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After the Germans defeated France,

their soldier was sent to Paris
for rest and recreation.

One of the soldiers on leave, is 19 years old,
Lieutenant August von Kageneck.

His unit did not take part
in the France campaign.

He is visiting the city
for the first time.

He writes:

We are given very strict instructions.

We must impeccably dressed, and avoid
all contact with the population.

We're inventing mass tourism.

The French refuse to look at them.

Some, have started to fight back.

These two men who sabotage telephone lines

will be the first to be executed by the German� .

The new French state, under the authoritarian rule
of Mar�chal Petain,

chooses to collaborate with Germany.

Petain promulgates a set of
anti Jewish statutes

that excludes Jews from public life.

He and Hitler have shaken hands.

Everyday, the Wehrmacht parades.

The Germans occupy the capital cities
of Europe

After Prague and Warsaw,
Brussels, Luxemburg, The Hague,

Copenhagen, and Oslo,

but not London.

February 1941, in the suburbs of London.

Rose, who is only 3, has already lived
through 2 years of war.

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Rose is brave,

and bravery is called for in Britain.

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Great Britain's cities had been devastated
by German bombs.

But the country stands firm
around Churchill

and with the providential aid
of Roosevelt.

Roosevelt has just been re-elected for third term
as President of the United States.

Though American opinion remain opposed to war,
he declares

We must be the great arsenal
of democracy.

Only part of the equipment he sends
to Great Britain gets through.

Every British ship at sea
is in a great danger.

The Atlantic ocean is crawled
by the German submarines.

Their periscopes seek out
British vessels.

Churchill is worried.

Soon, nothing will get through

and the outcome of the war
seems uncertain.

Great Britain is an island,
This is an advantage as well as a disadvantage.

But it is the best hope for the countries
under occupation.

The German submarines, or U-boats, now have
the French harbors at their disposals.

Grouped into packs, using torpedoes
and cannons

These 'Wolves of the Atlantics' succeeded in sinking
4,000,000 tons of British shipping.

in 1941 alone.

Here, German submariners toss loafs of bread
to a shipwrecked crew

who have almost no chance of surviving.

They will die of thirst, of hunger, of cold

or by choking on oil.

Hitler is delighted with the success
of his submarines

but America's massive re-armament
program worries him.

He tells his secretary, Bormann,

In one year, The United States will be
ready to go to war.

If we are to face them, we need
more war materials.

those materials are in the East.

We need to conquer
that 'Living Space'.

then, Britain will lose all hope,
and make peace,

and it will be too late for
the Americans.

Let us attack Russia
as soon as possible.

Hitler codenamed the plan
"Operation Barbarossa"

after the medieval emperor,
Frederick Barbarossa.

The Wehrmacht started to concentrate
its troop in the East.

Lieutenant von Kageneck leaves
for Poland.

Polish prisoners and Jews have been put to work
in various construction projects.

Hitler wants to build a motorway
across Poland

in order to move his army over to
the new border of the Russia.

This is where the 9th Panzer Division
is installed

along with von Kageneck's regiment.

He writes:

Next to us is an SS youth.

The commander asks:
- Do you want to see a Jew?

He makes a sign and a soldier
brings over a little man.

How many people have you
been stolen from today?

The man doesn't reply.

Beat him 10 times with the stick

We were appalled. So this is our occupation
of Poland?

We had heard fake stories of cruelty,

but it was impossible to know
what was really going on.

This country has become
the country of silence.

We didn't know that this was the beginning of the genocide

to which we will lend our hands
and our courage.

Hitler diverse his plans for
an offensive in the East.

He has to help out his ally,
Mussolini

who wants to fight his own
separate war.

Il Duce has just been routed
by British in Africa.

The Italian army is in disarray
in the desert.

To rescue Mussolini from disaster

Hitler dispatches one of his best generals
over to Libya.

General Rommel, along with his armored division.
The Afrikakorp

In Germany, Rommel is a big hero.

He is the man who took Cambrai, Arras, Rouen and Cherbourg
in May and June of 1940.

And he is a true Nazi.

a devotee who has served Hitler with great zeal
and efficiency from the very beginning.

Rommel believes in tanks
and in a 'lightning war'.

He quickly orders the Afrikakorp to set off
to the British position.

Rommel is already making
a name for himself.

The British circulated his picture with the description,
"This man is dangerous."

Hitler attacks Greece, the country that Mussolini
has already tried to take

After his 'blitzkrieg' in the Balkans and his occupation
over the Yugoslavia.

He drops his paratroopers over Crete.

