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- By the start of 1943,

Germany and Japan have been
at war for several years.

Although the people
of both nations

have endured battlefield
casualties from the beginning,

two critical events are
about to bring the war home.

The leaders of Nazi
Germany and Imperial Japan

respond in very different ways.

- All wars changed the world,

but none of them
changed the world

like the second World War did.

- Japan's on the march,

Germany's on the march.

- No one can imagine
the nightmare

they're about to unleash,

the most destructive
war in human history.

- Suddenly, the world
is turned upside down

and all hell is let loose.

- The west is stunned by
the speed of the advance.

- You get the Allies
led by the big three,

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin,

men who were dealing with
immensely complicated questions.

- It's the biggest military
operation of human history.

- The Allies have
to come together,

not just militarily
but industrial scale.

It's a global perspective.

- They have to fight in
every climate from the Arctic

to the jungles of the Pacific,

to the deserts of Africa,
and the depths of the ocean.

- But there was no
certainty of victory.

It was going to be a
horrific bloodbath.

- We see humans at
their absolute worst,

how they treat
other human beings.

And we see them at
their absolute best,

willing to give their lives
that others might live.

- World War II was a struggle

in which there could
be one victor

and one vanquished.

- By early 1943,
the Nazi Third Reich

has absorbed much of Europe.

Great cities have been bombed.

Whole nations have
been occupied.

But in Germany, success
on the battlefield

allows life to go on as before.

- Hitler wants to maintain
the semblance of normalcy

even in wartime.

So theaters remain open,
stadiums remain open,

sporting events go
on as scheduled.

Germans are encouraged to go
about their daily business.

- The Germans, from the
beginning of the war,

have really been sheltered
and shielded by Hitler

because there is a
belief that Hitler has

that one of the main reasons
that Germany collapsed in 1918

was because the population
didn't have enough to eat,

their morale failed,

and all of a sudden they
turned against the government.

- Hitler constantly
tells the German people

they're a master race.

But, you know, deep down inside,

he doesn't trust them at all.

He was seared by the events
of the First World War.

Nothing could have
looked stronger

than the Kaiser's
government in 1918,

and it was overthrown in a
revolution lasting a single day.

- And so Hitler
believes that the German people

are, in a sense, fickle.

If they aren't given
what they want,

if they don't have
enough to eat,

if they don't have the material,

that they're going to
somehow turn on him.

And so he is very,
very determined

to make sure that
the German people

don't feel the pinch of the war.

- But in early February,

Germans across the Reich are
told in a short radio broadcast

that the 6th Army has been
destroyed at Stalingrad.

- Germany suffered

enormous casualties at
Stalingrad,

90,000 captured

and over 200,000 dead.

- Hundreds of
thousands,

if not millions, of Germans

had a family
member, or a friend,

or knew someone who
fought at Stalingrad.

This is the greatest
catastrophe in German history.

- Nobody's been
prepared for this.

For the families of people

who are serving on
the Stalingrad front,

it unleashes a wave of panic.

- It is the first
admission of a Wehrmacht defeat.

But Hitler and his
military leaders

are busy planning
a counter-attack.

- Hitler is now up
in the Wolf's Lair,

the Wolfsschanze,

his massive headquarters
up in East Prussia,

in almost complete isolation.

He rarely appears in public.

And so the task of rebuilding
morale amongst the people

is left to others.

- Joseph Goebbels,
Hitler's Reich minister

of enlightenment and propaganda,

has been at the center
of the Nazi party

since it was formed
in the 1920s.

- Joseph Goebbels
is one of

the most unusual Nazi officials.

And he looks like anything

but the image of
the Nazi superman.

He has no military background,

but he's brilliant about
the use of propaganda.

- Goebbels decides
that the time has come

to deliver a speech
exposing the German people

to the realities of what
1943 is gonna give them.

- For the first time, a
Nazi party official stands up

and says the war
isn't going well.

Only the German people are
capable of lifting Germany up

from the defeat at
Stalingrad to ultimate victory.

It's time to fight total war.

- Total war is the
commitment to a complete

and full national mobilization,

meaning that all businesses
and then all people,

all men, all women,
absolutely everyone,

become dedicated toward
securing victory.

- The "Total War"
speech is both an attempt

to rally public opinion and
an attempt to persuade Hitler

to go to total war.

- Think of this as like
a closing argument at a trial.

