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After the Germans defeated France,
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their soldiers were sent to Paris
for rest and recreation.
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One of the soldiers on leave, is 19-year-old,
Lieutenant August von Kageneck.
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His unit did not take part
in the French campaign.
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He is visiting the city
for the first time.
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He writes:
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We are given very strict instructions.
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We must impeccably dressed, and avoid
all contact with the population.
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We're inventing mass tourism.
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The French refuse to look at them.
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Some, have started to fight back.
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These two men who sabotage telephone lines
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will be the first to be executed by the Germans.
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The new French state, under the authoritarian rule
of Maréchal Petain,
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chooses to collaborate with Germany.
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Petain promulgates a set of
anti Jewish statutes
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that excludes Jews from public life.
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He and Hitler have shaken hands.
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Everyday, the Wehrmacht parades.
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The Germans occupy the capital cities
of Europe
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After Prague and Warsaw,
Brussels, Luxemburg, The Hague,
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Copenhagen, and Oslo,
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but not London.
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February 1941, in the suburbs of London.
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Rose, who is only 3, has already lived
through 2 years of war.
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Timing & Viet by jdinic3@podnapisi
English by godlob@IDWS
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Rose is brave,
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and bravery is called for in Britain.
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3/6
Shock
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Great Britain's cities had been devastated
by German bombs.
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But the country stands firm
around Churchill
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and with the providential aid
of Roosevelt.
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Roosevelt has just been re-elected for third term
as President of the United States.
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Though American opinion remain opposed to war,
he declares
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We must be the great arsenal
of democracy.
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Only part of the equipment he sends
to Great Britain gets through.
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Every British ship at sea
is in a great danger.
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The Atlantic ocean is crawled
by the German submarines.
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Their periscopes seek out
British vessels.
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Churchill is worried.
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Soon, nothing will get through
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and the outcome of the war
seems uncertain.
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Great Britain is an island,
This is an advantage as well as a disadvantage.
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But it is the best hope for the countries
under occupation.
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The German submarines, or U-boats, now have
the French harbors at their disposals.
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Grouped into packs, using torpedoes
and cannons
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These 'Wolves of the Atlantics' succeeded in sinking
4,000,000 tons of British shipping.
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in 1941 alone.
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Here, German submariners toss loafs of bread
to a shipwrecked crew
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who have almost no chance of surviving.
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They will die of thirst, of hunger, of cold
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or by choking on oil.
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Hitler is delighted with the success
of his submarines
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but America's massive re-armament
program worries him.
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He tells his secretary, Bormann,
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In one year, The United States will be
ready to go to war.
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If we are to face them, we need
more war materials.
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those materials are in the East.
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We need to conquer
that 'Living Space'.
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then, Britain will lose all hope,
and make peace,
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and it will be too late for
the Americans.
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Let us attack Russia
as soon as possible.
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Hitler codenamed the plan
"Operation Barbarossa"
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after the medieval emperor,
Frederick Barbarossa.
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The Wehrmacht started to concentrate
its troop in the East.
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Lieutenant von Kageneck leaves
for Poland.
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Polish prisoners and Jews have been put to work
in various construction projects.
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Hitler wants to build a motorway
across Poland
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in order to move his army over to
the new border of the Russia.
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This is where the 9th Panzer Division
is installed
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along with von Kageneck's regiment.
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He writes:
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Next to us is an SS youth.
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The commander asks:
- Do you want to see a Jew?
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He makes a sign and a soldier
brings over a little man.
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How many people have you
been stolen from today?
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The man doesn't reply.
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Beat him 10 times with the stick
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We were appalled. So this is our occupation
of Poland?
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We had heard fake stories of cruelty,
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but it was impossible to know
what was really going on.
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This country has become
the country of silence.
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We didn't know that this was the beginning of the genocide
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to which we will lend our hands
and our courage.
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Hitler diverse his plans for
an offensive in the East.
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He has to help out his ally,
Mussolini
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who wants to fight his own
separate war.
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Il Duce has just been routed
by British in Africa.
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The Italian army is in disarray
in the desert.
