The Invasion: The Outbreak of World War II

On 1 September 1939, Hitler started the most fatal war in world history. With the invasion of Poland, Hitler aimed to destroy the military force of the neighboring country and deprive its people of their livelihood. The first part of the German-Polish series reconstructs how Hitler triggered a chain of events that sparked a global conflagration. At the center of the second part is the intense suffering of the Polish people, the first victims of the war. (official distributor synopsis)