Adolf Hitler's War
2020 · U&Yesterday · 60 min · 1 season
S01E06 · This Has Happened
Fri, 9 Oct, 6:00 am
Hitler's War moves to its endgame as the Soviets cross the German border, concentration camps are liberated and partisans fight back – with a death toll of over 40 million, a new, scarred Europe will emerge.
About
A new, moving and dramatic perspective on the bloodiest and most influential conflict in history. Hitler was determined to extend Germany eastwards to make Germany a great continental power and realise his dreams of lebensraum – "living space" for the German people. Hitler's policy, based on a racist ideology, planned to eliminate or enslave the population that stood in the way of the Reich. It was the determination to realise the policy and the belief that only violence can win power that propelled the world into war.
Episodes
- E01
Vernichtsungskrieg
Fri, 4 Sept· 60 minAdolf Hitler has his mind on making Germany into a great empire by expanding eastwards, and in the process rid the world of Bolshevism and Jews; but his invasion of Poland tips the world into a violent and bloody war.
- E02
A Superhuman Act of Inhumanity
Fri, 11 Sept· 60 minStalin, betrayed by Hitler, is fighting the German army in the Soviet states – meanwhile the harsh German occupation policies lead to brutalisation of civilians, property destruction, the rise of ghettos and the first extermination policies of "undesirables".
- E03
Moscow Is Behind Us
Fri, 18 Sept· 60 minAs Hitler's troops advance towards Moscow, occupants in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland take the brunt of the occupying forces cruelty; and extermination becomes industrialised with the creation of the first concentration camps.
- E04
Now People Rise Up!
Fri, 25 Sept· 60 minThe Red Army develops strength and Hitler's Spring Offensive is stopped at Stalingrad; and in the largest ghetto the inhabitants revolt and fight back in the Warsaw Uprising.
- E05
Scorched Earth
Fri, 2 Oct· 60 minIn Kursk, a 'battlefield' the size of Wales, the tide is turned, and the Soviet Army pushes back - but as Germany retreats across the occupied states, they employ a 'scorched earth' policy and obliterate all evidence of their genocidal activities.
- E06
This Has Happened
Fri, 9 Oct· 60 minHitler's War moves to its endgame as the Soviets cross the German border, concentration camps are liberated and partisans fight back – with a death toll of over 40 million, a new, scarred Europe will emerge.