EPISODE DETAILS: PART ONE THE MAKING OF WORLD AT WAR (This is only available on DVD) The story behind

the creation of one of the World's most respected documentaries . Jeremy Isaacs talks about the production process and the aims of the project. This programme provides an insight into the challenges of summarising years of h istory, tragedy and personal struggle in a comprehensive, coherent and non-parti al manner. With over three million feet of archive footage alone the task was al most impossible. A NEW GERMANY - 1933 - 39: The story of the Second World War began in the early 1930s, showing how Adolf Hi tler came to power with the whole-hearted support of millions of ordinary German s. Newsreels of the day and home movies taken by Hitler's mistress Eva Braun, sh ow the Fuhrer as he must have appeared to his people. Historical hindsight and t he knowledge of what some of the Nazi hierarchy were already doing under the cov er of clever propaganda gives these shots a very sinister aspect. Written by: Neal Ascherson - Directed by : Hugh Raggett DISTANT WAR - 1939-40: For months after Chamberlain's declaration of war, Britain's only casualties wer e on the streets during the blackout. Churchill was elected as Prime Minister. B ritain wasn't prepared for war or taking the possibility seriously. As First Lor d of the Admiralty, Churchill displays his grasp of propaganda by making the mos t of the Graf Spee sinking after the battle of the River Plate. The reality was that the ship was scuttled and its crew were marched through London in celebrati on. Meanwhile, in Europe, the Nazi terror continued, and Britain waited with tre pidation. Written by: Laurence Thompson - Produced and Directed by: David Elstein FRANCE FALLS - MAY-JUNE 1940: The German's defeat of the French was total. France had the largest pre-war army , but were humiliated due to a continued reliance on First World War techniques and equipment. Enormous emphasis was placed on the heavily fortified Maginot Lin e, a chain of fortresses built to contain the fiercest attacks and supplied by a n underground communications system. Incredibly, the Line does not extend to the Channel in the west, so the Germans simply skirt the Line, leading to a defeat of the French in six weeks. Written & Produced by: Peter Batty ALONE BRITAIN - MAY 1940-JUNE 1941: With France fallen, the USA as yet uninvolved, and the Russian pact with Hitler still in force, Britain was alone. Although many were saved by the Dunkirk 'vict ory', British morale was never lower. The Battle of Britain began and the Luftwa ffe redirected its bombing from the airfields to the cities. Churchill's 'bulldo g' attitude - 'we shall never surrender' - was thrown back at him by some London Eastenders who suffered the worst. Then Hitler turned against Russia and the pr essure, thankfully, was relieved. Written by : Laurence Thompson Produced & Directed by : David Elstein BARBAROSSA - JUNE-DECEMBER 1941: Hitler turns his troops towards Russia when the pact between Germany and the Sov iet Union outlived its usefulness. The early stages of the invasion consisted of overwhelming German victories. The defenders were happy to trade space for time . But the German High Command delayed and the advance was held a few miles from

Moscow when the mud and the fierce cold of the Russian winter took hold. The ill -equipped Germans were routed - thousands were killed, wounded or captured. Hitl er's ambitious plans crumbled. Written & Produced by: Peter Batty BANZAI - JAPAN STRIKES: In the East, the Japanese had been at war on the Chinese mainland since 1931. De cember 7th 1941 saw the attack on Pearl Harbour and the start of an all-conqueri ng sweep throughout South East Asia, culminating in the taking of Singapore. 'Ba nzai' includes interviews with several Japanese involved in this part of the war - Emperor Hirohito's Lord Provy Seal, the planner and the lead pilot of the Pea rl Harbour attack speaks, as well as several US seamen. Written & Produced by: Peter Batty ON OUR WAY - AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR: Neutral America was divided as war started, but after France fell, support for t he British grew. She sold - then gave - guns, ammunition and food to the British , without entering the fighting arena. After Pearl Harbour, America found hersel f at war with Japan - but no with Germany. The conflicts in the Pacific and in E urope were two separate wars. President Roosevelt was committed to fight against Hitler - congress was not. Hitler's declaration of war solved Roosevelt's quand ary, a year later an American armada steamed towards Europe. Written & Produced by : Peter Batty PART TWO DESERT - THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA: The war in North Africa took nearly three years to resolve, fought and refought over the same 600 miles of desert between Alexandria and Benghazi. At last, Mont gomery's celebrated 'Desert Rats' beat Rommel's Afrika Korps at the famous battl e of El Alamein. The surviving combatants tell the story of the other war agains t sandstorms, heat, flies, thirst and dysentery, and Field Marshal Lord Harding, General Sir Richard O'Connor, Sir Francis de Guingand and Siegfried Westphal ar e among those describing the top-level decision-making of the North Africa campa ign. Written & Produced by: Peter Batty STALINGRAD: The encirclement and defeat of the German Army at Stalingrad held more importanc e than the horrifying number of men lost. For the first time, the Germans were b eaten in the field and the legend of German mastery on land was dispelled. For H itler, Stalingrad became a magnet, an obsession, with half a million men fightin g for six months around it and inside it. So important was Stalingrad to both si des that neither dared give it up. Hitler was finally beaten by the very people he once termed as 'sub-human'. Written by: Jerome Kuehl - Directed by : Hugh Raggett WOLFPACK: German attempts to starve Britain by attacking ships bringing supplies from Nort h America were very nearly successful. The Allied ships, despite convoy techniqu es, navy escorts and elementary underwater detection devices, were very vulnerab le. Doenitz developed the technique of co-ordinating his submarine forces into ' wolf-packs' to attack ships from above and below the surface - but liaison was n ot a British strong point; co-operation between the Navy and the Air Force in th e field, as well as at sea, was very bad.

