Hell On Earth: WWII
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Summer 1944 to Summer 1945. No surrender before defeat. 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. On August 6th 1945, 'Little Boy' was dropped and detonated at 1,885 fe... 50:06 Expired
Spring to Summer 1944. 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'. At the Casablanca Conference President Roosevelt insists on unconditional surrender. In the Asia-Pa... 50:05 Expired
Summer 1943 to Spring 1944. 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. When the Red Army collapses in the south, Hitler divides ... 50:05 Expired
Summer 1942 to Spring 1943. 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. Slaughtering minorities with gunfire is proving too slow, so from across Europe and from ghettos througho... 50:06 Expired
Spring to Summer 1942. 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. In Europe, the German attack on the Soviet Union is literally bogged down with staggering losses and Brit... 50:05 Expired
Autumn to Winter 1941-1942. 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. At the end of the year, with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States of Am... 50:07 Expired
Autumn 1940 to Summer 1941. Germany continues to build its empire in Europe, occupying Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands and Belgium. France is conquered and divided as Churchill rejects any attempt at an armistice. The Fuhrer aims to crush Britain with the Luftwaffe in the Battl... 50:06 Expired
Autumn 1939 to Summer 1940. The start of the German invasion of Poland, and the segregation of Jews into ghettos. Mussolini joins Hitler in his fight against the Allies, while Winston Churchill is appointed British Prime Minister on the day of the Blitzkrieg, and the German invasion of France.