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We watched every episode, we memorized it, the footage, the interviewees, which at the time were largely German and Allied officers \u2014 men who actually fought the war \u2014 they were still alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to do that kind of series [now], but the museum and the History Channel alike thought this was an important project to bring to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Citino added that nothing and no one in the latter part of the 20th century to the present day has remained untouched by the war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWorld War II is the largest event in human history, one that has shaped \u2014 and is shaping \u2014 everything since,\u201d said Meacham, an executive producer on the documentary series. \u201cIts lessons are essential \u2014 about confronting tyranny, checking appetite, battling discrimination. We ignore these things at our peril.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a war that toppled empires and reshaped the modern world, but it didn\u2019t just begin as German tanks rolled into Poland, nor did it just escalate with Operation Barbarossa or the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a war that was fomented in the 1920s and 1930s throughout beer halls in Germany and in Manchuria, China, Abyssinia (Ethiopia), Spain and beyond. 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They are all interpreting war news in terms of \u2018Will we be liberated and Germany be defeated before we run out of time?\u2019\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd so the thought experiment was for ordinary Germans, the framing is the other way around. For them, the war is more important than the Holocaust. I realized that we could track this up to the end of March 1945 and it\u2019s only in the last six weeks, five to six weeks of the war that you really get Germans not wanting to continue, and there\u2019s a quite clear military reason for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the German military withdrew further and further across the Rhine, Stargardt continued, \u201cit\u2019s that use of terror, which actually tells you they\u2019ve lost consent \u2026 it\u2019s been turned into a kind of almost mythological set of events of seeing \u2018we were their victims too\u2019 kind of logic, rather than actually, if we look at this analytically, it shows that that kind of terror against the German population only occurs in these very specific circumstances and therefore we know we\u2019re dealing with something else up to that point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the series takes a relatively 30,000-foot view of the most destructive war in human 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