The Invasion: The Outbreak of World War II (Documentary, English)
Genres: War, History
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2014-09-02
Ended: 2014-09-02
Network: ZDF
Country: DE
Airs on: Tuesday
Runtime: 50 minutes
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.