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Previously on the world wars-
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incoming!
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A new generation comes of age
on the battlefield.
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Move! Move! Move!
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But when the fighting stops,
conflict turns internal.
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Germany is dead,
and you have conspired to kill her!
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The revolution has begun!
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A global depression
devastates the world...
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Allowing new leaders
fo rise to power.
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Some work fo rebuild their nation.
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Others create massive militaries,
determined fo reignite the fighting.
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We must reverse the treaty of versailles.
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Let these chains be burst asunder.
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Adolf Hitler embarks
on a violent rampage through Europe.
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Bomb every town, every village.
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We will annihilate them.
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But as the allies are determined
fo end Hitler's crusade...
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We shall fight on the beaches.
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We shall fight in the hills.
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We shall never surrender.
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Another threat emerges.
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Admiral, stay.
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There's more to discuss.
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[ Male announcer I
he's up to the 25!
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We interrupt this program
fo bring you a special news bulletin.
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The Japanese
have attacked Pearl harbor, Hawaii, by air.
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The attack also was made
on all naval and military activity.
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[ Continues, faint I
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for the first time in modern history...
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America has been attacked
by a foreign power.
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Over 2,400 Americans are dead...
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And nearly the entire U.S. naval fleet
in the pacific has been destroyed.
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F.d.r. Is devastated.
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But I think f.D.R., in the end,
his greatest legacy...
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Was his ability to communicate
to the American people...
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During the darkest hours...
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To not give up
on what it means to be an American.
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On the day after the attack...
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Franklin Roosevelt gives
the most important speech of his life.
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[ Roosevelt on radio I
December 7, 1941...
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A aate which will live in infamy...
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The United States of America...
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Was suddenly
and deliberately attacked...
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By naval and air forces
of the empire of Japan.
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With the unbounding determination
of our people...
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We will gain the inevitable triumph,
so help us god.
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Roosevelt was a Navy man.
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So the fact that this attack took place
against the Navy at Pearl harbor...
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Perhaps filled him
with even greater indignation...
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Against what had been done
to the United States by the Japanese.
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The brutalness of the attack,
the surprise of the attack...
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The price that was paid in that attack...
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I think helped unify
the nation in a major way.
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And for a President of the United States,
it gives him that call to action.
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[ Narrator I
within 24 hours of the atfack...
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Roosevell signs
a declaration of war against Japan.
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Now it's clear.
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This is going to be an all-out conflict.
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The nation rallied
around f.D.R.'S leadership...
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And millions of Americans
signed up to go to war.
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I was a very young boy-
I think six years old.
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A guy drove up
and said to my father, Jack-
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he said, “the Japanese
have bombed Pearl harbor.”
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My father ran upstairs,
put some things together.
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And then next time I saw him
was three years later.
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After years of avoiding conflict...
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The United States
is heading for another war.
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So it begins.
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For Japanese prime minister hideki tojo
and his military...
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The attack on Pearl harbor
is a huge success.
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The Japanese launched...
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One of the boldest and most successful
tactical surprise attacks in history...
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When they attacked Pearl harbor.
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350 airplanes had been destroyed,
eight battleships, four destroyers.
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This was a devastating military defeat
for the United States.
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[ Narrator I with the destruction
of the us. Pacific fleet ..
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Japan continues its campaign
for control of Asia...
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Striking key targets
throughout the pacific.
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But fo take over all of Asia...
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They need the Philippines
as a base of operation.
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The only issue-
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its a U.S. territory.
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Just 10 hours
after bombing Pearl harbor...
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Japan launches another attack on the U.S.,
against the Philippines.
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The one man responsible
for protecting the U.S. territory...
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Is general Douglas MacArthur.
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MacArthur felt a particular attachment to
and responsibility for the Philippines.
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And his first day of war
was absolutely terrible.
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MacArthur's air force
was still on the runways, parked...
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When Japan's planes came in
and destroyed most of his air arm.
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MacArthur commands an army
of 22,000 American and Filipino soldiers...
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Trained fo defend the Philippines
at any cost.
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But the Japanese altacks
are relentless.
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And MacArthur and his men
are completely overwhelmed.
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American leaders fear if tojo
gains control of the Philippines...
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The Japanese will invade oil-rich islands
throughout the pacific...
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Fueling a potential attack
on the west coast of the United States.
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With air strikes escalating
and supplies dwindling...
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MacArthur's only option is to retreat.
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Let's go, men.
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You have to constantly
be analyzing the situation.
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Is the battle changing?
Do I have to make new decisions?
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Do I have to execute contingency plans?
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Set the wounded there.
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There's room for supplies
here along the wall.
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We're trained professional officers...
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And we're supposed to be able
to handle stress, handle crisis...
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And not crack and not lose our ability
to think logically and rationally...
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And make sure we win the battle.
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Carter. Let's see the map.
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[ Narrator I MacArthur sets up
a makeshift headquarters...
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In a massive underground tunnel
on corregidor island.
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They may now be huddled
in a hole in the ground...
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[ Explosion I
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but MacArthur knows that he and his men
are the last stronghold...
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Against a complete Japanese takeover
of the pacific.
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On the other side of the world...
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Adolf Hitler has watched
the Japanese take on the United States...
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And now sees
the attack on pear! Harbor...
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As an opportunity
fo ramp up his own crusade.
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Since 1936, German military
has marched through Europe...
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Occupying the majority of the continent.
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In the course of the war...
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The myth of Hitler's personal infallibility
and military genius really takes hold...
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And begins to develop a life of its own.
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It is good for you to come.
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Good to see you. How are you?
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A friend and I'll be having dinner tonight,
and I hope that you can join us.
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After breaking his alliance
with Joseph Stalin...
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And launching
a massive attack on Russia...
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Hitler is certain there
is no military force in the world...
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That can take on his own.
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Even the United States.
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In Hitler's second book,
written in 1928 but never published...
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He made it fairly clear...
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That once he had conquered Europe,
he would turn to America.
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For the Nazis,
there's never any end to war...
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Because they believe
that a race like the Germans...
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Could only be kept vigorous
by continual war and continual conflict.
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But if Hitlers going
fo establish world supremacy...
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He knows he'll have fo defeat
his greatest threat...
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And one aay capture the prize of the west
for his own people.
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On December 11, 1941...
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Just four days after the Japanese strike
on Pearl harbor...
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Adolf Hitler declares war...
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On the United States.
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This is really a very puzzling decision.
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Hitler always learned
the lessons of world war I...
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And one of the lessons of world war I
is you keep America out of the battle.
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That's something
he had been doing all along.
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But by this point, he was so convinced
that he was invincible.
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He was so convinced
that he could not make mistakes...
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That he was
the master military strategist...
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That he goes against
his own lessons of the past.
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Hitlers fight has gone global...
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But his ultimate mission
is one without borders.
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Jl [ Classical I
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Hitler's notion of his own mission
really takes hold.
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He realizes the future mission
is to organize the German race...
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So as to be able to face
the challenge of its racial enemies.
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[ Narrator I
since the end of the first world war...
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Hitler has carefully outlined his plan
for the future of mankind...
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And now it's becoming a reality.
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Hitler sends his secret police...
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Fo round up groups of people
he deems undesirable-
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gypsies, homosexuals...
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People with disabilities...
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And anyone of Jewish heritage.
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Hitler believed he was chosen by destiny
to destroy the Jews.
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The Nazis unrolled this massive
wave of terror on the streets...
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Rounding up Jewish men
and then very quickly women and children.
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We are going to have a total solution
to the Jewish question.
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The program is clear.
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It reads fofal separation,
total segregation!
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It does not only mean
the exclusion of the Jews...
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It means much more.
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We will be faced
with the harsh necessity...
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Of eradicating the Jewish underworld...
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Just as we would root out criminals
in our own state...
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With fire and sword.
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The result will be the certain...
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And absolute end of jewry in Germany.
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Its complete annihilation!
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Hitler orders the prisoners
fo be packed onto trains...
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And transported
fo concentration camps...
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Located miles from civilization.
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There was a continual,
continent-wide delivery...
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Of trainloads of Jews.
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And, in fact, Hitler denied his military
troop trains and supply trains...
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Because he wanted to use those trains
to transport Jews to the death camps.
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Hitler's death camps...
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Are methodically
organized factories of killing.
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The preferred method of execution...
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Is gas.
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[ Gasping I - [ Coughing I
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Hitler knows exactly
what it feels like fo be gassed.
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America is locked in battle
with two ruthless axis powers.
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With Japan on a fear through Asia...
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And Germany's
recent declaration of war...
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The united slates has no option
but to go fo battle against both threats.
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So it begins.
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Toward the end of 19417...
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U.S. president Franklin delano Roosevelt
[Ss under enormous pressure.
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No American president
has ever faced the challenge...
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Of fighting two wars at the same time.
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Roosevelt saw himself dealing
with the rise of Hitler in Europe...
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And the rise of the Japanese in Asia.
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They're in position.
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Very good.
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He had no doubt that the United States
would defeat Germany and Japan...
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But it was gonna be a long haul...
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And it would cost
a great deal in money and lives.
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With the fate of the world
hanging in the balance...
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Roosevelt welcomes a visitor
fo the white house-
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British prime minister Winston Churchill.
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Churchill once said, “the only thing worse
than going to war with allies...
