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By the end of October 1942,
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the city on the Volga
still has not fallen.
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The Fuhrer announces
to the German people:
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We have taken Stalingrad
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A few pockets of resistance remain.
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We will take them one by one.
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It is just a question of time.
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Stalingrad,
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has come to represent his victory over Russia.
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World War II
The Apocalypse
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Episode 5:
Allies Strike Back
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After two years of fighting in Russia,
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the Germans have threatened
to vanquish the eastern giant.
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In the north, Leningrad is
surrounded by the Germans.
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It has been a year since the Germans
entered this northern city.
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In the center Moscow,
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the target city,
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remains just within
reach for the Germans.
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In the south,
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the drive towards the Baku
oil fields has come to a hold,
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in the Caucasus Mountains.
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In Stalingrad, the Soviets
are holding their ground.
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Contrary to Hitler's declarations,
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Soviet boats continued
to cross the Volga,
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bringing over reinforcements.
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Every day,
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thousands of young Russian men sometimes
without any weapons or military training,
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are disembarked on the riverbanks.
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Those who back away from the German shells
are ruthlessly executed by the political commissars.
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On the 7th of November,
the anniversary of the revolution,
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the beleaguered soldiers holding Stalingrad
and the Soviet troops all along the front,
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listen to their commander in chief, Stalin,
make this astonishing declaration:
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Tomorrow there will be
celebrations in our streets.
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And indeed general Zhukov,
the man who saved Moscow,
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--Gueorgui Zhukov--
And indeed general Zhukov,
the man who saved Moscow,
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has a plan to keep those pockets of
resistance, fighting to the very end,
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in order to retain the German troops
of General Paulus inside Stalingrad.
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On the other side of the Volga,
Zhukov is secretly putting together an entire army.
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The country has been ravaged,
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1/4 of its territory lost.
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But the entire Soviet Union is toiling away
to provide this new army,
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with huge amounts of equipment.
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Factories that were moved out and
rebuild behind the Ural mountains,
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are operating 24 hours a day.
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In this endeavor,
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lives will be sacrificed,
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It is the winter of 1942.
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The women working
in these unheated,
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sometimes ruthless workshops,
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are cold and hungry.
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Many will die of exhaustion,
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but the country's industrial production
will increase ten fold.
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The United States is now providing massive
amounts of aid to the Soviet Union.
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The allies are able to reduce the threat posed
by German submarines in the north Atlantic,
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by forming protected
convoys to Soviet ports,
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such as Murmansk.
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Anti-communism is put on hold.
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For the Americans, Joseph Stalin
is now "Uncle Joe",
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and for the British
"Good Old Joe".
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The Russians receive
huge shipments of jeeps,
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tanks, planes and trucks,
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and cans of corned beef.
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When they open the tins of meat,
the Russian soldiers joke
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"We're opening
the second front".
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Along with Stalin, everyone expects the allies
to do more to alleviate their plight.
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--Egypt--
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--Egypt--
In Egypt however, the British are being
threatened by the Germans.
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In Egypt however, the British are being
threatened by the Germans.
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--Erwin Rommel--
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Romel, whom Hitler has just promoted to
Field Marshal after his victories in the desert,
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and his tank army "The Africa Korps"
are getting dangerously close
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to the Suez canal.
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They have reached El Alamein.
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The British Empire is in peril.
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The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
comes to encourage his army in the desert.
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--Winston Churchill--
The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
comes to encourage his army in the desert.
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The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
comes to encourage his army in the desert.
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The situation is grim but he
retains his sense of humor
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and shares cheerful
moments with these men.
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He meets with the newly appointed
General Montgomery.
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--Bernard Montgomery--
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--Bernard Montgomery--
Montgomery wasn't Churchill's first choice,
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and all of these soldiers in the
desert are a little worried.
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The British, the Australians,
the New Zealanders, the South Africans,
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and the Free French.
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As soon as he arrived, Montgomery
the son of a clergyman,
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ordered a new program of strict
rules and discipline to be imposed.
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He is cautious,
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he waits until his army is superior
in terms of both men and equipment.
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The new American
"Sherman" tanks for example.
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Built for speed and power.
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El Alamein
October 23, 1942
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Montgomery launches
his offensive,
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with a preliminary artillery barrage,
followed by a massive tank assault.
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But the German 88mm flank guns
cause tremendous losses.
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Romel soldiers counter
attack relentlessly.
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The battle turns into
a bayonet charge,
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just like in the Battle of the Somme
in 1916 with heavy casualties on both sides.
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In this deadly game it is the side
with the most men that wins.
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In a letter to his wife,
Romel writes:
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We're simply being crushed
by the enemy's weight.
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He receives a message from Hitler:
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There can be no other thought than to stand fast.
Yield not a yard of ground.
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Romel writes back to his wife:
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I rack my brains for a way out of
this plight for my poor troops.
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We are facing perhaps the most
difficult days that a man can undergo.
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And he adds:
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The dead are lucky.
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It's all over for them.
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Romel retreats.
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In London Churchill announces to his fellow citizens
what is really the first good news of the war.