Hitler has secured his southern flank
for the invasion of Russia

but he lost precious time.

Operation Barbarossa has been delayed
for several weeks.

A grand military parade is traditionally
held in Moscow's Red Square

to celebrate International Workers Day.

Special preparations have gone into this one, however,

Stalin wants to make a big impression
on the Germans.

He's been receiving information from his spies
warning of the imminence of an attack.

But he finds it hard to believe that Hitler

would dare to break German-Soviet
Non-aggression Pact, so soon.

The Germans are attending the parade,

and Marshall Timoshenko, The People Commissar
and Stalin's Defense Minister

seems to salute them with great respect.

Hitler is ready to attack

but he wants to avoid
fighting on 2 fronts.

He would like to make peace
with Great Britain first.

In the suburb of London, in a house that
has been spared from the German bombs

Rose is helping her parents who
is listening to the radio.

Suddenly, an astonishing announcement
comes over the BBC.

In Scotland, near Glasgow, the remains
of a German plane

Messerschmitt 110 has been found.

Its pilot bailed out by parachute.

He turned out to be a top-ranked Nazi

Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess.

He says:

I have come in a mission of peace.

Hess was one of Hitler first supporters

and he is one of the most fanatical.

The Party is Hitler

Hitler is Germany
Germany is Hitler!

Hess feels that the role he has played is not being as glorious
as that of other Nazi leaders.

He wants to prove to his Fuhrer, that he,
Rudolf Hess, is the only person

capable of finding a way out of
the conflict with Great Britain.

But he is immediately locked up.

Churchill rejects his overtures,
and Hitler disowns him.

Hess will remain in prison
for the rest of his life.

Meanwhile, intelligence reports indicate that Hitler
is planning to invade the Soviet Union,

but Stalin ignores the reports

just as he ignores the last message
sent in by Richard Sorge,

a Soviet spy based in Tokyo.

The document dated May 30, 1941,
warns of the German attack.

In fact, Stalin continues to send
war materials to the Reich.

Since the signing of the German-Soviet
Non-aggression Pact,

he has exported thousands of tons of oil, chrome,
and nickel to Germany.

All of which, help Hitler to conquer France.

The last train load was sent off
on the night of June 21, 1941.

Carrying tons of wheat, this train crosses
over the border at midnight.

And on June 22, at 3 AM, without
officially declaring war,

The first Wehrmacht sapper�s stealth over
into Russian territory.

They are followed by 153 German Divisions,

As well as the Finnish, Romanian,
Slovakian, and Hungarian troops.

There is a division of Spanish fascist.

3,000,000 million men, along with
600,000 trucks,

many of which were made by French manufacturer,
such as Berliet and Renault.

More than 3,000 tanks,
7,000 cannons,

3,000 aero planes.

Within 24 hours,

1,500 Soviet aircraft are
wiped out on the ground.

300 more Russian planes are
shot down by the Germans.

Taken by surprise,
over-powered,

The Soviet Air Force are suffered
a devastating blow.

The German offensive is unleashed across 3,000 km

and in 3 different directions.

In the north, the ideological target,
Leningrad.

Lenin city, the cradle of the Russian revolution,
modern day's St. Petersburg.

In the center, the political target,
Moscow, Stalin's capital.

In the south, the economic target,
Kiev, at the Ukraine.

Our armies are thrusting to the east

Into Russian land

Comrades, take your guns!

Victory will be ours

From Finland to the Black Sea

Forward, forward!

Forward to the east, storming army

Freedom is our goal

Victory is our banner

Fuhrer, order us!

We will follow you!

In the northern Baltic states, The German
are sometimes hailed as liberators.

After Stalin's reign of terror, anything
is better than the NKVD.

The ruthless Soviet Secret Police,
responsible for political repression.

Forced to pull out, they execute the Baltic
anti-communists in the prisons.

Local anti-Semites accused the Jews are being in collision
with the communists.

Jews are forced to carry the corpses.

Across the Baltic states, people started
organizing pogrom against Jews

which the German encourages with special instruction like:

Do not leave any traces.

Burning the bodies is one way
eliminating them.

On the central line,
General Guderian,

German tank strategist and the proponent
of the blitzkrieg

is held up by the Stalin line.

A series of fortifications that the panzer grenadier
have to take by a sword.

Guderian continues to advance.

But an unforeseen factor soon slows down
his fine motorized unit,

as described by von Kageneck:

We advance in our armored cars and
the dust envelopes us.

We're in Russia, where road
and asphalts don't exist.

It's awful. The sticky yellow or
red dust gets into everything

into your eyes, your nose,
your mouth.

