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Previously on the world wars-

incoming!

A new generation comes of age
on the battlefield.

Move! Move! Move!

But when the fighting stops,
conflict turns internal.

Germany is dead,
and you have conspired to kill her!

The revolution has begun!

A global depression
devastates the world...

Allowing new leaders
fo rise to power.

Some work fo rebuild their nation.

Others create massive militaries,
determined fo reignite the fighting.

We must reverse the treaty of versailles.

Let these chains be burst asunder.

Adolf Hitler embarks
on a violent rampage through Europe.

Bomb every town, every village.

We will annihilate them.

But as the allies are determined
fo end Hitler's crusade...

We shall fight on the beaches.

We shall fight in the hills.

We shall never surrender.

Another threat emerges.

Admiral, stay.

There's more to discuss.

[ Male announcer I
he's up to the 25!

We interrupt this program
fo bring you a special news bulletin.

The Japanese
have attacked Pearl harbor, Hawaii, by air.

The attack also was made
on all naval and military activity.

[ Continues, faint I

for the first time in modern history...

America has been attacked
by a foreign power.

Over 2,400 Americans are dead...

And nearly the entire U.S. naval fleet
in the pacific has been destroyed.

F.d.r. Is devastated.

But I think f.D.R., in the end,
his greatest legacy...

Was his ability to communicate
to the American people...

During the darkest hours...

To not give up
on what it means to be an American.

On the day after the attack...

Franklin Roosevelt gives
the most important speech of his life.

[ Roosevelt on radio I
December 7, 1941...

A aate which will live in infamy...

The United States of America...

Was suddenly
and deliberately attacked...

By naval and air forces
of the empire of Japan.

With the unbounding determination
of our people...

We will gain the inevitable triumph,
so help us god.

Roosevelt was a Navy man.

So the fact that this attack took place
against the Navy at Pearl harbor...

Perhaps filled him
with even greater indignation...

Against what had been done
to the United States by the Japanese.

The brutalness of the attack,
the surprise of the attack...

The price that was paid in that attack...

I think helped unify
the nation in a major way.

And for a President of the United States,
it gives him that call to action.

[ Narrator I
within 24 hours of the atfack...

Roosevell signs
a declaration of war against Japan.

Now it's clear.

This is going to be an all-out conflict.

The nation rallied
around f.D.R.'S leadership...

And millions of Americans
signed up to go to war.

I was a very young boy-
I think six years old.

A guy drove up
and said to my father, Jack-

he said, “the Japanese
have bombed Pearl harbor.”

My father ran upstairs,
put some things together.

And then next time I saw him
was three years later.

After years of avoiding conflict...

The United States
is heading for another war.

So it begins.

For Japanese prime minister hideki tojo
and his military...

The attack on Pearl harbor
is a huge success.

The Japanese launched...

One of the boldest and most successful
tactical surprise attacks in history...

When they attacked Pearl harbor.

350 airplanes had been destroyed,
eight battleships, four destroyers.

This was a devastating military defeat
for the United States.

[ Narrator I with the destruction
of the us. Pacific fleet ..

Japan continues its campaign
for control of Asia...

Striking key targets
throughout the pacific.

But fo take over all of Asia...

They need the Philippines
as a base of operation.

The only issue-

its a U.S. territory.

Just 10 hours
after bombing Pearl harbor...

Japan launches another attack on the U.S.,
against the Philippines.

The one man responsible
for protecting the U.S. territory...

Is general Douglas MacArthur.

MacArthur felt a particular attachment to
and responsibility for the Philippines.

And his first day of war
was absolutely terrible.

MacArthur's air force
was still on the runways, parked...

When Japan's planes came in
and destroyed most of his air arm.

MacArthur commands an army
of 22,000 American and Filipino soldiers...

Trained fo defend the Philippines
at any cost.

But the Japanese altacks
are relentless.

And MacArthur and his men
are completely overwhelmed.

American leaders fear if tojo
gains control of the Philippines...

The Japanese will invade oil-rich islands
throughout the pacific...

Fueling a potential attack
on the west coast of the United States.

With air strikes escalating
and supplies dwindling...

MacArthur's only option is to retreat.

Let's go, men.

You have to constantly
be analyzing the situation.

Is the battle changing?
Do I have to make new decisions?

Do I have to execute contingency plans?

Set the wounded there.

There's room for supplies
here along the wall.

We're trained professional officers...

And we're supposed to be able
to handle stress, handle crisis...

And not crack and not lose our ability
to think logically and rationally...

And make sure we win the battle.

Carter. Let's see the map.

[ Narrator I MacArthur sets up
a makeshift headquarters...

In a massive underground tunnel
on corregidor island.

They may now be huddled
in a hole in the ground...

[ Explosion I

but MacArthur knows that he and his men
are the last stronghold...

Against a complete Japanese takeover
of the pacific.

On the other side of the world...

Adolf Hitler has watched
the Japanese take on the United States...

And now sees
the attack on pear! Harbor...

As an opportunity
fo ramp up his own crusade.

