Poland was where the Second World War began in Europe. This episode reconstructs the Polish experience from the German invasion of September 1939 to the arrival of the Red Army in 1945. The story explores the partition of the country between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, the destruction of the Polish state, occupation, deportations, civilian persecution, and the Holocaust in occupied Polish territory. It also examines the underground resistance, the government in exile, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. A perspective on a country that was devastated, divided, and decisive.

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Germany was the country that began the Second World War in Europe and the political center of the Nazi regime. This episode explores how the war was experienced from inside a dictatorship that turned expansion, propaganda, state racism, and obedience into instruments of power. From the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the fall of Berlin in 1945, the story follows Germany’s path from early victories to total war, the Eastern Front, Allied bombing, the Holocaust, and final collapse. A historical perspective designed to understand events without justifying them.

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