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Is going to war without allies.”
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Each nation has different perspectives,
different priorities...
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And yet we have to just face up
to the reality...
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That you can't do things alone today.
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J o little town of Bethlehem j
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as Christmas approaches...
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J how still we see thee lie j!
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The two leaders
want to present a united front...
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Letting the world know
that the allies are stronger than ever.
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But behind the scenes...
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Roosevelt and Churchill are dealing
with the enormous responsibility...
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Of making decisions that will
affect the future of all humanity.
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Tojo has taken Hong Kong.
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These two men are
all that stand in the way...
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Of a world controlled
by Adolf Hitler...
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And the axis powers.
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On the other side of the world...
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The war in the pacific
is already out of control.
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After three months of continuous
fighting in the Philippines...
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The Japanese are closing in
on Douglas MacArthur's bunker.
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Look at this situation.
We need to get out of it.
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The supply line is absolutely important.
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- General.
- Yes?
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We're live.
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The last thing MacArthur wants to do
is surrender the American islands.
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Yes, it is very important
that we get the reinforcements.
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Yes. Yes. Well, we're under siege.
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I need confirmation from-...
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Is everyone all right?
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To defend the Philippines,
he's prepared fo die.
247
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Back in Washington,
Roosevelt has fo act quickly.
248
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He knows losing his top general...
249
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Would be a demoralizing blow
fo the U.S. military...
250
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And an incredible moral victory
that would only empower the Japanese.
251
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[ Roosevelt I when can we get
reinforcements to MacArthur?
252
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We can't get reinforcements
to MacArthur.
253
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- How much longer can he hold out?
- We don't have the supplies.
254
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And where's our naval forces
right now at this moment?
255
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Mr. president,
they're on the bataan peninsula.
256
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How long till we can get support there?
257
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He can't hold out long enough
for us to get support.
258
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- How long?
- It'll be a week.
259
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- Well, get MacArthur out of there.
- He refuses to leave, sir.
260
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Tell him it's not a request.
It's a damned order.
261
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Yes, sir.
262
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But the last thing MacArthur wants fo do
is abandon his men.
263
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MacArthur's a military guy.
264
00:22:45,865 --> 00:22:48,527
He's loves the military,
and one of the things you never do...
265
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Is you never retreat
and you never abandon your soldiers.
266
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But he's been given an order
by his commander in chief.
267
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Against his own wishes...
268
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MacArthur retreats
fo the safety of Australia.
269
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And as soon as he's gone,
his worst fears are realized...
270
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As the Japanese military
overtakes the Americans...
271
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And finally captures the Philippines.
272
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As Japan conquers the pacific...
273
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6,000 miles away...
274
00:23:28,741 --> 00:23:32,905
Adolf Hitler is locked
in a deadly war with Joseph Stalin.
275
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Hitler knows if he can conquer
the Soviet union...
276
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The axis powers would then control
all of Europe and Asia...
277
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Ruling over 30% of the globe.
278
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Stalin and Hitler
are engaged in this battle...
279
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Which is as much about ego
as it is about military strategy.
280
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Like a tarantula and scorpion
in a bottle...
281
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They're fighting, and they're fighting
over the corpse of their own troops.
282
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[ Narrator I Hitler's military is about
fo capture the Soviet capital...
283
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But with victory in sight,
Hitler lets his ego take over...
284
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Suddenly changing his battle plan...
285
00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:21,540
And sending millions of troops...
286
00:24:21,627 --> 00:24:26,747
Lo converge on an industrial city
so important fo Joseph Stalin...
287
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It bears his name:
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Stalingrad.
289
00:24:43,691 --> 00:24:46,854
Hitler thought this
is a personal battle with Stalin...
290
00:24:46,944 --> 00:24:50,232
And so he began
pouring resources into stalingrad...
291
00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:55,567
Because stalingrad, a town of no particular
strategic importance, had the name of Stalin.
292
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[ Narrator I as Hitlers men
converge on stalingrad...
293
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They come face-to-face
with Stalin's red army.
294
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Hitler's convinced
if he can take stalingrad...
295
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He'll be one step away
from global domination.
296
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In less than six months...
297
00:25:17,975 --> 00:25:20,933
President Franklin delano Roosevelt
has watched...
298
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The Japanese military
devastate his naval fleet...
299
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And conquer the pacific
island by island.
300
00:25:29,737 --> 00:25:32,945
With Hitler on the verge
of taking control of Europe...
301
00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:38,196
The threat of war is now closing in on the
United States from both directions...
302
00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:42,037
And Roosevelt is
increasingly desperate for anything...
303
00:25:42,124 --> 00:25:44,285
That can turn the tide of the war.
304
00:25:56,472 --> 00:26:00,090
U.S. naval intelligence
has been working around the clock...
305
00:26:00,184 --> 00:26:04,052
Infercepting encrypted
Japanese military dispatches...
306
00:26:04,146 --> 00:26:06,432
Hoping to get wind of the next attack.
307
00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:13,519
And in may of 1942...
308
00:26:13,614 --> 00:26:19,234
The U.S. Navy gives Roosevelt
the opportunity he's been waiting for.
309
00:26:23,457 --> 00:26:26,290
- What is it?
- We've broken the code.
310
00:26:28,170 --> 00:26:30,001
It's midway.
311
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How sure are you?
312
00:26:33,467 --> 00:26:34,923
Very.
313
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Alert the fleet.
314
00:26:46,105 --> 00:26:51,145
The deciphered messages contain details
of Japan's next planned attack-
315
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the midway islanas.
316
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Situated halfway
between Asia and the united stales...
317
00:26:59,076 --> 00:27:02,785
Midway is home
fo a crucial American airfield.
318
00:27:02,871 --> 00:27:07,080
If the Japanese fake midway,
theyll control all of the pacific.
319
00:27:08,418 --> 00:27:11,376
What's worse,
they'll have a launching point...
320
00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:15,502
For a potential attack
on the west coast of the United States.
321
00:27:16,510 --> 00:27:19,297
After the attack on Pearl harbor...
322
00:27:19,388 --> 00:27:22,755
The U.S. has just three aircraft carriers
left in the pacific.
323
00:27:24,101 --> 00:27:29,061
But Roosevelt knows this is his chance
fo make a last stand against Japan.
324
00:27:32,401 --> 00:27:35,734
So he sends
the three remaining carriers to midway...
325
00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:39,942
Fo lie in wait for an ambush...
326
00:27:40,951 --> 00:27:42,657
On the Japanese fleet.
327
00:27:47,166 --> 00:27:48,656
God be with us.
328
00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:58,837
On June 4, 1942...
329
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The U.S. fleet
quietly positions itself around midway.
330
00:28:07,311 --> 00:28:10,428
And as the Japanese Navy
crests the horizon...
331
00:28:13,609 --> 00:28:16,442
The Americans
launch their surprise attack.
332
00:28:47,309 --> 00:28:48,799
Yes?
333
00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:55,309
There are four carriers destroyed.
334
00:28:57,319 --> 00:28:59,480
I thought we only had three.
335
00:28:59,988 --> 00:29:02,400
Four Japanese carriers, sir.
336
00:29:05,953 --> 00:29:08,069
You update me
with anything you receive right away.
337
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,416
In just six minutes...
338
00:29:18,507 --> 00:29:23,217
Four of the same Japanese aircraft carriers
used in the Pearl harbor attack...
339
00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:24,964
Are destroyed...
340
00:29:26,181 --> 00:29:29,218
And over 3,000 Japanese soldiers
are killed.
341
00:29:31,937 --> 00:29:34,223
Roosevelt absolutely bets the farm...
342
00:29:34,314 --> 00:29:37,727
And they destroyed four of the biggest
carriers in the Japanese Navy.
343
00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:44,738
And it took a commander who was prepared
to make the bold decision to act...
344
00:29:44,825 --> 00:29:48,784
When the easy thing would have been
to, you know, to play it safe.
345
00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:53,284
He didn't play it safe,
and he won a tremendous victory.
346
00:29:55,335 --> 00:30:00,250
The United States has dealt
Japan its first major defeat in the war.
347
00:30:25,115 --> 00:30:26,730
One moment, gentlemen.
348
00:30:32,247 --> 00:30:35,080
For Japanese prime minister
hideki tojo...
349
00:30:36,251 --> 00:30:39,914
The loss at midway
is a humiliating failure.
350
00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:44,039
Do not speak a word of this to anyone.
351
00:30:53,185 --> 00:30:55,267
Meanwhile, in Russia...
352
00:30:56,730 --> 00:30:58,516
Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler...
353
00:30:58,607 --> 00:31:02,941
Order hundreds of thousands
of their own troops into battle...
354
00:31:03,028 --> 00:31:06,941
Waging a war of ego
for the city of stalingrad.
355
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,871
For Stalin...
356
00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:23,954
The cily that bears his name
is invaluable...
357
00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:28,508
And he'll sacrifice anything fo defend it.
358
00:31:28,595 --> 00:31:30,836
There are no desertions.
359
00:31:30,931 --> 00:31:35,345
Every soldier must fight-
fight to the death.
360
00:31:38,355 --> 00:31:41,188
The deadly battle seems unending.
361
00:31:44,069 --> 00:31:47,186
But the Soviets
have a secret advaniage...