Since 1936, German military
has marched through Europe...

Occupying the majority of the continent.

In the course of the war...

The myth of Hitler's personal infallibility
and military genius really takes hold...

And begins to develop a life of its own.

It is good for you to come.

Good to see you. How are you?

A friend and I'll be having dinner tonight,
and I hope that you can join us.

After breaking his alliance
with Joseph Stalin...

And launching
a massive attack on Russia...

Hitler is certain there
is no military force in the world...

That can take on his own.

Even the United States.

In Hitler's second book,
written in 1928 but never published...

He made it fairly clear...

That once he had conquered Europe,
he would turn to America.

For the Nazis,
there's never any end to war...

Because they believe
that a race like the Germans...

Could only be kept vigorous
by continual war and continual conflict.

But if Hitlers going
fo establish world supremacy...

He knows he'll have fo defeat
his greatest threat...

And one aay capture the prize of the west
for his own people.

On December 11, 1941...

Just four days after the Japanese strike
on Pearl harbor...

Adolf Hitler declares war...

On the United States.

This is really a very puzzling decision.

Hitler always learned
the lessons of world war I...

And one of the lessons of world war I
is you keep America out of the battle.

That's something
he had been doing all along.

But by this point, he was so convinced
that he was invincible.

He was so convinced
that he could not make mistakes...

That he was
the master military strategist...

That he goes against
his own lessons of the past.

Hitlers fight has gone global...

But his ultimate mission
is one without borders.

Jl [ Classical I

Hitler's notion of his own mission
really takes hold.

He realizes the future mission
is to organize the German race...

So as to be able to face
the challenge of its racial enemies.

[ Narrator I
since the end of the first world war...

Hitler has carefully outlined his plan
for the future of mankind...

And now it's becoming a reality.

Hitler sends his secret police...

Fo round up groups of people
he deems undesirable-

gypsies, homosexuals...

People with disabilities...

And anyone of Jewish heritage.

Hitler believed he was chosen by destiny
to destroy the Jews.

The Nazis unrolled this massive
wave of terror on the streets...

Rounding up Jewish men
and then very quickly women and children.

We are going to have a total solution
to the Jewish question.

The program is clear.

It reads fofal separation,
total segregation!

It does not only mean
the exclusion of the Jews...

It means much more.

We will be faced
with the harsh necessity...

Of eradicating the Jewish underworld...

Just as we would root out criminals
in our own state...

With fire and sword.

The result will be the certain...

And absolute end of jewry in Germany.

Its complete annihilation!

Hitler orders the prisoners
fo be packed onto trains...

And transported
fo concentration camps...

Located miles from civilization.

There was a continual,
continent-wide delivery...

Of trainloads of Jews.

And, in fact, Hitler denied his military
troop trains and supply trains...

Because he wanted to use those trains
to transport Jews to the death camps.

Hitler's death camps...

Are methodically
organized factories of killing.

The preferred method of execution...

Is gas.

[ Gasping I - [ Coughing I

Hitler knows exactly
what it feels like fo be gassed.

America is locked in battle
with two ruthless axis powers.

With Japan on a fear through Asia...

And Germany's
recent declaration of war...

The united slates has no option
but to go fo battle against both threats.

So it begins.

Toward the end of 19417...

U.S. president Franklin delano Roosevelt
[Ss under enormous pressure.

No American president
has ever faced the challenge...

Of fighting two wars at the same time.

Roosevelt saw himself dealing
with the rise of Hitler in Europe...

And the rise of the Japanese in Asia.

They're in position.

Very good.

He had no doubt that the United States
would defeat Germany and Japan...

But it was gonna be a long haul...

And it would cost
a great deal in money and lives.

With the fate of the world
hanging in the balance...

Roosevelt welcomes a visitor
fo the white house-

British prime minister Winston Churchill.

Churchill once said, “the only thing worse
than going to war with allies...

Is going to war without allies.”

Each nation has different perspectives,
different priorities...

And yet we have to just face up
to the reality...

That you can't do things alone today.

J o little town of Bethlehem j

as Christmas approaches...

J how still we see thee lie j!

The two leaders
want to present a united front...

Letting the world know
that the allies are stronger than ever.

But behind the scenes...

Roosevelt and Churchill are dealing
with the enormous responsibility...

Of making decisions that will
affect the future of all humanity.

Tojo has taken Hong Kong.

These two men are
all that stand in the way...

Of a world controlled
by Adolf Hitler...

And the axis powers.

On the other side of the world...

The war in the pacific
is already out of control.

After three months of continuous
fighting in the Philippines...

The Japanese are closing in
on Douglas MacArthur's bunker.

Look at this situation.
We need to get out of it.

The supply line is absolutely important.

- General.
- Yes?

We're live.

The last thing MacArthur wants to do
is surrender the American islands.

Yes, it is very important
that we get the reinforcements.

Yes. Yes. Well, we're under siege.

I need confirmation from-...

Is everyone all right?

To defend the Philippines,
he's prepared fo die.

Back in Washington,
Roosevelt has fo act quickly.

