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Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler: the "old lion" against the "German eagle". The "bear of Downing Street" versus "der Wolf". Two radically contradictory personalities whose enmity represented the 20th century as the "age of extremes". An imposing film all from the archives, brimming with life, plot twists and dramatic turns of events, based on meticulously colored and remastered images.
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00:00May 10th, 1940. An extraordinary coincidence. The same day that Hitler
00:16launches his lightning war on Western Europe, Churchill is named Prime Minister
00:21of Great Britain, as if fate had a hand in the decision.
00:30A few weeks later, Hitler conquers France, Holland and Belgium. Churchill finds himself isolated,
00:41facing an army that has already vanquished a large portion of Europe. Churchill refuses
00:51to surrender.
00:52We shall defend our island, whatever the gods may be. We shall fight on the beaches,
00:58we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall never surrender.
01:04You can defend us. You can defend us. You can defend us. We shall capitulate us.
01:14Between 1940 and 1945, Hitler and Churchill devoted every minute of their existence to the others' destruction.
01:24These two diametrically opposed personalities will do battle, and both promise their people victory.
01:36The combat these Titans wrought determined the course of human destiny.
01:44beneath the clamor of bombs, a river of blood and bodies, these larger-than-life leaders seem to fuse with their nations.
01:56Their duel, undoubtedly the most important of the modern era, pits two possible worlds against one another.
02:04How did they get here? How did destiny bring two men so different, and yet at times so alike, together for this ultimate confrontation?
02:16As early as the First World War, Corporal Hitler and Lieutenant Colonel Churchill found themselves at odds.
02:35The two intrepid soldiers distinguished themselves on the battlefield.
02:40After the war, thanks to his impressive talent as a public speaker and his violent henchman,
02:50the little Austrian corporal, leader of the Nazi party, has become the Chancellor of Germany.
02:56In the 1930s, Hitler is at his apex, while in England, the aristocratic Churchill has lost the election and hit bottom.
03:05Seen as politically washed up, the old deputy is nonetheless the only person who relentlessly denounces Nazi Germany.
03:17When Hitler sets off World War II, he's unstoppable.
03:21In less than six weeks, he wins the Battle of France.
03:25Churchill, the failed politician, is called back by his government,
03:33and named Prime Minister of Great Britain.
03:37Twenty years after the end of the First World War, the two men find themselves once again face to face,
03:43each at the head of their own nation.
03:46A combat of titans ensues.
03:49In August of 1940, the Battle of Britain begins.
03:56Hitler can launch attacks from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Norway.
04:08Many commenters believe that England will be beaten before the month is over.
04:20Hitler orders Goering to launch an aerial attack baptized, the Eagle Attack.
04:30Starting on August 12th, 1940, hundreds of bombardiers, escorted by Luftwaffe bombers, crush every military objective in southern England.
04:40A merciless battle ensues between the German Messerschmitts on one side and the British Spitfires and Hurricanes on the other.
04:52The sky over Britain is stained blood red.
04:55The Royal Air Force holds its own, but after several days the situation is dire.
05:09At the end of August, British pilots have practically lost control of airspace over southern England,
05:14and the Germans have the upper hand.
05:18Happily, a fortuitous incident will change the course of destiny.
05:22On August 24th, a German plane mistakenly drops a bomb on London.
05:29For Churchill, it's a provocation.
05:34The next day he orders the bombing of Berlin.
05:37His generals try to dissuade him from this suicide mission, because Berlin is much too far away.
05:43But Churchill, as impulsive as ever, stands firm.
05:47Only a handful of pilots manage, with great difficulty, to release their bombs on the suburbs of the capital of the Reich.
05:57The audacious operation infuriates Hitler.
06:00It confirms all his opinions about Churchill.
06:03A madman, a drunkard, a pig, who will attack German civilians without a second thought.
06:09For Hitler, it's intolerable.
06:12And if the British air force will attack 2,000 or 3,000 or 4,000 kg bombs,
06:19then we will attack in 1,850, 180, 230, 230, 230.
06:25And if you are aware, you will attack the city in large amounts.
06:31We will attack the city in large amounts.
06:33We will attack the city in large amounts.
06:34We will attack the city in large amounts.
06:41It will come a hour, when one of us will attack.
06:46And that will not be the national victory of German.
06:50The Führer orders his air force to change their military objectives.
07:00Major British cities must be destroyed.
07:05The Blitz begins.
07:09In two months' time, London is hit with almost 100,000 explosive bombs and one million incendiary bombs.
07:21In November 1940, the city of Coventry is hit hard.
07:36More than 500 are dead.
07:40The Germans even invent the word Coventries as a synonym for annihilation.
07:50Churchill visits the city.
07:53Mr. Churchill, now Prime Minister, promised that for every bomb dropped, the enemy would get three back.
07:59He won't forget Coventry.
08:02Despite the fiery wrath that rains down on British cities, the apocalyptic scenes the citizens endure and the tens of thousands of deaths, the English manage to hold on.
08:19Londoners eat and sleep in air raid shelters or the underground.
08:26Hitler hopes by killing large numbers of civilians and women and children that he will terrorize and cow the people of this mighty imperial city.
08:38Little does he know the spirit of the British nation.
08:50The day after bombings, the British carry on as is their wont and Londoners return to work as if nothing had happened.
08:57The catchphrase of the day is London can take it.
09:13During the Blitz campaign, Churchill is regularly on hand in bombed out neighborhoods to bolster the people's morale.
09:20Hitler felt certain that Britain's spirit would be crushed along with their leader.
09:32But the bombings have the opposite effect.
