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Berlin - 1945

Europe has been freed from
The Nazi reign of terror.

The Red Army is waging its final battles.

Captain Joseph Prautof,
A Russian officer:

The hate ran so deep...

we wanted to end the war, annihilate
that force that wanted to kill us...

finish it off, once and for all.

Hitler's days are numbered.

He leaves his bunker for one
final bit of showmanship.

As seen in this propaganda film.

Is there still a soldier, or a
child, willing to die for him?

The war left some 50 million dead.

Most of them - innocent civilians.

For the women of Germany,
the ordeal would continue

even after the cannons had gone silent.

The book "A Woman in Berlin" is a
deeply disturbing account

of the Russians' rape of
German women in 1945.

They grab me and throw me down.

I'm lying with my head on the steps.

I see one of the
soldiers keeping watch,

while the other rips
off my under clothes,

and brutally forces himself on me.

But then we'd say, better to
have a Russian on your belly,

than an American over your head.

This German woman was referring
to the Allied bombers,

that pounded her city into ruins.

The Kurfurstendam,
Berlin's most fashionable avenue.

13 years earlier, the
showcase of Germany.

A nation still plagued by crises.

A monument commemorating
the millions of victims

of the First World War.

Marlene Dietrich is singing "The Blue
Angel" in Berlin. Alexanderplatz.

Thomas Mann is savoring his
Noble Prize for Literature.

In the shade of the linden trees, of
Avenue Unter den Linden.

Berlin is major cultural center of Europe,

one of the most open and
tolerant cities in the world.

Then, in 1933, all that changes.

Through intimidation, demagoguery

and exploiting the bitterness
of the German veterans...

Hitler and his armed militias,

like the SA with their hymn,
the "Horst Wessel Lied",

seized control of Germany.

The Nazis take advantage of the fact
that the German Left is splinted.

And it even seems like
Hitler with his raised fist,

revolutionary salute, wants
to get on their good side

German Communists take
their orders from Moscow,

which views the social
democrats as the true enemy.

No alliance is possible between them.

So, for the last time, German
Communists sing "De Internazionale".

Hitler comes to power legally
on January 30th, 1933.

Within a few months, his
dictatorship is firmly in place.

He becomes The "Fuhrer" - The Leader.

His supporters rise and
chant: "Heil Hitler!"

However, not all Germans are totally
convinced, so again and again,

Hitler hammers home his
simplistic, nationalist slogans:

Before us lies Germany

Within us Germany is stirring

Behind us, All Germany is following

And he eventually wins
more and more people over,

for he has a remarkable power
of persuasion over the masses.

But what does Hitler want?

In his book "Mein Kampf"
- My Struggle,

He clearly states what
he calls his missions.

Being one of the embittered
veterans of the First World War,

his first mission will
be to destroy France.

To wipe out the humiliation of
the Versaille Treaty of 1919

that stripped Germany
of its army,

and part of its territory.

Then, he wants to conquer what he
calls "Lebensraum" - living space.

Germany has a population of 80
million, twice that of France.

He wants to make Germany "The World
Power" that it deserves to be.

A pathological anti-Semite,

Hitler has also taken on
the mission of asserting

the superiority of the
Germanic Arian race...

menaced by the Jews.

For him, the Jews were the
cause of the Great War,

Germany's defeat,
inflation, unemployment.

The next war will be
a war on the Jews.

They will be sent to Dachau,
the first concentration camp.

Where Hitler locks up the anti-Nazis,
the communists, social-democrats,

and all those opposed
to the Nazi regime.

Lastly, Hitler takes on the mission of
bringing all German speaking peoples

into the Reich's fold, beginning
with those of his homeland.

The Anschluss: Austria is annexed,

and immediately submitted to the
same reign of terror as Germany.

With the opening of one of the
most infamous concentration camps

at Mauthausen, near Linz.

Which country will be his next victim?

Neighboring Czechoslovakia, where
there is a German population,

the Sudeten Germans.

