Hell On Earth: WWII

— Jan 2011 1 Season 8 Episodes 50m/ep

Returning Series

Overview

The figures are stark and almost impossible to comprehend: military deaths estimated between 21-25 million, civilian deaths between 50-55 million. The greatest manmade event in history was also the most lethal, taking far more lives away from the battlefield than on it. “Hell on Earth” tells the story of The Second World War” from a perspective that recognises these overwhelming facts: war as a human experience.

🇺🇸 United States · English

Key Crew

Serge Ou

Director

Serge Ou

Director

Chris Bamford

Producer

We Are At War

We start with the attack on Poland and the segregation of the Jewish population. Mussolini joins Hitler and Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister.

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Shall We Go On

Germany continues building their empire and occupy Poland, Norway, Denmark and more. Churchill rejects every attempt at a truce

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Infamy

Great Britain is isolated as German troops occupy most of Europe and Hitler begins Operation Barbarossa.

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A Dream Of Great Success

After Pearl Harbor and their victories in South East Asia, Japan celebrates, but their luck will soon change.

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I Shall Never Look Back

The war enters its third year with battlefields across Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Pacific.

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Rattenkrieg

The war gets ever more brutal from Burma to China which has been at war with Japan since 1937. In Europe continues his attack on the Soviet Union.

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The Shame Of Returning Alive

The Soviet army grows stronger and forces the Germans to retreat and with the Allies bombing of German cities, Goebbels declares Total war.

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Endless Numbers

No surrender before defeat - the coming months of the war will be the bloodiest.

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