Germany - WWII

A 1998 History Documentary in six parts, narrated by David Ritchie. Audio in English with subtitles for the German parts. A series looking at the six most important German Generals of World War II. Profiling these men, the series continues to pose the question as to why it all happened. Rommel, Canaris, Keitel, Paulus, Udet and Manstein. Part 1: Erwin Rommel was a decorated veteran of the First World War. He became a hero in Germany after his victories in France and North Africa. Episode 2: https://rumble.com/v72io8g-hitlers-warriors-manstein-the-strategist-part-2.html

Part 2: Erich von Manstein, a decorated veteran of World War I, was shattered by the German surrender of 1918. He is famous worldwide for his brilliant "Sickle Cut" plan that led to the fall of France in 1940. Episode 3: https://rumble.com/v72ip3o-hitlers-warriors-keitel-the-lackey-part-3.html

Part 3: Wilhelm Keitel, an intelligence officer and adjutant of the First World War, secretly organized the German rearmament. After Hitler came to power, he became a field marshal and chief of the supreme armed forces high command. Episode 4: https://rumble.com/v72iq84-hitlers-warriors-udet-the-flyer-part-4.html

Part 4: Ernst Udet, the second-highest scoring German flying ace of World War I, played a key role with Göring in rebuilding the Luftwaffe, and rose to the rank of colonel general. Part 5: https://rumble.com/v72ir0c-hitlers-warriors-paulus-the-defector-episode-5.html

Part 5: Friedrich Paulus, an aristocratic veteran, played a key role in the German rearmament. He led the 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad, but was declared a "traitor" after surrendering, and was held in Russian captivity until 1954. Part 6: https://rumble.com/v72irvc-hitlers-warriors-canaris-the-master-spy-part-6.html

Part 6: Wilhelm Canaris became chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service in 1935, a post he would hold until 1944. He was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Hitler and the Nazi regime.

A 2001 ITN/Discovery Channel History, War Documentary. In World War II, lethal German U-Boats sailed all over the world wreaking havoc and destruction. This unique DVD charts the true, close-run fight that took place. With rare, original footage of actual battle scenes and interviews with U-Boat commanders and crew members from both the Allied and Axis naval forces, these three programs give the viewer an inside look at the destructive nature of these deadly "Iron Coffins". Episode 1: U-Boats were active from the first day of the war to the last. The menace provoked Winston Churchill to write, "The threat the U-Boats posed in the Atlantic was the only thing that really frightened me during the war. On their defeat hung the outcome of World War II." Witness the actions of the famed Wolf Packs in this riveting episode. Episode 2: https://rumble.com/v67ckss-u-boat-war-attack-america-episode-2.html

Episode 2: From New York to Florida, Americans were unaware that just a few miles off their shores, Hitler's U-Boats lurked ready to strike against their country. The German U-Boat fleet terrorized American coastal waters and vessel after vessel went down in one of the greatest maritime disasters of all time. Episode 3: https://rumble.com/v67ct7a-u-boat-war-iron-coffins-episode-3.html

Episode 3: The largest U-Boat housed 44 crew members who lived in their weapons of war for days on end in cramped and squalid conditions. Of the 38,000 men who fought in these machines during World War II, 30,000 would die in their iron coffins. Experience the Allied strategies and tactics of 1943 that caused the men in the U-Boats to suffer the highest mortality rate of any fighting unit in the history of war.

A German War Documentary Film. English voice-over, dubbed over the German audio, and English subtitles during intertitles. One of the rarest cinematic documents to survive the war, Germany's Front Shows offer a unique perspective of Hitler's 1941 Russian campaign. Skillfully blending German frontline footage and captured Soviet combat film, the programs depict the German soldier in battle, on forced marches, building forts and shelters, and coping with climatic hardships. Censored from the public, the features were screened to recruits to help prepare them for the realities of the east. This program Features: 01. FS 5/6 - Mountain Troops Battle for a Town (1941) Depicting the assault on Baronowice in Soviet Eastern Poland 02. FS 3 - Advance (1941) German infantry and armor traverse Russia's dusty roads, in this lively feature showing the right and wrong ways to move troops behind the front. 03. FS 2 - Russian Construction of Positions (1941) The Red Army's formidable, elaborate defensive belt German propaganda called the "Stalin Line" is shown in detail after capture. 04. FS 4 - Infantry on the Attack (1941) Supported by artillery, German infantry and soldiers of the SS Totenkopf division attack Soviet positions near the Valday Heights in late summer. 05. FS 9/10 - Construction of Positions and Shelters for the Fighting Troops or Those in Rest Areas (1941) 06. FS 7 - Attack by Infantry and Armor Against a Village (1941) 07. FS 13 - Traveling Across Ice Surfaces and Waters with Drifting Ice (1941) 08. FS 8 - Defensive Battle in Winter (1943) Filmed by an unknown German cameramen on the Leningrad Front. 09. FS 11 - Terrain Difficulties in the East, Winter and Spring (1943)