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War of the Century

  • Watchlist
  • 1999-1999
  • 1 Season
  • History Channel
  • Documentary, Action & Adventure
  • Watchlist

In 1941, Nazi Germany, seemingly near invincible in its military might despite its failure to break the UK in the Battle of Britain, makes one of its most disastrous military moves. Despite the danger of a two front war and the existence of a non-aggression pact, Hitler orders the full scale invasion of the Soviet Union. This series explores the reasons for this undertaking, its vicious nature on both sides and the general series of events of the bloodiest theater of the war that would ultimately turn the tide in the fight against the Third Reich.

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Samuel West
Self - Narrator
Adolf Hitler
Self
Joseph Stalin
Self

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

High Hopes

47 mins

Examines why the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 and how it was that, by October of the same year, Hitler looked poised to take Moscow. Eyewitness accounts from soldiers on both sides of the battle and new footage. Among the details revealed are Stalin's dismissal of reports of the impending invasion and his attempts to seek a negotiated peace once it had begun.

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