The Invasion: The Outbreak of World War II

On 1 September 1939, Hitler started the most fatal war in world history – a war waged to plunder, dispossess, enslave and eliminate entire ethnic groups. This German-Polish series reconstructs how Hitler triggered a chain of events that sparked a global conflagration and the intense suffering of the Polish people, the first victims of the war.

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Status	Ended
Original Name	The Invasion: The Outbreak of World War II
First Air Date	September 1, 2014
Last Air Date	September 2, 2014
Seasons	1
Episodes	2
Episode Runtime	0min
Language	—
Original Language	English
Production Countries	—
Production Companies	ZDF
Networks	ZDF

S01E02

The First Victim

Hitler’s Poland Campaign unleashed a “Blitzkrieg” lasting six weeks only. However, it was a war of unprecedented brutality resulting in a tremendous suffering of the Polish people in the long run. Jews were herded into Ghettos; other residents were imprisoned in camps for forced labor or displaced to make way for German settlers. Hundreds and thousands of them became victims of the Nazi murder machine. This episode sheds light on some of their lives, telling almost forgotten stories.

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