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To rescue Mussolini from disaster
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Hitler dispatches one of his best generals
over to Libya.
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General Rommel, along with his armored division.
The Afrikakorp
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In Germany, Rommel is a big hero.
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He is the man who took Cambrai, Arras, Rouen and Cherbourg
in May and June of 1940.
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And he is a true Nazi.
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a devotee who has served Hitler with great zeal
and efficiency from the very beginning.
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Rommel believes in tanks
and in a 'lightning war'.
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He quickly orders the Afrikakorp to set off
to the British position.
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Rommel is already making
a name for himself.
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The British circulated his picture with the description,
"This man is dangerous."
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Hitler attacks Greece, the country that Mussolini
has already tried to take
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After his 'blitzkrieg' in the Balkans and his occupation
over the Yugoslavia.
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He drops his paratroopers over Crete.
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Hitler has secured his southern flank
for the invasion of Russia
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but he lost precious time.
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Operation Barbarossa has been delayed
for several weeks.
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A grand military parade is traditionally
held in Moscow's Red Square
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to celebrate International Workers Day.
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Special preparations have gone into this one, however,
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Stalin wants to make a big impression
on the Germans.
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He's been receiving information from his spies
warning of the imminence of an attack.
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But he finds it hard to believe that Hitler
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would dare to break German-Soviet
Non-aggression Pact, so soon.
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The Germans are attending the parade,
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and Marshall Timoshenko, The People Commissar
and Stalin's Defense Minister
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seems to salute them with great respect.
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Hitler is ready to attack
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but he wants to avoid
fighting on 2 fronts.
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He would like to make peace
with Great Britain first.
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In the suburb of London, in a house that
has been spared from the German bombs
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Rose is helping her parents who
is listening to the radio.
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Suddenly, an astonishing announcement
comes over the BBC.
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In Scotland, near Glasgow, the remains
of a German plane
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Messerschmitt 110 has been found.
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Its pilot bailed out by parachute.
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He turned out to be a top-ranked Nazi
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Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess.
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He says:
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I have come in a mission of peace.
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Hess was one of Hitler first supporters
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and he is one of the most fanatical.
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The Party is Hitler
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Hitler is Germany
Germany is Hitler!
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Hess feels that the role he has played is not being as glorious
as that of other Nazi leaders.
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He wants to prove to his Fuhrer, that he,
Rudolf Hess, is the only person
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capable of finding a way out of
the conflict with Great Britain.
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But he is immediately locked up.
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Churchill rejects his overtures,
and Hitler disowns him.
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Hess will remain in prison
for the rest of his life.
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Meanwhile, intelligence reports indicate that Hitler
is planning to invade the Soviet Union,
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but Stalin ignores the reports
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just as he ignores the last message
sent in by Richard Sorge,
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a Soviet spy based in Tokyo.
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The document dated May 30, 1941,
warns of the German attack.
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In fact, Stalin continues to send
war materials to the Reich.
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Since the signing of the German-Soviet
Non-aggression Pact,
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he has exported thousands of tons of oil, chrome,
and nickel to Germany.
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All of which, help Hitler to conquer France.
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The last train load was sent off
on the night of June 21, 1941.
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Carrying tons of wheat, this train crosses
over the border at midnight.
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And on June 22, at 3 AM, without
officially declaring war,
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The first Wehrmacht sapper’s stealth over
into Russian territory.
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They are followed by 153 German Divisions,
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As well as the Finnish, Romanian,
Slovakian, and Hungarian troops.
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There is a division of Spanish fascist.
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3,000,000 million men, along with
600,000 trucks,
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many of which were made by French manufacturer,
such as Berliet and Renault.
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More than 3,000 tanks,
7,000 cannons,
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3,000 aero planes.
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Within 24 hours,
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1,500 Soviet aircraft are
wiped out on the ground.
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300 more Russian planes are
shot down by the Germans.
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Taken by surprise,
over-powered,
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The Soviet Air Force are suffered
a devastating blow.
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The German offensive is unleashed across 3,000 km
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and in 3 different directions.
