atrocities

Recently re-discovered color footage shows military combat action of World War II, from Pearl Harbor to D-Day, including the bombing of German cities.

An oral history of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals by the participants serves to illustrate the diversity of human reflections on common experiences.

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Provides an overview of the Nuremberg Trials in which Nazi leaders were prosecuted for World War II atrocities, looking at the cases of such defendants as Rudolf Hesse and Hermann Goering, talking with witnesses to the proceedings, and discussing the lasting influence of the trials on the world community.

Draws from documents declassified over fifty years after the end of World War II to describe and analyze the degree to which the Nazis planned and improvised the Holocaust, the attitudes and participation of ordinary Germans in the killings, and the Western allies' knowledge of and reaction to the extermination of the Jews.