362
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,523
That promises fo put them
one step ahead of the Germans.
363
00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:58,242
The Russian winter.
364
00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:03,498
Hitler thought that he would get
to Moscow before the winter.
365
00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:08,423
But the winter had set in,
and the German army was unprepared.
366
00:32:08,510 --> 00:32:13,049
The entire siberian winterized troops...
367
00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:14,755
Came westward...
368
00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:18,434
And made mincemeat
out of Hitler's panzer divisions.
369
00:32:20,856 --> 00:32:22,471
[ Shouting I
370
00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:25,920
the German weapons and uniforms...
371
00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:28,526
Aren't designed
for Russia's brutal winter...
372
00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:33,983
And it isn't long
before Hitler's men...
373
00:32:35,412 --> 00:32:37,403
Are completely overwhelmed.
374
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,211
J [ Classical I
375
00:32:55,557 --> 00:32:58,264
one time, I'm walking with the dog...
376
00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:00,637
And the dog kicks my legs
out from under me.
377
00:33:00,729 --> 00:33:02,845
I wind up falling into the-
378
00:33:02,939 --> 00:33:05,772
and rolling down the hill in this way.
379
00:33:12,407 --> 00:33:13,692
Ladies.
380
00:33:13,783 --> 00:33:15,273
Come.
381
00:33:17,287 --> 00:33:18,777
Sit.
382
00:33:20,081 --> 00:33:21,571
Please.
383
00:33:26,963 --> 00:33:30,046
The Russians
have halted our advance.
384
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,969
We have lost
the 14th and 22nd panzer division.
385
00:33:43,271 --> 00:33:44,852
- Allow me to explain.
- Enough!
386
00:33:56,201 --> 00:34:00,615
Hitler was famous
for telling organizations not to retreat.
387
00:34:01,915 --> 00:34:04,372
He would put organizations
in a place like stalingrad...
388
00:34:04,459 --> 00:34:06,579
And he said,
“you cannot give up an inch of ground”...
389
00:34:06,628 --> 00:34:10,541
When it was militarily
illogical to do that.
390
00:34:10,632 --> 00:34:12,623
It just doesn't make sense to do that.
391
00:34:12,717 --> 00:34:16,710
Armies move up and back, and you
have to be responsive to conditions.
392
00:34:20,433 --> 00:34:23,037
You can't understand
Adolf Hitler's actions in world war il...
393
00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:26,303
Without understanding the lessons
he learned from world war I.
394
00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:28,730
And one of the most critical lessons
he learned was...
395
00:34:28,817 --> 00:34:31,729
You never give up,
that you never surrender.
396
00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:35,404
He was so traumatized
by the German surrender in world war I...
397
00:34:36,491 --> 00:34:38,698
That he was determined
under no circumstances...
398
00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:41,242
Would he surrender in world war il.
399
00:34:43,498 --> 00:34:45,238
Blind to all logic...
400
00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:49,042
Hitler sends more troops
info almost certain death.
401
00:34:55,260 --> 00:34:58,423
One German soldier
dies every seven seconds.
402
00:35:06,980 --> 00:35:10,222
On this, our 10th anniversary...
403
00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:13,650
We celebrate in the sunlight...
404
00:35:13,737 --> 00:35:17,605
On February 2, 1943...
405
00:35:17,699 --> 00:35:22,193
Hitler prepares for the 10th anniversary
of the founding of the third reich.
406
00:35:24,289 --> 00:35:25,779
Mein fiihrer.
407
00:35:25,874 --> 00:35:27,910
What is it?
408
00:35:28,001 --> 00:35:29,832
News from the sixth army.
409
00:35:33,923 --> 00:35:35,663
They've been destroyed.
410
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:40,460
Destroyed?
411
00:35:43,058 --> 00:35:44,889
How is this possible?
412
00:35:45,852 --> 00:35:47,467
They surrendered.
413
00:35:54,903 --> 00:35:56,393
Surrendered?
414
00:35:57,906 --> 00:36:00,147
A quarter million men-
415
00:36:00,241 --> 00:36:04,735
an entire army of the reich-
surrendered?
416
00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:11,165
The sons of the fatherland
now traitors to their race.
417
00:36:12,087 --> 00:36:14,294
Their very names
are a curse on this nation...
418
00:36:14,381 --> 00:36:18,124
On their mothers, on their children,
on their brothers and sisters!
419
00:36:22,722 --> 00:36:26,055
The stain of their perfidy
is darker than blood!
420
00:36:33,775 --> 00:36:36,107
I will hear no more of this.
421
00:36:46,663 --> 00:36:48,244
Surrendered?
422
00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:51,949
Just to die...
423
00:36:52,043 --> 00:36:53,579
In a prison camp.
424
00:36:56,423 --> 00:37:00,416
The gods of war have abandoned us.
425
00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:06,971
Whats left
of the German army is in shambles...
426
00:37:07,058 --> 00:37:09,891
And the man who seemed fo be
on the road to world domination...
427
00:37:09,978 --> 00:37:14,187
Must now watch
his greatest enemy claim victory...
428
00:37:14,274 --> 00:37:19,268
And for the first time
face the possibility of ultimate defeat.
429
00:37:26,286 --> 00:37:28,402
War is raging around the globe...
430
00:37:29,664 --> 00:37:31,575
And for the first time...
431
00:37:31,666 --> 00:37:36,080
Adolf Hitler has suffered
a devastating defeat...
432
00:37:36,838 --> 00:37:41,798
At the hands of Joseph Stalin,
who now looks to be unstoppable.
433
00:37:49,642 --> 00:37:52,179
President Roosevelt
is beginning fo fear...
434
00:37:52,937 --> 00:37:56,270
That if Joseph Stalin
adefeats Adolf Hitler alone...
435
00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:58,689
He'll conquer Europe for himself...
436
00:37:59,444 --> 00:38:02,356
Replacing one tyrant with another.
437
00:38:02,447 --> 00:38:06,611
Roosevelt knows he needs
fo get the Americans into Europe...
438
00:38:06,701 --> 00:38:08,362
As quickly as possible.
439
00:38:10,705 --> 00:38:13,492
He sends an allied force into sicily...
440
00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:15,665
Hoping fo capture the island...
441
00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:18,368
So he can establish
a base of operations...
442
00:38:18,463 --> 00:38:22,126
Fo launch an attack
against the axis powers in Europe.
443
00:38:26,054 --> 00:38:29,967
The moment the allies
have been waiting for has finally arrived.
444
00:38:31,351 --> 00:38:35,640
Over 160,000 troops
storm into sicily...
445
00:38:35,730 --> 00:38:40,565
In the first major American operation
in the European theater.
446
00:38:41,569 --> 00:38:46,154
Leading the charge for the Americans
is Roosevelt's secret weapon...
447
00:38:57,460 --> 00:38:59,997
Lieutenant general George s. Patton.
448
00:39:02,674 --> 00:39:04,790
[ Mcchrystal I
leaders like George patton...
449
00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:09,002
Around whom an aura begins to grow...
450
00:39:09,097 --> 00:39:11,964
Have extraordinary power.
451
00:39:12,058 --> 00:39:15,175
For one, they inspire their own side.
452
00:39:15,270 --> 00:39:17,852
There's a sense
that when you are working for patton...
453
00:39:17,939 --> 00:39:20,646
We are gonna do things faster and better,
and we're gonna win.
454
00:39:20,733 --> 00:39:22,143
I work for a winner.
455
00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:24,604
In the years...
456
00:39:24,696 --> 00:39:26,903
Since he commanded
America's first ever tank brigade...
457
00:39:26,990 --> 00:39:28,821
In the first world war...
458
00:39:29,534 --> 00:39:31,866
Patton has personally
adedicated himselr..
459
00:39:31,953 --> 00:39:34,114
Fo building up the U.S. tank division...
460
00:39:35,123 --> 00:39:39,162
From just a few dozen fanks
fo over 88,000.
461
00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:44,796
Patton arrives in sicily
with a plan to lake control.
462
00:39:44,883 --> 00:39:49,217
I need you two to find me
the most probable path through here.
463
00:39:49,304 --> 00:39:50,965
Okay?
464
00:39:51,055 --> 00:39:53,637
He's going fo seize
the sicilian capital of palermo...
465
00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:57,058
And he's going to do it
by any means necessary.
466
00:39:57,145 --> 00:40:01,138
Patton was an interesting character,
because he was the flamboyant leader...
467
00:40:01,232 --> 00:40:05,271
That people respected for what he did.
468
00:40:06,362 --> 00:40:09,024
But there was always
a second half to the sentence.
469
00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:13,154
George patton is brilliant,
but... he's egotistical.
470
00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:16,077
He can't control running his mouth.
471
00:40:18,082 --> 00:40:21,745
On July 18, 1943...
472
00:40:21,836 --> 00:40:25,169
Patton and his forces
launch an assault on palermo...
473
00:40:37,018 --> 00:40:39,100
Sweeping around the enemy...
474
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,438
And capturing the city in just 72 hours.
475
00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:59,286
And now with sicily
unaer their control...
476
00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:04,709
The allies are ready fo launch
a massive attack on the axis powers.
477
00:41:08,007 --> 00:41:13,968
On September 3, 1943,
allied armies move into mainland Italy...