But the country is recognized
as an independent state,

by England and France.

The clouds of war gather.

In Munich, temple of Nazism,

an 11-hour peace
conference is organized.

On one side, Adolf Hitler who is
becoming more and more frightening.

And his ally, the Italian
dictator, Benito Mussolini.

Mussolini, the founder of fascism, an
indoctrination of an entire nation.

From child on,

On the other side, the
Western democracies,

victorious but exhausted
from the Great War.

Neville Chamberlain, the
conservative British Prime Minister.

And the radical socialist French
Premier, Edouard Daladier,

want to save the peace.

They end up accepting
the unacceptable,

They give up the Czech province
of Sudetenland to Hitler,

In exchange for his solemn
promise to make no more claims

on another European territory.

But what is Hitler's promise worth?

Just 6 months later, he invades
the rest of Czechoslovakia,

and enters Prague, accompanied
by Marshall Hermann Goering.

Goering, a former First
World War fighter pilot,

one of the founders of the Nazi
party, is now the Air Minister.

And an ogre, trying to
charm the Czech children.

Hitler no longer needs the excuse of
reuniting German speaking people.

The powerful Czech industry
will be working for him.

Why shouldn't he take advantage of it?

The Allies let him get away with it.

The U.S.S.R. is the last
major neighboring power

left to counter Hitler.

It had signed a mutual
assistance treaty with France.

The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, is the official name

of communist Russia, and
its satellite republics.

Manipulation of the
masses in Red Square,

masks the ironfisted
dictatorship of Stalin.

Who has also thrown millions of
poor wretches into his labor camps,

The Gulag

Industrialization and
forced militarization,

have made the U.S.S.R. a major power.

Despite their fear of communism, the
Western powers rely on the U.S.S.R.

Hitler is going to beat
them to the punch.

In the summer of 1939, in
his Berchtesgarden chalet,

with his Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Joachim von Ribbentrop,

he prepares a blocking maneuver.

Hitler, who swore to
destroy communism,

sends von Robbentrop,
the Nazi, to Moscow

to sign a history-making
treaty with his worst enemy.

When Stalin's foreign
affairs minister, Molotov,

signs the Germano-Soviet Pact,

communists are totally taken aback,
like these French Party Members.

It's August, 1939.

And people in France are enjoying
their first paid holidays.

One of the major victories of
the Socialist Popular Front.

What are the reasons behind
this non-aggression pact.

The Soviets answer that
Stalin is playing for time.

Letting Hitler and the Western
powers kill each other off.

Perhaps, Stalin, who intends to grab

the Baltic countries
and part of Poland,

even has the illusion that he
could share Europe with Hitler

on a permanent basis.

In 1936, the US Congress had
passed the Neutrality Act,

to avoid being dragged into
a European war once again.

So, with nothing to fear either from
the United States or from Russia,

Hitler decides to wipe
out what he calls

"the worst monstrosity
of The Versaille Treaty"

The Danzig Corridor.

In 1919, German territory
was cut in two,

in order to give Poland
access to the sea.

Hitler decides to launch his invasion
of Poland and recover Danzig.

On the 1st of September, 1939,

At 5:35 AM.

The first cannon shot of the Second
World War, is fired on Danzig.

Hitler is convinced that the French
and the British will not take action.

Yet the two governments meet
immediately, and send him an ultimatum

demanding that he halt all
military action against Poland.

Hitler declares, "Our
enemies are little worms,"

and he adds, "Who wants to get bogged
down in a world war for Danzig?"

September the 3rd, 1939.

At 11 AM, The Ambassador of Great
Britain in Berlin delivers

a declaration of war.

At 5 PM, France declares
war on Germany.

Hitler can hardly believe it.

German generals find themselves
facing their worst case scenario:

War, on two fronts.

But the die is cast.

Hitler unleashes the Wehrmacht,
The Armed Forces of Nazi Germany,

onto Poland.

Entering battle as if in a bygone age,

the Polish cavalry charges
the German tanks,

and is slaughtered.

