Product: Hitler's Twilight: Battle for the Fatherland (2009)
Rating: 2.0
Focus on Ardennes offensive, no coverage of Eastern Front
This documentary picks up whereGotterdammerung: The Enemy At the Gatesended. The covered period starts in October 1944, after operation Marketgarden, and ends on 29 March 1945 with the last V2 launch against Britain. There is some mention of battles around Koeln and the Ruhr industrial region, of the Rhine crossings and of the Remagen bridge, but most of the DVD is about the Ardennes counteroffensive ("battle of the Bulge").The Ardennes offensive is described in some detail but the supporting maps are barely readable and do not illustrate well the troop movements. Surprisingly there is an extensive collection of biographies of the major German commanders, including what they did in WWI and what became of them after WWII. No information about Allied commanders.There is no coverage whatsoever of the Eastern Front, even though during that time period the Soviets advanced from the Vistula line (Warsaw) to the Oder-Neisse line (Kustrin, Frankfurt an der Oder) just short of Berlin, after having encircled the fortresses of Koenigsberg, Breslau, Poznan. Therefore, this documentary fails to give an appropriate 360 degrees overview of the vise around Germany in late 44, early 45.