478
00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:17,801
Fighting back thousands of axis troops.
479
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,768
[ Bell tolling I
480
00:41:26,943 --> 00:41:30,811
as the allies take Italy city by cily...
481
00:41:31,447 --> 00:41:36,362
Benito Mussolini is forced fo watch
his beloved empire begin fo crumble.
482
00:41:37,578 --> 00:41:39,159
Before long...
483
00:41:39,247 --> 00:41:42,205
Mussolini is summoned
for an emergency meeting...
484
00:41:42,291 --> 00:41:43,906
With his closest ally.
485
00:42:03,688 --> 00:42:07,021
Mussolini may have come
fo power first...
486
00:42:07,108 --> 00:42:09,394
But now the tables have turned.
487
00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:30,540
What you are doing to us now...
488
00:42:30,631 --> 00:42:32,963
Is you are causing us
to have such problems.
489
00:42:33,051 --> 00:42:36,384
And be the type of ally
who can be of some use to us.
490
00:42:36,471 --> 00:42:38,712
Well, why-
why do we have this relationship?
491
00:42:38,806 --> 00:42:40,546
Germany has given you everything.
492
00:42:40,641 --> 00:42:42,802
We have given you
all that you have needed.
493
00:42:42,894 --> 00:42:45,014
We have given you artillery
when you needed artillery.
494
00:42:45,063 --> 00:42:47,554
We gave you men.
We gave our treasure, our blood.
495
00:42:47,648 --> 00:42:49,889
And now you come to me
and you say no?
496
00:42:49,984 --> 00:42:55,900
We have spent enough time talking over
these inane suggestions of yours...
497
00:42:55,990 --> 00:42:57,605
About how to carry on this war.
498
00:42:57,700 --> 00:42:59,236
You will stop!
499
00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:11,081
There are several turning points
in the Hitler-Mussolini relationship.
500
00:43:11,172 --> 00:43:15,916
First of all, Hitler regards Mussolini
as the man who sets the example.
501
00:43:16,010 --> 00:43:19,753
The next step is in the war...
502
00:43:19,847 --> 00:43:22,589
And when Mussolini does come in,
it's a fiasco.
503
00:43:22,683 --> 00:43:25,595
The Italians now become very much
the second class.
504
00:43:25,686 --> 00:43:30,430
Hitler began to regard
the Italians as weak-
505
00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:33,391
as the weak link in the axis.
506
00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:42,529
[ Narrator I Mussolini is sent back fo Rome
with instructions fo hold the line.
507
00:43:44,664 --> 00:43:49,624
But less than two months later,
[Italy surrenders fo the allies.
508
00:43:49,710 --> 00:43:53,077
The first major axis power has fallen.
509
00:43:53,172 --> 00:43:58,917
Adolf Hitler has watched the man
he once idolized overthrown in disgrace.
510
00:44:00,847 --> 00:44:04,305
And he knows
the allies are coming for him next.
511
00:44:11,399 --> 00:44:14,141
The tide of the world war is turning...
512
00:44:14,235 --> 00:44:16,897
As the allies, led by patton...
513
00:44:18,072 --> 00:44:19,562
Lake down Italy.
514
00:44:19,657 --> 00:44:21,693
Why do we have this-
you will stop!
515
00:44:22,577 --> 00:44:25,865
[ Bell tolling I
516
00:44:26,914 --> 00:44:28,450
during the campaign...
517
00:44:28,541 --> 00:44:31,874
Patfon conquered Italy
in just six weeks...
518
00:44:31,961 --> 00:44:36,921
But his army suffered 6,000 killed
and 16,000 wounded.
519
00:44:39,594 --> 00:44:41,880
But patton knows
the job's not done...
520
00:44:43,431 --> 00:44:46,764
And he needs every man he can get
back on the battlefield.
521
00:44:53,274 --> 00:44:55,014
Soldier.
522
00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:10,030
Why are you here, son?
523
00:45:12,251 --> 00:45:15,243
'Cause you look healthy enough to me
right now.
524
00:45:17,256 --> 00:45:21,340
You seem capable enough for fighting
to me.
525
00:45:23,304 --> 00:45:29,550
In our own day, we know of the difficulty
of battle and post-traumatic stress.
526
00:45:29,644 --> 00:45:32,852
But in the 1940s, these were not terms
that were commonly used.
527
00:45:32,939 --> 00:45:36,431
And for patton,
if someone had battle fatigue...
528
00:45:36,525 --> 00:45:39,642
It was simply
you were being a coward.
529
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:41,227
Look at me, son.
530
00:45:44,533 --> 00:45:47,491
You might get shot and killed...
531
00:45:49,830 --> 00:45:52,196
But you're going to fight.
532
00:45:56,837 --> 00:45:59,169
- Please don't send me back.
- You coward.
533
00:46:15,690 --> 00:46:18,432
News of the incident quickly goes public.
534
00:46:19,568 --> 00:46:22,526
Once the story got out,
the public was outraged...
535
00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:24,854
And Roosevelt was put into a box.
536
00:46:25,866 --> 00:46:28,470
Even though he realized
that patton was one of his best generals...
537
00:46:28,494 --> 00:46:30,325
He had to punish him in some way.
538
00:46:38,170 --> 00:46:42,630
[ Narrator I Roosevelt has no choice
but to pull patton from active duly.
539
00:46:44,218 --> 00:46:47,176
With war still raging on two fronts...
540
00:46:47,263 --> 00:46:50,630
Roosevelt believes the allies
may need a new strategy.
541
00:46:51,851 --> 00:46:54,342
He reaches out to Winston Churchill...
542
00:46:55,062 --> 00:46:57,474
[ Ringin - oko
543
00:46:57,565 --> 00:47:01,649
convincing him they need to team up
with an unlikely partner-
544
00:47:01,736 --> 00:47:03,943
Joseph Stalin.
545
00:47:05,906 --> 00:47:09,524
Roosevelt and Churchill know
that Stalin is a brutal tyrant...
546
00:47:09,618 --> 00:47:12,985
Who shares more in common
with Hitler than with them...
547
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,287
But they come fo the realization...
548
00:47:15,374 --> 00:47:18,912
That the enemy of their enemy
needs to be their friend.
549
00:47:19,003 --> 00:47:23,963
If the allies are going to win this war,
they need Stalin on their side.
550
00:47:30,014 --> 00:47:33,177
Roosevelt and Churchill
persuade Stalin to meet them...
551
00:47:33,267 --> 00:47:38,352
For an unprecedented conference
at the Soviet embassy in Tehran, Iran.
552
00:47:42,777 --> 00:47:46,269
This is the first meeting
of the three allied leaders...
553
00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:48,901
And they each come
with their own agenda.
554
00:47:52,411 --> 00:47:54,823
Stalin is clearly
in the strongest position.
555
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,212
We've broken the back
of the Germans...
556
00:48:05,299 --> 00:48:08,883
And you merely SWAT at them
like you would at a fly.
557
00:48:08,969 --> 00:48:11,051
We pushed them out of north Africa.
558
00:48:11,138 --> 00:48:14,255
[ Stalin I
while millions of Russians have died.
559
00:48:15,142 --> 00:48:19,977
I do not think the people want
any more of my men to die.
560
00:48:20,064 --> 00:48:23,727
Do your people want
any more of your men to die?
561
00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:28,119
I'm sure that Churchill
and Roosevelt had real questions...
562
00:48:28,197 --> 00:48:30,859
About what Stalin really stood for...
563
00:48:30,950 --> 00:48:35,284
What kind of leader
would he be in a postwar period.
564
00:48:35,371 --> 00:48:38,113
But they also knew...
565
00:48:38,207 --> 00:48:42,576
That Stalin's primary mission
was to defeat Nazi Germany...
566
00:48:42,670 --> 00:48:44,752
And then they had to work together.
567
00:48:48,467 --> 00:48:51,083
We need to win this war.
568
00:48:51,178 --> 00:48:53,464
We need to win the peace.
569
00:48:53,556 --> 00:48:57,765
That certainly didn't work out very well
last time at versailles.
570
00:48:58,477 --> 00:49:01,389
A piece of paper has little power
to keep people apart...
571
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,562
Much less hold them together.
572
00:49:06,402 --> 00:49:10,566
We need to ensure
that Germany can't threaten Europe again.
573
00:49:10,656 --> 00:49:12,271
Then you need to help me.
574
00:49:14,368 --> 00:49:16,324
And you need to help me.
575
00:49:21,542 --> 00:49:23,533
Now let's talk about Japan.
576
00:49:24,503 --> 00:49:28,462
I will help you with Japan
if you help me with Hitler.
577
00:49:29,550 --> 00:49:31,541
If there is no invasion...
578
00:49:34,555 --> 00:49:36,841
Then I cannot help you with Japan.
579
00:49:41,562 --> 00:49:44,269
After four days of infense negotiations...
580
00:49:45,608 --> 00:49:48,270
In exchange
for Stalin's help in the pacific...
581
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:53,400
Roosevelt and Churchill agree fo execute
an unprecedented invasion of Europe.
582
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,408
The allies knew
that to defeat Nazi Germany...
583
00:49:57,495 --> 00:49:59,335
You were gonna have
to invade western Europe...
584
00:49:59,413 --> 00:50:03,326
And you're gonna have to go
from France, essentially, into Germany.