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In the north, the ideological target,
Leningrad.
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Lenin city, the cradle of the Russian revolution,
modern day's St. Petersburg.
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In the center, the political target,
Moscow, Stalin's capital.
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In the south, the economic target,
Kiev, at the Ukraine.
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Our armies are thrusting to the east
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Into Russian land
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Comrades, take your guns!
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Victory will be ours
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From Finland to the Black Sea
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Forward, forward!
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Forward to the east, storming army
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Freedom is our goal
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Victory is our banner
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Fuhrer, order us!
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We will follow you!
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In the northern Baltic states, The German
are sometimes hailed as liberators.
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After Stalin's reign of terror, anything
is better than the NKVD.
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The ruthless Soviet Secret Police,
responsible for political repression.
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Forced to pull out, they execute the Baltic
anti-communists in the prisons.
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Local anti-Semites accused the Jews are being in collision
with the communists.
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Jews are forced to carry the corpses.
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Across the Baltic states, people started
organizing pogrom against Jews
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which the German encourages with special instruction like:
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Do not leave any traces.
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Burning the bodies is one way
eliminating them.
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On the central line,
General Guderian,
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German tank strategist and the proponent
of the blitzkrieg
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is held up by the Stalin line.
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A series of fortifications that the panzer grenadier
have to take by a sword.
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Guderian continues to advance.
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But an unforeseen factor soon slows down
his fine motorized unit,
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as described by von Kageneck:
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We advance in our armored cars and
the dust envelopes us.
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We're in Russia, where road
and asphalts don't exist.
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It's awful. The sticky yellow or
red dust gets into everything
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into your eyes, your nose,
your mouth.
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Under such condition, these men moves
50 km a day.
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They've marched all the way through Warsaw,
to Oslo, to Bayonne.
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They are beginning to realize
just how vast Russia is.
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Hundreds and hundreds of kilometers go by,
without a single village in sight.
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It is becoming harder and harder
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for the supply, fuel, and ammunition trucks
to get through.
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But there is another situation that
the German soldiers must deal with.
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The Russian are putting up
a good defense.
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A new type of Russian tank
appears on the scene
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and this is a big surprise.
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The T-34, a 30 ton monster
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equipped with a formidable cannon and
wide tracks that can go anywhere.
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It is superior to the German tanks
in gun power and armor thickness
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but has only rudimentary radios,
and clunky gearboxes.
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The only weapon powerful enough to neutralize it
is the German "88" cannon
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Still, the German is better armed
and they're army is stronger.
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But these 'Ivans', as they call the Russian,
will fight to the nail, until the very end.
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The Russian have already suffered
heavy losses,
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but the German casualties
were also rising.
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The Germans continue to make progress
towards their 3 goals.
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Leningrad, Moscow, and Kiev
by capturing entire armies.
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Hitler's orders are to immediately executes
all political commissars,
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members of the Communist Party whose
job is to oversee the officers
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and keep an eye on the soldiers
in each military unit.
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Guderian is opposed to
this criminal order.
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However, according to the Commander of
the 4th Panzer Army Group, General Hopner:
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This war must be led with
unprecedented brutality.
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There is to be no mercy
for the Bolsheviks.
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The Bolsheviks, the Russian,
fight desperately
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with fewer and fewer weapons, often with
only one riffle for 4 men.
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They are forced to retreat
along the entire front.
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For Stalin, things are looking very bad.
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With his heavy, Georgian accent,
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he pronounces words he's
never used before.
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He calls the Russians, 'my brothers' and 'my sisters'.
He tells them the truth:
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We are under attack by Hitler's Germany.
The enemy is cruel and implacable.
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A grave danger hangs
over our country.
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In the darkest hour, he dares
to predict:
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Is it true that the German fascists
are invincible?
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Napoleon's army is considered invincible,
but it was beaten.
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He orders the factories along with
their machines and their workers
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to relocate to the East,
to the Ural mountains.
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And he gives farmers and peasants
an absolute order:
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Leave, leave your izba, your house.
Destroy everything.
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Leave behind nothing that can be of any use
to the fascist-Hitler-right aggressors.