He knows losing his top general...

Would be a demoralizing blow
fo the U.S. military...

And an incredible moral victory
that would only empower the Japanese.

[ Roosevelt I when can we get
reinforcements to MacArthur?

We can't get reinforcements
to MacArthur.

- How much longer can he hold out?
- We don't have the supplies.

And where's our naval forces
right now at this moment?

Mr. president,
they're on the bataan peninsula.

How long till we can get support there?

He can't hold out long enough
for us to get support.

- How long?
- It'll be a week.

- Well, get MacArthur out of there.
- He refuses to leave, sir.

Tell him it's not a request.
It's a damned order.

Yes, sir.

But the last thing MacArthur wants fo do
is abandon his men.

MacArthur's a military guy.

He's loves the military,
and one of the things you never do...

Is you never retreat
and you never abandon your soldiers.

But he's been given an order
by his commander in chief.

Against his own wishes...

MacArthur retreats
fo the safety of Australia.

And as soon as he's gone,
his worst fears are realized...

As the Japanese military
overtakes the Americans...

And finally captures the Philippines.

As Japan conquers the pacific...

6,000 miles away...

Adolf Hitler is locked
in a deadly war with Joseph Stalin.

Hitler knows if he can conquer
the Soviet union...

The axis powers would then control
all of Europe and Asia...

Ruling over 30% of the globe.

Stalin and Hitler
are engaged in this battle...

Which is as much about ego
as it is about military strategy.

Like a tarantula and scorpion
in a bottle...

They're fighting, and they're fighting
over the corpse of their own troops.

[ Narrator I Hitler's military is about
fo capture the Soviet capital...

But with victory in sight,
Hitler lets his ego take over...

Suddenly changing his battle plan...

And sending millions of troops...

Lo converge on an industrial city
so important fo Joseph Stalin...

It bears his name:

Stalingrad.

Hitler thought this
is a personal battle with Stalin...

And so he began
pouring resources into stalingrad...

Because stalingrad, a town of no particular
strategic importance, had the name of Stalin.

[ Narrator I as Hitlers men
converge on stalingrad...

They come face-to-face
with Stalin's red army.

Hitler's convinced
if he can take stalingrad...

He'll be one step away
from global domination.

In less than six months...

President Franklin delano Roosevelt
has watched...

The Japanese military
devastate his naval fleet...

And conquer the pacific
island by island.

With Hitler on the verge
of taking control of Europe...

The threat of war is now closing in on the
United States from both directions...

And Roosevelt is
increasingly desperate for anything...

That can turn the tide of the war.

U.S. naval intelligence
has been working around the clock...

Infercepting encrypted
Japanese military dispatches...

Hoping to get wind of the next attack.

And in may of 1942...

The U.S. Navy gives Roosevelt
the opportunity he's been waiting for.

- What is it?
- We've broken the code.

It's midway.

How sure are you?

Very.

Alert the fleet.

The deciphered messages contain details
of Japan's next planned attack-

the midway islanas.

Situated halfway
between Asia and the united stales...

Midway is home
fo a crucial American airfield.

If the Japanese fake midway,
theyll control all of the pacific.

What's worse,
they'll have a launching point...

For a potential attack
on the west coast of the United States.

After the attack on Pearl harbor...

The U.S. has just three aircraft carriers
left in the pacific.

But Roosevelt knows this is his chance
fo make a last stand against Japan.

So he sends
the three remaining carriers to midway...

Fo lie in wait for an ambush...

On the Japanese fleet.

God be with us.

On June 4, 1942...

The U.S. fleet
quietly positions itself around midway.

And as the Japanese Navy
crests the horizon...

The Americans
launch their surprise attack.

Yes?

There are four carriers destroyed.

I thought we only had three.

Four Japanese carriers, sir.

You update me
with anything you receive right away.

In just six minutes...

Four of the same Japanese aircraft carriers
used in the Pearl harbor attack...

Are destroyed...

And over 3,000 Japanese soldiers
are killed.

Roosevelt absolutely bets the farm...

And they destroyed four of the biggest
carriers in the Japanese Navy.

And it took a commander who was prepared
to make the bold decision to act...

When the easy thing would have been
to, you know, to play it safe.

He didn't play it safe,
and he won a tremendous victory.

The United States has dealt
Japan its first major defeat in the war.

One moment, gentlemen.

For Japanese prime minister
hideki tojo...

The loss at midway
is a humiliating failure.

Do not speak a word of this to anyone.

Meanwhile, in Russia...

Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler...

Order hundreds of thousands
of their own troops into battle...

Waging a war of ego
for the city of stalingrad.

For Stalin...

The cily that bears his name
is invaluable...

And he'll sacrifice anything fo defend it.

There are no desertions.

Every soldier must fight-
fight to the death.

The deadly battle seems unending.

But the Soviets
have a secret advaniage...

That promises fo put them
one step ahead of the Germans.

The Russian winter.

Hitler thought that he would get
to Moscow before the winter.

But the winter had set in,
and the German army was unprepared.

The entire siberian winterized troops...