Goebbels is making a
case to Adolf Hitler

that if this war is
going to prevail,

you're gonna have to accept
the commitment to total war.

And so this hand-selected crowd
of followers and sycophants,

they're saying "Ja!"

to every word that he says.

And Adolf Hitler is saying
"Nein".

- Hitler is reluctant.

He promised triumph,
not sacrifice.

- People say Goebbels
giving that speech,

that's the switch when Germany
really goes to total war,

but it isn't.

- That would, for
example,

have meant mobilizing women

into industrial jobs,

as it had happened
in the United States.

The conservative Nazi regime
wants women to stay in the home

so they can raise children,
care for the family.

- But with so many men
serving in the Wehrmacht,

primarily on the Eastern Front,

Germany desperately
needs workers.

Albert Speer, Reich minister
of armament and war production,

must find a solution.

- Albert Speer is
a complex figure.

He begins his career
as an architect,

and he is the architect
for the Nuremberg rallies.

And these become a huge
propaganda success.

- In 1942, Hitler
appoints Speer

as his new armaments minister.

Speer has absolutely
no background

in armaments production at all.

But nevertheless,
he's a good organizer

and he does quite
an amazing job.

- But if you're
gonna increase production,

but you're not gonna tap
into the German people

because we're trying to keep
everything normal back home,

well, you gotta find
that manpower somewhere.

- Albert Speer has
another strategy at hand,

and that's to use slave laborers

recruited from the
various occupation zones.

- Massive numbers
of people

were brought into the Reich
to work as slave laborers,

people from Western
Europe, from France,

from the Netherlands, but also
from Poland, from Ukraine.

- In 1943, 12 to
15 million people

were brought in from
20 other countries

to effectively make
up for the manpower

that Germany has lost.

However, it is also at a
high human and moral cost.

- They're barely fed.

They're practically
chained to the machine.

Whenever we look at
the dramatic increase

in German arms
productions in 1943,

we should always look
behind the gleaming weapons,

and tanks, and aircraft

to realize that these were
produced by human skeletons

banging out parts for German
weapons until they died.

- Production will
rise

56% in the first six months.

It is an armaments miracle.

It also gives Germany a
propaganda story to tell.

- Look at what we've
done.

We've turned armaments around.

Look how many planes
we're producing.

Look how many tanks
we're producing.

Things are difficult, but
it's going to be okay.

- But the RAF and the
American Eighth Air Force

are expanding their
relentless bombing campaign

aimed at destroying Germany's
industrial infrastructure

and German morale.

- The Germans may not
yet be fighting total war,

but the war is coming
home to Germany in 1943,

and it's the Anglo-American

round the clock
bombing campaign.

- American B-17s
flying from England

bomb the Reich's war
factories by day.

At night, the RAF
hits German cities.

Germany is forced to divert
more and more men and material

to defend the skies
over their cities.

- In facing the Allied
bombing campaign,

the Nazi regime does take steps.

It builds these
monumental flak towers,

which they're almost
impossible to demolish.

- These massive flak
towers

are also air raid shelters.

They have infirmaries,
they have schools.

The German government
is saying to its people,

"These air raid shelters
are there to protect you."

- But there's never
enough for the population.

And when the bombers come,

most Germans wind up going
into a neighborhood cellar.

They're cramped, they're hot,

you're there all night long,

and the children are
getting sick from fear.

- It was a
terrifying experience

and also exhausting.

This happened night
after night after night.

- You stay down
there for hours.

Maybe you're down there
until the next morning.

And then finally,
somebody cracks the door,

and you walk outside, and you
see your neighborhood is gone.

- This is the first
time

that war has really come home

to the German people.

And many of them are asking,
"Where is our government?"

- While German
cities are being bombed

by the Western Allies, the
skies over Japan remain clear.

- Germany is much more
vulnerable than Japan

because it is
within flying range

of the British and
the American bombers.

Bombing Japan is not possible
for the Allies in 1943

because Japan enjoyed an
enormous defense perimeter.

- The Japanese
have conquered an empire

that spans much of Asia.

Distance and the capture of
several remote Pacific islands

have created a
defensive perimeter

of over 3 million square miles
that protects this empire.

But American victories
at Midway and Guadalcanal

have breached this
defensive ring.

- Japan's home front still
has not faced daily air raids,

but military leaders know

the tide is shifting
against them.

