Discovery Channel - Battlefield Series 1 (1994) Part 6 The Battle of Berlin

A comprehensive documentary series about the key battles of World War Two. This sweeping series offers detailed accounts of the key battles, combining extensive use of archival footage with full color 3D animation and a compelling and vivid narrative, complete with main weapon systems used and portraits of the principal leaders and commanders. Strategy and tactics are described in detail with excellent graphics, providing a fascinating analysis of the forces in conflict. A review of the political and military situation prior to battle and an examination of the weaponry and combat-readiness of the men are followed by original archive footage of important phases of the battle, supplemented by Situation Reports and finished off with a summary. Dramatic use of 3-D computer graphics and actual battle footage transport the viewer directly in the thick of the fight. Battlefield is a series that chronicles the decisive events and critical battles that shaped history. Archival footage from several sources includes film from the Moscow central military archives. Watch rare archival footage from vaults around the world!

Part 6 The Battle of Berlin

The furious, climatic last battle of Hitler's war. Over half a million lives were lost as the Red Army finally crushed the last Nazi citadel. Deep underground in a bomb-proof bunker under the Reich Chancellery, Hitler commanded his few remaining armies in 1945 in the last battle of the war. Berlin, a city that had been bombed by four years, decimated by the Red Army artillery and ravaged by uncontrollable fires. Hidden in shelters and basements, the surviving residents awaited in fear for the end. For twelve days the Russians fought their way through the suburbs towards the center of Berlin. Although resistance was meaningless, the Germans put up bitter resistance. Remnants of the Waffen SS and Hitler Jugend fought to the death until they fell. The climax of the battle was reached when it came to the capture of the government district and the Reichstag. Here violence and bloodshed reached an extent previously unknown in the war. Even in its death throes, the Third Reich remained a vicious enemy, wiping it out cost hundreds of thousands of more human lives. Its shameful legacy – a city divided and the resulting forty-five year Cold War – would plague generations to come.

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