Came westward...

And made mincemeat
out of Hitler's panzer divisions.

[ Shouting I

the German weapons and uniforms...

Aren't designed
for Russia's brutal winter...

And it isn't long
before Hitler's men...

Are completely overwhelmed.

J [ Classical I

one time, I'm walking with the dog...

And the dog kicks my legs
out from under me.

I wind up falling into the-

and rolling down the hill in this way.

Ladies.

Come.

Sit.

Please.

The Russians
have halted our advance.

We have lost
the 14th and 22nd panzer division.

- Allow me to explain.
- Enough!

Hitler was famous
for telling organizations not to retreat.

He would put organizations
in a place like stalingrad...

And he said,
“you cannot give up an inch of ground”...

When it was militarily
illogical to do that.

It just doesn't make sense to do that.

Armies move up and back, and you
have to be responsive to conditions.

You can't understand
Adolf Hitler's actions in world war il...

Without understanding the lessons
he learned from world war I.

And one of the most critical lessons
he learned was...

You never give up,
that you never surrender.

He was so traumatized
by the German surrender in world war I...

That he was determined
under no circumstances...

Would he surrender in world war il.

Blind to all logic...

Hitler sends more troops
info almost certain death.

One German soldier
dies every seven seconds.

On this, our 10th anniversary...

We celebrate in the sunlight...

On February 2, 1943...

Hitler prepares for the 10th anniversary
of the founding of the third reich.

Mein fiihrer.

What is it?

News from the sixth army.

They've been destroyed.

Destroyed?

How is this possible?

They surrendered.

Surrendered?

A quarter million men-

an entire army of the reich-
surrendered?

The sons of the fatherland
now traitors to their race.

Their very names
are a curse on this nation...

On their mothers, on their children,
on their brothers and sisters!

The stain of their perfidy
is darker than blood!

I will hear no more of this.

Surrendered?

Just to die...

In a prison camp.

The gods of war have abandoned us.

Whats left
of the German army is in shambles...

And the man who seemed fo be
on the road to world domination...

Must now watch
his greatest enemy claim victory...

And for the first time
face the possibility of ultimate defeat.

War is raging around the globe...

And for the first time...

Adolf Hitler has suffered
a devastating defeat...

At the hands of Joseph Stalin,
who now looks to be unstoppable.

President Roosevelt
is beginning fo fear...

That if Joseph Stalin
adefeats Adolf Hitler alone...

He'll conquer Europe for himself...

Replacing one tyrant with another.

Roosevelt knows he needs
fo get the Americans into Europe...

As quickly as possible.

He sends an allied force into sicily...

Hoping fo capture the island...

So he can establish
a base of operations...

Fo launch an attack
against the axis powers in Europe.

The moment the allies
have been waiting for has finally arrived.

Over 160,000 troops
storm into sicily...

In the first major American operation
in the European theater.

Leading the charge for the Americans
is Roosevelt's secret weapon...

Lieutenant general George s. Patton.

[ Mcchrystal I
leaders like George patton...

Around whom an aura begins to grow...

Have extraordinary power.

For one, they inspire their own side.

There's a sense
that when you are working for patton...

We are gonna do things faster and better,
and we're gonna win.

I work for a winner.

In the years...

Since he commanded
America's first ever tank brigade...

In the first world war...

Patton has personally
adedicated himselr..

Fo building up the U.S. tank division...

From just a few dozen fanks
fo over 88,000.

Patton arrives in sicily
with a plan to lake control.

I need you two to find me
the most probable path through here.

Okay?

He's going fo seize
the sicilian capital of palermo...

And he's going to do it
by any means necessary.

Patton was an interesting character,
because he was the flamboyant leader...

That people respected for what he did.

But there was always
a second half to the sentence.

George patton is brilliant,
but... he's egotistical.

He can't control running his mouth.

On July 18, 1943...

Patton and his forces
launch an assault on palermo...

Sweeping around the enemy...

And capturing the city in just 72 hours.

And now with sicily
unaer their control...

The allies are ready fo launch
a massive attack on the axis powers.

On September 3, 1943,
allied armies move into mainland Italy...

Fighting back thousands of axis troops.

[ Bell tolling I

as the allies take Italy city by cily...

Benito Mussolini is forced fo watch
his beloved empire begin fo crumble.

Before long...

Mussolini is summoned
for an emergency meeting...

With his closest ally.

Mussolini may have come
fo power first...

But now the tables have turned.

What you are doing to us now...

Is you are causing us
to have such problems.

And be the type of ally
who can be of some use to us.

Well, why-
why do we have this relationship?

Germany has given you everything.

We have given you
all that you have needed.

We have given you artillery
when you needed artillery.

We gave you men.
We gave our treasure, our blood.

And now you come to me
and you say no?

We have spent enough time talking over
these inane suggestions of yours...

About how to carry on this war.

You will stop!

There are several turning points
in the Hitler-Mussolini relationship.

First of all, Hitler regards Mussolini
as the man who sets the example.

The next step is in the war...