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Now, this is not the end,
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It is not even the beginning,
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of the end.
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But it is, perhaps,
the end of the beginning.
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Churchill's words ring
out around the world
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the old British lion,
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has stood up to Hitler.
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Back in his headquarters
"The Wolf's Lair",
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Hitler is scornful.
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He says:
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It is just a setback.
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The war will go on.
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And indeed it does.
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The Allies open up a new front in North Africa,
a first step towards controlling the Mediterranean.
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As in 1917, American troops
sail across the Atlantic.
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The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery,
who was exiled in New York,
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will return from the U.S.
with one of these military convoys.
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The author of the
"Little Prince" writes:
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Friends in America, I'd like
to do you complete justice.
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50.000 soldiers were going to war
not for the United States but for humanity,
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for human respect,
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for human freedom,
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and human greatness.
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--November 8, 1942--
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--November 8, 1942--
Off the coast of Casablanca and Oran,
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the British and Americans
are greeted with cannon fire,
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from the Vichy French.
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They counterattack.
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North Africa is still controlled
by the Vichy regime
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which collaborates with the Germans.
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The fighting is violent
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and the Vichy forces
suffer extensive damage.
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The Free France leader, General de Gaulle,
makes a speech over the radio in London:
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To the French leaders, soldiers, sailors,
airmen, civil servants.
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French colonials of North Africa,
I say, rise up!
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Help our Allies!
Join them without hesitation.
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After two days of fighting against the
liberators the guns are silenced.
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The Allies secure their landing.
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--Algiers--
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--Algiers--
In Algiers the pragmatic U.S. commander in chief
General Eisenhower,
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In Algiers the pragmatic U.S. commander in chief
General Eisenhower,
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
negotiates with the Vichy regime's
military commander admiral Darlan.
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Darlan is one of France's
most die hard collaborators,
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--Francois Darlan--
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--Francois Darlan--
who'd even even met Hitler.
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He decides to switch sides and the French forces
in Algeria and Morocco, join the Allies.
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A few weeks later Darlan will be assassinated
by a French resistance fighter.
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Many of the French in North Africa
greet the Americans warmly.
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The Zouaves in the French army
of Africa are also relieved.
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They never really wanted to
shoot at the Americans.
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In fact, they will soon be fighting
side by side with them,
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like with almost all of the
other French colonials.
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As will the "Indigenous soldiers",
as they are called at the time,
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who will form the Moroccan and Algerian
"Tirailleur" units.
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The Axis powers have anticipated the
Allies by moving into Tunisia,
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a territory still controlled
by the Vichy regime,
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which allows the Germans to stay.
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Romel is retreating towards Tunisia.
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Two days later in order to secure
the Mediterranean coast,
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Hitler invades southern France.
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the hitherto unoccupied Free Zone.
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Hitler's orders are to
take the port of Tulon,
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where most of the Vichy navy is based.
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With a shaky autonomy now at risk,
the Vichy admirals decide to scuttle their fleet.
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They proceed to sink their own ships in order to keep
them from falling into the hands of the Germans.
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All the Allies.
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That is the tragic result of the
politics of the Vichy regime.
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But it's not good news for Hitler.
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With the arrival of the Germans, those Jews
hiding in the remaining pockets of French tolerance,
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have little chance of survival.
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Amidst the increasingly sinister atmosphere of
roundups and denunciations all over Europe,
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children are saved by courageous families.
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Like Carl de Brouwer's family.
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He is a Belgian banker.
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He films his four children,
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while he and his wife Denise
hide two Jewish children.
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Monique Mogoulsky, the 12 year old daughter
of an engineer, who is hiding somewhere himself
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and 6 year old Adrien Sapcaru.
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Adrien's mother was arrested
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and deported to a work
camp in eastern Europe.
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She will never return
from Auschwitz.
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By now many people suspect that when their
occupiers use words like "work camp",
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its true meaning
is death.
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Carl and Denise de Brouwer
are everyday heroes
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who will one day be awarded the title
of "Righteous Among the Nations",
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along with more than 20.000
other men and women,
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from all over occupied Europe.
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Stalingrad front
November 18, 1942
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Stalingrad front
November 18, 1942
3.000 kilometers away outside of Stalingrad,
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the Germans have been enjoying a brief respite
behind the lines before returning to fight the Russians
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in order to eliminate the
remaining pockets of resistance.
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The German army's flanks are defended
by units from the Reich's satellite countries,
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Romanians,
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Hungarians and Italians,
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who are totally unaware of the danger
looming just around the corner.
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A few kilometers away, the Soviet
troops are preparing to attack.
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They are ready to fight,
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and there are over a million of them.
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They are going to storm
the enemy's weakest units,
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in order to surround the
German army occupying Stalingrad.
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--November 19, 1942--
At 7 a.m. the Soviets obliterate the enemy's lines,
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pounding them with the rocket launchers
they call "Stalin's organs".
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Zhuchov's massive army
launches the offensive.
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The Hungarians don't have enough ammunition,
the Romanians don't have any anti-tank weapons.
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They, as well as the Italians,
lost a massive number of men.