- In June, 1943,
Tokyo citizens gather

to pay tribute to
a fallen war hero.

It's a solemn event.

- Admiral Yamamoto was
this huge figure in Japan,

the mastermind of Pearl Harbor,

the hero of the early
months of the war,

and now he's gone.

- Acting on
intercepted radio messages,

the American Air Force shot
down Admiral Yamamoto's plane

over the Solomon Islands.

His body was found and
sent back to Japan.

Japan tightly censors
all news of the war.

But the death of the
Navy's supreme commander

cannot be hidden from
the Japanese people.

- You've got up to
a million people

lining the streets

as this funeral cortege goes
past, a hugely somber occasion.

There's a sense of a really
significant figure passing.

- Imagine what losing
MacArthur would've done.

These figures are
seen as irreplaceable.

And so when this pierces
the news blackout

for the public on what's
really going on in the war,

it's huge.

This is a real concern in
the Japanese government.

- Prime
Minister Hideki Tojo

was an early advocate for war
against the United States.

- Tojo at this point has
been in power in Japan

since shortly
before Pearl Harbor.

As the war situation is
going increasingly badly,

he needs a victory

to be able to continue
in power in Japan.

- Tojo is driven by honor.

He's driven by loyalty
to the emperor.

And more than anything
else, he wants to make sure

that Japan escapes the war
with its empire intact.

- The Japanese intended
the attack on Pearl Harbor

to be a knockout blow
against the Americans.

They understood they
couldn't win a protracted war

against the economic might
of the United States.

- Even when Japan was
winning

in the initial phase of the war,

Japan's wartime
production capacity

is roughly only 1/10
of the United States.

So by 1943, the government
really needs to use

whatever it can
gets their hands on

to keep the wartime
production going.

- Oil from
the East Indies,

rubber from Malaya,

iron ore from Manchuria

are all vital to
Japanese war industries.

- The problem is,
is that you look at a map,

you can see that that has to
be transported over water.

- They have a huge
merchant marine,

the third largest in the world,

to move resources
from Southeast Asia.

- Now, all
of it is threatened

by the tightening stranglehold
of the American Navy.

- The United States'
submarine operations

have been quite successful

in cutting Japanese
supply routes.

- Japanese natural resources

are increasingly lying at
the bottom of the ocean.

And so we begin to see
critical material shortages

on the Japanese home front.

- To maintain the
nation's war effort,

Prime Minister Tojo
and his government

impose severe austerity
on the Japanese people.

- Unlike Nazi Germany,

in Japan there never
was this phenomenon

of trying to keep the Japanese
people totally comfortable.

In general, Tojo
believed that if Japan

were to be successful against
the Americans and others

in lieu of natural resources,

it would take the
active mobilization

of its human
resources, its people.

- The message to
people

is if they will make
these sacrifices at home,

then soldiers abroad
will keep them safe.

They will keep
the Allies at bay.

They will do their
bit if people at home

do what they're supposed to do.

They must sacrifice everything.

- The American
naval blockade

is choking the Japanese.

Food is scarce.

The everyday necessities
of modern life disappear.

But Prime Minister Tojo
demands even greater sacrifice.

- We certainly have

rationing going on in the
United States.

This is on a national scale
that is unmatched, really,

in a lot of the Allied nations.

- Electricity is
being rationed.

They're relying on
sort of primitive ways

of even just cooking food

and having to burn
their libraries for fuel

to try and keep warm.

No one has enough to eat.

You've even got people going
into the countryside to forage.

- The Japanese
are producing cars

that run on coal rather than oil

because oil is being
taken for the war effort

on such a large scale.

- You've got
temple bells, railings,

pots, and pans being melted down

so that they can make
bullets and armor.

- In many ways,
Japan is reverting

to almost a pre-industrial
society as the war goes on.

- However, Japanese
people are not automatons.

They don't necessarily
willingly part with their food.

The police realize there
are widespread black markets

all over Japan.

So this is a real problem.

And so Japanese leaders mobilize

these neighborhood associations,

in Japanese, called Tonarigumi.

- The Tonarigumi has been
woven into Japanese culture

for over a century.

But in wartime, it becomes
a tool for the neighbors

to keep an eye on each other.

- The Tonarigumi are
groups of 5 to 10 households

that work as a means of
mobilizing the people

behind Japan's war.

- They ration the
food.