Under such condition, these men moves
50 km a day.

They've marched all the way through Warsaw,
to Oslo, to Bayonne.

They are beginning to realize
just how vast Russia is.

Hundreds and hundreds of kilometers go by,
without a single village in sight.

It is becoming harder and harder

for the supply, fuel, and ammunition trucks
to get through.

But there is another situation that
the German soldiers must deal with.

The Russian are putting up
a good defense.

A new type of Russian tank
appears on the scene

and this is a big surprise.

The T-34, a 30 ton monster

equipped with a formidable cannon and
wide tracks that can go anywhere.

It is superior to the German tanks
in gun power and armor thickness

but has only rudimentary radios,
and clunky gearboxes.

The only weapon powerful enough to neutralize it
is the German "88" cannon

Still, the German is better armed
and they're army is stronger.

But these 'Ivans', as they call the Russian,
will fight to the nail, until the very end.

The Russian have already suffered
heavy losses,

but the German casualties
were also rising.

The Germans continue to make progress
towards their 3 goals.

Leningrad, Moscow, and�Kiev
by capturing entire armies.

Hitler's orders are to immediately executes
all political commissars,

members of the Communist Party whose
job is to oversee the officers

and keep an eye on the soldiers
in each military unit.

Guderian is opposed to
this criminal order.

However, according to the Commander of
the 4th Panzer Army Group, General Hopner:

This war must be led with
unprecedented brutality.

There is to be no mercy
for the Bolsheviks.

The Bolsheviks, the Russian,
fight desperately

with fewer and fewer weapons, often with
only one riffle for 4 men.

They are forced to retreat
along the entire front.

For Stalin, things are looking very bad.

With his heavy, Georgian accent,

he pronounces words he's
never used before.

He calls the Russians, 'my brothers' and 'my sisters'.
He tells them the truth:

We are under attack by Hitler's Germany.
The enemy is cruel and implacable.

A grave danger hangs
over our country.

In the darkest hour, he dares
to predict:

Is it true that the German fascists
are invincible?

Napoleon's army is considered invincible,
but it was beaten.

He orders the factories along with
their machines and their workers

to relocate to the East,
to the Ural mountains.

And he gives farmers and peasants
an absolute order:

Leave, leave your izba, your house.
Destroy everything.

Leave behind nothing that can be of any use
to the fascist-Hitler-right aggressors.

This is Stalin's Scorched Earth Policy.

The German officers have not forgotten
about Napoleon.

In 1812, the Russians defeated
Napoleon's Grand Army

by burning their towns and fields.

And then massacre the French in
the Battle of Berezina.

In early July 1941, the Germans also
reach the Berezina River,

on the central front and
they keep going.

Resistance by the Soviet is
growing stronger.

On the other side of the river, an unpleasant
surprise awaits the Germans.

The Russian has set up
a new kind of artillery,

a rocket launcher called
'Stalin's Organ' or 'Katyusha'

that was a sound like a mess of
organ pipes.

A most terrifying weapon.

But nothing can stop
the German advance.

By mid-July, they have reached
Smolensk,

the last big city before Moscow.

The battle of Smolensk
lasts 3 weeks.

The Russians fight
until the very end

despite the calls for surrender coming over
the German land speakers.

Surrender!

You will be treated well.

Very few are taken
prisoner.

Some of the survivors go into hiding in
the deep forest and become insurgents.

They are joined by many peasants and farmers,
whom they train to fight.

They hunt down traitors and disrupt
enemy's communication lines.

The �Grizzle� are brutal.
The Fuhrer orders:

Immediately liquidate all people suspected of harboring
even the smallest amount of hostility.

Hitler consults with the Wehrmacht's commander-in-chief,
Field Marshall Keitel.

Operation Barbarossa is slowing down.

Some of the generals believe that Hitler's strategy of using
a 3-prompt attack is to blame.

Instead Marshall von Bock, commander of
the army group center

wants all of his forces focused
on Moscow.

Hitler does not like generals
who dare to contradict him.

General Guderian is there,
he insists:

We're only 350 km away
from Moscow now.

You understand nothing, says the Fuhrer.

You know nothing of
all time economics.

First, we need the wheat
from the Ukraine,

so that they don't starve as
they did in the previous war.

Moscow is nothing but a symbol.
We'll take care of it later.

He orders Guderian to swing south
towards Kiev

in order to close the ***** around
the Russian armies still operating

in pockets to the rear
of the Wehrmacht.

It will be the biggest encirclement
of all time.

The Germans capture 600,000 Russian soldiers
in one fell swoop.