585
00:50:03,417 --> 00:50:08,582
And it was an amazing undertaking
both in scope and complexity.
586
00:50:22,269 --> 00:50:24,180
[ Narrator I
Winston Churchill knows...
587
00:50:24,271 --> 00:50:27,479
That the strategy could be
the turning point in the war.
588
00:50:31,070 --> 00:50:35,029
But still... he has grave concems.
589
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:39,491
Churchill's ordered
an ambitious operation like this before.
590
00:50:40,621 --> 00:50:42,782
[ Phone ringing I
591
00:50:43,541 --> 00:50:46,578
four ships sunk, another burning.
592
00:50:47,962 --> 00:50:51,079
The invasion of gallipoli
in the first world vwar-
593
00:50:52,550 --> 00:50:55,132
a disastrous amphibious assault...
594
00:50:55,219 --> 00:50:58,211
That left tens of thousands
of British troops dead.
595
00:51:01,892 --> 00:51:05,851
Churchill fears that the allies
are heading for another gallipoli.
596
00:51:09,441 --> 00:51:11,978
If the mission
is going fo be successful...
597
00:51:12,069 --> 00:51:14,856
This time theyll need to be smarter.
598
00:51:15,656 --> 00:51:18,068
Gallipoli cast a long shadow.
599
00:51:18,158 --> 00:51:20,740
It haunted Churchill.
600
00:51:20,828 --> 00:51:26,573
But that capacity to take risk,
to think big, to think on a global scale...
601
00:51:26,667 --> 00:51:28,783
Became one of his great strengths.
602
00:51:32,214 --> 00:51:35,172
My biggest worry is that Hitler
now knows we're coming.
603
00:51:35,259 --> 00:51:38,672
While preparations
for the invasion of France continues...
604
00:51:38,762 --> 00:51:41,504
Churchill oversees
the creation of a secret plan...
605
00:51:41,599 --> 00:51:45,262
That will put the allies
one step ahead of Adolf Hitler.
606
00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:49,891
So what we need
is the right lies to deceive him.
607
00:51:51,567 --> 00:51:54,980
It's called operation fortitude.
608
00:51:57,781 --> 00:52:02,070
The success of the mission
will rely on one man...
609
00:52:02,161 --> 00:52:04,823
Whose military career
seemed fo be over-
610
00:52:07,416 --> 00:52:09,407
general George s. Patton.
611
00:52:10,544 --> 00:52:13,377
After being pulled from active duly...
612
00:52:14,340 --> 00:52:16,296
Patton has been forced
fo watch the planning...
613
00:52:16,383 --> 00:52:20,752
Of one of the largest invasions in history
from the sidelines.
614
00:52:22,264 --> 00:52:24,550
If you put yourself
in patton's position...
615
00:52:24,642 --> 00:52:28,635
They're about to invade
the center of Europe.
616
00:52:28,729 --> 00:52:31,846
They're about to go
at the guts of Nazi Germany.
617
00:52:31,940 --> 00:52:35,148
To think he's not gonna
be involved in that...
618
00:52:35,235 --> 00:52:39,695
Had to have been just
excruciatingly painful for patton...
619
00:52:39,782 --> 00:52:42,068
Because he knows
he's a war soldier.
620
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:45,401
This is his moment,
and if he's notin it...
621
00:52:45,496 --> 00:52:48,283
It's going to just be torture.
622
00:52:49,958 --> 00:52:52,040
But operation fortitude...
623
00:52:53,212 --> 00:52:55,419
Has a special place for patton.
624
00:53:00,260 --> 00:53:02,842
In the spring of 1944...
625
00:53:02,930 --> 00:53:06,422
Allied leaders covertly
send patton fo england...
626
00:53:10,562 --> 00:53:13,895
Along with 250,000 men...
627
00:53:15,442 --> 00:53:19,105
And what appears to be thousands
of tanks and fighter planes.
628
00:53:22,574 --> 00:53:25,111
But patton's not going
fo lead an invasion...
629
00:53:25,202 --> 00:53:28,285
And his army isn't what it seems.
630
00:53:33,168 --> 00:53:36,205
Instead of heavy machinery
and modern weapons...
631
00:53:36,296 --> 00:53:38,412
Patton's armed with balloons.
632
00:53:42,010 --> 00:53:46,470
Roosevelt and Churchill
used patton as a deception.
633
00:53:46,557 --> 00:53:48,718
They actually have
Hollywood people help them create...
634
00:53:48,809 --> 00:53:51,391
What is essentially a phony army.
635
00:53:53,313 --> 00:53:56,146
There's phony tanks
that are actually nothing but balloons.
636
00:53:57,985 --> 00:53:59,395
There's barracks.
637
00:53:59,486 --> 00:54:03,479
It appears that there are hundreds
of thousands of allied troops...
638
00:54:03,574 --> 00:54:06,486
Assembled across
the channel from France.
639
00:54:14,084 --> 00:54:15,574
Through the allied tank fields-
640
00:54:15,669 --> 00:54:18,832
it isn't long before Hitler
sees German intelligence photographs...
641
00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:21,584
Of patton's supposed army...
642
00:54:21,675 --> 00:54:23,791
And he completely takes the bait.
643
00:54:25,012 --> 00:54:27,253
Hitler thinks
he's outsmarted the allies.
644
00:54:27,347 --> 00:54:32,216
He refuses fo believe that patfon has
been sidelined just for slapping a soldier.
645
00:54:32,311 --> 00:54:33,721
Patton.
646
00:54:33,812 --> 00:54:38,431
Here are the three major ports
suitable for an operation of this size.
647
00:54:38,525 --> 00:54:40,766
The only other viable landing
is further south.
648
00:54:40,861 --> 00:54:43,227
The real invasion will be here...
649
00:54:43,322 --> 00:54:47,315
At pas de calais... with patton.
650
00:54:49,995 --> 00:54:54,659
Hitler knows that patton is one
of Roosevelt's best generals.
651
00:54:55,292 --> 00:54:58,705
The general
who is bold and audacious.
652
00:54:58,796 --> 00:55:02,835
So in all likelihood,
patton is going to be leading the attack.
653
00:55:04,218 --> 00:55:06,379
Hitler's convinced the legendary general...
654
00:55:06,470 --> 00:55:10,008
Was preparing fo invade
the French mainland at pas de calais...
655
00:55:10,098 --> 00:55:12,680
A major port city
in northern France...
656
00:55:12,768 --> 00:55:14,679
Mere miles
across the english channel...
657
00:55:14,770 --> 00:55:17,011
From where patton's forces
are gathering.
658
00:55:18,106 --> 00:55:22,645
So he sends a million troops fo calais
to fortify the city.
659
00:55:27,950 --> 00:55:31,363
On June 6, 1944...
660
00:55:31,453 --> 00:55:35,537
The day that will come fo be known
as d-day finally arrives.
661
00:55:39,044 --> 00:55:42,582
Roosevelt and Churchill
order 150,000 allied troops...
662
00:55:42,673 --> 00:55:46,416
Lo pile into over 4,000 boats
and head fo France...
663
00:55:49,930 --> 00:55:52,922
In the largest amphibious invasion
ever attempted.
664
00:56:00,357 --> 00:56:02,097
[ Shouting I
665
00:56:09,074 --> 00:56:12,157
On a day
that will come to be known as d-day...
666
00:56:14,746 --> 00:56:18,785
150,000 allied troops pile
into thousands of boats...
667
00:56:19,918 --> 00:56:21,533
And head foward France...
668
00:56:21,628 --> 00:56:24,836
In the largest amphibious invasion
ever attempted.
669
00:56:26,925 --> 00:56:31,965
Across the channel, more than a million
German soldiers prepare for an attack...
670
00:56:32,055 --> 00:56:35,047
Fortifying the French
port city of calais...
671
00:56:35,142 --> 00:56:40,682
Where Adolf Hitler is convinced an allied
army led by George patton will land.
672
00:56:44,318 --> 00:56:46,479
What Hitler doesn't know...
673
00:56:46,570 --> 00:56:50,154
Is that the allied force
isn't being led by patton...
674
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:52,652
And isn't heading fo calais.
675
00:56:53,869 --> 00:56:57,612
Its larget is
just over 200 miles to the south-
676
00:56:59,166 --> 00:57:00,997
the beaches of normandy.
677
00:57:04,046 --> 00:57:07,083
[ Gunfire I
678
00:57:49,758 --> 00:57:52,124
After a brutal fight...
679
00:57:52,219 --> 00:57:54,881
The allied forces
capture the beaches.
680
00:58:01,353 --> 00:58:04,095
The question of d-day was...
681
00:58:04,189 --> 00:58:07,056
Can the Americans primarily,
but the British as well...
682
00:58:07,150 --> 00:58:10,392
Establish a foothold
on the European continent?
683
00:58:10,487 --> 00:58:12,102
If they can...
684
00:58:12,823 --> 00:58:16,236
There was some hope
that maybe Hitler could be overthrown.
685
00:58:22,541 --> 00:58:25,328
As allied troops push into normandy...
686
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,458
Adolf Hitler
is notified of the invasion...
687
00:58:32,759 --> 00:58:36,593
But he refuses to reroute
his troops stationed in calais.
688
00:58:37,681 --> 00:58:39,262
With patton still in england...
