S1 E1: Overlord
For nearly five years, Hitler's Third Reich has dominated Europe. Germany braces for an Allied invasion, fortifying the Atlantic Wall with steel, concrete, and advanced weaponry.
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For nearly five years, Hitler's Third Reich has dominated Europe. Germany braces for an Allied invasion, fortifying the Atlantic Wall with steel, concrete, and advanced weaponry.
52 minutes
After 18 months of preparation, the Allied Expeditionary Force launches the largest amphibious landing in history, with 160,000 troops storming the Normandy coast.
53 minutes
After a brutal day of relentless combat, the Allies secure a 50-mile bridgehead in Normandy.
51 minutes
Germany's retreat continues as the Allies liberate France and Belgium. Montgomery's ambition to end the war risks more than his reputation as the push toward the Netherlands begins.
30 minutes
Eisenhower approves a plan to break German lines by Christmas. With just seven days to prepare, Monty ignores warnings, rushes the largest airborne assault ever, and pushes ahead despite rising risks.
30 minutes
Airborne troops flood the Netherlands as 50,000 tanks surge from Belgium. However, stronger-than-expected German forces resist fiercely, causing the ambitious operation to falter.
30 minutes
Market Garden stalls with tragedy at Arnhem, a stalemate at Nijmegen, and chaos elsewhere. Outnumbered 4 to 1 in places, even Montgomery's gamble can't overcome the mounting odds.
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Eisenhower halts Monty's costly gamble as British forces retreat before destruction. Heavy casualties and strategic failures haunt the Allies, with lasting effects for the war's remainder.
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After six months of retreat across Northern Europe, Adolf Hitler's forces on the Western Front are back behind Germany's borders. For the Allies, the war seems almost over, as they pause to plan for the final drive to Berlin. But The Fuhrer has other plans - he has one last unexpected card to play.
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American forces, already frayed and fatigued from the long bloody battles leading to the Siegfried Line, and hampered by weather and overstretched supply lines, reel from the impact of a massive surprise attack along an 80-mile front in The Ardennes Forest.
30 minutes
As the last Nazi offensive of the war develops, the vicious SS Panzer divisions leading the attack resort to murder; a dangerous fifth column slips into the American camp causing chaos and confusion, and the desperate defense of a key Belgian town seems doomed.
30 minutes
Eisenhower brings in the Airborne Divisions to reinforce the Allied front lines, a legendary US General leads a furious charge up country to relieve the surrounded town of Bastogne, and Hitler panics as the German offensive begins to stall.
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The Germans launch a last desperate air and ground attack to coincide with the arrival of the last year of the war.
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With fuel and supplies all but depleted, the Germans withdraw and end up back where they started.
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The beginning of 1945 sees millions of troops assembled in central Europe.
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The leaders of the world's future superpowers hold a conference in the Crimean Peninsula, to agree on a post-war framework for Europe, and must overcome deep political division to do so.
30 minutes
The great rivers of the Rhineland along Germany's western border must be crossed to take the fight to the enemy's home turf.
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General Bradley's army launch operations to get over the Roer and Rhine Rivers in the center and the south of Germany's western border.
30 minutes
As the allies in the West move deeper into the fatherland, they discover a vast network of concentration and forced labor camps.
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The Soviet forces on Germany's eastern border, now refreshed and resupplied, are given a challenge by Soviet Premiere Stalin.
30 minutes
The final battle of the war begins as Russian forces advance rapidly into Berlin, smashing its defenders back towards an ever-shrinking last stand.
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As Nazi Germany collapses, Hitler dies by suicide with Eva Braun. Admiral Donitz briefly leads the Flensburg Government before Germany surrenders on May 7th and 8th, 1945.
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With Berlin divided by the Allies, a new world emerges from the ashes.
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