And when Mussolini does come in,
it's a fiasco.

The Italians now become very much
the second class.

Hitler began to regard
the Italians as weak-

as the weak link in the axis.

[ Narrator I Mussolini is sent back fo Rome
with instructions fo hold the line.

But less than two months later,
[Italy surrenders fo the allies.

The first major axis power has fallen.

Adolf Hitler has watched the man
he once idolized overthrown in disgrace.

And he knows
the allies are coming for him next.

The tide of the world war is turning...

As the allies, led by patton...

Lake down Italy.

Why do we have this-
you will stop!

[ Bell tolling I

during the campaign...

Patfon conquered Italy
in just six weeks...

But his army suffered 6,000 killed
and 16,000 wounded.

But patton knows
the job's not done...

And he needs every man he can get
back on the battlefield.

Soldier.

Why are you here, son?

'Cause you look healthy enough to me
right now.

You seem capable enough for fighting
to me.

In our own day, we know of the difficulty
of battle and post-traumatic stress.

But in the 1940s, these were not terms
that were commonly used.

And for patton,
if someone had battle fatigue...

It was simply
you were being a coward.

Look at me, son.

You might get shot and killed...

But you're going to fight.

- Please don't send me back.
- You coward.

News of the incident quickly goes public.

Once the story got out,
the public was outraged...

And Roosevelt was put into a box.

Even though he realized
that patton was one of his best generals...

He had to punish him in some way.

[ Narrator I Roosevelt has no choice
but to pull patton from active duly.

With war still raging on two fronts...

Roosevelt believes the allies
may need a new strategy.

He reaches out to Winston Churchill...

[ Ringin - oko

convincing him they need to team up
with an unlikely partner-

Joseph Stalin.

Roosevelt and Churchill know
that Stalin is a brutal tyrant...

Who shares more in common
with Hitler than with them...

But they come fo the realization...

That the enemy of their enemy
needs to be their friend.

If the allies are going to win this war,
they need Stalin on their side.

Roosevelt and Churchill
persuade Stalin to meet them...

For an unprecedented conference
at the Soviet embassy in Tehran, Iran.

This is the first meeting
of the three allied leaders...

And they each come
with their own agenda.

Stalin is clearly
in the strongest position.

We've broken the back
of the Germans...

And you merely SWAT at them
like you would at a fly.

We pushed them out of north Africa.

[ Stalin I
while millions of Russians have died.

I do not think the people want
any more of my men to die.

Do your people want
any more of your men to die?

I'm sure that Churchill
and Roosevelt had real questions...

About what Stalin really stood for...

What kind of leader
would he be in a postwar period.

But they also knew...

That Stalin's primary mission
was to defeat Nazi Germany...

And then they had to work together.

We need to win this war.

We need to win the peace.

That certainly didn't work out very well
last time at versailles.

A piece of paper has little power
to keep people apart...

Much less hold them together.

We need to ensure
that Germany can't threaten Europe again.

Then you need to help me.

And you need to help me.

Now let's talk about Japan.

I will help you with Japan
if you help me with Hitler.

If there is no invasion...

Then I cannot help you with Japan.

After four days of infense negotiations...

In exchange
for Stalin's help in the pacific...

Roosevelt and Churchill agree fo execute
an unprecedented invasion of Europe.

The allies knew
that to defeat Nazi Germany...

You were gonna have
to invade western Europe...

And you're gonna have to go
from France, essentially, into Germany.

And it was an amazing undertaking
both in scope and complexity.

[ Narrator I
Winston Churchill knows...

That the strategy could be
the turning point in the war.

But still... he has grave concems.

Churchill's ordered
an ambitious operation like this before.

[ Phone ringing I

four ships sunk, another burning.

The invasion of gallipoli
in the first world vwar-

a disastrous amphibious assault...

That left tens of thousands
of British troops dead.

Churchill fears that the allies
are heading for another gallipoli.

If the mission
is going fo be successful...

This time theyll need to be smarter.

Gallipoli cast a long shadow.

It haunted Churchill.

But that capacity to take risk,
to think big, to think on a global scale...

Became one of his great strengths.

My biggest worry is that Hitler
now knows we're coming.

While preparations
for the invasion of France continues...

Churchill oversees
the creation of a secret plan...

That will put the allies
one step ahead of Adolf Hitler.

So what we need
is the right lies to deceive him.

It's called operation fortitude.

The success of the mission
will rely on one man...

Whose military career
seemed fo be over-

general George s. Patton.

After being pulled from active duly...

Patton has been forced
fo watch the planning...

Of one of the largest invasions in history
from the sidelines.

If you put yourself
in patton's position...

They're about to invade
the center of Europe.

They're about to go
at the guts of Nazi Germany.

To think he's not gonna
be involved in that...

Had to have been just
excruciatingly painful for patton...

Because he knows
he's a war soldier.

This is his moment,
and if he's notin it...

It's going to just be torture.

But operation fortitude...

Has a special place for patton.

In the spring of 1944...

Allied leaders covertly
send patton fo england...

Along with 250,000 men...