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This is Stalin's Scorched Earth Policy.
250
00:22:46,442 --> 00:22:49,846
The German officers have not forgotten
about Napoleon.
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In 1812, the Russians defeated
Napoleon's Grand Army
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by burning their towns and fields.
253
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And then massacre the French in
the Battle of Berezina.
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In early July 1941, the Germans also
reach the Berezina River,
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on the central front and
they keep going.
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Resistance by the Soviet is
growing stronger.
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On the other side of the river, an unpleasant
surprise awaits the Germans.
258
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The Russian has set up
a new kind of artillery,
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a rocket launcher called
'Stalin's Organ' or 'Katyusha'
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that was a sound like a mess of
organ pipes.
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A most terrifying weapon.
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But nothing can stop
the German advance.
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By mid-July, they have reached
Smolensk,
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the last big city before Moscow.
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The battle of Smolensk
lasts 3 weeks.
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The Russians fight
until the very end
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despite the calls for surrender coming over
the German land speakers.
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Surrender!
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You will be treated well.
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Very few are taken
prisoner.
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Some of the survivors go into hiding in
the deep forest and become insurgents.
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They are joined by many peasants and farmers,
whom they train to fight.
273
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They hunt down traitors and disrupt
enemy's communication lines.
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The ‘Grizzle’ are brutal.
The Fuhrer orders:
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Immediately liquidate all people suspected of harboring
even the smallest amount of hostility.
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00:25:26,981 --> 00:25:31,551
Hitler consults with the Wehrmacht's commander-in-chief,
Field Marshall Keitel.
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Operation Barbarossa is slowing down.
278
00:25:38,893 --> 00:25:44,270
Some of the generals believe that Hitler's strategy of using
a 3-prompt attack is to blame.
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Instead Marshall von Bock, commander of
the army group center
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wants all of his forces focused
on Moscow.
281
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Hitler does not like generals
who dare to contradict him.
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General Guderian is there,
he insists:
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We're only 350 km away
from Moscow now.
284
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You understand nothing, says the Fuhrer.
285
00:26:15,657 --> 00:26:18,382
You know nothing of
all time economics.
286
00:26:18,657 --> 00:26:20,955
First, we need the wheat
from the Ukraine,
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so that they don't starve as
they did in the previous war.
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Moscow is nothing but a symbol.
We'll take care of it later.
289
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He orders Guderian to swing south
towards Kiev
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in order to close the ***** around
the Russian armies still operating
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00:26:36,138 --> 00:26:39,007
in pockets to the rear
of the Wehrmacht.
292
00:26:46,031 --> 00:26:49,474
It will be the biggest encirclement
of all time.
293
00:26:49,822 --> 00:26:55,221
The Germans capture 600,000 Russian soldiers
in one fell swoop.
294
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Himmler comes through
on a visit.
295
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No provision had been made
to feed the prisoners.
296
00:27:05,891 --> 00:27:07,564
With supreme indifference,
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00:27:07,670 --> 00:27:10,980
Himmler contemplates those he calls
the 'untermensch',
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or 'sub-human'.
299
00:27:14,002 --> 00:27:17,505
He will coldly let them
starve to death.
300
00:27:23,002 --> 00:27:25,067
Lieutenant von Kageneck writes:
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We live quite well in the Ukraine.
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00:27:27,458 --> 00:27:32,094
We had everything we needed: eggs, butter,
fruits, milk, wine,
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an excellent red wine from the area
around the Black Sea.
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He goes on:
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00:27:46,848 --> 00:27:50,817
The Ukrainians will come up to us,
smiling, filled with joy.
306
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The women will bring us
bread and honey.
307
00:27:53,385 --> 00:27:56,448
They shore us as
their liberators.
308
00:28:02,882 --> 00:28:07,287
The Ukrainians have many reasons to hate
the Russians, and especially Stalin,
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00:28:07,578 --> 00:28:11,494
who in the early 30s, orchestrated
a massive starvation policy
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00:28:11,577 --> 00:28:14,844
that killed as many as
7,000,000 people.