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--Kalach on the Don River--
--November 23, 1942--
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--Kalach on the Don River--
--November 23, 1942--
The two Soviet armies from the North
and the South meet up.
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Soviet filmmakers use their skills
to glorify the movement.
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The Germans see the Soviet tanks
close the circle around them.
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General Paulus's 6th army
is trapped inside Stalingrad.
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Hitler is in the Berghof,
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his retreat in Berchtesgaden
in the Bavarian Alps,
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where he informed
of the Soviet offensive.
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His immediate reaction is to hide
this news from the German people.
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He rushes off to his headquarters
in East Prussia declaring:
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If the 6th army withdraws from Stalingrad,
the Wehrmacht will never be able to return.
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Paulus could still break out of the encirclement
but he would have to obey orders.
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For when Hitler arrives at the Wolf's Lair,
he sends him this message:
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Stand firm...
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...an army will come to rescue you.
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But no army is able
to reach them
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and the airplains of the Luftwaffe
failed to deliver sufficient supplies,
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in spite of the promises made
by the head of the airforce,
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Hermann Goering.
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Stalingrad
Christmas 1942
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At Christmas,
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rations are reduced
to 50 grams of bread
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and 12 grams of fat.
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Mussolini, who has just
lost an army in Stalingrad,
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is looking for a way to shift German
attention back to North Africa.
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He writes to Hitler:
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In my opinion Russia can never be annihilated,
she's defended by her very size,
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a territory so vast, that it can
never be conquered or held.
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The Russian chapter is over,
we should make peace with Stalin.
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What would Hitler do?
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To negotiate would be to admit that the
campaign in Russia was a huge failure.
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Future events, however,
will not give Hitler the choice.
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Roosevelt the president of the United States
has arrived in Casablanca in Morocco,
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to attend one of the most important
meetings in modern history.
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--Casablanca, Morocco--
--January 13, 1943--
to attend one of the most important
meetings in modern history.
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He and Churchill want to settle the prickly
question of French political power.
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Roosevelt wants to exclude De Gaulle,
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--Franklin D. Roosevelt--
Roosevelt wants to exclude De Gaulle,
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who since 1940 has been claiming his legitimacy
as the leader of the French resistance movement.
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Roosevelt says:
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General De Gaulle is a soldier,
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certainly a patriot and
devoted to his country.
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But on the other hand he is
also a politician and a sectarian
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and I believe in him he has all
the attributes of a dictator.
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Roosevelt prefers to invite another of France's
great leaders to Casablanca: General Giraud.
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--Henri Giraud--
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--Henri Giraud--
Taken prisoner in 1940,
he has just escaped from Germany
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and arrived in North Africa.
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He gaps a dashing figure.
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Churchill continues to support De Gaulle,
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who will invite in order to try to
reconcile the two rival generals,
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--Charles de Gaulle--
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--Charles de Gaulle--
which is not an easy task.
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--Charles de Gaulle--
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Roosevelt and Churchill agree that future cooperation
between the two adversaries is necessary,
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in order to save France.
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It is obvious that Roosevelt
has warmer feelings for Giraud,
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than for De Gaulle.
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Then at the closing
press conference
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Roosevelt and Churchill make a
declaration of the utmost importance.
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With great vehemence, they pronounce the words
that will henceforth become the Allies credo:
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"Unconditional Surrender"
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by Germany, Japan and Italy.
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There will be no
more negotiating,
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the Allies will keep fighting the
Axis powers until the very end.
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The price in lives will be high
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and many believe
that this radical position
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whose purpose is to
reassure the Soviets
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will only serve to increase the
Germans' devotion to their Fuhrer.
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Stalin is satisfied.
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He feared that Hitler would conclude
a separate peace with the Allies
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--Stalin--
in order to pit all of his forces against Russia.
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He launches his offensive to annihilate the Beast
still lurking in the ruins of Stalingrad.
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January 22, 1943
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Beyond the red flag
is the Univermag store,
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where the commander of the 6th army,
General Friedrich Paulus in entrenched.
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His men surrender.
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Friedrich Paulus
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January 31, 1943
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The day before, Hitler had
promoted him to Field Marshal,
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thinking it would compel him to commit
suicide in order to save his honour.
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Paulus, however, on
the verge of collapse,
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weakened by dysentery,
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and revolted by the
absurdity of Hitler's orders,
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allows himself to be captured.
303
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Field Marshal Paulus,
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is an extraordinary
rize for the Soviets.
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He is the man that masterminded
operation Barbarossa,
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the plan to invade
the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet leaders
can hardly believe it.
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Paulus will collaborate with the Soviets
and testify at the Nuremberg trials,
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against his former commanders.
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Such as Keitel.
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When he is released in 1953,
he will settle in East Germany.
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His reaction is mainly a rejection
of Hitler's outrageous policies.
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Many of his men feel the same way.
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Hitler can go to the devil!
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the German prisoners dare to mutter
in a few words of Russian they know.
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We want to go home.
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We can only imagine how the people
in the occupied countries must have felt.
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After the German defeat at Stalingrad,
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hope is revived.
