World War II

Aggression is a documentary (0:52) of the Apocalypse series about the Second World War which tells the story since the accession to power of Hitler until the declaration of war against Germany by France and England .





Episode # 1. Apocalypse is a French television series in 6 parts made by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle tracing the history of the Second World War, from its origins to the end of the war. It brings together known and unpublished historical documents and chronicles the major events of the war, based on archive images restored and colorized. Reviewed by Mathieu Kassovitz.


Since taking office in January 1933, Hitler account the inertia of European democracies to seize the territories he covets.
In 1939, Germany led by Hitler had already seized Austria and Bohemia and Moravia. For Hitler, such annexations were justified by the presence of Germanic populations and the need to win the vital space needed for German expansion.
For the same reasons, Poland is any designated to be the next target of the Reich. Moreover, the country separates from its inception at the end of the First World War East Prussia from the rest of Germany, unacceptable situation for German.


Hitler decided to end what he called the worst monstrosity of the Treaty of Versailles, the Danzig corridor. German territory was cut in half in 1919 to give Poland access to the sea.
Hitler fixed the recovery of Danzig and the invasion of Poland on 1 September at 5:35.
Given the refusal of French and English Westerners to surrender Dantzig to be placed under special status, despite the firmness displayed by Arthur Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, who judges that Hitler goes too far in its demands and informed him that the Kingdom -um go to war if necessary, Hitler is preparing the next invasion.
After securing its southern flank thanks to a pact with Fascist Italy, Hitler guarantees on its eastern flank by signing the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Stalin August 23, 1939.


The first cannon shot of the second world war was fired on Danzig.
Hitler launches the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Germany on Poland. A battle of another age is then delivered by the Polish lancers who are massacred by charging German tanks. On 20 September, he ordered the bombing of Warsaw, surrounded, still resists. Hitler wants to terrorize not only Polish but also French and English.
When the troops of the Third Reich invaded Poland in September 1939, France and England no longer have a choice and they declared war on Germany.
The war then enters an unprecedented phase. For German, it becomes the Sitzkrieg, sitting war for English The Phoney War, the wrong war, and for the French War Funny, a waiting period of uncertainty but also of hope. French and British remember the suffering of 1914-1918 and still hope to avoid war. Meanwhile, Hitler is preparing his plan to invade France, risky but formidable. The persecution of Jews and Gypsies began.


The bombing of Warsaw and Rotterdam showed how cities are vulnerable, then Paris is undertaking to protect its monuments and hide in the provinces masterpieces its museums. Paris was declared an open city, that is to say, delivered without a fight to the enemy, not to suffer the same fate. The government has gone to Bordeaux, the Germans were at the gates of the city and Parisian flee.
Civilians regions placed on the passage of the Wehrmacht fleeing combat zones.
The France fled, a huge debacle that bear the name of Biblical Exodus. Six million French converge on the Loire, the last bastion, but there is no bulwark against Stukas