They carry out civil
defense drills.

They do many of the
things that we would think

that government officials
would do elsewhere,

but it's done by the
people themselves.

- But really, the
key is mutual surveillance.

The idea that
Japan's leaders have

is that the cheapest
and the surest way

to keep an eye on people

is to get people essentially
to keep an eye on each other.

Someone is always watching you.

- By the end of 1943,

this whole network of
neighborhood associations

looks like a very well-oiled
machine and operates like that,

collecting resources
for the home front.

But Tojo and his government,
they have an enormous problem,

labor shortages.

- As in Germany,

because of massive
military conscription,

Japan suffers from the
serious labor shortfall.

Women have been working

in Japanese war
industries for some time.

Now, they employ their
children as well.

- They're
increasingly using

very young labor, teenagers,

boys and girls who
are not very skilled,

quite hungry themselves.

- If you're older than
12, study days were cut short.

There is extremely
limited time in class

because most of their day
is spent in factories.

Everybody is mobilized.

- Despite the
American blockade,

Japanese manufacturing
continues.

- Keeping the wartime
production going to some extent

is truly remarkable.

There is one motto that
Japanese people live by

during the war.

Don't ask or want
anything until we win.

So essentially, let's sacrifice
everything until we win.

- But now, in its
seventh year of war,

the Japanese military needs
to replenish its ranks.

- So up until this
point,

students are being kept
out of the war effort.

The Japanese education is
extraordinarily important.

So you can get an
exemption from conscription

if you're studying
at university.

But by October, 1943,

things have become
so serious in Japan

you can no longer
have that exemption.

- October 21st, 1943,

25,000 university students
arrive in Tokyo Stadium.

These students
are being inducted

into the Japanese
armed services.

- This is something
that we see in other nations.

For instance, in
the United States,

they are progressively
conscripting

more and more university
students as well,

but not so much at this scale.

- I mean, this is
Japan's future,

these ambitious young people,
where so much investment

has been made over
their entire lives,

education, raising,
the whole thing.

- It's the mark of a
pretty desperate war effort.

You can't think about the future

when the near
future is very dire.

- So this event

is really a giant piece
of propaganda by Tojo.

These young people
are being asked

to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Who's going to be next?

The inevitable
message is everyone.

- As 1943
draws to a close,

every Japanese citizen
feels the war's impact.

But in Berlin, stores and
cinemas are still full.

Goebbels and the Nazis continue
to deceive the German people

with propaganda from the front.

- A rout on the eastern
front

is called a strategic retreat.

Allied bombers are
consistently shot down

and do little damage.

- The German people in
Berlin are being fed

a pretty steady diet
of positive propaganda

about the progress of the war.

They had every reason
to remain optimistic.

And then at the end of
1943, everything changes.

- The RAF has been
concentrating its bombing

on the Ruhr, the industrial
heartland of Germany.

But in November of 1943,
they shift their focus

to an even juicier
morale target, Berlin.

It's an incendiary raid,

that is, bombs that are
meant to start fires

throughout the city.

The bombers believe that if
you break the morale of Berlin,

you've broken the Third Reich.

- It's always
important

to have somebody taking
care of the population

at a time of great trauma,

very much like Churchill
in London during the Blitz.

But Hitler's gone off
to the Wolf's Lair.

He won't have anything to do

with the population
of Germany anymore.

He seems to have
abandoned them almost.

And once again,

the person who takes up that
gauntlet is Joseph Goebbels.

- Goebbels is meeting
the survivors.

So he'll bring a crew
with him, they'll film.

And what he's doing is
reassuring the German people.

If bombers show
up over your city,

we're going to be
there to help you.

- First aid stations
are set up,

free food and drink handed
out to the population.

- And a big huge
show is put up

into showing how we're gonna
protect the population.

Propaganda can come
back up and say,

"Look at these terrible
things they're doing.

Look what would happen
if they win the war."

And in some ways,

the bombing raids
actually increased morale

and increased the
determination to fight on.

- Japan remains out of
range of American bombers,

but Prime Minister Tojo
and other Japanese leaders

understand that it may
be only a matter of time

before the Americans
secure air bases

within flying distance
of the home islands.

- Once the military
leaders

saw that fire bombs had
been used against Germany,

they realize that this
may be in Japan's future.

- The cities that are
being bombed in Europe

have big stone buildings
in a lot of places,

and it's still a nightmare.

