Episodes (4)

High Hopes
S01E01 · High Hopes

Oct 05, 1999

Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union is met with initial success but the invasion stalls in front of Moscow.

Spiral of Terror
S01E02 · Spiral of Terror

Oct 01, 1999

During the Battle of Moscow, Hitler forced his armies to stand their ground despite brutally cold conditions. To prevent his soldiers from leaving the front line, Stalin ordered special blocking detachments to shoot all deserters. Such brutality set the tone for the rest of the war. And it wasn't just the soldiers who suffered. The Soviet leadership instructed Soviet partisans operating in the countryside to kill anyone thought to be disloyal. This was taken by the partisans as a carte blanche to take whatever they wanted from helpless villagers a report from one ...

Learning to Win
S01E03 · Learning to Win

Jan 01, 1999

In the spring of 1942, Hitler launched a two-pronged attack in what he believed would be his last offensive in the East. One set of troops headed towards Baku, the other towards Stalingrad and the Volga. But after more than a year of bitter defeats, the exhausted and demoralized Soviet army changed tack. Soviet generals no longer instructed their soldiers to stand their ground at all costs instead they told them to simply avoid capture and continue fighting. This fighting retreat put a huge strain on the Germans? supply lines. For the Germans, victory was in sight. ...

Vengeance
S01E04 · Vengeance

Oct 26, 1999

Victory turns to vengeance as the Soviets drive the occupying Germans out of the Soviet motherland and turn their sights on Berlin. It was a time of terror for ethnic minorities on both sides of the battlefront. When Hitler's "final solution" reached its horrific climax in extermination camps, prisoners? life expectancy could be measured in just hours. Stalin exiled entire ethnic nations to Siberia as punishment for the small number of ethnic collaborators in their midst. One of the ethnic groups who suffered the most was the Kalmyks from the steppe south of ...

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War of the Century Season 1 (1999) is released on Oct 05, 1999. Watch War of the Century online - the English Documentary TV series from United Kingdom. War of the Century is directed by Laurence Rees and created by Laurence Rees with Samuel West and Adolf Hitler.

As know as:

Ο τελευταίος μεγάλος πόλεμος, War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin, War of the Century, Hitlers Krieg im Osten, Войната на столетието(Bulgarian)

Countries:

United Kingdom, Germany

Language:

English, German, Russian

Production Companies:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)

Official Site:

ABC (Australia)

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