Himmler comes through
on a visit.

No provision had been made
to feed the prisoners.

With supreme indifference,

Himmler contemplates those he calls
the 'untermensch',

or 'sub-human'.

He will coldly let them
starve to death.

Lieutenant von Kageneck writes:

We live quite well in the Ukraine.

We had everything we needed: eggs, butter,
fruits, milk, wine,

an excellent red wine from the area
around the Black Sea.

He goes on:

The Ukrainians will come up to us,
smiling, filled with joy.

The women will bring us
bread and honey.

They shore us as
their liberators.

The Ukrainians have many reasons to hate
the Russians, and especially Stalin,

who in the early 30s, orchestrated
a massive starvation policy

that killed as many as
7,000,000 people.

Many Ukrainians, some anti-Semitic, also incriminated
the Jews and carry out pogroms

such as here in Zolochiv, while
the Germans look on.

In fact, many Ukrainians
side with the Nazis.

But Germany will spoil this opportunity
to gain an ally.

Marshall Goering, the second highest ranking figure
in the Reich, comes to the Ukraine.

He says:

No useless mouth to feed

Those who could work, have to work for the Reich.
The rest, will die.

Those who work have to give everything they have
until they themselves die.

Goering is here to implement this policy
of enslaving the Ukraine

and to carry out the methodical annihilation
of the Jews.

He is accompanied by Alfred Rosenberg,
a central theoretician of Nazi racism.

Himmler and�Heydrich set up execution commandos
called 'einsatz grupen',

for the compose of SS members, policemen,
and Wehrmacht soldiers,

who round up the Jews.

The SS take the Jews into the woods
and give them shovels

so that they can dig
their own graves.

But they decide that this process
is too slow.

So they order long, common graves to be dug

and make their victims lay down on top of
the last group of dead bodies

But even this procedure
takes too long.

The SS prepare a ravine known as 'Babi Yar',
near Kiev.

33,771 Jews will be executed
in 2 days.

Men, women, and children.

In this 'living hell', as in hundreds of others
through out the front,

the executioners take picture of
their victims

This premeditated, cold-blooded massacre
of a million of Jews

will come to be known as
'The Holocaust by bullets'.

But Himmler is not pleased.

He has attended one of the 'einsatz grupens'
so called 'actionz'.

Noticing the psychological burden of this mass killing
have for his soldiers,

he begins searching
alternative methods.

This would lead to the use of a gas van with exhaust pipe
hooked up to their rear compartments.

And a year later, the gas chambers.

In the north, the long siege
of Leningrad begins.

The Germans have their plan:

Instead of fighting in the streets,

we'll let our artillery and starvation
do the job.

City buildings are destroyed.

A zoo elephant is the victim of
an air raid.

Food ration soon fall below
the minimum necessary.

But the worst is to come with the arrival
of winter.

In the south, Guderian finally received
the order from Hitler

to rejoin the other armies up north,
and proceeds towards Moscow.

Along this enormous front,
from Leningrad to Odessa

the thrust towards Moscow
seems unstoppable.

The Germans take another
700,000 prisoners.

General Jodl, chief of staff
of the Wehrmacht says:

We have won the war.

von Kageneck writes:

We suddenly have to deal with
the most frightful adversary,

the autumn rain and mud, which the Russians
called "rasputiza".

Endless mud so gluey and sticky that
it sucks and hold onto everything.

They won't let go of anything,

whether it be a tank, a truck,
a horse, or a man.

It makes any movement impossible.

We do 5 to 8 km a day,
instead of 30.

Putting one foot in front of the other
require superhuman effort.

The panzer, the pride of the Wehrmacht,
are brought to a stand still.

Hitler writes to his troops:

Soldiers in the eastern front,

Comrades, today begins the last,
great decisive battle.

And all at once, the German army starts
moving again towards Moscow

because the frost has come
and harden the ground.

The world is holding its breath.
Will Hitler defeat Stalin?

This is when the rightwing extremists
in the occupied countries

start signing up to serve
in the German Army.

Belgians, Danes, Dutchmen,

and the young men in the LVF
(Legion French Volunteers),

decide to don the German uniform
and fight on the Eastern Front.

They will suffer.

An early cold front sweeps through
begin in November 1941.

Temperatures will plummet
to almost -40 degrees Celsius.

The Wehrmacht was designed to conduct
a blitzkrieg, a lightning war.

It was supposed to bring Russia
to its knees in 4 months.

It is not equipped for winter.

Guderian writes in his memoirs:

It was a sight to see those half starved,
insufficiently clothed men

fight over a poor shelter.