689
00:58:39,349 --> 00:58:43,183
Hitler is convinced that the attack
at normanaly is just a diversion...
690
00:58:43,270 --> 00:58:48,139
And that a much larger allied assault
is still on the way.
691
00:58:48,233 --> 00:58:50,975
Hitler is so out of touch.
692
00:58:51,069 --> 00:58:54,903
He's so consumed
with his own brilliance...
693
00:58:54,990 --> 00:59:00,530
That even after it becomes obvious that
the allies are attacking in normandy...
694
00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:04,033
He spends some 72 hours
refusing to accept the reports.
695
00:59:06,251 --> 00:59:09,368
While Hitler waits
for an invasion that will never come...
696
00:59:16,928 --> 00:59:20,591
Allied armies begin
moving into France...
697
00:59:22,017 --> 00:59:23,803
Town by town...
698
00:59:30,984 --> 00:59:33,441
Pushing back
against the German forces...
699
00:59:33,528 --> 00:59:37,066
And liberating thousanas of citizens
throughout the country.
700
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,926
What if Hitler had not been so arrogant?
701
01:00:04,017 --> 01:00:09,102
What if he had recognized that the allies
were going to invade in normandy?
702
01:00:09,189 --> 01:00:11,805
What if, after he had
credible intelligence reports...
703
01:00:11,900 --> 01:00:15,063
That they were attacking at normandy,
had moved his troops there?
704
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:19,442
It's very likely that he could
have blunted the allied assault.
705
01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:25,235
And if you blunt
the allied assault at d-day...
706
01:00:25,330 --> 01:00:28,413
The best the allies could hope for
is a stalemate in Europe.
707
01:00:34,339 --> 01:00:36,455
With the help of patton's decoy army...
708
01:00:37,342 --> 01:00:40,926
The normandy landings
are an incredible success...
709
01:00:42,305 --> 01:00:44,421
That change the course of the war.
710
01:00:46,476 --> 01:00:50,469
While Adolf Hitler suffers
an unthinkable defeat ..
711
01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:52,395
On the other side of the world...
712
01:00:52,482 --> 01:00:57,021
His last remaining ally
looks to protect his empire.
713
01:00:58,405 --> 01:01:00,737
Following his defeat at midway...
714
01:01:01,741 --> 01:01:06,030
Japanese prime minister hideki tojo
has been trying to regroup.
715
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:10,572
He's desperate fo maintain
his control over the pacific.
716
01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:13,283
But little does tojo know...
717
01:01:14,588 --> 01:01:17,295
He's about fo face
his biggest challenge yet.
718
01:01:20,218 --> 01:01:23,676
For years, general Douglas MacArthur
has waited for the moment...
719
01:01:23,763 --> 01:01:25,469
Lo even the score with tojo.
720
01:01:26,892 --> 01:01:29,258
His number one goal:
721
01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:32,594
To lake back the island territory
he was forced to abandon-
722
01:01:32,689 --> 01:01:34,680
the Philippines.
723
01:01:34,774 --> 01:01:36,230
For MacArthur...
724
01:01:36,318 --> 01:01:40,186
Going to the Philippines
was both a national necessity...
725
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:43,238
And a personal obligation...
726
01:01:43,325 --> 01:01:46,613
For not sufficiently defending
the Philippines.
727
01:01:48,955 --> 01:01:51,196
[ Narrator I in June of 1944...
728
01:01:52,459 --> 01:01:56,418
MacArthur leads an armada
of warships into the pacific.
729
01:01:57,797 --> 01:01:59,662
[ Gunfire I
730
01:02:00,967 --> 01:02:02,878
for five bloody months...
731
01:02:02,969 --> 01:02:05,836
He and his troops
lake on the Japanese military...
732
01:02:05,931 --> 01:02:08,263
Fighting island by island...
733
01:02:09,100 --> 01:02:12,012
By land and by sea...
734
01:02:12,103 --> 01:02:15,140
Until MacArthur is finally able
to fulfill his promise...
735
01:02:15,232 --> 01:02:17,018
And liberate the Philippines.
736
01:02:19,319 --> 01:02:24,359
That outlines the movement,
as I understood it, from here to here.
737
01:02:24,449 --> 01:02:26,280
[ Narrator I
but MacArthur's not finished.
738
01:02:27,827 --> 01:02:30,113
As soon as he refakes
the Philippines...
739
01:02:30,205 --> 01:02:33,447
He sels his sights
on an even bigger target-
740
01:02:35,794 --> 01:02:38,536
the invasion of the Japanese mainland.
741
01:02:46,263 --> 01:02:47,753
In Tokyo...
742
01:02:47,847 --> 01:02:52,682
Prime minister hideki tojo has faced
a series of humiliating defeats.
743
01:02:54,771 --> 01:02:57,808
For the first ime
since his rise to power...
744
01:02:59,192 --> 01:03:01,433
The Japanese empire is dwindling.
745
01:03:03,154 --> 01:03:06,191
And as criticism
of his leadership escalates...
746
01:03:07,367 --> 01:03:09,858
Tojo is forced to resign in disgrace.
747
01:03:13,832 --> 01:03:19,077
While tojo may be gone,
the war in Japan is far from over.
748
01:03:26,177 --> 01:03:29,294
The world war
fakes a tum in the allies' favor.
749
01:03:30,140 --> 01:03:33,132
After the successful
d-day invasion...
750
01:03:33,727 --> 01:03:36,890
The allies continue
fo gain ground in Europe...
751
01:03:36,980 --> 01:03:39,722
But Adolf Hitler
refuses fo surrender.
752
01:03:43,987 --> 01:03:46,228
In December of 1944...
753
01:03:46,323 --> 01:03:50,817
Hitler orders over 200,000 German troops
into Southern Belgium...
754
01:03:52,203 --> 01:03:55,991
In what will come to be known
as the battle of the bulge.
755
01:04:04,341 --> 01:04:08,254
Hitler's sneak attack
lakes the allies completely off guard.
756
01:04:35,163 --> 01:04:38,701
Roosevelt realizes
if he's going fo beat Hitler...
757
01:04:38,792 --> 01:04:42,785
He needs general George paftfon
fo help lead the charge.
758
01:04:45,298 --> 01:04:47,459
So he makes the bold decision...
759
01:04:49,761 --> 01:04:51,717
Fo return him to action.
760
01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:54,045
Do it.
761
01:04:55,141 --> 01:04:58,554
Sometimes you have to keep
somebody like a George patton around...
762
01:04:58,645 --> 01:05:02,558
Even when every instinct tells you,
“get rid of this guy.”
763
01:05:04,025 --> 01:05:08,268
But the bottom line was that he was
a great tactician on the battlefield.
764
01:05:09,197 --> 01:05:11,404
After a year on the sidelines...
765
01:05:11,491 --> 01:05:13,903
Patton is back where he belongs-
766
01:05:13,993 --> 01:05:18,282
right on the front lines,
leading the charge info baffle.
767
01:05:21,334 --> 01:05:24,497
On December 16, 1944...
768
01:05:24,587 --> 01:05:28,500
Patton and the allies
come face-to-face with Hitler's army.
769
01:05:47,819 --> 01:05:53,189
There was just a limit on what the German
army at that point had the capacity to do.
770
01:05:53,283 --> 01:05:56,571
They just didn't have
the forces or the logistics.
771
01:05:58,705 --> 01:06:01,117
Within days of joining the battle...
772
01:06:01,207 --> 01:06:06,668
Patton and his fleet are able fo take
down six divisions of Hitler's army...
773
01:06:07,422 --> 01:06:09,504
Finally breaking through
the German defenses.
774
01:06:13,678 --> 01:06:16,590
But fo retreat back info Germany.
775
01:06:20,310 --> 01:06:26,226
[ Air raid sirens blaring I
776
01:06:31,237 --> 01:06:33,603
[ Blaring continues I
777
01:06:33,698 --> 01:06:36,155
with allied armies closing in on Berlin...
778
01:06:37,202 --> 01:06:40,319
Hitler is forced fo walch
the same terror and destruction...
779
01:06:40,413 --> 01:06:42,825
He once forced upon the world...
780
01:06:45,251 --> 01:06:47,412
Now inflicted on his own city.
781
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:50,836
[ Evans I
in the last phase of the war...
782
01:06:50,924 --> 01:06:54,416
The air raids on Berlin
were becoming extremely destructive.
783
01:06:54,511 --> 01:06:59,426
The Soviet army was moving through
the center of Berlin.
784
01:07:02,101 --> 01:07:05,093
Mein fuhrer, it's time.
785
01:07:15,406 --> 01:07:18,489
Hitler retreated underground...
786
01:07:18,576 --> 01:07:23,491
To a prepared,
heavily fortified concrete bunker...
787
01:07:23,581 --> 01:07:26,368
Underneath the reich chancellery
in Berlin...
788
01:07:26,459 --> 01:07:27,915
And he was relatively safe there.
789
01:07:28,002 --> 01:07:29,458
He hoped for a turnaround.
790
01:07:29,546 --> 01:07:32,379
He thought that there
might be some wonder weapon...
791
01:07:32,465 --> 01:07:34,296
That would be developed
by German scientists.
792
01:07:34,384 --> 01:07:36,841
It was all complete fantasy.
