world war

A powerful story of the love and renewal that sprang up between the Jewish G.I. and many of the victims of the camps.

Hitler's Reich spawned a welter of organizations that conducted espionage and counterespionage. As was often the case in the Nazi bureaucracy, these secret services rarely cooperated with one another and frequently worked at cross-purposes. The leaders of these clandestine organizations were complex, ambitious men who vied for power, scarcely hesitating to discredit a rival in the Machiavellian struggle for supremacy in the German shadow world.

In the waning months of the war, German measures against the Dutch grew more and more harsh. Raids increased in frequency and ferocity. House-to-house searches flushed out suspected Resistance members, who were deported to work camps or shot. The Nazis starting mining the nation's remaining dikes in preparation for a last ditch stand. In April they blew up the great polder of Wieringermeer, rendering thousands of people homeless.

The battered Axis survivors who escaped the Allied net in North Africa withdrew across 100 miles of water to Sicily, where they dug in to wait for their enemy. The Mediterranean was now an Allied sea, and the Anglo-American forces were massing a mighty, battle-hardened armada to spearhead a new campaign against the Axis in its home territory - Italy.

On September 25, 1944, shortly after the ground fighting reached German soil for the first time, Adolf Hitler ordered the formation of a Volkssturm, or People's Army. Hitler's decree automatically made every semi-healthy male civilian between the ages of sixteen and sixty a member of the new force.

Extensive photographic coverage. History Channel presentation.

In 1941, the German army invaded the small town of Eishyshok, Poland (now Lithuania) and brutally murdered nearly all 3,500 Jewish residents. Fifty-six years after the massacre, There Once Was a Town chronicles the remarkable journey of four of the town's survivors and their families as they return home.

Over half a century after their imprisonment, veteran Allied P.O.Ws (as well as some of their German guards) return to Colditz to reveal the daring schemes and ingenius devices that helped over 300 prisoners attempt breakouts.

Based on a true story; Kellie Martin and Marion Ross star in this inspiring tale of a young Polish girl who hides a Jewish family from the Nazis during the war.

In the months before World War II, an extraordinary rescue operation aided the youngest victims of Nazi terror. Ten-thousand Jewish and other children were transported from German-held lands to foster homes and hostels in Great Britain.