Written by: J P W Mallalieu - Produced by : Ted Childs Click Here to enter a Feature about the Battle of the Atlantic REDSTAR - THE SOVIET UNION 1941-43: In Leningrad, a city of three million inhabitants, 200,000 people were killed by German shells and further 630,000 died from cold or starvation. Russia's terrib le total of war losses was 20,000,000 military and civilian. Yet Leningrad survi ved, and the Russian armies went on to rout the Germans. Three months before the attack on Russia began, Hitler told his generals that this was to be a war of d estruction - there could be no question of soldierly comradeship with the Russia ns; they were, to his mind, 'sub-humans'. Written by: Neal Ascherson - Produced & Directed WHIRLWIND - BOMBING GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 1939-APRIL 1944: The arrival of Arthur 'Bomber' Harris to take charge of Bomber Command heralded a new attitude. He was in favour of revenge on a massive scale. He accepted the target statistics and started a system of night 'area' bombing as an alternative to individual target raids which previously had proved disastrous for the Briti sh. In July 1943 at Hamburg, at least 30,000 people died, many of them killed by the heat which, in places, reached an estimated 1000C. German civilian morale, f or the first time, was shattered. Written by: Charles Douglas Home - Produced by: Ted Childs TOUGH OLD GUT: Churchill persuaded the Americans to join the Allies on the road to Rome and in November 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbour, they met the Wehrmacht for the first time. In Tunisia they suffered their worst defeat but the Afrika Korps' e ventual defeat gave a major boost to British Mediterranean strategy. Two months later, Allied troops landed in Sicily, Mussolini was deposed and the victory rev ived the British. Progress northwards through Italy was difficult and hampered b y the onset of the Italian winter, however, gradually the Allied position improv ed. Written by David Wheeler - Produced by : Ben Shepherd IT'S A LOVELY DAY TOMORROW: The jungle and monsoon conditions, for five months of every year, made the lot o f the Burma Army a nightmare, whilst the Japanese were able to thrive. The Burma Army in 1942 was weakened by alien conditions, hampered by poor communications, terrorised by Japanese air superiority. It suffered the longest retreat in Brit ish Military history, with many casualties and thousands captured by the Japanes e. Mountbatten's arrival as commander of S.E. Asia in 1943 was a turning point w here the 'supermen' myth was exploded by the first Japanese defeat at Arrakan. Written by: John Williams - Produced and Directed by John Pett HOME FIRES: Following defeat in the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe focus was no longer on London but on more provincial cities. U-boat operations in the Atlantic meant th at food supplies were not coming through. Women were conscripted for the first t ime and called to work in the fields and factories. Rationing brought black mark eters in its wake. The strain of the war effort resulted in strikes and the Amer ican presence caused social problems. Rejoicing at their departure for Normandy was quickly eclipsed by the advent of the V1 rockets. Written by: Angus Calder - Produced by: Philip Whitehead

