On September 1st, 1939, Hitler started the most fatal war in world history – a war waged to plunder, dispossess, enslave and eliminate entire ethnic groups. The first part of the German-Polish series reconstructs how Hitler triggered a chain of events that sparked a global conflagration. At the center of the second part is the intense suffering of the Polish people, the first victims of the war.

On September 1st, 1939, Hitler started the most fatal war in world history – a war waged to plunder, dispossess, enslave and eliminate entire ethnic groups. The first part of the German-Polish series reconstructs how Hitler triggered a chain of events that sparked a global conflagration. At the center of the second part is the intense suffering of the Polish people, the first victims of the war.