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The Siege of Leningrad killed more civilians than bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The US Military Academy evaluated that Russian casualties during the siege were bigger than combined American and British casualties during the entire war.
This footage is really very brutal. 
The Green Belt of Glory is a war memorial surrounding Saint Petersburg, Russia, commemorating the Siege of Leningrad of the Second World War. The belt consists of multiple small memorials marking the historical front line.
The total number of people evacuated from the siege of Leningrad through the Road of Life was about 1.3 million, mostly women and children.
The Deportation of the Volga Germans was the Soviet forced transfer of the whole of the Volga German population of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to Siberia, and Kazakhstan on September 3, 1941, during World War II.
Lawrence Welk, (1903–1992) American entertainer, was a Volga German. Part of why he is so popular in North Dakota.
This episode now is called The Whirlwind, all about the Allied Strategic Bombing Campaign. 
Interview with Jimmy Stewart! 
Gen. Curtis LeMay seems pretty mellow in this documentary...
....compared to other depictions
The numerical superiority of the USAAF fighters, superb flying characteristics of the P-51, and pilot proficiency helped cripple the Luftwaffe's fighter force.
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe during the war, was quoted as saying, "When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up."
This episode marked the halfway point, and is about the battle for Italy.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to invade Italy, which in November 1942 he had called "the soft underbelly of the axis" (American General Mark W. Clark would later call it "one tough gut").
In March 1945, Clark, at the age of 48, became the youngest American officer ever to be promoted to the rank of four star general. General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, a close friend of Clark's, considered him a brilliant staff officer and trainer of men.
The results of the Burma campaign have been contentious to historians. It was suggested that the campaign did not contribute to the defeat of Japan except for distracting Japanese land forces away from China or the Pacific, although this opinion is partisan and hotly disputed.
Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945)was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a troubled legacy.
Bose lived in Berlin from 1941 until 1943. During his earlier visit to Germany in 1934, he had met Emilie Schenkl, the daughter of an Austrian veterinarian whom he married in 1937. Their daughter is Anita Bose Pfaff.
Tomorrow Is A Lovely Day 
Vera Lynn touring British troops in Burma during the war
Vera Lynn touring British troops in Burma during the war
In early 1943, British POWs arrive at a Japanese prison camp in Burma. The commandant, Colonel Saito, informs them that all prisoners, regardless of rank, will work on the construction of a railway bridge over the River Kwai that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon.
IRL, two-thirds of the British forces in Burma were from India.
On this episode, the British tell their stories of the Blitz. Very sad, but things were much much worse elsewhere.
George Formby, was an English actor, songwriter and comedian who was known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele , and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer
I do like this poster 
Amazing the efforts required to convince people the Russians were our allies during WWII and then the efforts to reverse that thinking right after the war. 
I should probably buy a print of this, but I doubt I’d be able to hang it up in my house. 
Mask wardens, coming in 2021.
Churchill was too busy fighting WW2 to fight socialism at home....
Clemens August Graf von Galen, was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. During World War II, Galen led Catholic protest against Nazi euthanasia and denounced Gestapo lawlessness and the persecution of the church.
Mit brennender Sorge (”With burning concern") On the Church and the German Reich is an encyclical of Pope Pius XI, issued during the Nazi era on 10 March 1937 (but bearing a date of Passion Sunday, 14 March).
Written in German, not the usual Latin, it was smuggled into Germany for fear of censorship and was read from the pulpits of all German Catholic churches on one of the Church's busiest Sundays, Palm Sunday (21 March that year).
The encyclical declares "that man as a person possesses rights he holds from God, and which any collectivity must protect against denial, suppression or neglect.”
Amazing they were able to get Hitler’s secretary Traudl Junge to be interviewed for this documentary