They fight to control even
the tiniest village.

Losing a village, losing even a single izba
means death.

The men die of cold,
or of dysentery.

Diarrhea makes them run off
30 times a day.

Doctor Haape, the Wehrmacht physician
warns them:

You have to choose: if you pull down your trousers,
you'll freeze to death.

You must take a pat the seam in the back,
so you won't have to pull them down.

In sharp contrasts, the men in Afrikakorp,
in the desert

are able to fry egg on the top of the sizzling
surfaces of their tanks,

while listening to the war song,
"Lili Marlene".

The war in the desert has also getting
bogged down, in the sand.

Petrol and food supply are lacking.

Rommel has to order a halt.

However, he is planning
a new offensive

And new sacrifices for his men
in the Afrikakorp.

Meanwhile, on the road to Moscow,

The Germans are no longer able to wash
or change their clothes.

Like their enemies, they are driven crazy
by lice, and parasites

that bring scabies and typhus.

Napoleon's Grand Army lost over
100,000 men to typhus.

In spite of it all, the Wehrmacht
pushes on.

The German vanguard reaches
the outskirts of Moscow,

and even in the end of a bus line that
goes straight to Red Square.

While the Soviet army holds back
the advancing German troops,

Stalin orders the parade commemorating the anniversary
of the revolution to be held as usual.

To galvanize his troops, Stalin makes a speech

that invokes forbidden images from the past,
the great soldiers from the time of the Tsars.

Be worthy of your glorious ancestors,

Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Pozharsky,

Alexander Suvorov, and Mikhail Kutuzov.

Stalin has organized Moscow's defense in conjunction
with one of his most brilliant generals.

A tank specialist considered to be
the Russian equivalent of Guderian,

45 years old, General Zhukov.

Luck is on Zhukov's side.

Sorge, the Soviet spy, has discovered that Japan,
though it is Hitler's ally

has not decided to attack Russia, because
its primary enemy is The United States.

This enable Zhukov to reduce the number
of troops in the Far East.

He brings over several of the Siberian Divisions,
they are well equipped.

Siberians are not afraid of the cold.

They are rugged, outdoors men,
who used into using their whips.

They've brought their ski, and
their reindeer with them,

And now they are going hunting,
for Germans.

Zhukov wants to trap the Wehrmacht
on a pinsel movement.

Some 30,000 Germans are
killed or missing.

Thousands are sent off to Siberia.

Their struggle with the cold
are far from over.

Less than 1 in 3 will return home,
almost 15 years later.

August von Kageneck is severely wounded
and evacuated back to Germany.

He writes:

Faith disappears, doubt become obsessive,

Death becomes your best friend,
men's only friend,

because it will deliver you,
from your suffering.

The suffering of the Russian
is not over either.

Their country has been ravage,

Moscow has been saved, but millions of people
have been killed, or taken prisoner,

and the danger is still there.

The Wehrmacht has been pushed back 200km.

Hitler orders his army to defend
that new line at all costs.

He dismisses 35 generals,
including Guderian,

and takes personal charge
of the Wehrmacht.

He was succeeded in re-establishing
his army's position,

Re-equipping his troops, and
plotting his revenge.

The Wehrmacht remains firmly
planted in Russia.

Hitler returns to his dogs back
in his chalet in Bavaria.

It is opinion the defeat

before Moscow was the fort of his generals
and his diplomats.

Weren't they the one's who would claim the France
and the Britain wouldn't go to war for Poland?

and of the Abwehr, the German Intelligence Service,

that misinformed them about
the state of the Russian army.

Hitler adds:

The Bolshevik army is made up from peasants
who fight with barbarian and consciousness,

and workers, trained by fanatical mysticism
of communism.

But Hitler believes in his 'lucky star',

he will prevail.

He can enjoy himself in the company
of his 'sacred' fans

Here, Bormann' mistress introduces him
to a German movie star,

the actress, Magda Schneider.

Not far away, her daughter, Romy Schneider,
plays with Bormann's children.

Life in Germany is still carefree.

The massive bombing has not yet begun

and those who sacrifice their life
in Moscow are so far away

deep in the snow.

Two days after Hitler's major defeat,

his ally, Japan, launches a surprise attack

on the United States big naval base
in the Pacific, Pearl Harbor.

And with this wave of Japanese planes,

the war becomes a 'world war'.

In London, Rose dances.
She's already dreaming of Christmas.

She hears her parents say,

Now the Americans will fight on our side,

The Russians on our side.

We, British, are no longer alone in this.
anymore.

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