The First World War


Shackled to a Corpse (E05)

(episode)
UK, 2003, 50 min

Directed by:

Ben Steele

Based on:

Hew Strachan (book)

Composer:

Orlando Gough

Cast:

Jonathan Lewis (narrator), Adolf Hitler (a.f.), Paul von Hindenburg (a.f.), Hermann Göring (a.f.), Emperor Wilhelm II (a.f.)
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The war on the Eastern Front was racial; Slav verses Teuton. It was highly mobile, fought across brutal terrain from the Urais to the Alps. It initiated many horros of twentieth century warfare: chemical weapons, mass expulsions of civilians, the persecution of Jews. (Prime Video)