06:22:12,158 --> 06:22:14,640 and the time when they bought their goods, their food, 4445 06:22:14,975 --> 06:22:16,247 the prices would have risen. Anton Gill - Author 4446 06:22:16,925 --> 06:22:19,770 Berlin was in a state of total, total chaos. 4447 06:22:20,312 --> 06:22:23,607 Hundreds of thousands of dispossessed starving in the streets 4448 06:22:24,033 --> 06:22:27,177 and at the same time, you had very rich people. 4449 06:22:28,280 --> 06:22:31,256 You got on the one hand, the poor eating turnip soup, 4450 06:22:31,957 --> 06:22:35,150 the Butchers selling crows, squirrels, even rats. 4451 06:22:35,849 --> 06:22:38,085 And on the other side, people who could afford it, 4452 06:22:38,499 --> 06:22:42,419 eating the most sumptuous meals, like they never paused for thought. 4453 06:22:44,051 --> 06:22:48,310 With virtually every currency in the world more valuable than the German mark, 4454 06:22:49,086 --> 06:22:50,912 foreign tourists flocked into the city 4455 06:22:51,314 --> 06:22:55,649 to take advance of the cheapest sex on the continent. 4456 06:22:55,687 --> 06:22:59,344 $10 dollars in American money, could buy you anything you wanted. 4457 06:23:03,282 --> 06:23:07,866 Every possible sexual taste was catered for. 4458 06:23:09,372 --> 06:23:11,239 House Fraus became harlots, 4459 06:23:11,750 --> 06:23:15,661 teenagers turned tricks, and Papa became a pimp. 4460 06:23:18,002 --> 06:23:19,003 When you have unemployed, 4461 06:23:19,693 --> 06:23:22,895 you also have an increase in sex workers. 4462 06:23:24,680 --> 06:23:26,400 But it wasn't just Berliners. 4463 06:23:27,180 --> 06:23:31,380 It was tens and maybe hundreds of thousands of young boys and young girls, 4464 06:23:31,480 --> 06:23:32,272 who were coming to Berlin 4465 06:23:32,631 --> 06:23:37,112 to participate in this hard currency sex traffic. 4466 06:23:38,279 --> 06:23:40,316 It was a city that was filled with lesbian life. 4467 06:23:40,706 --> 06:23:43,105 There was the idea that every where you went, 4468 06:23:43,428 --> 06:23:44,880 you didn't have to hide what you were. 4469 06:23:45,657 --> 06:23:46,977 Marlene DIETRICH 4470 06:23:58,435 --> 06:24:02,380 When it came to sex Marlene Dietrich could be omnivorous. 4471 06:24:02,754 --> 06:24:04,176 As long as she found them attractive, 4472 06:24:04,671 --> 06:24:07,734 she couldn't care less if her lover was a man or a women. 4473 06:24:08,642 --> 06:24:11,290 Dietrich was an omnipotent sexual figure. 4474 06:24:11,969 --> 06:24:15,881 She was an icon for gay women around the world 4475 06:24:16,497 --> 06:24:18,969 at a time when there was no one else. 4476 06:24:21,261 --> 06:24:23,365 With this new anything goes attitude, 4477 06:24:23,773 --> 06:24:27,542 Berlin over night replaced Paris as the center of Hedonism. 4478 06:24:29,974 --> 06:24:35,573 That's why people saw Berlin as the Babylon of the 20s. 4479 06:24:35,673 --> 06:24:39,573 Things that had been considered to be immoral amoral whatever, 4480 06:24:39,673 --> 06:24:42,892 were became irrelevant and anything went. 4481 06:24:44,109 --> 06:24:46,051 Drugs were readily available in Berlin. 4482 06:24:46,407 --> 06:24:49,588 Every variety of drug. Morphine, cocaine, opium. 4483 06:24:50,484 --> 06:24:52,447 The morphine and cocaine you could probably get prescribed 4484 06:24:52,746 --> 06:24:54,529 by your local doctor or pharmacist. 4485 06:24:55,193 --> 06:24:56,753 Opium was widely available, 4486 06:24:57,165 --> 06:25:00,467 and also drugs were used in sexual science. 4487 06:25:01,010 --> 06:25:03,848 Sexual scientists were very interested in the effects of for instance 4488 06:25:04,184 --> 06:25:06,994 morphine would have on the orgasmic rate of a lesbian. 4489 06:25:07,641 --> 06:25:09,394 So there was a complete scientific culture. 4490 06:25:13,420 --> 06:25:16,545 Berlin had become the center of sexual experimentation. 4491 06:25:17,255 --> 06:25:20,759 It also became the center of scientific research into sex, 4492 06:25:21,132 --> 06:25:22,834 led by a pioneering doctor. 