The world at war

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Television series
German title The world at war
Original title The World at War
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
year 1973
Production
company		 Thames Television
length 1352 minutes
Episodes 26 in 1 season
genre documentary
production Jeremy Isaacs
music Carl Davis
First broadcast Oct. 31, 1973 - May 8, 1974 on ITV
German-language
first broadcast		 March 20, 1975 on III. TV program of the Nordkette

Die Welt im Krieg (originally The World at War ) is a 26-part British television documentary series that deals with the time of World War II . It was created in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum . It was first broadcast on ITV in 1973/74 . At the time, it was the most expensive television series ever at £ 900,000 to produce. In 2000, it was ranked 19th on a list of the best British TV shows compiled by the British Film Institute , taking first place in the Documentary category .

overview

In addition to extensive original recordings from the Second World War, the series also includes numerous interviews with contemporary witnesses from all sides, including such well-known as Karl Dönitz , Adolf Galland , John Harding , Arthur Harris , Traudl Junge , Otto Kretschmer , Curtis LeMay , Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld , Otto Ernst Remer , Albert Speer , James Stewart , Paul Tibbets , Siegfried Westphal or Karl Wolff .

Laurence Olivier was the narrator in the original English version, while Uwe Friedrichsen took on this role in the German dubbed version .

Episodes

episode Original title German title Period content First broadcast
1 A New Germany A new Germany 1933-1939 The Rise of National Socialism ' October 31, 1973
2 Distant War War at a distance September 1939 - May 1940 Attack on Poland , the sinking of Admiral Graf Spee , seated war in the west, company Weser Exercise 7th November 1973
3 France Falls France falls May - June 1940 Maginot Line , Western Campaign November 14, 1973
4th Alone Alone May 1940 - May 1941 Battle of Britain November 21, 1973
5 Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa June - December 1941 Operation Barbarossa until the Battle of Moscow November 28, 1973
6th Banzai !: Japan Banzai !: Japan 1931-1942 Second Sino-Japanese War , attack on Pearl Harbor 5th December 1973
7th On Our Way: USA USA enters the war 1939-1942 Lending Act , Attack on Pearl Harbor , Doolittle Raid , Battle of Midway , Battle of Guadalcanal December 12, 1973
8th The Desert: North Africa The desert: North Africa 1940-1943 Africa campaign 19th December 1973
9 Stalingrad Stalingrad June 1942 - February 1943 Battle of Stalingrad , Operation Uranus 2nd January 1974
10 Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic Wolf pack: submarines in the Atlantic 1939-1944 Atlantic battle , operation bang January 9, 1974
11 Red Star: The Soviet Union The Red Star: The Soviet Union 1941-1943 Leningrad Blockade , Company Citadel January 16, 1974
12 Whirlwind: Bombing Germany Firestorm: bombs on Germany September 1939 - April 1944 Air raids on Germany in World War II , Operation Millennium , Operation Gomorrah , Operation Double Strike 23rd January 1974
13 Tough Old Gut: Italy A tough nut to crack: Italy November 1942 - June 1944 Casablanca Conference , Battle of the Kasserin Pass , Operation Husky , Allied invasion of Italy , Italian campaign , Operation Avalanche , Case Axis , Battle of Monte Cassino , Operation Shingle January 30, 1974
14th It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma Jungle War: Burma 1942-1943 Burma Campaign , Japanese conquest of Burma , Japanese occupation of Burma , Chindits February 6, 1974
15th Home Fires: Britain A tough test: Great Britain 1940-1944 The home front in Great Britain, air raids on Coventry and Plymouth, use of the German V1 February 13, 1974
16 Inside the Reich: Germany Life in the Reich: Germany 1940-1944 The home front in Germany, assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , summoning of the Volkssturm 20th February 1974
17th Morning Another morning June - August 1944 Operation Overlord , Falaise Cauldron , Liberation of Paris February 27, 1974
18th Occupation: Holland Occupation: The Netherlands 1940-1944 March 13, 1974
19th Pincers Pincer maneuvers August 1944 - March 1945 War on two fronts , Operation Dragoon , liberation of Paris , Warsaw Uprising , Operation Market Garden , Battle of the Bulge March 20, 1974
20th Genocide genocide 1941-1945 Founding of the SS , uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto , final solution to the Jewish question , Holocaust March 27, 1974
21st Nemesis: Germany The collapse: Germany February - May 1945 Air raids on Dresden , Battle of Berlin , Adolf Hitler's suicide , unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht April 3, 1974
22nd Japan Japan 1941-1945 Doolittle Raid , Battle of Saipan , Battle of Okinawa , Air Strikes on Japan , Operation Vengeance , Kamikaze April 10, 1974
23 Pacific The Pacific scene February 1942 - July 1945 Air raid on Darwin , island hopping , battle of the Gilbert Islands , battle of the Philippine Sea , battle of Peleliu , sea ​​and air battle in the Gulf of Leyte , recapture of the Philippines , battle of Iwojima , battle of Okinawa April 17, 1974
24 The bomb The atomic bomb February - September 1945 Yalta Conference , Manhattan Project , atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki April 24, 1974
25th Reckoning Billing 1945 and after Occupation of Germany, demobilization , Nuremberg trials , start of the Cold War May 1st 1974
26th Remember memories Number of war dead in the individual countries , effect of experiences on the lives of contemporary witnesses May 8, 1974 (29th anniversary of the German surrender )

Charisma

After the first broadcast on ITV , the series was shown by numerous domestic and foreign television channels, including WWOR-TV in New York, WGBH-TV, which belongs to the PBS chain, the Danish broadcaster DR2 and BBC Two .

The episode "Genocide" is also noteworthy because it was broadcast on commercial television without commercial breaks.

After its first German broadcast on NDR , RB and SFB III from March 20, 1975, the series was repeated several times, including on WDR and HR .

In 2014, the series was broadcast from June 29th to December 21st on ARD-alpha in a digitally restored complete version with previously unpublished images and completely re-commented and again in 2020 from the end of February to May 24th, with 2 episodes each together on Sundays after the news.

Others

Each episode begins with a short teaser before the opening credits . Both the first and the last episode deal with the Oradour massacre . At the end of the last episode, this topic is taken up again, with the pictures of the ruins of the village destroyed in 1944 with the Dona nobis pacem (in German: Give us the peace ) from the Nikolaimesse by Joseph Haydn .

Publication on VHS and DVD

The series has been released several times on VHS or DVD . In 2010, Koch Media released a version digitally remastered and restored by FremantleMedia on DVD, with the entire edition consisting of twelve DVDs.

literature

  • Mark Arnold-Forster: The World at War (the book for the television series), Pimlico, London 2001 (revised new edition, original from 1973), ISBN 0-7126-6782-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Just one big turnoff: TV grandee Sir Jeremy Isaacs slams 'boring and lazy' programming , Daily Mail , August 13, 2010
  2. ↑ The BFI TV 100 at the BFI website ( Memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ 19: The World At War - Number 1 in the Factual category ( Memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Tough Old Gut. Episode 13 of 26. In: BBC . Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 19: The World At War - Number 1 in the Factual category ( Memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ "The World at War" - The world at war on www.br.de.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the episode it is mentioned that Winston Churchill called Italy the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile' because it thought that an invasion would allow it to advance quickly into the German Reich. In the course of the operation this turned out to be considerably more difficult - Italy was therefore more of a 'tough old gut' (“hard old stomach”).
  2. ↑ The title refers to the song It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow by the singer Vera Lynn , who is interviewed in the episode and from which historical film recordings are shown during the troop support in Burma, where the song can be heard.