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00:24:10,327 --> 00:24:14,223
The German news broadcasts do not, of course,
show any of these images
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and Hitler says:
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We must not use the word "surrender".
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We must explain that all men were unable to receive
supplies and that is why they were beaten.
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We have to use the word:
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"Sacrifice"
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The Nazis want to turn
this national disaster,
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into an opportunity for
galvanizing the German people.
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00:24:39,752 --> 00:24:42,682
--Berlin Sports Palace--
--February 18, 1943--
into an opportunity for
galvanizing the German people.
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00:24:43,323 --> 00:24:45,488
The minister of propaganda, Goebbels
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assumes the task of mobilising all the nation's
energy and resources towards this end.
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I ask you
do you want total war?
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Yes!
333
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A war that is even more total
and more radical
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than anything we could ever
imagine?
335
00:25:05,735 --> 00:25:08,822
Yes!
336
00:25:09,373 --> 00:25:14,639
People, rise up!
Let the storm break loose!
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00:25:20,746 --> 00:25:24,640
Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles
Germany, Germany above everything
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Above everything in the world!
339
00:25:32,198 --> 00:25:36,459
Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles
Germany, Germany above everything
340
00:25:42,761 --> 00:25:46,541
In the audience, seemingly
ecstatic, is Albert Speer.
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00:25:46,542 --> 00:25:47,985
Albert Speer
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He will furnish Hitler with the
means to implement total war.
343
00:25:51,929 --> 00:25:55,206
Hitler calls him his only friend.
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00:25:55,248 --> 00:25:59,756
The 38 year old architect, builder of
the Fuhrer's megalomaniac edifices,
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00:26:00,078 --> 00:26:02,861
has been appointed
Minister of Armaments.
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00:26:09,913 --> 00:26:12,951
Speer gives new impetus
to the German war industry,
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00:26:13,431 --> 00:26:15,095
He is a masterful organiser,
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00:26:15,557 --> 00:26:19,218
but above all,
he is an adamant Nazi.
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00:26:19,547 --> 00:26:20,628
Under his orders,
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millions of foreign or Jewish
civilians will be rounded up
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00:26:24,535 --> 00:26:26,147
and worked to exhaustion,
352
00:26:26,696 --> 00:26:28,559
or to death.
353
00:26:28,752 --> 00:26:35,159
After Russia and Poland, occupied France is the country that
provides the Nazis with the greatest number of workers.
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00:26:37,292 --> 00:26:40,925
The Vichy regime institutes
a compulsory labor service
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00:26:41,055 --> 00:26:45,100
and drafts 600.000 French
workers for Germany.
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00:26:49,730 --> 00:26:53,538
Those who want to evade this service,
take to the forests
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00:26:53,768 --> 00:26:55,468
and join the resistance movement.
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00:26:59,316 --> 00:27:02,415
The song of these groups
is the partisan song:
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# Friend, do you hear the flight
of the crows over our plains? #
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00:27:12,753 --> 00:27:16,233
--Vercors, France--
# Friend, do you hear the dulled cries
of our country in chains? #
361
00:27:16,233 --> 00:27:18,778
# Friend, do you hear the dulled cries
of our country in chains? #
362
00:27:20,587 --> 00:27:26,128
# Partisans, laborers, farmers,
take up your arms! #
363
00:27:26,795 --> 00:27:29,013
Underground resistance groups have been
created in all of the occupied countries.
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--Yugoslavia--
Underground resistance groups have been
created in all of the occupied countries.
365
00:27:31,644 --> 00:27:35,543
# Tonight, the enemy shall know
the price of blood and tears #
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# Come out of the mines,
come down from the hills, comrades! #
367
00:27:41,423 --> 00:27:45,560
# Take the guns, munitions and grenades
from under the hay! #
368
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,048
--Greece--
# Take the guns, munitions and grenades
from under the hay! #
369
00:27:47,048 --> 00:27:48,349
--Greece--
# Hey you, hitmen,
with bullets and knives, kill swiftly! #
370
00:27:48,349 --> 00:27:52,710
# Hey you, hitmen,
with bullets and knives, kill swiftly! #
371
00:27:52,745 --> 00:27:58,033
# Hey you saboteurs, watch out
for your load of dynamite! #
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00:27:58,153 --> 00:27:59,919
# We break open the jailbars
for our brothers. #
373
00:27:59,919 --> 00:28:02,749
--Norway--
# We break open the jailbars
for our brothers. #
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00:28:02,749 --> 00:28:03,385
# We break open the jailbars
for our brothers. #
375
00:28:03,909 --> 00:28:09,244
# Here, we march on, we kill and we die. #
376
00:28:09,244 --> 00:28:12,665
--Russia--
# Friend, if you fall, a friend from
the shadows will take your place. #
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00:28:12,666 --> 00:28:15,467
# Friend, if you fall, a friend from
the shadows will take your place. #
378
00:28:19,454 --> 00:28:20,893
--Poland--
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--Poland--
Behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto,
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--Warsaw Ghetto--
--April 19, 1943--
Behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto,
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00:28:23,247 --> 00:28:25,632
--Warsaw Ghetto--
--April 19, 1943--
the Germans are confronted by a Jewish uprising.