Paris, the Gare de
l'Est train station,

Many of these men had shipped out from
these same platforms 25 years ago,

in a totally different atmosphere.

In August 1914, they marched
off to war in high spirits

with flowers in their riffles.

But there are no flowers this time.

And no riffles.

Nobody wants to fight this war.

4 million men are mobilized.

Many of them are farmers.

France is still a
largely rural country.

They head for the
German border on foot,

with their officers
following on horseback.

Armies still rely heavily on horses.

And these are requisitioned
throughout the country.

Motorization has not kept up.

Gaston Chirac, a driver of one
of these outdated trucks,

with solid rubber tires, recalls:

There was such a
shortage of equipment.

We had one riffle for two per truck.

We had one box of 10 bullets, which
we weren't allowed to open.

It was pathetic.

If we'd had what we needed,
we'd have fought,

because we're no great
friend of the "Bosche".

The "Bosche" was a pejorative term

for the German soldiers
during the previous war.

They were also called "vert-de-gris",
which in French means "field gray",

the color of their uniform.

Which enabled them to blend
in with their surroundings.

But just who are these soldiers?

Let�s take for example, one of these
young Germans, marching as he sings:

"Our flag is waving before
us, Our flag is a new age."

"Our flag is stronger than death."

His name is August von
Kageneck. He writes:

I thought that the military
career was the right choice.

My parents thought so as well.

My father would tell me:

"At least there, you can still open
your mouth and say what you like,

and you don't have to
do that Nazi salute."

In September 1939, August von
Kageneck is still training

to become a tank commander.

He writes:

My father who was a
general was telling me:

The French have 40 divisions
on the border, we have 15.

All the rest are in Poland.
500,000 men against 200,000.

They outnumber us 2 to 1.

French Forces attack on
September the 7th, 1939,

4 days after declaring war.

This offensive launched
to show public opinion

that Poland has not
been abandoned,

advances 8 km into
the Saar region.

The French army's cinema department
shows off the spoils of war.

Bicycles..

The Saar offensive stops there,

and degenerates into a
series of skirmishes,

raids by elite commandos, led
by the hero, Joseph Darnand,

who receives the citation of
"Premier Soldier of France".

Later, he will become one of the most
rabid collaborators with the Germans.

And eventually, he'll be
executed after the war.

The French army, in spite of its
heroes and its superiority in numbers,

takes no further action.

General Maurice
Gamelin 67 years old,

is Commander-in-Chief of the
Allied-Franco British Land Forces.

For the French
outnumber the British,

who also think that this
war isn't for real,

and that it'll all be settled soon.

Gamelin himself has no desire
to re-fight the war of 1914.

He wants to avoid another
blood bath, at any cost.

He considers that he needs 2 years
safe behind the Maginot Line,

in order to re-arm the country.

The Maginot line is the work of a
former Minister of war, Andre Maginot.

This complex of fortifications

was meant to stop
the German enemy,

once and for all.

It took nearly 10 years to construct,

and swallowed up 1,5 million
cubic meters of concrete,

and 150,000 tons of steel.

All these gun turrets are linked
together by a labyrinth of tunnels,

100 km of them.

The line itself,
stretched for 720 km,

from the Swiss to the
Belgian borders.

The Maginot Line ends at the
foot of the Ardennes Forrest.

The French military command

thought that German tanks, could never
cross this extremely rough terrain.

The French didn't extend the
line all the way to the sea,

because Belgium, before
declaring its neutrality,

was an ally of France,
and opposed it.

This northern part of the front
is manned by a French army

and the British Expeditionary Forces.

Later reinforced by Canadians,

and troops from the
far-flung British Empire.

In Britain a popular song of the day,

was "The Washing on
the Siegfried Line".

We're going to hang out the
washing on the Siegfried Line.

Have you any dirty
washing, mother dear?

We're gonna hang out the washing
on the Siegfried Line.

'Cause the washing day is here.

