About the Episode
Resistance to Nazi occupation and oppression is constant throughout the war, in ways big and small.
In the summer of 1944, the populations of two occupied cities revolt against Nazi rule. The people of Paris, led by the French Resistance and aided by Charles de Gaulle’s Free French and the Allied forces sweeping east from Normandy, take to the streets in a fight for the fate of France. On the Eastern Front, the underground Polish Home Army seizes their moment to drive the Germans out of Warsaw before the Soviet Red Army arrives. The fate of the two uprisings—and the two nations—will meet starkly different ends.
The people subjected to the most horrific treatment by the Nazis—the Jewish prisoners of the Holocaust—fight every day for their lives, freedom, and dignity. In the war’s closing months, some death camp prisoners will take their fate into their own hands and mount organized resistance.
The National WWII Museum was proud to support HISTORY's work on this series through historical research, educational outreach, and archival footage, as well as on-site interviews with WWII veterans that will be featured as part of the network’s “Save Our History” initiative.
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