The Unknown War The Battle for Moscow (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV Episode | 50 min | Documentary, History, War

The Unknown War

The Battle for Moscow (Season 1, Episode 2)

TV Episode | 50 min | Documentary, History, War

On October 8, 1941, Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, broadcast from Berlin that Moscow had fallen. Hitler's troops, he said, could see the Kremlin towers from their front lines; another four or five days and the Nazi flag ...See moreOn October 8, 1941, Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, broadcast from Berlin that Moscow had fallen. Hitler's troops, he said, could see the Kremlin towers from their front lines; another four or five days and the Nazi flag would fly over the Kremlin. The Germans believed these reports, and so did many others -- after all, Hitler had conquered western Europe, he had blitzed London. But in an area some 60 miles from the Kremlin, the Nazi blitzkrieg came to an end. In the Moscow suburbs, the Red Army and hundreds of thousands of ordinary men, women and children threw up barriers that the Nazi tanks could not crack. In early December the Red Army counterattacked. They pushed Hitler's armies as far back as 125 miles from Moscow. It was the first time in the Second World War that the mighty Nazi Wehrmacht was halted. See less

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Name	Known for
Burt Lancaster Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	From Here to Eternity (1953)
Anthony Eden Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Averell Harriman Self Self See fewer	Krymskaya konferentsiya (1945)
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Joseph Stalin Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) See fewer	One Inch from Victory (1944)
Georgi Zhukov Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Fall of Berlin (1945)