And what appears to be thousands
of tanks and fighter planes.

But patton's not going
fo lead an invasion...

And his army isn't what it seems.

Instead of heavy machinery
and modern weapons...

Patton's armed with balloons.

Roosevelt and Churchill
used patton as a deception.

They actually have
Hollywood people help them create...

What is essentially a phony army.

There's phony tanks
that are actually nothing but balloons.

There's barracks.

It appears that there are hundreds
of thousands of allied troops...

Assembled across
the channel from France.

Through the allied tank fields-

it isn't long before Hitler
sees German intelligence photographs...

Of patton's supposed army...

And he completely takes the bait.

Hitler thinks
he's outsmarted the allies.

He refuses fo believe that patfon has
been sidelined just for slapping a soldier.

Patton.

Here are the three major ports
suitable for an operation of this size.

The only other viable landing
is further south.

The real invasion will be here...

At pas de calais... with patton.

Hitler knows that patton is one
of Roosevelt's best generals.

The general
who is bold and audacious.

So in all likelihood,
patton is going to be leading the attack.

Hitler's convinced the legendary general...

Was preparing fo invade
the French mainland at pas de calais...

A major port city
in northern France...

Mere miles
across the english channel...

From where patton's forces
are gathering.

So he sends a million troops fo calais
to fortify the city.

On June 6, 1944...

The day that will come fo be known
as d-day finally arrives.

Roosevelt and Churchill
order 150,000 allied troops...

Lo pile into over 4,000 boats
and head fo France...

In the largest amphibious invasion
ever attempted.

[ Shouting I

On a day
that will come to be known as d-day...

150,000 allied troops pile
into thousands of boats...

And head foward France...

In the largest amphibious invasion
ever attempted.

Across the channel, more than a million
German soldiers prepare for an attack...

Fortifying the French
port city of calais...

Where Adolf Hitler is convinced an allied
army led by George patton will land.

What Hitler doesn't know...

Is that the allied force
isn't being led by patton...

And isn't heading fo calais.

Its larget is
just over 200 miles to the south-

the beaches of normandy.

[ Gunfire I

After a brutal fight...

The allied forces
capture the beaches.

The question of d-day was...

Can the Americans primarily,
but the British as well...

Establish a foothold
on the European continent?

If they can...

There was some hope
that maybe Hitler could be overthrown.

As allied troops push into normandy...

Adolf Hitler
is notified of the invasion...

But he refuses to reroute
his troops stationed in calais.

With patton still in england...

Hitler is convinced that the attack
at normanaly is just a diversion...

And that a much larger allied assault
is still on the way.

Hitler is so out of touch.

He's so consumed
with his own brilliance...

That even after it becomes obvious that
the allies are attacking in normandy...

He spends some 72 hours
refusing to accept the reports.

While Hitler waits
for an invasion that will never come...

Allied armies begin
moving into France...

Town by town...

Pushing back
against the German forces...

And liberating thousanas of citizens
throughout the country.

What if Hitler had not been so arrogant?

What if he had recognized that the allies
were going to invade in normandy?

What if, after he had
credible intelligence reports...

That they were attacking at normandy,
had moved his troops there?

It's very likely that he could
have blunted the allied assault.

And if you blunt
the allied assault at d-day...

The best the allies could hope for
is a stalemate in Europe.

With the help of patton's decoy army...

The normandy landings
are an incredible success...

That change the course of the war.

While Adolf Hitler suffers
an unthinkable defeat ..

On the other side of the world...

His last remaining ally
looks to protect his empire.

Following his defeat at midway...

Japanese prime minister hideki tojo
has been trying to regroup.

He's desperate fo maintain
his control over the pacific.

But little does tojo know...

He's about fo face
his biggest challenge yet.

For years, general Douglas MacArthur
has waited for the moment...

Lo even the score with tojo.

His number one goal:

To lake back the island territory
he was forced to abandon-

the Philippines.

For MacArthur...

Going to the Philippines
was both a national necessity...

And a personal obligation...

For not sufficiently defending
the Philippines.

[ Narrator I in June of 1944...

MacArthur leads an armada
of warships into the pacific.

[ Gunfire I

for five bloody months...

He and his troops
lake on the Japanese military...

Fighting island by island...

By land and by sea...

Until MacArthur is finally able
to fulfill his promise...

And liberate the Philippines.

That outlines the movement,
as I understood it, from here to here.

[ Narrator I
but MacArthur's not finished.

As soon as he refakes
the Philippines...

He sels his sights
on an even bigger target-

the invasion of the Japanese mainland.

In Tokyo...

Prime minister hideki tojo has faced
a series of humiliating defeats.

For the first ime
since his rise to power...

The Japanese empire is dwindling.

And as criticism
of his leadership escalates...

Tojo is forced to resign in disgrace.

While tojo may be gone,
the war in Japan is far from over.

The world war
fakes a tum in the allies' favor.

After the successful
d-day invasion...

The allies continue
fo gain ground in Europe...

But Adolf Hitler
refuses fo surrender.

In December of 1944...