The Siegfried line is the string of
fortifications constructed by Hitler,

facing the Maginot Line.

The Germans don't attack, they're
still trying to avoid a second front.

The French, nevertheless,
take some precautions.

They evacuate the population
of Alsace and� Lorraine

to the regions of Perigord and
Charentes in the south west.

Strasbourg, a ghost town.

Abandoned by its population.

Emptied of its soul.

Especially that of the synagogues.

On the 20th of September,

Hitler orders the
bombing of Warsaw.

The city is surrounded,
but still holding out.

The Fuhrer wants to strike terror

into the hearts and minds,
not only of the Poles,

but of the French and British as well.

"This is what is in store for you."

The world is horrified.

In New York, the bombing of Warsaw
is up in lights in Time Square,

and on the front page
of all the newspapers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, The
President of The United States,

addresses the nation:

This nation will remain
a neutral nation,

But I cannot ask that every American
remain neutral in thought as well.

Even a neutral has a right
to take account of facts.

Even a neutral cannot be
asked to close his mind,

or to close his conscious.

The bombing of Warsaw shows how
vulnerable the cities are.

Paris sets about
protecting its monuments,

and hides its museums'
masterpieces out in the provinces.

The Champ de Mars, at the
foot of the Eiffel Tower,

is dug full of bomb shelters.

And there are frequent
air raid drills.

Gas masks are compulsory.

Poison gases were used
in the First World War,

and now, everyone
is afraid of them.

Even the horses.

Meanwhile, Poland, is being
ruthlessly carved up.

As previously agreed with Hitler,

the Soviets have invaded the
eastern half of Poland.

Here, German and Soviet
soldiers are fraternizing,

and in congruent side,
to say the least.

The Nazis hand out
flyers that read:

The German Army salutes the Red
Army of workers and farmers

which it has always held
in the highest respect.

The Polish Army surrenders
to the Germans,

and in the east, to the Soviets.

Stalin then orders the execution
of 20,000 Polish prisoners.

He wants to eliminate the elite of
this country he intends to annex.

4,500 Polish officers are executed
with a bullet in the head,

in the Katyn forest, near
Smolensk, in Russia.

2 years later, at the Kremlin,

Stalin meets with the head of
the Polish Government in exile,

General Sikorski, who delivers a
list of missing Polish officers.

The Soviets deny any wrong-doing.

In 1992, the president of
post-Soviet Russia, Boris Yeltsin

will present the Polish
president, Lech Walesa,

with the original
order of execution,

signed by Stalin himself.

Stalin, by occupying half of Poland,

is in fact, playing into the hands
of Hitler, who needs a common border

with the U.S.S.R. to facilitate
his plans, to invade Russia.

Hitler and Himmler, the head of the
SS, will now take care of Poland

by naming the Nazi, Hans Frank,

Governor General of the
Occupied Polish Provinces,

who proclaims:

I have the power of life and
death over the Polish people.

After the war, he will
be tried in Nurenberg

and hanged for crimes
against humanity.

These gypsies, held in a pen,
are filmed by a German.

For the Nazis, they
are 'non-persons'.

The women will be forced
to undergo sterilization,

because they "do not
deserve to reproduce".

The Nazis declare 'open
season' on gypsies.

Hundreds of thousands will be
interned in concentration camps,

The ordeal of the
Jewish people, begins.

The Nazis now have 3 million
Polish Jews at their mercy.

Hitler is still uncertain
about what to do with them.

As long as the war is
going well for him,

he considers deporting
them to the east,

or even shipping
them to Madagascar.

It's only when the outcome of
the war becomes less certain

that Hitler and his accomplices
unleash a frenzy of hate and murder.

"The Final Solution".

For the time being, the
Jews have to be identified,

marked with a yellow star,
and herded into ghettos.

Some of which, are
completely walled-off.

From the diary of one of
these unfortunate souls:

It's heart-rending to see the shameful
scenes of violence that take place

before our eyes.

