War Against Humanity
Overview:
When the Second World War breaks out, it is at first largely a war between one side of totalitarian aggressors against a portion of the democratic countries of the world defending other totalitarian states. From the first day of the war in Poland, as it already is in China, this will be a war against humanity.
Outbreak of the War Against Humanity - 5 March 1940
Season 1 · Episode 1
System of a Nazi Terror - April 1940
Season 1 · Episode 2
The Strategy of Terror Bombing - May 1940
Season 1 · Episode 3
The European Migration Crisis - June 1940
Season 1 · Episode 4
The British Blitz Spirit is a Myth
Season 1 · Episode 5
The Few Who Opposed Hitler - German Resistance in 1940
Season 1 · Episode 6
Vive la Résistance! well, not really... - French Resistance 1940
Season 1 · Episode 7
Royal Resistance in Benelux and Scandinavia 1940
Season 1 · Episode 8
Resistance in China - Myth or Reality?
Season 1 · Episode 9
Poland Will Not Bow to Nazis & Stalinists
Season 1 · Episode 10
Sending the Jews to Madagascar? - July 1940 - April 1941
Season 1 · Episode 11
The Wehrmacht's License to Kill the Innocent - May 1941
Season 1 · Episode 12
The Holocaust Begins in Lithuania - June 1941
Season 1 · Episode 13
Barbarossa, Hitler's and Stalin's Hell on Earth - July 1941, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 14
Generalplan Ost, the Nazi plan to kill the Slavs - July 1941, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 15
Extermination Now! - August 1941, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 16
The SS and Wehrmacht Murder Inc. - August 1941, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 17
Resistance is Futile in Nazi Europe - September 1941, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 18
The Rape of Humanity at Babi Yar - September 1941, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 19
The Wehrmacht is Not Clean! - October 1941, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 20
The Banality of Death - October 1941, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 21
How To Kill 15,000 People in One Day - November 1941, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 22
Japanese Plague Bombs - November 1941, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 23
Pearl Harbor and the Global War Against Humanity - December 1941, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 24
Christmas with Adolf Hitler - December 1941, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 25
Germany Bankrupts Greece - Countless Die in Famine - January 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 26
Did 90 Minutes Decide the Fate of the Jews? - The Wannsee Conference - January 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 27
Britain Chooses War Crimes - RAF Strategic Bombing - February 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 28
U.S. Detention, Nazi Deportation, and Death in the East - February 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 29
Extermination Begins at Auschwitz - March 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 30
Fifty Families Murdered Every Hour - March 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 31
The Bataan Death March Begins - April 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 32
The Horrors of Partisan Warfare - April 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 33
100,000 Dead British Subjects in Burma - May 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 34
The Plot to Kill Hitler's Hangman - Operation Anthropoid - May 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 35
Heydrich, Architect of the Holocaust, Dies - June 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 36
Japan's Institutionalization of Rape - June 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 37
Forced Sterilization Experiments Begin at Auschwitz - July 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 38
The 100 Deadliest Days of the Holocaust Begin... - July 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 39
The Symphony That Defeated the Wehrmacht - August 1942, Pt .1
Season 1 · Episode 40
Why Don't the French Resist? - August 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 41
Kill The Nazis - September 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 42
How Britain Oppressed India - September 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 43
Resist. Collaborate. Die. - October 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 44
A United Front Against Nazi Atrocities - October 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 45
Fighting Nazis with Radios and Funerals - November 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 46
The Germans Learn to Love Their Slaves - November 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 47
Death Squads Arrive in North Africa - December 1942, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 48
Let the Hunger Games Begin - December 1942, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 49
The Revenge Bombing of Germany - January 1943, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 50
The Warsaw Ghetto: The Jews Strike Back - January 1943, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 51
Eat the Nazis, There’s Nothing Else - February 1943, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 52
Total War NOW - February 1943, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 53
Assassinate Hitler, or Die Trying - March 1943, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 54
Denazify the World. Resist Now. - March 1943, Pt. 2
Season 1 · Episode 55
The West Sacrifices Poland to the Soviets - April 1943, Pt. 1
Season 1 · Episode 56
The Jews Fight Back - April 24, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 57
Dead Refugees Are Better Than New Immigrants - May 1, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 58
Barbie and the Trail of Blood - May 8, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 59
Heaviest Air Raid in Human History - May 15, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 60
Drowning Germans, Burning Jews - May 22, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 61
The Deadliest Job in World War Two - May 29, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 62
Dr. Mengele Takes Command - June 5, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 63
Nazis in a Balkan Mess - June 12, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 64
Japan - Liberators of India? - June 19, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 65
Decapitating the French Resistance - June 26, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 66
The Master Race of Asia? - July 3, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 67
Killing the Resistance, and Rockets of Death - July 10, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 68
General Patton Orders War Crimes - July 17, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 69
Stalin, Hitler, and Churchill - Architects of Death - July 24, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 70
Hamburg’s Citizens Burnt Alive - July 31, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 71
The Great Escape from Treblinka Death Camp - August 7, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 72
Amazing Money Heist by Polish Resistance - August 14, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 73
Greece Burns Under Nazi Occupation - August 21, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 74
The Astonishing Nazi Underground Slave Factories - August 28, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 75
Amon Göth: The Super Nazi - September 4, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 76
Italy Switches Sides in World War Two - September 11, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 77
Albania - Hitler's Latest Ally? - September 18, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 78
Nazis Go Fascist Hunting - September 25, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 79
Sweden: The Jews' Salvation? - October 2, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 80
The Nazis' Justification for the Genocide - October 9, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 81
The Great Escape from Death Camp Sobibor - October 16, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 82
Another bombed city - war still not ended - October 23, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 83
Executed for Telling a Joke - October 30, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 84
The Final Bloody Chapter of Operation Reinhard - November 6, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 85
The Auschwitz Business Model - November 10, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 86
Baltic Peoples Join the SS - November 17, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 87
The Secret Radio in Auschwitz - November 24, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 88
Bombing Berlin with Ed Murrow of CBS - December 1, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 89
V-1: Hitler's Deluded Revenge Plan - December 8, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 90
The RAF's Worst Day of the War - December 15, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 91
US Couples Miraculously Escape Japanese Massacre - December 25, 1943
Season 1 · Episode 92
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