Hitler orders over 200,000 German troops
into Southern Belgium...

In what will come to be known
as the battle of the bulge.

Hitler's sneak attack
lakes the allies completely off guard.

Roosevelt realizes
if he's going fo beat Hitler...

He needs general George paftfon
fo help lead the charge.

So he makes the bold decision...

Fo return him to action.

Do it.

Sometimes you have to keep
somebody like a George patton around...

Even when every instinct tells you,
“get rid of this guy.”

But the bottom line was that he was
a great tactician on the battlefield.

After a year on the sidelines...

Patton is back where he belongs-

right on the front lines,
leading the charge info baffle.

On December 16, 1944...

Patton and the allies
come face-to-face with Hitler's army.

There was just a limit on what the German
army at that point had the capacity to do.

They just didn't have
the forces or the logistics.

Within days of joining the battle...

Patton and his fleet are able fo take
down six divisions of Hitler's army...

Finally breaking through
the German defenses.

But fo retreat back info Germany.

[ Air raid sirens blaring I

[ Blaring continues I

with allied armies closing in on Berlin...

Hitler is forced fo walch
the same terror and destruction...

He once forced upon the world...

Now inflicted on his own city.

[ Evans I
in the last phase of the war...

The air raids on Berlin
were becoming extremely destructive.

The Soviet army was moving through
the center of Berlin.

Mein fuhrer, it's time.

Hitler retreated underground...

To a prepared,
heavily fortified concrete bunker...

Underneath the reich chancellery
in Berlin...

And he was relatively safe there.

He hoped for a turnaround.

He thought that there
might be some wonder weapon...

That would be developed
by German scientists.

It was all complete fantasy.

Adolf Hitler's empire has been reduced...

From three million square miles
to 500 square feet.

As patton and his troops
advance into Germany...

They arrive at a series
of large factory-like buildings...

Surrounded by emply fields
in the middle of nowhere.

First squad, move up.

The rumors he's heard are true.

This is one
of Adolf Hitler's death camps-

buchenwald.

Paltton finds
20,000 emaciated survivors...

Suffering from starvation,
aisease and torture.

Thousands of corpses
line the grounds...

Killed during one of the worst genocides
the world has ever seen-

a systematfic
mass extermination program...

Hitler calls 'the final solution.”

The camp patton liberates...

Is just one of 20,000 detention and
killing facilities built by Hitler.

In all, the holocaust
kills 11 million people.

Six million are Jewish.

My wife's mother was
in Auschwitz and dacha...

She was liberated from dachau
by the U.S. army.

I had a press secretary...

And his father had been part of the group
that had liberated my mother-in-law.

These soldiers
and everyone else who did that...

Saved the world
from nazism and fascism.

[ Narrator I for patton...

The holocaust is a reminder of everything
the allies had been fighting for.

For my generation that had parents
who survived the holocaust...

Who had relatives
who were lost in the holocaust...

There is a real responsibility
to learn the lessons of history...

And to make sure
that they're not forgotten.

Shaken by what he sees...

Patton and his troops round up
as many Germans as they can-

thousands of soldiers,
along with ordinary citizens...

Forcing them to bear witness...

Fo Hitler's atrocities.

Patton's decision to confront the
perpetrators of injustice and slaughter...

With the actuality of what they did-

if you can't see
the consequences of your actions...

You're less likely to understand
the significance of them.

When people
perpetrate war crimes...

The most important thing is that
they're held accountable for them...

'Cause if they're
not held accountable...

Then I'm afraid
it's an encouragement to others...

To violate
the most basic norms as well.

[ Narrator I patton knows
there's only one way to stop the genocide-

win the war.

After five years of fighting...

The allies are finally closing in
on Adolf Hitler.

But right when victory seems within reach,
America is dealt a devastating blow.

On April 12, 1945...

President Franklin delano Roosevelt
dies of a sudden stroke.

Americans were shocked.

Roosevelt had guided Americans...

Through the two great emotional, economic
and military crises of the 20th century-

the great depression and world war il.

These were formative experiences
for an entire generation...

And when Roosevelt died...

Many thousands of Americans felt as though
they had lost a member of their family.

With an allied victory within reach...

America has just lost
jts commander in chief.

Vice president Harry Truman...

Is immediately summoned
fo the white house.

The former shopkeeper
from small-town Missouri...

Has been vice president
for less than three months...

Before suddenly being thrust into the role
of President of the United States.

And now its up to Truman...

Fo put an end to 30 years of the deadliest
fighting the world has ever seen.

Harry Truman would say it was like the moon
and the stars just fell down on top of him.

He's suddenly president.

The challenge when he became president
was he had to win these wars.

It's still raging, so first things first.
You had to get that victory in Europe.

[ Narrator I as a new leader
comes to power in America...

In Italy, the old guard has crumbled.

Benifo Mussolini has been hiding out
in northern Italy...

But he plans an escape to Spain...

- [ Bells tolling I
- [ Cheering I

Only fo be captured
on his way out of the country...

And publicly executed
by members of the Italian resistance.

