The Unknown War

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January 1st, 1978

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The Unknown War Season 1 Episodes

Season 1

June 22 1941

June 22nd, 1978

On a pleasant June morning in 1941, nothing seemed more peaceful than Red Square and Moscow itself. It was early summer, and people were strolling along the broad streets, shopping in the ...

War in the Air

January 1st, 1978

In a surprise attack on June 22 of 1941, German forces destroyed more than two-thirds of the Soviet combat aircraft fleet while they were still stationed on the ground. Hitler and his ...

War in the Arctic

January 1st, 1978

In World War II the Russians were fighting along a 2,000-mile line that extended from the Black Sea to a point beyond the Arctic Circle. Arms and supplies from the United States and Great ...

The World's Greatest Tank Battle

January 1st, 1978

In July of 1943 the largest armored battle in history took place in Kursk. Hitler planned to annihilate the Soviet army at Kursk and make one final effort to win the war in the east. Here ...

Survival at Stalingrad

January 1st, 1978

During the fighting for Stalingrad, the defenders of the city took an oath: "There is no land for us beyond the Volga." When the Nazis surrendered to the Soviet army on January 31, 1943, in...

The Defense of Stalingrad

January 1st, 1978

In 1942 some of the fiercest combat ever took place in the monumental battle between the German and Russian armies. The ground was covered with bombs and artillery shells; almost all of ...

To the East

January 1st, 1978

This is the story of ordinary Russian civilians who worked to supply the military with tanks, planes, guns -- whatever was necessary to win the war against the Nazis. Little is known about ...

The Siege of Leningrad

January 1st, 1978

In the history of the Unknown War, Leningrad stands out as a symbol of the courage and persistence of the Russian people. For years Leningrad resisted capture by Hitler's forces. In the ...

A Soldier of the Unknown War

January 1st, 1978

The Unknown War was an Allied war. For the Russians, the victory had a special meaning. This was a war in which 20 million Russians died, possibly more. There was scarcely a Soviet family ...

The Battle for Moscow

January 1st, 1978

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 ...

The Last Battle of the Unknown War

January 1st, 1978

The Second World War ended in Europe in May of 1945, but the war in the Far East raged on. At the conference in Yalta in February of 1945, the Big Three signed a secret document regarding ...

The Battle of Berlin

January 1st, 1978

To the Soviet army, the capture of Berlin was the culmination of their drive to avenge the ravaging of their homeland. As the Soviets were fighting their way into the heart of the city, ...

The Allies

January 1st, 1978

The Allied effort in World War II was designed by three men: Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. Within hours of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Roosevelt...

The Liberation of Poland

January 1st, 1978

Situated in central Europe, Poland was a geographical corridor for invasion and war. During World War II Poland suffered enormously; six million Poles lost their lives. In 1939 Warsaw radio...

The Balkans to Vienna

January 1st, 1978

After the Soviets won back their own country, they pushed westward to release Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Yugoslavia from German occupation. One of the bloodiest...

The Liberation of Belorussia

January 1st, 1978

The Nazis occupied the northwestern part of the Soviet Union for three years during the Unknown War. In 1944 the Soviets launched a massive attack to free the area that swept through ...

Liberation of the Ukraine

January 1st, 1978

In the late summer of 1941 the Soviet army was forced to retreat from Kiev in the Soviet Ukraine. For more than two years, the Nazis occupied the city and virtually destroyed it. In 1943, ...

The Battle of Caucasus

January 1st, 1978

In 1943 Novorossiysk, at the foothills of the Caucasus mountains, was the southernmost tip of the Soviet front. At the same time the Battle of Stalingrad was taking place, in the summer of ...

The Battle of the Seas

January 1st, 1978

The Russians fought Hitler at sea -- in the Baltic, in the Gulf of Finland, in the Black Sea, the Arctic and even on inland lakes and rivers. Soviet marines attacked so savagely, they were ...

The Partisans

January 1st, 1978

When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, he captured Moscow; but Russia's men and women, banding together behind his lines, turned the French invaders' lives into a living hell. The same thing...