PART THREE INSIDE THE REICH - GERMANY 1940-44: SThe Summer of 1940 saw Germany in a buoyant mood. Her armies had conquered West ern Europe. The attack on Russia, was the prelude to a year of disastrous revers als, with 250,000 killed at Stalingrad alone. Hitler was depressed but ordered a fight to the finish. Even the weak were pressed into service. The food shortage s worsened. Allied bombing was relentless. Hitler travelled only by night, to av oid seeing the carnage. He was losing touch with reality. He survived an assassi nation plot, with few confidants; the end was in sight. Written by Neal Ascherson - Produced by: Philip Whitehead MORNING: In the early morning of June 5th 1944, the largest amphibian invasion force ever gathered reached the shores of Normandy. Americans, British and Canadians attac ked on five separate beaches and the foothold in Hitler's 'Fortress Europe' was made. Cherbourg, Caen and Falaise fell to the Allies, as did Paris. The Nazi occ upiers were left to the mercies of the French. 'Morning' includes interview with Lord Louis Mountbatten, Kay Summersby (Eisenhower's driver) and Allied soldiers and sailors involved in the landings. Written by John Williams - Produced & Directed by: John Pett OCCUPATION: Neutral Holland was attacked in 1940, capitulation led to four years of Nazi occ upation. The Dutch were stunned, but adjusted quickly under the occupiers 'no an imosity' policy, despite the fact that it excluded Dutch Jews. Of 140,000 deport ed, only 36,000 survived. Mounting sympathy for the Jews led to increasingly ope n defiance, harsher measures from the occupiers, and growing resistance from Dut ch workers pressed into war production. In 1944 southern Holland was liberated, in the occupied remainder a rail strike to cut off Nazi supplies brought reprisa ls that claimed 16,000 lives. Written by: Charles Bloomberg - Produced by: Michael Darlow PINCERS: With the August 1944 liberation of Paris the war seemed over. The Russians and t he Allies advanced on Germany. But there was conflict between Eisenhower who fav oured a broad front, and Montgomery who urged for a narrow raid at Arnhem. The B ritish plan was adopted and failed disastrously. Russia regained land lost to 'B arbarossa'. The Poles rose against the Germans but, with no outside aid, were cr ushed in 10 weeks, with 200,000 killed. The last German offensive was made throu gh the Ardennes and failed. Written & Produced by: Peter Batty GENOCIDE: Heinrich Himmler, was charged with realising Hitler's vision of an 'Aryan' Germa ny. German youth was to be the instrument of what the Nazi propaganda films desc ribed as the survival of the fittest and the fittest youths were enrolled in the idealistic SS. The Jewish problem gradually became not 'What shall we do with t hem?' but 'How shall we exterminate them?'. Eight Auschwitz survivors and Himmle r's adjutant are among those interviewed in this harrowing account of the most c hilling and inhuman episode of the Second World War. Written by Charles Bloomberg - Produced by: Martin Smith NEMESIS:

As the net closed on Berlin, Hitler retired to the bunker where, betrayed by Him mler and Goering, he destroyed himself, but not before marrying his faithful Eva Braun. As allied prisoners of war were freed by their comrades, thousands of Ge rman soldiers were captured. Many were shown, often forcibly, the true horror of the death camps. The programme contains interviews with one of the first men to see Hitler's body, with the secretary who took his last will and political test imony, with allied soldiers, and with German civilians. Written by: Stuart Hood - Produced by: Martin Smith JAPAN 1941-45: Many Japanese were stunned when war was declared, but early victories in Hong Ko ng, Malaya and Singapore quickly turn fear to exultation. Japanese boys were tau ght the martial code of the Samurai, ferocious and devoid of pity for enemy or s elf. But by 1942 Japan was fighting for survival. By 1944 Japan was fighting sho rtages of food, metal and fuel. Scarcity of manpower condemned Japanese women to unfamiliar labouring. Continued allied bombing killed a further 250,000 and ren dered 8 million homeless. But worse was to come. Written by: Courtney Browne - Produced by Hugh Raggett PACIFIC - THE ISLAND TO ISLAND WAR: TThe Allied Pacific offensive was commanded by two rivals: General MacArthur in the South West and Admiral Nimitz in the Central Pacific. Their two-pronged stra tegy seemed simple. But the Japanese were ferocious animals in defence, and seve re casualties were the keynotes of the island battles. On Pelelieu, four in ten Americans were killed or wounded. On Iwo Jima only 200 of the 21,000 Japanese su rvived. Only when their continued efforts brought them to within reach of the Ja panese civilian population, did the Americans begin to see the 'animals' as huma n beings. Written by: David Wheeler - Produced by: John Pett PART FOUR THE BOMB: On 6 August 1945 the American B-29 bomber nicknamed Enola Gay dropped the world' s first uranium bomb on Hiroshima. Four days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The official reason was that it would save millions of Allied lives. B ut many believed it was Truman's way of beating Russia to the punch to increase his bargaining power. Offered the right terms, might the Japanese have surrender ed without risking the horrors of the bomb? We shall never know. However, many J apanese were shocked by the decision to surrender. Written & Produced by: David Elstein RECKONING: The end of war in central Europe was a time without pity. Russian and American i ntervention ensured that no European nation could win. The United Nations was bo rn 'to build for a better world'. America planned to mould Japan into a modern i ndustrial nation. Nobody wanted Germany to be strong again - yet no nation would be responsible for keeping her a ruin. Russia, America, Britain and France agre ed to share the supervision of Germany's recovery, amid mutual mistrust. Britain has survived but the nation was nearly bankrupt. Written & Produced by: Jerome Kuehl REMEMBER: For millions, the Second World War remained the significant experience of their lives. For millions more, it meant the end of all memories. Twenty million Russi