Mussolini's corpse
is put into the center of a square...

Where some locals
come out and abuse it-

what people had always done
when a tyrant fell...

And they had a chance to abuse him.

He was the person
who had been responsible...

For the bombing
and all the troubles of the war.

“Okay, let's kick his head in.”

[ Narrator I one of the most ruthless
dictators the world has ever known...

Has finally fallen.

[ Air raid sirens blaring I

just two days later,
while hiding in his bunker in Berlin...

Adolf Hitler learns
of Mussolini's brutal execution.

The Soviet army was moving through
the center of Berlin towards the bunker.

Hitler did not want to suffer
the same fate as Mussolini.

Hitler was not going
to have that happen to him.

But Adolf Hitler long ago vowed...

Fo never see Germany
surrender again.

[ Gunshot I

Adolf Hitler's suicide forces
Germany to surrender to the allies...

For the second time this century.

Within less than one month...

Franklin Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini
and Adolf Hitler have died...

And the war in Europe
has come fo a close.

The war ends in Europe...

And, of course, for Europeans,
that's the end of the war.

For the United States, it's not.

The United States
still has another war to win.

By spring of 1945...

Adolf Hitler is dead,
and the war in Europe is finally over.

But one axis power remains...

And president Harry Truman
and the United States military...

Can now focus their attention on Japan.

For three years,
the United States has engaged...

In a devastating fight
with the Japanese military.

But even after the fall
of their last remaining allies...

Japan still refuses to surrender.

And as they grow
increasingly desperate...

They begin bombarding the allies
with devastating kamikaze attacks.

The Japanese have a code of behavior.

One of those parts is no surrender.

The Japanese were so determined
to fight on at all costs.

General Douglas MacArthur...

Knows the Japanese military
will be a fearsome enemy to beat.

He's convinced that the only way
fo defeat the last axis power...

Is with what could be
the largest military operation in history-

an assault that would awarf
even the size of d-day.

A daring amphibious invasion
of the Japanese mainland.

The United States could lose
as many as 100,000 men.

Casualties could be over a million.

But MacArthur believes
this is the proper thing to do...

Even though it'd be costly.

[ Narrator I but MacArthur is not the only
one with plans for a conquest of Japan.

As the war nears an end,
Joseph Stalin looks to take control.

In July of 1945...

Stalin begins mobilizing
his troops into China.

And he believes
if he can beat America fo the punch...

His power on the world stage
will be unmaitched.

It is no question that Stalin
helped us defeat nazism.

But it's also true that Stalin
had his eye on the postwar world...

And was much more focused on gaining
advantage at the end of world war ii...

Which would position the Soviet union
for a greater future.

With Stalin on his own quest
for global domination...

Great Britain and the United States
will need to act fast

From the beginning, Winston Churchill
has seen Stalin as a threat ..

Almost as great as Hitler.

But before he can neutralize Stalin
and end the war on his own terms...

He receives some shocking news.

On July 26, 1945...

Winston Churchill
is unexpectedly voted out of office.

Churchill was proved right
about the Nazis...

And that's what transformed him
to a great wartime leader...

And it was in war that he proved
his leadership credentials.

Interestingly enough, the British people
then didn't trust him to win the peace.

[ Narrator I without Churchill,
Harry Truman is on his own.

He knows he needs to finish the war
before Stalin is able fo...

But he also knows
that MacArthur's planned invasion...

Would lead
fo a catastrophic loss of life.

But what few realize
is that Truman has another option.

It's a go.

On August 6, 1945...

The first atomic bomb
strikes Hiroshima.

In an instant,
over 80,000 Japanese civilians are dead.

The level of devastation...

Is unlike anything
anyone has ever seen before.

Just three days later...

A second atomic strike
hits Nagasaki...

Instantly killing
another 75,000 people.

Less than a week later...

Japan finally surrenders.

The last remaining axis power
has fallen.

It's easy to criticize Truman's decision
to drop the bomb...

But tell that to the million mothers
who might have lost their sons.

War is no fun thing.
It's a terrible thing.

But the fact
that those two bombs were dropped...

I think guaranteed that we'll never see
an atomic bomb again dropped on anyone.

It's existentially not possible,
and I know.

I was in charge of 28,000 of them.

It's over.

Though difficult and controversial...

The decision fo drop the bomb
brings an end...

Lo the single bloodiest conflict
in human history.

In the 31 years...

Between 1974 and 1945...

Over 100 million people were killed...

In the deadliest fighting
the world has ever seen.

The world wars...

Were a time of ruthless tyrants...

But also legendary heroes-

an era
when a single generation of men...

Determined the fate of all mankind.

History tells us
that people are capable of evil...

And unless good people are willing
to fight people capable of evil...

Evil will triumph.

Someone who is willing to take the risks...

That are involved with military action...

Is a hero as far as I'm concerned.

My toughest job was
to write notes of condolence...

To the families
who had lost loved ones.

But the words I always used is
that you can always take some comfort...

In the fact that they gave their life
for their country...

And that they will be
forever remembered as heroes.