793
01:07:37,804 --> 01:07:40,671
Adolf Hitler's empire has been reduced...
794
01:07:40,765 --> 01:07:46,260
From three million square miles
to 500 square feet.
795
01:08:05,498 --> 01:08:08,661
As patton and his troops
advance into Germany...
796
01:08:12,589 --> 01:08:16,753
They arrive at a series
of large factory-like buildings...
797
01:08:17,844 --> 01:08:22,838
Surrounded by emply fields
in the middle of nowhere.
798
01:08:23,683 --> 01:08:25,594
First squad, move up.
799
01:09:15,151 --> 01:09:17,813
The rumors he's heard are true.
800
01:09:19,072 --> 01:09:22,439
This is one
of Adolf Hitler's death camps-
801
01:09:24,035 --> 01:09:25,741
buchenwald.
802
01:09:31,417 --> 01:09:35,126
Paltton finds
20,000 emaciated survivors...
803
01:09:37,757 --> 01:09:42,797
Suffering from starvation,
aisease and torture.
804
01:09:45,598 --> 01:09:48,340
Thousands of corpses
line the grounds...
805
01:09:49,394 --> 01:09:54,309
Killed during one of the worst genocides
the world has ever seen-
806
01:09:55,608 --> 01:09:59,192
a systematfic
mass extermination program...
807
01:10:00,780 --> 01:10:03,817
Hitler calls 'the final solution.”
808
01:10:04,534 --> 01:10:06,866
The camp patton liberates...
809
01:10:06,953 --> 01:10:12,664
Is just one of 20,000 detention and
killing facilities built by Hitler.
810
01:10:15,503 --> 01:10:19,667
In all, the holocaust
kills 11 million people.
811
01:10:20,883 --> 01:10:24,091
Six million are Jewish.
812
01:10:27,056 --> 01:10:29,593
My wife's mother was
in Auschwitz and dacha...
813
01:10:30,351 --> 01:10:35,311
She was liberated from dachau
by the U.S. army.
814
01:10:35,398 --> 01:10:37,980
I had a press secretary...
815
01:10:38,067 --> 01:10:43,061
And his father had been part of the group
that had liberated my mother-in-law.
816
01:10:47,744 --> 01:10:51,236
These soldiers
and everyone else who did that...
817
01:10:51,330 --> 01:10:55,323
Saved the world
from nazism and fascism.
818
01:11:05,636 --> 01:11:07,172
[ Narrator I for patton...
819
01:11:07,263 --> 01:11:12,132
The holocaust is a reminder of everything
the allies had been fighting for.
820
01:11:15,354 --> 01:11:19,597
For my generation that had parents
who survived the holocaust...
821
01:11:20,610 --> 01:11:23,852
Who had relatives
who were lost in the holocaust...
822
01:11:24,864 --> 01:11:29,153
There is a real responsibility
to learn the lessons of history...
823
01:11:29,243 --> 01:11:31,825
And to make sure
that they're not forgotten.
824
01:11:36,167 --> 01:11:38,203
Shaken by what he sees...
825
01:11:39,420 --> 01:11:44,039
Patton and his troops round up
as many Germans as they can-
826
01:11:45,676 --> 01:11:51,091
thousands of soldiers,
along with ordinary citizens...
827
01:11:55,228 --> 01:11:57,139
Forcing them to bear witness...
828
01:11:59,899 --> 01:12:02,311
Fo Hitler's atrocities.
829
01:12:04,737 --> 01:12:10,198
Patton's decision to confront the
perpetrators of injustice and slaughter...
830
01:12:10,284 --> 01:12:12,491
With the actuality of what they did-
831
01:12:12,578 --> 01:12:15,866
if you can't see
the consequences of your actions...
832
01:12:15,957 --> 01:12:19,700
You're less likely to understand
the significance of them.
833
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:22,501
When people
perpetrate war crimes...
834
01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:24,691
The most important thing is that
they're held accountable for them...
835
01:12:24,715 --> 01:12:26,315
'Cause if they're
not held accountable...
836
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:27,903
Then I'm afraid
it's an encouragement to others...
837
01:12:27,927 --> 01:12:30,339
To violate
the most basic norms as well.
838
01:12:33,140 --> 01:12:37,008
[ Narrator I patton knows
there's only one way to stop the genocide-
839
01:12:37,103 --> 01:12:38,889
win the war.
840
01:12:46,779 --> 01:12:48,770
After five years of fighting...
841
01:12:48,865 --> 01:12:51,982
The allies are finally closing in
on Adolf Hitler.
842
01:12:52,869 --> 01:12:58,956
But right when victory seems within reach,
America is dealt a devastating blow.
843
01:13:23,900 --> 01:13:26,812
On April 12, 1945...
844
01:13:28,613 --> 01:13:33,323
President Franklin delano Roosevelt
dies of a sudden stroke.
845
01:13:39,457 --> 01:13:41,743
Americans were shocked.
846
01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:43,790
Roosevelt had guided Americans...
847
01:13:43,878 --> 01:13:49,418
Through the two great emotional, economic
and military crises of the 20th century-
848
01:13:49,508 --> 01:13:52,466
the great depression and world war il.
849
01:13:53,262 --> 01:13:57,847
These were formative experiences
for an entire generation...
850
01:13:57,934 --> 01:14:00,721
And when Roosevelt died...
851
01:14:00,811 --> 01:14:06,101
Many thousands of Americans felt as though
they had lost a member of their family.
852
01:14:09,362 --> 01:14:12,399
With an allied victory within reach...
853
01:14:12,490 --> 01:14:15,402
America has just lost
jts commander in chief.
854
01:14:28,547 --> 01:14:30,412
Vice president Harry Truman...
855
01:14:30,508 --> 01:14:33,466
Is immediately summoned
fo the white house.
856
01:14:36,055 --> 01:14:39,547
The former shopkeeper
from small-town Missouri...
857
01:14:39,642 --> 01:14:43,351
Has been vice president
for less than three months...
858
01:14:43,437 --> 01:14:47,931
Before suddenly being thrust into the role
of President of the United States.
859
01:14:55,282 --> 01:14:57,773
And now its up to Truman...
860
01:14:57,868 --> 01:15:02,578
Fo put an end to 30 years of the deadliest
fighting the world has ever seen.
861
01:15:06,794 --> 01:15:11,379
Harry Truman would say it was like the moon
and the stars just fell down on top of him.
862
01:15:11,465 --> 01:15:13,001
He's suddenly president.
863
01:15:13,092 --> 01:15:16,505
The challenge when he became president
was he had to win these wars.
864
01:15:16,595 --> 01:15:22,306
It's still raging, so first things first.
You had to get that victory in Europe.
865
01:15:27,481 --> 01:15:30,268
[ Narrator I as a new leader
comes to power in America...
866
01:15:30,359 --> 01:15:33,146
In Italy, the old guard has crumbled.
867
01:15:34,613 --> 01:15:38,856
Benifo Mussolini has been hiding out
in northern Italy...
868
01:15:38,951 --> 01:15:41,363
But he plans an escape to Spain...
869
01:15:41,454 --> 01:15:45,322
- [ Bells tolling I
- [ Cheering I
870
01:15:50,755 --> 01:15:53,417
Only fo be captured
on his way out of the country...
871
01:15:56,218 --> 01:16:00,302
And publicly executed
by members of the Italian resistance.
872
01:16:04,310 --> 01:16:08,679
Mussolini's corpse
is put into the center of a square...
873
01:16:08,773 --> 01:16:13,267
Where some locals
come out and abuse it-
874
01:16:14,987 --> 01:16:18,775
what people had always done
when a tyrant fell...
875
01:16:18,866 --> 01:16:22,154
And they had a chance to abuse him.
876
01:16:22,244 --> 01:16:24,405
He was the person
who had been responsible...
877
01:16:24,497 --> 01:16:26,408
For the bombing
and all the troubles of the war.
878
01:16:26,499 --> 01:16:28,911
“Okay, let's kick his head in.”
879
01:16:29,919 --> 01:16:33,252
[ Narrator I one of the most ruthless
dictators the world has ever known...
880
01:16:33,339 --> 01:16:35,375
Has finally fallen.
881
01:16:36,842 --> 01:16:40,175
[ Air raid sirens blaring I
882
01:16:42,223 --> 01:16:47,058
just two days later,
while hiding in his bunker in Berlin...
883
01:16:47,144 --> 01:16:50,511
Adolf Hitler learns
of Mussolini's brutal execution.
884
01:16:51,982 --> 01:16:56,976
The Soviet army was moving through
the center of Berlin towards the bunker.
885
01:16:58,155 --> 01:17:03,070
Hitler did not want to suffer
the same fate as Mussolini.
886
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:05,492
Hitler was not going
to have that happen to him.
887
01:17:06,872 --> 01:17:09,409
But Adolf Hitler long ago vowed...
888
01:17:09,500 --> 01:17:12,367
Fo never see Germany
surrender again.
889
01:17:50,249 --> 01:17:51,785
[ Gunshot I
890
01:18:06,807 --> 01:18:11,016
Adolf Hitler's suicide forces
Germany to surrender to the allies...
891
01:18:12,438 --> 01:18:14,599
For the second time this century.
892
01:18:16,859 --> 01:18:18,815
Within less than one month...
