The bloodiest months of the war are still ahead. A Soviet surge pushes German forces back to within 30 kilometres of the Polish Border. The siege at Leningrad is lifted after 900 days and Operation Overlord, D-Day, opens a second front in Europe.
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Mussolini joins Hitler in his fight against the Allies, while Winston Churchill is appointed British Prime Minister on the day of the Blitzkrieg, the German invasion of France.
The bloodiest months of the war are still ahead. A Soviet surge pushes German forces back to within 30 kilometres of the Polish Border. The siege at Leningrad is lifted after 900 days and Operation Overlord, D-Day, opens a second front in Europe.
Facing a Soviet Army that grows stronger and pushes German forces back across the lands they occupied, and facing devastation of German cities by Allied bombers, Goebbels issues a call for “Total War”.
From the Indian border in Burma to China, which has been at war with Japan since 1937, the war grows more savage. In Europe, despite having less resources than when he first made the attempt, Hitler renews his assault on the Soviet Union.
The war enters its third year with battlefields in Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Asia/Pacific. The Battle of Midway, a battle with irreversible consequences, is a victory for the USA.
After Pearl Harbour and their triumphant sweep across South-East Asia, Japanese armies celebrate their victory. But Japanese confidence is shaken four months later at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
The United Kingdom is isolated as German forces occupy Europe. 17,000 Trains carry German armies towards the Soviet Union. With Operation Barbarossa Hitler launches Vernichtungskrieg, a war of annihilation.
Victory in war doesn't just require sound military strategy vital resources and equipment are also critical discovering how the Axis powers failed in this regard.
Exploring how the Axis Powers' ruthless, brutal occupation, and exploitation of other countries contributed to their demise.
Exploring how the seeds of Japan's defeat in 1945 were sown a decade earlier with the occupation of Manchuria in China.
A look at the men in charge, whose rampant egos and misguided belief in their own abilities led to their country making fatal mistakes in the war.
Examining how each Axis Power had troubles on their own home front, leading to disaster in the final days of the war.
Victory in war doesn't just require sound military strategy vital resources and equipment are also critical discovering how the Axis powers failed in this regard.
Exploring how the Axis Powers' ruthless, brutal occupation, and exploitation of other countries contributed to their demise.
The greatest hideout in fascist Italy's history: The Monte Soratte Bunker. Built directly into a mountainside, with security features even a Bond villain could only dream of. But could Mussolini's bunker withstand an all-out Allied assault?
Hitler's last secret is revealed: a sprawling underground headquarters at Książ Castle, complete with a spectacular network of underground complexes in the Owl Mountains. Was this intended to be the birthplace of Hitler's ultimate superweapon?
Along with Treblinka and Majdanek, Sobibor was one of the camps used in Operation Reinhard, in which the Nazis murdered almost two million people.
In the shadow of the war, the Nazi regime gradually advances its "final solution to the Jewish problem", culminating in the Holocaust.
Hitler wanted the world to believe he possessed super-human qualities but in private he was a wreck. This episode reveals the archives that confirm Hitler's genital deformity, the alarming truth about his heavy drug addiction and the Parkinson's.
Adolf Hitler had a depraved sex life that he tried to keep hidden from the German public. He was said to be a chronic masturbator, a voyeur and that he engaged in sado-masochistic sex with women.
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