ans dead. Five million Germans. Six million Jews. Over three million Japanese, A merican, British and Commonwealth dead. The bereaved will never forget the momen t they heard the news. Many still remember, each year, at reunions, at the Cenot aph, at gravesides. Yet many also remember less sombre things - moments of joy, laughter and comradeship. But the important thing is to remember. Written & Produced by: Jeremy Isaacs SECRETARY TO HITLER: Traudl Junge went to Berlin to be a ballet dancer. But she also knew shorthand a nd typing. When a friend told her about a vacancy in Hitler's chancellery she ap plied. Her resemblance to Hitler's mistress Eva Braun landed her a job as one of his private secretaries. She saw him at close quarters, shared his public life, and witnessed its end. Here she talks at greater length about Hitler: what he w as like as a man; how he reacted to adversity; and how he met his death. WHO WON WORLD WAR II?: The world of 1945 was a simple place. Germany and Japan had been utterly defeate d. The USA, Britain and the USSR stood united in victory. Today it all seems dif ferent. Germany is strong, Britain weak. Russia and America are deadly rivals. A nd Japan dominates the peace of lands she could not conquer in war. Did nearly 6 0 million men, women and children die in vain? WARRIOR: Some men are terrified of combat, others revel in it. But no man is ever quite t he same after it. This is a film about killing in time of war: preparing for it; participating in it; reflecting about it afterwards. The voices in the film are those of fighting men. The stories are their own. After thirty years they revea l their true feelings about the war. Archive film shows the war as it was, not a s it was doctored for the newsreels. The experiences are universal. PART 5 HITLER'S GERMANY: Germany's worst problems in the 20s and 30s were inflation, unemployment and pol itical violence. These films show how Hitler solved them, and at what cost. The story is told through the eyes and words of people like socialist Werner Pusch, who joined the SS hoping to subvert the Nazi movement from within; businessman H ans Kerhl, who saw Nazism as Germany's only hope; journalist Ben Witter, who rep orted the Hamburg bombings and lost relatives when his own city was raided. Part 1 : 1933 - 1936 Part 2 : 1937 - 1941 Part 3 : 1941 - 1945 THE TWO DEATHS OF ADOLF HITLER: At first the Russians claimed he was not dead, but a prisoner of the British. Th en they said they had autopsied his corpse. Hitler's German followers claimed he had shot himself in the head - an honourable death for a defeated leader. The R ussians say he took poison - a coward's death. The manner of Hitler's death rema ins a mystery. This film seeks to clarify the many conflicting reports. THE FINAL SOLUTION-AUSCHWITZ: Television's most comprehensive attempt yet to examine the theory and practice o f genocide, as embodied in the Nazi doctrine. Part 1: Examines the growth of Nazi racial policies. Part 2: Shows how, from 1939 to 1941, a conventional war became a systematic dri ve to murder civilians. Part 3: Describes the death factories; the extermination camps; how they rubber-

stamped millions to death. Part 4: Tries to explain why the killing machine continued to function unhindere d.