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00:28:25,632 --> 00:28:27,764
the Germans are confronted by a Jewish uprising.
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00:28:36,362 --> 00:28:40,978
Before the war this area of Warsaw
was a lively open district.
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00:28:41,098 --> 00:28:44,081
Filmed in color here, by an American tourist
385
00:29:09,463 --> 00:29:16,430
In 1940, the Nazis turned this pleasant area
of Warsaw into an overpopulated prison.
386
00:29:22,483 --> 00:29:27,158
This woman shrieks in grief as she carries
her dead child through the streets.
387
00:29:31,128 --> 00:29:33,667
The Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.
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00:29:42,993 --> 00:29:45,708
The Ghetto in 1942.
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00:29:50,279 --> 00:29:53,388
The Ghetto in 1943.
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00:29:56,031 --> 00:29:58,439
The Nazis deliberately starve the people,
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00:29:58,752 --> 00:30:02,132
in order to kill, weaken and
prevent any kind of revolt.
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00:30:02,133 --> 00:30:03,687
--Warsaw Ghetto uprising--
393
00:30:03,687 --> 00:30:05,850
--Warsaw Ghetto uprising--
But the Jews managed to acquire weapons
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00:30:06,741 --> 00:30:08,680
and they die fighting.
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00:30:09,576 --> 00:30:13,429
The survivors are deported to the
Treblinka extermination camp
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00:30:14,003 --> 00:30:15,733
and executed.
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00:30:19,699 --> 00:30:23,294
The Ghetto is raised to the ground.
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00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:33,984
At the same time the Allies win another victory.
399
00:30:34,104 --> 00:30:36,530
They enter Tunis.
400
00:30:39,390 --> 00:30:42,624
May 7, 1942
401
00:30:44,165 --> 00:30:47,385
Behind these gates the Germans
had already initiated policies
402
00:30:47,385 --> 00:30:51,289
to persecute the Jews in Tunisia
during their short occupation.
403
00:30:52,258 --> 00:30:56,162
The Jews immediately take the opportunity
to remove their yellow stars.
404
00:31:04,517 --> 00:31:08,142
The Italian prisoners receive insulting
gestures from the crowd.
405
00:31:19,628 --> 00:31:23,372
Romel, who is still in Tunisia,
is filmed by a German officer
406
00:31:23,372 --> 00:31:27,017
before boarding one of the last
planes leaving for Germany.
407
00:31:27,381 --> 00:31:29,544
In March 1943 he wrote:
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00:31:29,857 --> 00:31:33,692
l have received instructions to take sick leave
and get myself back into shape.
409
00:31:34,057 --> 00:31:38,145
All my efforts to save my men and get them
back to the continent have been fruitless.
410
00:31:38,686 --> 00:31:44,579
Orders have been issued by the Fuhrer's headquarters to
maintain the utmost secrecy concerning my recall to Germany.
411
00:31:44,579 --> 00:31:48,593
My military reputation is still
to serve as a deterrent.
412
00:31:58,811 --> 00:32:01,203
Cap Bon, Tunisia
May 16, 1943
413
00:32:01,238 --> 00:32:03,423
The Africa Korps has been captured
414
00:32:03,711 --> 00:32:07,852
and is now marching in long lines
towards the American fleet ships
415
00:32:08,121 --> 00:32:11,475
to be taken away to the
other side of the Atlantic.
416
00:32:18,367 --> 00:32:25,293
During the war 380.000 Germans will be sent
over to Canada and the United States,
417
00:32:25,293 --> 00:32:28,145
from where escape is impossible.
418
00:32:29,094 --> 00:32:32,264
These prisoners are about to
embark on a strange odyssey.
419
00:32:32,586 --> 00:32:35,195
It begins on these
military transport ships.
420
00:32:35,508 --> 00:32:37,356
Many feel like they're in a dream.
421
00:32:37,661 --> 00:32:40,262
For them the war is over
and they are safe.
422
00:32:41,222 --> 00:32:45,815
However, for these German soldiers, the dream will
soon turn into a nightmare because even here,
423
00:32:45,815 --> 00:32:48,120
the Nazis remain in control.
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00:32:49,625 --> 00:32:53,001
These men coming off the boat in
Canada insist on making a salute,
425
00:32:53,454 --> 00:32:56,720
even those with just one arm!
426
00:32:58,389 --> 00:33:01,489
Some prisoners are sent to
camps in Virginia and Texas.
427
00:33:01,785 --> 00:33:04,394
They work on cotton
or tobacco plantations.
428
00:33:12,328 --> 00:33:16,696
In these barracks Nazi law
continues to terrorise the prisoners.
429
00:33:22,973 --> 00:33:24,053
LONG LIVE OUR FUHRER
430
00:33:24,053 --> 00:33:25,603
LONG LIVE OUR FUHRER
Within a short time Nazi officers
have taken control of the prisons
431
00:33:25,603 --> 00:33:28,044
Within a short time Nazi officers
have taken control of the prisons
432
00:33:28,044 --> 00:33:30,049
using intimidation, torture
433
00:33:30,344 --> 00:33:35,141
and even murder to maintain fascist
ideology among their fellow prisoners.