Women and the elderly, beaten right
out in the streets by petty thugs.

Tears come to my eyes.

All our powerlessness,

all our isolation is there
to see right in the open

where not a single person
takes our defense.

We are so weak.

All the major cities of Poland
will have their ghetto prisons

where German, Austrian, and Czech
Jews will also be interned.

The Jews here still
feel confident that,

perhaps someday, they'll be
able to return to their homes.

They don't know that they
will die of hunger and cold.

They don't know that the
Shoah is about to begin.

Inhabited by Jew.
No Entrance.

Warsaw, is in ruins.

Hitler comes to be filmed
by a propaganda crew,

seen here traveling in a
car in the background.

These victorious German soldiers

march their goose step to the
sound of the grenadiers' march.

But they weren't too efficient
during the Polish campaign.

Poor preparation, a lack of fighting
spirit, and even cases of indiscipline

are the points that the
commander-in-chief,

General von Brauchitsch,

dares report to the Fuhrer.

Hitler is furious, but
he is immune to doubt

and orders the attack on
the West to be prepared.

An attack on the Netherlands,
Belgium, and France.

Some of his generals
think its madness,

some of them begin plotting
to overthrow the Fuhrer.

This is a crucial moment, the course
of history lies in the balance.

November the 8th, 1939.

Hitler narrowly escapes
an assassination attempt.

It seems as if he enjoys some
kind of divine protection.

When he attends the funeral for the
victims, he's no longer the same man.

His power over the army
and the German people

has grown even stronger.

He tells his generals:

My decision is irrevocable.

I will attack France
when the time is right.

I will be victorious,
or die in the attempt.

Yet, Hitler is still uncertain
about attacking the West,

for he also says:

War is like opening the
door on a dark room.

You'll never know
what will happen.

Eventually, he postpones
the order to attack,

and goes back to his
chalet in the Alps

to join his mistress, Eva Braun.

She shot this footage
of Hitler's entourage

of the Reich's architect,
Albert Speer,

who goes for long
walks with Hitler.

Speer recalls:

Hitler wanted to re-christen
Berlin, Germania.

We already had a mock-up of the
future, Adolf Hitler's Square

with a dome, inspired by St.
Peter's in Rome,

but 17 times bigger.

I said to him, "My Fuhrer...

...wouldn't that make an
ideal target for bombers?"

He answered:

"Not at all.
Goering has assured me that

no enemy aircraft will
ever fly over the Reich".

From his barracks, the future German
officer, August von Kageneck,

writes to his mother:

We are all eager to fight.
We are ready for battle.

His mother answers:

This war is a crime, and we are
going to have to pay for it.

The war then enters a
new, bizarre phase.

The Germans call it the
"Sitzkrieg", "the sitting war".

The British call it
the "phoney war",

and for the French, it's the "Drole
de Guerre", "the funny war".

A long, strange waiting period,
especially hard on the women.

For them there's not
only the anguish of war,

but also the survival of their
families to worry about.

As in the last war, the soldiers dig
in and try to make the best of things.

The French soldier, Gaston
Chirac, writes to his wife:

It's 30 degrees below zero,
the bread is frozen.

I'm one of the lucky ones.

They gave us some straw, and
with that, we can sleep better.

The winter of 1939-1940 is indeed
one of the coldest of the century.

To make a bad situation worse,

all the winters of this war,
will be brutally cold.

The commander-in-chief,
General Gamelin,

is expecting the Germans
to attack through Belgium

and move towards Paris
across this open plain,

like in 1914.

Gamelin plans to make his stand
against the Germans, on Belgian soil.

In France, Colonel de
Gaulle, a tank officer,

who is beginning to
make a name for himself

criticizes this strategy.

He calls it the "Maginot
Lines Mentality"

which consists in waiting for
the other side to make a move.

In his book "Towards a
Professional Army".

He argues in favor of
taking the offensive,

making massive use of tanks.

France is producing
300 tanks a month,

but they're being dispersed in all the
sections to back up the infantry.