The Japanese use a lot of wood.

These are wooden cities.

They are particularly vulnerable
to these kinds of attacks.

And you don't have to be
a genius to figure out

that that's gonna be an issue

if all of a sudden you
have round the clock raids.

- There's a big
difference in civil defense

between Nazi Germany and Japan.

The Japanese make the decision

not to construct huge concrete
bunkers and air raid shelters

that could hold
thousands of people,

thinking that it
would be better off

devoting their scarce
resources to the military

and not spending much
money on defense.

- The Japanese
government basically said,

"Look, you have to
prepare yourselves.

You want a shelter?

Dig it yourself."

If there was a fire,

there would be basically a
sand and water bucket brigade

that would try to put
out the fires this way.

And then they came up with the
strategy to tear down houses,

to isolate areas so that
the fire wouldn't spread.

- So ordinary
people are given hand tools,

they're given ropes,

and in some cases

they're literally pulling
down their own homes

and carting away the pieces.

- In places like
Tokyo and Osaka,

tens of thousands of
houses were torn down.

- These really
cold messages

go out from the government that
essentially say,

"Ask your family if
you can stay with them.

Maybe someone will house you."

Yet, again, there's a
sense that the government

just consider ordinary
civilians to be expendable.

- In the summer of 1944,

Japan suffers a major
defeat in the Pacific.

A key piece of Tojo's inner
defensive ring has fallen.

After a month and a
half of heavy combat,

Japan has lost Saipan and the
entire Mariana Island chain.

This puts the Americans and
their B-29 Superfortress

in range of Japan's major
cities, including Tokyo.

- For the Japanese,

the loss of the Marianas
is absolutely catastrophic.

Because they understand

that there is this new bomber
out there called the B-29,

and they know that bomber

will now be within range
of almost all of Japan.

- The fall of
Saipan

is a huge psychological blow

back at home in Japan.

Because there's been this pact

that if you do your bit at home,

if you sacrifice, if
you put up with rations,

if you work hard in the
factories, we will protect you.

The Allies will come nowhere
near the home islands.

- So the government
has failed

at its most fundamental
promise to the Japanese people.

And there's only one person
to take the fall for this,

Tojo.

- The loss of Saipan
and the Mariana Island chain

is a serious blow
to the Japanese.

- Now, Japan itself is
at risk.

Now, civilian populations are
potentially on the frontline

in a way they've
never been before.

Now, Japan needs to reflect
on its own leadership.

- There is an
undercurrent in Japan

that people are feeling
very hostile towards Tojo.

There are stories of people
phoning up Tojo's wife, saying,

"Why has your husband
not killed himself yet?"

- Now it's the
government

who has to make a sacrifice.

And they choose a scapegoat.

- Emperor Hirohito has
lost confidence in Tojo,

and he steps down.

- Launching
from the Marianas,

hundreds of B-29s begin
bombing Japan's cities.

Osaka,

Kobe,

Nagoya,

Tokyo.

Hundreds of thousands
of civilians are killed.

- When the serious
bombing of Japan starts,

it will be unrelenting.

The enemy is there.

They're right above you.

The cities will become
killing grounds.

- Two days
after Tojo's fall,

there is an attempt on
Adolf Hitler's life.

- A real turning point
in the German home front story

is July of 1944,

the assassination attempt
on Hitler's life.

- A small group of
officers

realized that the war
was probably lost.

They believed that if
they killed Hitler,

that they would be able to

make peace and start a new
German government.

And the person that was chosen

to go and try and kill him

was Claus Schenk
von Stauffenberg,

who went on the 20th of July,
1944 to the Wolf's Lair.

He had a meeting with Hitler.

He planted a bomb under
the conference table

where Hitler was speaking
and then took off.

- That bomb,

it's positioned underneath this
heavy oak table

that absorbs a great deal
of the blast of the weapon.

- Stauffenberg
comes back to Berlin

thinking that he'd
killed Hitler.

He saw the explosion.

He believed Hitler
had been killed.

But unfortunately for him,
the Führer was not dead.

- At one o'clock in
the morning of the 21st,

Adolf Hitler comes on the radio.

He says there's been a
attack against his life

done by traitors.

- One of the first
responses

when Hitler speaks on the radio

is an outpouring of relief.

And there's spontaneous
demonstrations across Germany

by the civilian population.