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00:28:15,102 --> 00:28:20,664
Many Ukrainians, some anti-Semitic, also incriminated
the Jews and carry out pogroms
312
00:28:20,937 --> 00:28:24,784
such as here in Zolochiv, while
the Germans look on.
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00:28:28,697 --> 00:28:32,819
In fact, many Ukrainians
side with the Nazis.
314
00:28:35,591 --> 00:28:39,197
But Germany will spoil this opportunity
to gain an ally.
315
00:28:39,563 --> 00:28:44,159
Marshall Goering, the second highest ranking figure
in the Reich, comes to the Ukraine.
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He says:
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No useless mouth to feed
318
00:28:48,115 --> 00:28:52,252
Those who could work, have to work for the Reich.
The rest, will die.
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00:28:52,829 --> 00:28:57,676
Those who work have to give everything they have
until they themselves die.
320
00:29:09,130 --> 00:29:13,227
Goering is here to implement this policy
of enslaving the Ukraine
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00:29:13,324 --> 00:29:17,028
and to carry out the methodical annihilation
of the Jews.
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00:29:17,308 --> 00:29:22,188
He is accompanied by Alfred Rosenberg,
a central theoretician of Nazi racism.
323
00:29:29,093 --> 00:29:34,489
Himmler and Heydrich set up execution commandos
called 'einsatz grupen',
324
00:29:34,588 --> 00:29:39,243
for the compose of SS members, policemen,
and Wehrmacht soldiers,
325
00:29:39,368 --> 00:29:41,878
who round up the Jews.
326
00:29:48,016 --> 00:29:51,699
The SS take the Jews into the woods
and give them shovels
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00:29:51,799 --> 00:29:55,536
so that they can dig
their own graves.
328
00:30:14,133 --> 00:30:17,108
But they decide that this process
is too slow.
329
00:30:17,194 --> 00:30:20,413
So they order long, common graves to be dug
330
00:30:20,508 --> 00:30:25,479
and make their victims lay down on top of
the last group of dead bodies
331
00:30:47,455 --> 00:30:50,974
But even this procedure
takes too long.
332
00:30:51,093 --> 00:30:56,207
The SS prepare a ravine known as 'Babi Yar',
near Kiev.
333
00:30:59,412 --> 00:31:05,361
33,771 Jews will be executed
in 2 days.
334
00:31:06,170 --> 00:31:09,549
Men, women, and children.
335
00:31:16,623 --> 00:31:20,802
In this 'living hell', as in hundreds of others
through out the front,
336
00:31:20,944 --> 00:31:24,403
the executioners take picture of
their victims
337
00:31:26,156 --> 00:31:30,412
This premeditated, cold-blooded massacre
of a million of Jews
338
00:31:30,718 --> 00:31:34,716
will come to be known as
'The Holocaust by bullets'.
339
00:31:35,664 --> 00:31:37,553
But Himmler is not pleased.
340
00:31:37,679 --> 00:31:42,038
He has attended one of the 'einsatz grupens'
so called 'actionz'.
341
00:31:42,244 --> 00:31:46,625
Noticing the psychological burden of this mass killing
have for his soldiers,
342
00:31:46,753 --> 00:31:49,772
he begins searching
alternative methods.
343
00:31:50,666 --> 00:31:56,137
This would lead to the use of a gas van with exhaust pipe
hooked up to their rear compartments.
344
00:31:56,394 --> 00:32:00,035
And a year later, the gas chambers.
345
00:32:01,765 --> 00:32:05,452
In the north, the long siege
of Leningrad begins.
346
00:32:17,195 --> 00:32:19,464
The Germans have their plan:
347
00:32:19,549 --> 00:32:21,203
Instead of fighting in the streets,
348
00:32:21,285 --> 00:32:26,258
we'll let our artillery and starvation
do the job.
349
00:32:45,967 --> 00:32:48,352
City buildings are destroyed.
350
00:32:57,086 --> 00:33:00,406
A zoo elephant is the victim of
an air raid.
351
00:33:02,807 --> 00:33:06,286
Food ration soon fall below
the minimum necessary.