French aviation has
also fallen behind.

France ordered 4,000 planes
from the United States,

in spite of the ever
growing isolationist trend,

championed by Charles Lindbergh,

the hero who made the first
Trans-Atlantic solo flight,

and now a leading proponent of
the "America First" movement.

If you believe in an independent
destiny for America,

if you believe that this country
should not enter the war in Europe,

we ask you to join the America
First Committee in its stand.

It's the isolationist
voice of America

and of public personalities
like Henry Ford,

the anti-Semitic car maker,

or like Joseph Kennedy,

America's ambassador in
London, who is anti-war.

Whereas his son, John 'the
future president' Kennedy,

supports European democracies.

Nazi sympathizers in America

also contribute to the
impassioned climate

that reigns at the
beginning of 1940.

In Europe, The British Union of
Fascists are also quite active

up to the moment they're banned.

Oswald Mosley, "The English Fuhrer",

challenges the government,
right in the center of London.

He'll spend the next
several years in prison.

Mosley's speeches urge people to get
out on the streets, and stop the war.

But Winston Churchill has taken the
reins of the British government.

Here, we see him with the French
general Gamelin, and Admiral Darlan

who were on an official
visit to London.

A Franco-British Expedition Recon,
is formed to help Finland

which has been invaded
by the Soviet Union.

France is preparing to send its elite
soldiers, The French Foreign Legion.

The Foreign Legion.

For a century it has been taking
in the world's reprobates,

no matter what their past.

As long as it's not too 'shady'.

Their headquarters, in
Sidi Bel Abbes, in Algeria

now signs up a good number
of Spanish Republicans.

Having fled from their country,
after Franco's fascists' victory.

They're now eager to fight the
Nazis, who supported Franco.

They'll all make the
long trip to France.

The Legionnaires embark at Brest,

along with the well equipped
"Chasseurs Alpins".

A mountain corp, trained
for action in the snow.

But Finland and the Soviet Union
sign a peace treaty.

A few days later, Hitler launches an
offensive against Denmark and Norway.

The "Blitzkrieg",
The Lightning War.

The Wehrmacht takes
Oslo in 2 days.

Hitler is seeking to
protect "The Iron Route".

Iron is indispensable to
the German war effort,

and 50 percent of its
Swedish iron ore

is shipped out of the
Norwegian port of Narvik.

The Franco-British Expedition Recon
lands in the fjord of Narvik.

After a month of fighting,
The Allies take Narvik.

The Iron Route is temporarily cut.

This victory is good
for French morale

and adds credence
to their motto:

We will win because we
are the strongest.

But the expedition recon
will have to abandon Narvik,

and for the rest of the war,

train load after train
load of Swedish iron ore

will feed the
German war machine.

The French are
brought back home,

for the Germans have just launched
their offensive in the West.

The 9th of May of 1949,

Hitler left Berlin on his private
train, code named "Amerika".

Heading west towards new
headquarters near the French border.

Hitler announces:

Gentlemen, the offensive
has just begun.

His generals had submitted him their
battle plan during the winter.

It looks similar to that of
1914, attack through Belgium.

But Hitler preferred General
von Manstein's idea.

Cutting straight through
the Ardenne forest,

and swinging up and
driving towards the sea,

encircling the allies, with
a sickle cut movement.

But this sickle-cut movement
is, in fact, a huge gamble,

because the Allies could turn
back and counter attack.

However, Hitler is confident.
He notes:

The main thing is to
have good weather.

Lieutenant August von
Kageneck claims:

We are the Wehrmacht, the armed
forces of greater Germany.

Victory is certain.

For the German soldiers,
their homeland is in danger.

After all it was the French
who declared war on Germany.

The 10th of May of 1940.

At dawn, German parachutists
make a jump over Holland.

Their mission is to capture the air
fields and bridges around Rotterdam.

At the same time, Hitler unleashes
his war machine on Belgium.

Hitler waits.

Will The Allies
fall into the trap?

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