- Things are not
going well in 1944.

The Soviets are on
the move in the East.

The Allies in the West
have landed in Normandy.

But German society has hitched
its horse to Adolf Hitler.

It's good to know his
hand's still on the wheel

and that there's a
degree of stability.

- On the radio,

Hitler vows that he's going to
take revenge

on the traitors who've
tried to kill him.

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- Stauffenberg and
a few other conspirators

are quickly arrested
and executed.

But their deaths are
only the beginning.

- Hitler had survived
assassination attempts before,

but this was something
on another level.

And the people that
were trying to kill him,

these are some of his most
important military figures.

- Hitler believes
he's been betrayed

and he no longer trusts anyone,

not the army, not those
in his intimate circle,

not even the German people.

- Hitler orders the
investigation and arrest

of anybody associated
with the July 20th plot.

- Anybody who had
anything to do with this plot,

anybody who's related
to those people,

anybody who might be a
problem in the future,

he will hunt them down.

Adolf Hitler takes this the
opportunity to clean house.

- Berlin, 1944,

hundreds of Germans arrested

after the attempt on Hitler's
life are put on trial.

It's referred to as
the People's Court.

- The defendants are
brought

in front of Roland Freisler,

who's the head of
the People's Court,

who's absolutely
a fanatical Nazi.

Very often, to humiliate them,

their belts have been taken away

so they have to
hold their trousers.

- The verdict
is never in doubt.

Every defendant is guilty

and every punishment severe.

- They're put in a
place called Plötzensee Prison,

and they're tortured,
they're beaten.

- These people are
executed.

And Hitler insists that they
will be hanged from meat hooks

and that it will be filmed.

- Hitler's vengeance
knows no bounds.

He wants to make it clear

to anybody else out
there in the Reich

that if you try and kill me,

this is the kind of
vengeance you can expect.

Not just for you,
but for your family

and anybody who knows you.

So you're never
going to be safe.

- Nazi control of
Germany is now complete.

But Hitler's Thousand-Year
Reich is crumbling.

By the fall of 1944, the
Allies are on the verge

of crossing into the
German Fatherland.

- Up until this point,

Hitler had resisted
the call for total war.

It wasn't necessary to
enlist the entire population.

But now, if he ever cared
about the German people,

he certainly no longer does.

And so why not enlist
every last one of them

and let them get
ground up at the front?

As far as Hitler is concerned,

the entire population is
nothing but cannon fodder.

- November, 1944,
tens of thousands of Germans

gather before Joseph
Goebbels' headquarters.

After swearing a
blood oath to Hitler,

they enter the ranks
of the Volkssturm.

- The Volkssturm
literally translated

means the people's storm
or the people's militia.

- These are young
boys and old men

put together into
pseudo-military units

and sent off to do or die
against the Allied armies.

- The Volkssturm units
are given very little training

and are supplied with the
most basic German weapons.

- An anti-tank missile
known as the Panzerfaust,

the armored fist, it
hits the side of a tank,

and with enormous force, blasts
a hole through the armor.

Now, the most important thing
we need to know about it

is that it was a single shot,

and that to use it, you had
to come very, very close

to the tank you were firing at.

So we're talking about
a 65-year-old man

or a 14-year-old boy
given a single-shot weapon

and sent out as
a tank destroyer.

You may destroy the tank,

but you are almost certainly
going to destroy the person

wielding the Panzerfaust.

- In both the Eastern
and the Western Fronts,

the Volkssturm fight and die
in the tens of thousands.

It's the Volkssturm which
often goes on fighting

until the bitter end.

- For five years,
the Nazis have tried

to shield Germans from
the consequences of war.

But with the
Wehrmacht in retreat,

their cities in ruin,

and hundreds of thousands
of their sons dead

or grievously wounded,

that is no longer possible.

- That whole bubble
of normalcy is now shattered.

All the other things

that were being done in
society to shield them,

sporting events,
cinemas, all that,

they all get closed down.

And the real war
that they are in

is now readily apparent
to all of German society.

This now is the total war vision

that Goebbels and
Speer had in '43.

They finally arrive
here in 1944.

- By the close of 1944, the
people of Germany and Japan

are paying for their
country's aggression.

The price steepens as the
war heads to its conclusion.

In Nazi occupied Europe,

where violence and terror
have become routine,

increasing numbers of
people begin to resist.