4493 06:25:23,554 --> 06:25:24,257 von Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld 4494 06:25:24,292 --> 06:25:28,393 And this was a very funny character called Papa or the Einstein of sex. 4495 06:25:29,168 --> 06:25:30,874 In Berlin, it was Magnus Hirshfeld. 4496 06:25:31,480 --> 06:25:35,251 Hirshfeld was queer Jewish Social democrat, 4497 06:25:35,604 --> 06:25:38,147 who really defined the Liberal spirit of Berlin. 4498 06:25:40,539 --> 06:25:42,667 The crusading doctor for sexual freedom 4499 06:25:43,097 --> 06:25:45,689 was also the founder of the world's first institute 4500 06:25:46,145 --> 06:25:49,224 devoted to the scientific study of sex. 4501 06:25:51,466 --> 06:25:54,645 You could go and look at various fetish items, 4502 06:25:54,967 --> 06:25:56,836 for example he had these trousers. 4503 06:25:57,274 --> 06:25:59,323 Now if you wore a trench coat you could walk around Berlin, 4504 06:25:59,799 --> 06:26:01,009 and look like you had pants on, 4505 06:26:01,337 --> 06:26:03,549 because the lower parts of the trousers were there. 4506 06:26:03,878 --> 06:26:07,189 But then you had nothing on above them, and you could flash this way. 4507 06:26:08,164 --> 06:26:11,371 This was thought to be very tidily very amusing. 4508 06:26:11,799 --> 06:26:16,795 So it was this sort of thing, you could see in the institute for sexual research. 4509 06:26:18,111 --> 06:26:20,895 Unlike his fellow doctor in Vienna, Sigmund Freud, 4510 06:26:21,567 --> 06:26:23,794 Hirshfeld advocated the radical notion 4511 06:26:24,466 --> 06:26:26,618 that human sexuality could be studied, 4512 06:26:27,130 --> 06:26:29,440 without imposing moral judgements. 4513 06:26:31,174 --> 06:26:35,189 Hirshfeld's also credited with operations and surgeries of sex change 4514 06:26:35,499 --> 06:26:36,668 and sexual rejuvenation. 4515 06:26:39,292 --> 06:26:43,069 He had a clinic for people to be consoled about sexual problems. 4516 06:26:44,661 --> 06:26:48,565 But Berlin's reputation as a hotbed for the new and risque, 4517 06:26:49,149 --> 06:26:52,461 was not just limited to its bars and bedrooms. 4518 06:26:55,659 --> 06:26:59,551 They also streamed into the city streets and clubs of Berlin. 4519 06:27:00,247 --> 06:27:03,694 From all across Europe, artists, writers, and intellectuals 4520 06:27:03,991 --> 06:27:05,174 with homosexual leanings 4521 06:27:05,975 --> 06:27:07,870 were drawn to this metropolis. 4522 06:27:09,258 --> 06:27:13,062 Berlin was unquestioningly the most open gay city in the world. 4523 06:27:13,799 --> 06:27:16,941 It attracted first W. H. Auden, the great British poet, 4524 06:27:17,259 --> 06:27:18,558 and then his friend, Christopher Isherwood. 4525 06:27:19,657 --> 06:27:20,670 Auden came first, 4526 06:27:21,257 --> 06:27:22,467 was interested in the gay scene there, 4527 06:27:22,835 --> 06:27:25,310 and talked about Berlin being a bugger's paradise. 4528 06:27:27,057 --> 06:27:29,314 Christopher Isherwood, fed up with Cambridge, 4529 06:27:29,737 --> 06:27:32,332 and an England openly hostile to homosexuals, 4530 06:27:33,099 --> 06:27:34,642 chose to move to Berlin. 4531 06:27:35,428 --> 06:27:39,201 His novels about the wild side of life in the city and its cabarets, 4532 06:27:40,103 --> 06:27:44,520 were eventually turned into a hugely successful stage play and movie. 4533 06:27:46,754 --> 06:27:50,566 There were about a 160 completely different 4534 06:27:51,066 --> 06:27:54,171 lesbian and gay male night clubs and lounges. 4535 06:27:55,527 --> 06:27:59,148 Unlike most cities, with their one red light district, 4536 06:27:59,582 --> 06:28:03,502 Berlin's erotic clubs were scattered throughout the vast metropolis. 