352
00:33:06,996 --> 00:33:10,831
But the worst is to come with the arrival
of winter.
353
00:33:15,209 --> 00:33:18,314
In the south, Guderian finally received
the order from Hitler
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00:33:18,420 --> 00:33:23,551
to rejoin the other armies up north,
and proceeds towards Moscow.
355
00:33:28,932 --> 00:33:32,873
Along this enormous front,
from Leningrad to Odessa
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00:33:33,010 --> 00:33:36,628
the thrust towards Moscow
seems unstoppable.
357
00:33:41,841 --> 00:33:45,812
The Germans take another
700,000 prisoners.
358
00:33:49,182 --> 00:33:52,339
General Jodl, chief of staff
of the Wehrmacht says:
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00:33:52,632 --> 00:33:54,757
We have won the war.
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00:34:03,291 --> 00:34:04,786
von Kageneck writes:
361
00:34:04,951 --> 00:34:08,296
We suddenly have to deal with
the most frightful adversary,
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00:34:08,401 --> 00:34:13,526
the autumn rain and mud, which the Russians
called "rasputiza".
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00:34:13,642 --> 00:34:18,571
Endless mud so gluey and sticky that
it sucks and hold onto everything.
364
00:34:18,667 --> 00:34:20,297
They won't let go of anything,
365
00:34:20,379 --> 00:34:24,826
whether it be a tank, a truck,
a horse, or a man.
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00:34:33,574 --> 00:34:35,708
It makes any movement impossible.
367
00:34:35,801 --> 00:34:40,328
We do 5 to 8 km a day,
instead of 30.
368
00:34:41,598 --> 00:34:45,609
Putting one foot in front of the other
require superhuman effort.
369
00:34:45,745 --> 00:34:50,204
The panzer, the pride of the Wehrmacht,
are brought to a stand still.
370
00:35:02,247 --> 00:35:04,131
Hitler writes to his troops:
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00:35:04,279 --> 00:35:06,315
Soldiers in the eastern front,
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00:35:06,414 --> 00:35:11,117
Comrades, today begins the last,
great decisive battle.
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00:35:19,267 --> 00:35:23,389
And all at once, the German army starts
moving again towards Moscow
374
00:35:23,483 --> 00:35:27,019
because the frost has come
and harden the ground.
375
00:35:27,123 --> 00:35:32,468
The world is holding its breath.
Will Hitler defeat Stalin?
376
00:35:35,898 --> 00:35:38,788
This is when the rightwing extremists
in the occupied countries
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00:35:39,009 --> 00:35:41,917
start signing up to serve
in the German Army.
378
00:35:42,514 --> 00:35:45,166
Belgians, Danes, Dutchmen,
379
00:35:45,414 --> 00:35:49,068
and the young men in the LVF
(Legion French Volunteers),
380
00:35:49,546 --> 00:35:54,896
decide to don the German uniform
and fight on the Eastern Front.
381
00:36:04,251 --> 00:36:05,971
They will suffer.
382
00:36:06,084 --> 00:36:10,725
An early cold front sweeps through
begin in November 1941.
383
00:36:10,830 --> 00:36:15,728
Temperatures will plummet
to almost -40 degrees Celsius.
384
00:36:16,610 --> 00:36:20,968
The Wehrmacht was designed to conduct
a blitzkrieg, a lightning war.
385
00:36:21,209 --> 00:36:25,024
It was supposed to bring Russia
to its knees in 4 months.
386
00:36:25,949 --> 00:36:28,396
It is not equipped for winter.
387
00:36:28,593 --> 00:36:30,502
Guderian writes in his memoirs:
388
00:36:31,261 --> 00:36:35,471
It was a sight to see those half starved,
insufficiently clothed men
389
00:36:35,563 --> 00:36:38,336
fight over a poor shelter.
390
00:36:39,577 --> 00:36:42,593
They fight to control even
the tiniest village.
391
00:36:51,247 --> 00:36:55,591
Losing a village, losing even a single izba
means death.
392
00:36:56,951 --> 00:37:00,187
The men die of cold,
or of dysentery.