434
00:33:38,577 --> 00:33:43,978
And this message must reach the German soldiers
fighting and suffering on all of the German fronts.
435
00:33:44,310 --> 00:33:46,648
They have to understand that
they have nothing to gain,
436
00:33:46,812 --> 00:33:49,439
from turning themselves in to the Allies.
437
00:33:59,542 --> 00:34:02,508
On the eastern front ever
since the fall of Stalingrad,
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00:34:02,508 --> 00:34:05,049
the Wehrmacht is never the same.
439
00:34:09,168 --> 00:34:12,328
The soldiers exchange
rumours about the Fuhrer:
440
00:34:14,217 --> 00:34:15,601
Apparently he's lost his head!
441
00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:19,600
He's being secretly held in Berchtesgaden,
it's his double that we're seeing!
442
00:34:25,435 --> 00:34:30,739
But no, it is Hitler himself filmed here in
Berchtesgaden by his mistress Eva Braun.
443
00:34:36,687 --> 00:34:39,909
Since his army's defeat
at Stalingrad and El Alamein,
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00:34:40,169 --> 00:34:41,099
he's changed.
445
00:34:41,412 --> 00:34:43,269
His famous moustache
has greyed.
446
00:34:44,326 --> 00:34:47,592
One of his generals, von Senger,
is struck by his appearance.
447
00:34:47,948 --> 00:34:48,493
He says:
448
00:34:49,304 --> 00:34:50,723
His skin was flaccid.
449
00:34:51,011 --> 00:34:54,093
The look in his blue eyes which
had mesmerized the crowds
450
00:34:54,554 --> 00:34:56,730
was reddened by insomnia.
451
00:35:02,001 --> 00:35:05,562
In fact his physician Dr Morell,
has concocted cocaine eye drops for him.
452
00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:09,231
--Theo Morell--
In fact his physician Dr Morell,
has concocted cocaine eye drops for him.
453
00:35:12,895 --> 00:35:18,541
Morell is filmed here on the 20th of April 1943
with the secretaries and close friends,
454
00:35:18,766 --> 00:35:21,855
who've come to wish the Fuhrer,
a happy birthday.
455
00:35:22,292 --> 00:35:23,940
He is only 54.
456
00:35:28,353 --> 00:35:31,131
Morrell is able to make him
presentable for ceremonies.
457
00:35:32,215 --> 00:35:35,253
Hitler, however, is careful to
keep his left arm under control.
458
00:35:36,581 --> 00:35:37,738
It tends to tremble.
459
00:35:39,048 --> 00:35:41,981
He is already showing signs of Parkinson's disease.
460
00:35:50,703 --> 00:35:55,378
As a result, the head of the SS, Himmler
becomes even more important.
461
00:35:56,587 --> 00:35:59,395
Heinrich Himmler
462
00:35:59,969 --> 00:36:04,985
The SS whose recruits were now coming from the
Hitler Youth, started out as the Schutzstaffel,
463
00:36:05,351 --> 00:36:07,549
the protection squad for Nazi officials.
464
00:36:07,985 --> 00:36:12,179
Later it will provide the guards
for the concentration camps.
465
00:36:14,530 --> 00:36:17,315
The SS has now created a
veritable army of its own...
466
00:36:17,889 --> 00:36:19,536
...the Waffen SS.
467
00:36:22,186 --> 00:36:25,329
In the future these elite troops,
under Himmler's orders,
468
00:36:25,773 --> 00:36:27,770
are expected to replace the Wehrmacht,
469
00:36:28,101 --> 00:36:31,399
which is no longer considered completely loyal.
470
00:36:33,814 --> 00:36:37,141
Increasingly Himler recruits
from the occupied countries,
471
00:36:37,463 --> 00:36:39,819
fanatics such as these Bosnian SS.
472
00:37:01,316 --> 00:37:07,102
In the occupied areas of Russia, the SS also has
no problem recruiting two divisions of Cossacks,
473
00:37:07,528 --> 00:37:12,754
who during the time of the Tsars were already
known for their bloody anti-semitic pogroms.
474
00:37:14,152 --> 00:37:18,959
They will form the fearsome
"15th SS Cavalry Corps".
475
00:37:26,157 --> 00:37:27,331
As for the Wehrmacht,
476
00:37:27,469 --> 00:37:31,855
it with enlist as many as one 1.000.000
Soviet prisoners who have no other choice.
477
00:37:32,221 --> 00:37:33,588
They can either die of hunger,
478
00:37:33,883 --> 00:37:36,002
or fight alongside the Germans.
479
00:37:37,086 --> 00:37:41,858
Some like former Soviet general Andrei Vlasov,
are also against Stalin.
480
00:37:42,791 --> 00:37:46,594
After the German siege of Leningrad,
Vlasov was taken prisoner
481
00:37:46,947 --> 00:37:48,288
and changed sides.
482
00:37:49,231 --> 00:37:51,560
He will command the
Russian liberation army,
483
00:37:52,066 --> 00:37:53,792
under the flag of the Wehrmacht.