4537 06:28:08,290 --> 06:28:12,897 Bizarre sexual fantasies of domination, were turned into works of art. 4538 06:28:13,927 --> 06:28:18,303 While they would indulge in a wide variety of strange sexual experiments 4539 06:28:18,639 --> 06:28:21,830 involving violence and death; all in the name of art. 4540 06:28:23,454 --> 06:28:26,517 In 1928, a Nazi propaganda sheet, 4541 06:28:26,916 --> 06:28:31,221 denounced Berlin as a melting pot of everything that is evil. 4542 06:28:32,003 --> 06:28:34,225 When Goebbels got off the train in 1926, 4543 06:28:34,792 --> 06:28:35,937 to take over the city, 4544 06:28:36,680 --> 06:28:39,933 he found the Nazis could scrape together maybe 200 members. 4545 06:28:40,778 --> 06:28:44,077 And the Communists at that point had about 250.000. 4546 06:28:44,241 --> 06:28:47,552 And they didn't particularly take to a group of people who came in from outside 4547 06:28:48,193 --> 06:28:49,889 and said that everything that the city had stood for 4548 06:28:50,526 --> 06:28:52,504 was all of a sudden to be abandoned or to be considered decadent 4549 06:28:52,874 --> 06:28:54,042 or to be pushed aside. 4550 06:28:55,229 --> 06:28:58,245 Hitler had personally appointed him to go to Berlin. 4551 06:28:58,894 --> 06:29:01,990 It looked at the time like an impossible mission. 4552 06:29:02,452 --> 06:29:04,925 He was a good choice for the Nazis because he understood the city. 4553 06:29:05,647 --> 06:29:09,946 It was he who was designated to turn the city from a bastion of Communism, 4554 06:29:10,046 --> 06:29:12,851 a red city, into a brown one, a bastion of the Nazi's. 4555 06:29:13,107 --> 06:29:14,244 This was a difficult proposition. 4556 06:29:14,846 --> 06:29:17,145 Berlin to them was foreign territory. 4557 06:29:17,245 --> 06:29:19,445 They shared the typical provincial, 4558 06:29:19,545 --> 06:29:24,745 conservative German's notion about Berlin as a decadent place. 4559 06:29:24,845 --> 06:29:27,445 It was too avant-garde, they hated the place. 4560 06:29:27,545 --> 06:29:29,894 Berlin was in an upheaval. 4561 06:29:29,994 --> 06:29:32,319 Street fights were common. 4562 06:29:32,419 --> 06:29:35,190 Unemployment was worsening. 4563 06:29:35,290 --> 06:29:38,061 And then on January 30th, 1933, 4564 06:29:38,558 --> 06:29:42,000 Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. 4565 06:29:42,843 --> 06:29:45,775 He made it clear what his plans for the city were. 4566 06:29:46,643 --> 06:29:49,399 "What is ugly in Berlin, we shall remove." 4567 06:29:54,342 --> 06:29:56,425 What happened in '33, especially, 4568 06:29:56,845 --> 06:29:59,600 was that the gay Berlin dime bars started to be raided. 4569 06:29:59,967 --> 06:30:02,325 Those things were allowed to kind of exist under the radar, 4570 06:30:02,998 --> 06:30:05,472 for, up until 1933 really. 4571 06:30:05,848 --> 06:30:09,094 The Nazi police started paying attention to the dime bars. 4572 06:30:09,390 --> 06:30:11,456 They were harassing the customers, they were closing them down; 4573 06:30:11,910 --> 06:30:12,758 you might get arrested. 4574 06:30:13,440 --> 06:30:17,877 The Eldorado, home for some of the most famous transvestites in the city, 4575 06:30:18,440 --> 06:30:21,739 was taken over and turned into Nazi headquarters. 4576 06:30:22,339 --> 06:30:25,164 Goebbels sang out the name of every book 4577 06:30:25,276 --> 06:30:27,948 as it was consigned to the flames, legend has it. 4578 06:30:35,338 --> 06:30:38,837 The exodus was almost immediate. 4579 06:30:38,937 --> 06:30:45,459 Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, George Grosz, Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich, 4580 06:30:45,737 --> 06:30:48,037 just a small number of the thousands 4581 06:30:48,638 --> 06:30:49,991 who were driven into exile. 4582 06:30:54,536 --> 06:30:59,735 Berlin for a short 14 years, had been a crucible of history. 4583 06:30:59,835 --> 06:31:04,274 Brimming with a volatile mix of sex, arts, and politics, 4584 06:31:04,374 --> 06:31:08,814 laced with disillusionment, and spiked with decadence. 4585 06:31:14,534 --> 06:31:17,568 The Babylon of the river supreme was no more. 408225

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