Retraces the beginning of the German invasion of Poland and the segregation of the Jews. Mussolini joins Hitler in his fight against the Allies, Winston Churchill is appointed British Prime Minister, and Germany invades France.
Germany continues to build its empire in Europe, and the Führer seeks to crush Britain with the Luftwaffe; France is conquered and divided, since Churchill rejects any attempt at an armistice.
By June 1941, Hitler had become master of Europe, save for the USSR. He thought that the conquest of it would be finished in a just weeks, but the Red Army refused to collapse. And then Pearl Harbor was bombed, changing everything.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese armies celebrate their victory. Four months later, the Battle of the Coral Sea shakes their confidence. In Europe, the German attack against the Soviet Union causes heavy losses.
From the Indian border in Burma to China, at war with Japan since 1937, the war becomes increasingly fierce; in Europe, despite his fewer resources, Hitler renews his assault on the Soviet Union.
With the power of the Soviet army pushing back the German forces on the lands they occupied, and faced with the devastation of German cities by Allied bombers, Goebbels calls for 'total war'.
A Soviet offensive pushes German forces 30 kilometres from the Polish border; the siege of Leningrad is lifted after 900 days; on June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord is launched for the final offensive against Germany.