484
00:37:58,401 --> 00:38:02,743
The Germans outfit this veritable foreign
legion of theirs with the best equipment,
485
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:08,098
such as the "Tiger" tank designed by the
brilliant engineer Ferdinand Porsche.
486
00:38:10,773 --> 00:38:16,614
With its 88mm gun, the Tiger was the
most dreaded of the German tanks.
487
00:38:24,659 --> 00:38:28,546
As a result back in the Wolf's Lair,
Hitler starts to feel hopeful again.
488
00:38:29,070 --> 00:38:32,607
He can now renew his obsession
with destroying the Red Army.
489
00:38:37,426 --> 00:38:38,592
He wants to attack,
490
00:38:39,219 --> 00:38:41,025
at Kursk.
491
00:38:43,096 --> 00:38:45,933
The Russians have pushed
forward into the front lines
492
00:38:46,386 --> 00:38:48,961
and Germany will launch a massive summer offensive.
493
00:38:49,623 --> 00:38:50,946
Operation Zitadelle.
494
00:38:51,995 --> 00:38:54,974
The biggest tank battle in history.
495
00:38:55,009 --> 00:39:01,114
2.700 German tanks are preparing
to combat 3.600 Soviet tanks.
496
00:39:01,716 --> 00:39:04,291
But the technical superiority
of the German "Tiger",
497
00:39:04,629 --> 00:39:06,381
appears to be overwhelming.
498
00:39:11,370 --> 00:39:14,244
Hitler knows the importance
of this battle.
499
00:39:14,298 --> 00:39:17,389
To lead his force
of 900.000 soldiers,
500
00:39:17,571 --> 00:39:20,356
he has chosen a man who helped him
to win the battle of France,
501
00:39:20,356 --> 00:39:20,886
--Erich von Manstein--
he has chosen a man who helped him
to win the battle of France,
502
00:39:20,886 --> 00:39:23,376
--Erich von Manstein--
field marshal von Manstein.
503
00:39:37,625 --> 00:39:41,854
The offensive lead by the Tiger tanks
breaks through the Soviet lines,
504
00:39:42,001 --> 00:39:45,803
but encounters a brutal anti-armour
defence setup by the Soviets
505
00:39:46,170 --> 00:39:49,140
and dense concentrations of tanks.
506
00:39:57,322 --> 00:39:59,529
The Wehrmacht's troops
are pushed back.
507
00:40:00,227 --> 00:40:04,151
Even the formidable Tiger tanks
are falling victim to the Soviets.
508
00:40:10,596 --> 00:40:12,628
And the Soviets have a secret weapon.
509
00:40:12,810 --> 00:40:18,211
The British have succeeded in capturing and decoding
the German encryption machine called "Enigma"
510
00:40:18,322 --> 00:40:22,760
and they are now able to read all
of the most secret German orders.
511
00:40:23,750 --> 00:40:26,225
The powerful Soviet Secret
Service in Great Britain
512
00:40:26,477 --> 00:40:30,771
have managed to pass on the decoded
operation plans to Moscow.
513
00:40:40,306 --> 00:40:42,833
This war is also an espionage war.
514
00:40:48,387 --> 00:40:51,303
At Kursk, the outcome is
devastating for the Germans,
515
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,305
who have already lost
50.000 men in this battle.
516
00:41:03,867 --> 00:41:07,927
Von Manstein wants reinforcements
in order to continue his offensive.
517
00:41:09,544 --> 00:41:10,876
He's waiting for Hitler.
518
00:41:16,912 --> 00:41:18,139
He immediately tells him:
519
00:41:18,356 --> 00:41:19,618
We have suffered losses
520
00:41:20,062 --> 00:41:23,089
but the Russians have too,
even worse.
521
00:41:24,654 --> 00:41:28,426
Hitler seems very hesitant.
He mutters a few inanities.
522
00:41:29,757 --> 00:41:31,036
Von Manstein will write:
523
00:41:31,778 --> 00:41:33,442
He seems to me
to be quite feeble.
524
00:41:35,156 --> 00:41:36,850
This impression is confirmed
525
00:41:36,851 --> 00:41:41,477
when Von Manstein shows Hitler the
figures of the losses incurred at Kursk.
526
00:41:42,304 --> 00:41:43,706
Since the beginning of the war,
527
00:41:43,836 --> 00:41:49,105
2 million German soldiers have already been
killed, wounded or gone missing in action.
528
00:41:49,908 --> 00:41:52,299
Hitler will never be able to fill that void.
529
00:41:52,848 --> 00:41:56,761
Things are now a far cry from the victories
of the Lightning war campaigns,
530
00:41:56,882 --> 00:41:59,072
the Blitzkrieg of the battle of France.
531
00:41:59,455 --> 00:42:05,501
Kursk is the real turning point in the war
because Hitler moves over to the defensive.
532
00:42:06,472 --> 00:42:10,388
Overcome by paranoia, he insists
on having stenographers present.
533
00:42:14,916 --> 00:42:17,403
Von Manstein does not believe
that everything is lost.
534
00:42:18,083 --> 00:42:19,415
But Hitler disagrees.