393
00:37:00,431 --> 00:37:04,770
Diarrhea makes them run off
30 times a day.
394
00:37:04,877 --> 00:37:07,667
Doctor Haape, the Wehrmacht physician
warns them:
395
00:37:07,754 --> 00:37:12,644
You have to choose: if you pull down your trousers,
you'll freeze to death.
396
00:37:12,739 --> 00:37:17,939
You must take a pat the seam in the back,
so you won't have to pull them down.
397
00:37:19,828 --> 00:37:23,227
In sharp contrasts, the men in Afrikakorp,
in the desert
398
00:37:23,324 --> 00:37:27,437
are able to fry egg on the top of the sizzling
surfaces of their tanks,
399
00:37:27,543 --> 00:37:30,972
while listening to the war song,
"Lili Marlene".
400
00:37:46,295 --> 00:37:50,600
The war in the desert has also getting
bogged down, in the sand.
401
00:37:51,196 --> 00:37:53,481
Petrol and food supply are lacking.
402
00:37:53,885 --> 00:37:56,499
Rommel has to order a halt.
403
00:37:56,740 --> 00:37:59,225
However, he is planning
a new offensive
404
00:37:59,313 --> 00:38:03,339
And new sacrifices for his men
in the Afrikakorp.
405
00:38:06,401 --> 00:38:08,368
Meanwhile, on the road to Moscow,
406
00:38:08,468 --> 00:38:12,514
The Germans are no longer able to wash
or change their clothes.
407
00:38:13,534 --> 00:38:17,582
Like their enemies, they are driven crazy
by lice, and parasites
408
00:38:17,695 --> 00:38:20,154
that bring scabies and typhus.
409
00:38:20,772 --> 00:38:25,464
Napoleon's Grand Army lost over
100,000 men to typhus.
410
00:38:26,451 --> 00:38:29,432
In spite of it all, the Wehrmacht
pushes on.
411
00:38:35,971 --> 00:38:39,242
The German vanguard reaches
the outskirts of Moscow,
412
00:38:39,367 --> 00:38:43,913
and even in the end of a bus line that
goes straight to Red Square.
413
00:38:47,602 --> 00:38:50,987
While the Soviet army holds back
the advancing German troops,
414
00:38:51,088 --> 00:38:56,948
Stalin orders the parade commemorating the anniversary
of the revolution to be held as usual.
415
00:39:02,765 --> 00:39:05,626
To galvanize his troops, Stalin makes a speech
416
00:39:05,725 --> 00:39:11,705
that invokes forbidden images from the past,
the great soldiers from the time of the Tsars.
417
00:39:15,354 --> 00:39:18,049
Be worthy of your glorious ancestors,
418
00:39:18,149 --> 00:39:23,230
Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Pozharsky,
419
00:39:23,331 --> 00:39:27,833
Alexander Suvorov, and Mikhail Kutuzov.
420
00:39:30,229 --> 00:39:35,302
Stalin has organized Moscow's defense in conjunction
with one of his most brilliant generals.
421
00:39:35,437 --> 00:39:39,287
A tank specialist considered to be
the Russian equivalent of Guderian,
422
00:39:39,385 --> 00:39:42,614
45 years old, General Zhukov.
423
00:39:44,043 --> 00:39:46,113
Luck is on Zhukov's side.
424
00:39:46,207 --> 00:39:51,405
Sorge, the Soviet spy, has discovered that Japan,
though it is Hitler's ally
425
00:39:51,536 --> 00:39:56,856
has not decided to attack Russia, because
its primary enemy is The United States.
426
00:39:57,663 --> 00:40:02,051
This enable Zhukov to reduce the number
of troops in the Far East.
427
00:40:02,130 --> 00:40:06,581
He brings over several of the Siberian Divisions,
they are well equipped.
428
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,300
Siberians are not afraid of the cold.
429
00:40:10,386 --> 00:40:14,222
They are rugged, outdoors men,
who used into using their whips.
