• 1999
  • 3h 20m
War of the Century

Summary Documentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. View more details

  • 1999
  • 3h 20m

War of the Century

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Samuel West Rolf Becker Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin

All cast & crew

8.2

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Genres : History War Documentary

Release date : Oct 4, 1999

Countries of origin : Germany United Kingdom

Official sites : ABC

Language : English German Russian

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)

Summary Documentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. View more details

Details

Genres : History War Documentary

Release date : Oct 4, 1999

Countries of origin : Germany United Kingdom

Official sites : ABC

Language : English German Russian

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 04, 1999
High Hopes
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union is met with initial success but the invasion stalls in front of Moscow.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Spiral of Terror
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 partisan division shows that rapes, killings and beatings were commonplace. To make things worse, Nationalist partisans bent on freedom from the Soviet regime waged campaigns in the countryside, and villagers were now faced with violence from three separate fighting forces. Nazi rule over captured territory was draconian.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Learning to Win
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. Army Group B had one last major task to take the city of Stalingrad on the west bank of the Volga. And so began one of the bloodiest and bitterest battles of World War Two. Although 1,000 tons of bombs were dropped on the city, Stalin forbade evacuation.
Episode 4 • Oct 25, 1999
Vengeance
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 Stalingrad. Stalin ordered every ethnic Kalmyk to be "relocated" to even remoter regions of the Soviet Union. Families were crammed onto unsanitary transport trains; many didn't survive the journey. Officially, 93,000 Kalmyks, 68,000 Karachai people, 500,000 Chechens, 340,000 Balkars and 180,000 Tartars were deported.
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