893
01:18:18,903 --> 01:18:23,488
Franklin Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini
and Adolf Hitler have died...
894
01:18:23,574 --> 01:18:26,907
And the war in Europe
has come fo a close.
895
01:18:40,132 --> 01:18:42,839
The war ends in Europe...
896
01:18:42,927 --> 01:18:45,543
And, of course, for Europeans,
that's the end of the war.
897
01:18:45,638 --> 01:18:47,253
For the United States, it's not.
898
01:18:48,724 --> 01:18:52,308
The United States
still has another war to win.
899
01:19:01,320 --> 01:19:03,652
By spring of 1945...
900
01:19:03,739 --> 01:19:09,109
Adolf Hitler is dead,
and the war in Europe is finally over.
901
01:19:12,498 --> 01:19:14,705
But one axis power remains...
902
01:19:15,626 --> 01:19:18,993
And president Harry Truman
and the United States military...
903
01:19:19,088 --> 01:19:22,672
Can now focus their attention on Japan.
904
01:19:30,015 --> 01:19:32,722
For three years,
the United States has engaged...
905
01:19:32,810 --> 01:19:35,768
In a devastating fight
with the Japanese military.
906
01:19:37,690 --> 01:19:40,523
But even after the fall
of their last remaining allies...
907
01:19:41,860 --> 01:19:44,818
Japan still refuses to surrender.
908
01:19:47,616 --> 01:19:50,278
And as they grow
increasingly desperate...
909
01:19:50,369 --> 01:19:55,534
They begin bombarding the allies
with devastating kamikaze attacks.
910
01:20:04,174 --> 01:20:08,713
The Japanese have a code of behavior.
911
01:20:09,638 --> 01:20:13,222
One of those parts is no surrender.
912
01:20:16,729 --> 01:20:20,688
The Japanese were so determined
to fight on at all costs.
913
01:20:27,239 --> 01:20:29,150
General Douglas MacArthur...
914
01:20:29,241 --> 01:20:32,984
Knows the Japanese military
will be a fearsome enemy to beat.
915
01:20:34,163 --> 01:20:37,872
He's convinced that the only way
fo defeat the last axis power...
916
01:20:37,958 --> 01:20:41,951
Is with what could be
the largest military operation in history-
917
01:20:42,046 --> 01:20:45,755
an assault that would awarf
even the size of d-day.
918
01:20:45,841 --> 01:20:50,460
A daring amphibious invasion
of the Japanese mainland.
919
01:20:50,554 --> 01:20:54,012
The United States could lose
as many as 100,000 men.
920
01:20:54,099 --> 01:20:55,589
Casualties could be over a million.
921
01:20:55,684 --> 01:20:59,723
But MacArthur believes
this is the proper thing to do...
922
01:20:59,813 --> 01:21:01,599
Even though it'd be costly.
923
01:21:03,525 --> 01:21:07,609
[ Narrator I but MacArthur is not the only
one with plans for a conquest of Japan.
924
01:21:18,540 --> 01:21:23,500
As the war nears an end,
Joseph Stalin looks to take control.
925
01:21:23,587 --> 01:21:26,329
In July of 1945...
926
01:21:26,423 --> 01:21:29,790
Stalin begins mobilizing
his troops into China.
927
01:21:33,764 --> 01:21:36,722
And he believes
if he can beat America fo the punch...
928
01:21:36,809 --> 01:21:40,097
His power on the world stage
will be unmaitched.
929
01:21:41,480 --> 01:21:47,692
It is no question that Stalin
helped us defeat nazism.
930
01:21:49,279 --> 01:21:54,774
But it's also true that Stalin
had his eye on the postwar world...
931
01:21:56,578 --> 01:22:02,414
And was much more focused on gaining
advantage at the end of world war ii...
932
01:22:02,501 --> 01:22:06,915
Which would position the Soviet union
for a greater future.
933
01:22:08,674 --> 01:22:11,666
With Stalin on his own quest
for global domination...
934
01:22:13,262 --> 01:22:16,971
Great Britain and the United States
will need to act fast
935
01:22:25,941 --> 01:22:29,684
From the beginning, Winston Churchill
has seen Stalin as a threat ..
936
01:22:29,778 --> 01:22:31,769
Almost as great as Hitler.
937
01:22:34,491 --> 01:22:39,110
But before he can neutralize Stalin
and end the war on his own terms...
938
01:22:39,204 --> 01:22:41,866
He receives some shocking news.
939
01:22:44,793 --> 01:22:48,377
On July 26, 1945...
940
01:22:51,467 --> 01:22:55,506
Winston Churchill
is unexpectedly voted out of office.
941
01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:59,634
Churchill was proved right
about the Nazis...
942
01:22:59,725 --> 01:23:03,968
And that's what transformed him
to a great wartime leader...
943
01:23:04,062 --> 01:23:07,475
And it was in war that he proved
his leadership credentials.
944
01:23:07,566 --> 01:23:11,479
Interestingly enough, the British people
then didn't trust him to win the peace.
945
01:23:24,750 --> 01:23:28,709
[ Narrator I without Churchill,
Harry Truman is on his own.
946
01:23:28,795 --> 01:23:32,583
He knows he needs to finish the war
before Stalin is able fo...
947
01:23:34,009 --> 01:23:36,671
But he also knows
that MacArthur's planned invasion...
948
01:23:36,762 --> 01:23:39,879
Would lead
fo a catastrophic loss of life.
949
01:23:40,599 --> 01:23:45,093
But what few realize
is that Truman has another option.
950
01:23:49,858 --> 01:23:51,439
It's a go.
951
01:24:45,414 --> 01:24:48,747
On August 6, 1945...
952
01:24:48,834 --> 01:24:51,496
The first atomic bomb
strikes Hiroshima.
953
01:24:52,879 --> 01:24:57,748
In an instant,
over 80,000 Japanese civilians are dead.
954
01:25:01,346 --> 01:25:03,177
The level of devastation...
955
01:25:03,265 --> 01:25:07,554
Is unlike anything
anyone has ever seen before.
956
01:25:36,173 --> 01:25:38,630
Just three days later...
957
01:25:38,717 --> 01:25:41,959
A second atomic strike
hits Nagasaki...
958
01:25:46,224 --> 01:25:49,716
Instantly killing
another 75,000 people.
959
01:25:51,021 --> 01:25:53,057
Less than a week later...
960
01:25:54,399 --> 01:25:56,560
Japan finally surrenders.
961
01:25:57,527 --> 01:26:00,894
The last remaining axis power
has fallen.
962
01:26:03,241 --> 01:26:05,653
It's easy to criticize Truman's decision
to drop the bomb...
963
01:26:05,744 --> 01:26:10,078
But tell that to the million mothers
who might have lost their sons.
964
01:26:11,625 --> 01:26:13,991
War is no fun thing.
It's a terrible thing.
965
01:26:14,086 --> 01:26:16,006
But the fact
that those two bombs were dropped...
966
01:26:16,088 --> 01:26:21,003
I think guaranteed that we'll never see
an atomic bomb again dropped on anyone.
967
01:26:21,093 --> 01:26:23,835
It's existentially not possible,
and I know.
968
01:26:23,929 --> 01:26:26,796
I was in charge of 28,000 of them.
969
01:26:34,022 --> 01:26:35,512
It's over.
970
01:26:43,031 --> 01:26:45,864
Though difficult and controversial...
971
01:26:47,494 --> 01:26:50,156
The decision fo drop the bomb
brings an end...
972
01:26:50,247 --> 01:26:53,831
Lo the single bloodiest conflict
in human history.
973
01:27:03,719 --> 01:27:05,675
In the 31 years...
974
01:27:06,471 --> 01:27:10,089
Between 1974 and 1945...
975
01:27:11,643 --> 01:27:14,680
Over 100 million people were killed...
976
01:27:16,690 --> 01:27:20,023
In the deadliest fighting
the world has ever seen.
977
01:27:24,990 --> 01:27:26,855
The world wars...
978
01:27:28,076 --> 01:27:30,692
Were a time of ruthless tyrants...
979
01:27:32,998 --> 01:27:35,455
But also legendary heroes-
980
01:27:39,463 --> 01:27:43,502
an era
when a single generation of men...
981
01:27:45,051 --> 01:27:48,635
Determined the fate of all mankind.
982
01:27:51,975 --> 01:27:55,934
History tells us
that people are capable of evil...
983
01:27:56,021 --> 01:28:00,606
And unless good people are willing
to fight people capable of evil...
984
01:28:00,692 --> 01:28:02,148
Evil will triumph.
985
01:28:04,821 --> 01:28:09,315
Someone who is willing to take the risks...
986
01:28:09,409 --> 01:28:12,196
That are involved with military action...
987
01:28:12,287 --> 01:28:14,073
Is a hero as far as I'm concerned.
988
01:28:16,541 --> 01:28:19,954
My toughest job was
to write notes of condolence...
989
01:28:20,045 --> 01:28:22,252
To the families
who had lost loved ones.
990
01:28:24,883 --> 01:28:28,375
But the words I always used is
that you can always take some comfort...
991
01:28:28,470 --> 01:28:31,962
In the fact that they gave their life
for their country...
992
01:28:32,057 --> 01:28:34,844
And that they will be
forever remembered as heroes.
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