430
00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:17,539
They've brought their ski, and
their reindeer with them,
431
00:40:18,138 --> 00:40:21,806
And now they are going hunting,
for Germans.
432
00:40:22,224 --> 00:40:25,982
Zhukov wants to trap the Wehrmacht
on a pinsel movement.
433
00:41:37,753 --> 00:41:41,761
Some 30,000 Germans are
killed or missing.
434
00:41:47,608 --> 00:41:49,853
Thousands are sent off to Siberia.
435
00:41:51,406 --> 00:41:54,329
Their struggle with the cold
are far from over.
436
00:41:54,460 --> 00:41:59,523
Less than 1 in 3 will return home,
almost 15 years later.
437
00:42:05,131 --> 00:42:09,722
August von Kageneck is severely wounded
and evacuated back to Germany.
438
00:42:10,124 --> 00:42:11,086
He writes:
439
00:42:11,643 --> 00:42:15,178
Faith disappears, doubt become obsessive,
440
00:42:15,456 --> 00:42:18,767
Death becomes your best friend,
men's only friend,
441
00:42:19,088 --> 00:42:22,317
because it will deliver you,
from your suffering.
442
00:42:23,679 --> 00:42:26,580
The suffering of the Russian
is not over either.
443
00:42:26,677 --> 00:42:28,554
Their country has been ravage,
444
00:42:28,654 --> 00:42:33,106
Moscow has been saved, but millions of people
have been killed, or taken prisoner,
445
00:42:33,392 --> 00:42:36,290
and the danger is still there.
446
00:42:57,375 --> 00:43:01,007
The Wehrmacht has been pushed back 200km.
447
00:43:02,049 --> 00:43:06,051
Hitler orders his army to defend
that new line at all costs.
448
00:43:06,434 --> 00:43:10,401
He dismisses 35 generals,
including Guderian,
449
00:43:10,509 --> 00:43:13,825
and takes personal charge
of the Wehrmacht.
450
00:43:21,161 --> 00:43:24,334
He was succeeded in re-establishing
his army's position,
451
00:43:24,445 --> 00:43:27,760
Re-equipping his troops, and
plotting his revenge.
452
00:43:27,841 --> 00:43:31,530
The Wehrmacht remains firmly
planted in Russia.
453
00:43:35,292 --> 00:43:39,564
Hitler returns to his dogs back
in his chalet in Bavaria.
454
00:43:41,113 --> 00:43:43,421
It is opinion the defeat
455
00:43:43,550 --> 00:43:46,507
before Moscow was the fort of his generals
and his diplomats.
456
00:43:46,823 --> 00:43:51,095
Weren't they the one's who would claim the France
and the Britain wouldn't go to war for Poland?
457
00:43:51,847 --> 00:43:54,843
and of the Abwehr, the German Intelligence Service,
458
00:43:54,942 --> 00:43:58,307
that misinformed them about
the state of the Russian army.
459
00:43:58,933 --> 00:43:59,834
Hitler adds:
460
00:44:00,302 --> 00:44:04,607
The Bolshevik army is made up from peasants
who fight with barbarian and consciousness,
461
00:44:04,725 --> 00:44:09,197
and workers, trained by fanatical mysticism
of communism.
462
00:44:12,016 --> 00:44:14,623
But Hitler believes in his 'lucky star',
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he will prevail.
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He can enjoy himself in the company
of his 'sacred' fans
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Here, Bormann' mistress introduces him
to a German movie star,
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the actress, Magda Schneider.
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Not far away, her daughter, Romy Schneider,
plays with Bormann's children.
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Life in Germany is still carefree.
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The massive bombing has not yet begun
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and those who sacrifice their life
in Moscow are so far away
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deep in the snow.
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Two days after Hitler's major defeat,
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his ally, Japan, launches a surprise attack
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on the United States big naval base
in the Pacific, Pearl Harbor.
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And with this wave of Japanese planes,
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the war becomes a 'world war'.
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In London, Rose dances.
She's already dreaming of Christmas.
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She hears her parents say,
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Now the Americans will fight on our side,
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The Russians on our side.
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We, British, are no longer alone in this.
anymore.
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