535
00:42:25,530 --> 00:42:28,463
Von Manstein implores him
to continue the offensive.
536
00:42:29,056 --> 00:42:32,755
Hitler refuses,
the battle of Kursk is over.
537
00:42:33,676 --> 00:42:39,190
For Hitler, the priority now is to send reinforcements
over to Sicily where the Allies have just landed.
538
00:42:40,694 --> 00:42:42,244
The noose is tightening.
539
00:42:43,112 --> 00:42:44,493
Things are moving fast.
540
00:42:46,413 --> 00:42:50,363
Sicily
August 1943
541
00:42:53,481 --> 00:42:57,076
All Hitler can do is try to
hold back the advancing Allies.
542
00:43:01,863 --> 00:43:03,418
But he is unable to prevent the fall of Mussolini,
which leads Italy to surrender and to change sides.
543
00:43:03,418 --> 00:43:07,467
--September 11, 1943--
But he is unable to prevent the fall of Mussolini,
which leads Italy to surrender and to change sides.
544
00:43:07,467 --> 00:43:09,385
But he is unable to prevent the fall of Mussolini,
which leads Italy to surrender and to change sides.
545
00:43:17,732 --> 00:43:22,021
The new Italian government has Mussolini
imprisoned, up in the mountains.
546
00:43:23,717 --> 00:43:26,641
Hitler sends an airborne
commando unit to rescue him.
547
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,653
Hitler wants Mussolini back in power.
548
00:43:33,727 --> 00:43:38,952
He sends him back to Italy to reestablish his fascist
regime with the help of the German army.
549
00:43:41,955 --> 00:43:48,595
The Germans invade Italy and have no qualms about
slaughtering their former Allies who attempt to resist.
550
00:43:52,061 --> 00:43:55,176
The Germans immediately start going off to the Jews,
551
00:43:55,304 --> 00:43:56,041
in Rome,
552
00:43:56,241 --> 00:44:00,294
Milan, Genoa, Florence and Trieste.
553
00:44:01,081 --> 00:44:05,483
Hitler's greatest concern is to prevent
any further allied landings in Italy
554
00:44:05,822 --> 00:44:07,443
and above all in France.
555
00:44:10,092 --> 00:44:12,693
This is the idea behind fortress "Europe"
556
00:44:12,875 --> 00:44:15,047
whose emblem is the "Atlantic wall",
557
00:44:15,185 --> 00:44:19,148
a staggering system of fortifications
stretching from Norway,
558
00:44:19,314 --> 00:44:20,777
down to the Spanish border.
559
00:44:22,823 --> 00:44:26,877
Romel is put in charge of
defending fortress Europe.
560
00:44:27,513 --> 00:44:28,022
He says:
561
00:44:28,695 --> 00:44:32,845
It is absolutely necessary that we push the
British and Americans back from the beaches.
562
00:44:33,446 --> 00:44:35,353
Afterwards, it will be too late.
563
00:44:35,931 --> 00:44:39,092
The first 24 hours of
the invasion will be decisive.
564
00:44:39,973 --> 00:44:42,949
It will be the longest day.
565
00:44:46,151 --> 00:44:51,114
For Romel and the Nazis this is the
beginning of the twilight of the Gods.
566
00:44:51,149 --> 00:44:53,363
The final months of Nazi Germany.
567
00:44:54,306 --> 00:44:56,787
And yet these German
newsreel images of Romel,
568
00:44:56,787 --> 00:45:00,493
who has been invited to tea by Magda Goebbels,
the wife of the propaganda minister,
569
00:45:00,493 --> 00:45:01,496
--Magda Goebbels--
who has been invited to tea by Magda Goebbels,
the wife of the propaganda minister,
570
00:45:01,496 --> 00:45:03,985
--Magda Goebbels--
are revealing of the mood of the
Nazis at this point in the war.
571
00:45:03,985 --> 00:45:05,268
are revealing of the mood of the
Nazis at this point in the war.
572
00:45:06,110 --> 00:45:11,003
Nazi ideology puts faith in victory
and vanquishes doubt.
573
00:45:15,122 --> 00:45:18,204
Magda Goebbels worships
Hitler like a God,
574
00:45:18,937 --> 00:45:23,297
even though he is driving Germany
into a frenzy of bloodshed and death.
575
00:45:25,254 --> 00:45:29,780
Magda Goebbels has given all of her 6 children
first names that begin with the letter "H",
576
00:45:30,032 --> 00:45:30,918
just like Hitler.
577
00:45:31,834 --> 00:45:32,396
Helga
578
00:45:33,042 --> 00:45:33,928
Hildegard,
579
00:45:34,503 --> 00:45:35,476
Holdine,
580
00:45:35,895 --> 00:45:36,571
Helmut,
581
00:45:36,953 --> 00:45:39,195
Hedwig and Heidrun.
582
00:45:40,077 --> 00:45:42,293
She will kill them all
one by one
583
00:45:42,475 --> 00:45:45,199
on the last day of the Reich...
584
00:45:47,006 --> 00:45:50,775
To be continued...
585
00:45:50,775 --> 00:45:56,427
To be continued...
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