09:35Churchill's firmness, his unflappable dignity, his unwavering faith in the future, his confidence that England will triumph, his smile, his hat, his cigar, his passionate speeches align in this moment of history and make Churchill a symbol of the fight against tyranny.
10:02We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
10:07We shall fight on the beaches.
10:09We shall fight on the landing grounds.
10:12We shall fight in the fields and in the streets.
10:16We shall fight in the hills.
10:18We shall never surrender.
10:21Hitler had his people behind him.
10:24Now Churchill has his.
10:27Hitler has made a terrible mistake.
10:39Changing his military objectives allowed the Royal Air Force to regroup and go on the offensive.
10:44The RAF dominates their attackers.
11:00The British are victorious in the battle for the sky.
11:07Churchill won the Battle of Britain because he acted impulsively.
11:16A strategic amateur.
11:18Hitler lost because he made the same mistake.
11:21There are more than 23,000 dead, but England is not invaded.
11:26It's Hitler's first defeat.
11:31Churchill kept him at bay.
11:38The Axis propaganda machine opens fire on Churchill, depicting him as a bloodthirsty creature eager to plunge Europe into war.
11:45And Hitler singles him out in several speeches.
11:58How crazy.
12:00This man in Europe has run for 5 years and took something that could be afraid of.
12:07This guy, this drunk boy Churchill.
12:11What has he in reality in his life done?
12:15This fallen subject.
12:17A foul.
12:18If this war not come,
12:21then there would be hundreds of our old age and also of the floodgates and also of my person
12:28as a hunter from the mountains of peace.
12:31If this war was not coming, who would be talking about Churchill?
12:51Goebbels writes,
12:54This man is a mixture of heroism and cunning. If he had been in power in 1933, we wouldn't be where we are now.
13:01And I believe he'll cause us other problems. We must not underestimate him.
13:09For the time being, Hitler must postpone the invasion of England.
13:14His plan is to make them fold by destroying one of Britain's blood enemies, the Soviet Union.
13:21In June 1941, three million German soldiers, backed by the Air Force, enter Russia.
13:35Operation Barbarossa begins spectacularly.
13:40In a few hours, more than 1,200 Soviet airplanes are demolished on the ground.
13:51While Hitler immobilizes part of his armies in the east, a dramatic event takes place in the west.
13:58In December 1941, the United States naval base Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese.
14:04Our two strategists rejoice at the same time, but not for the same reason.
14:13Hitler is buoyed because Japan is on his side.
14:17He tells his marshals,
14:18There's no way we can lose the war.
14:21We now have a partner who has remained undefeated for 3,000 years.
14:28Churchill is ecstatic.
14:30Pearl Harbor is the lifesaver he's been waiting for,
14:33having tried unsuccessfully for months to convince the American president, Franklin Roosevelt, to enter the war.
14:38He writes,
14:45No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy.
14:53England would live.
14:55Britain would live.
14:57I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
15:05But the deliverance is short-lived.
15:08Because of Japan, the U.S. Army will now need to preserve their weaponry for themselves.
15:13What will be left for England?
15:17Two weeks after Pearl Harbor, the British Prime Minister travels to the United States to give one of the most important speeches of his life.
15:23He must at all costs convince Congress to continue to aid England.
15:29Churchill brings his most powerful weapons with him.
15:33His grit and his sense of humor.
15:40If my father had been American,
15:43and my mother British,
15:46instead of the other way around,
15:48I might have got here on my own.
15:50What kind of a people do they think we are?
15:57Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
16:10His speech is a success, but he was under a great deal of stress and his age didn't help matters.
16:25After a long discussion with Roosevelt, Winston feels a terrible pain in his left arm.
16:30It's a heart attack.
16:35Out of the question for Churchill to give up the fight.
16:41He begs his doctor.
16:43Do not tell me to rest.
16:45I can't.
16:47No one else can do this job.
16:48You mustn't say anything.
16:49At a time when we've allied with the United States,
16:52England cannot reveal its prime minister has a weak heart.
16:56This must remain secret.
16:59Though his condition stays the secret,
17:01Winston can't hide this series of disasters taking place on the battlefields.
17:08Everywhere, Hitler's armies have the upper hand.
17:10In North Africa, or during the Battle of the Atlantic, hundreds of thousands of English soldiers die or are taken prisoner.
17:19Churchill is criticized in Parliament.
17:22Because whereas the Nazi dictator imposes his viewpoints,
17:26the prime minister must support his with sound arguments.
17:29England's Parliament is a democracy after all.
17:33Churchill says,
17:35I'm like a fighter pilot.
17:37I go out on a mission every night, knowing that one of them will be the last.
17:45Regardless, his political adversaries understand that if Hitler is to be stopped,
17:49replacing Churchill in the middle of a war is impossible.
17:53The British line is in incredible physical shape.
17:56No one would guess that the Sexagenarian had suffered a heart attack.
17:59A general says,
18:04Winston is doing a tremendous job and always makes it look as if he was enjoying himself.
18:09I can understand why his entourage is so devoted to him.
18:13He dedicates each waking hour to winning the war.
18:16Shows no sign of fatigue and seems in better shape than politicians who work less than he does.
18:21In fact, Churchill has never been happier.
18:27His depression is far behind him.
18:31In response to journalists, he says,
18:34I have only one goal.
18:36It is to get rid of Hitler and that has simplified my life immensely.
18:39The bloodbath on the Eastern Front was horrific.
18:50But the Wehrmacht survived the winter.
18:53Hitler's tenacity has paid off.
18:56His generals agree.
18:59His determination saved the German army from defeat.
19:02Hitler assigns his troops new objectives.
19:09Stalingrad and the Caucasus.
19:13The self-taught strategist is confident.
19:19Now that January and February are behind us,
19:22our enemies will no longer see us bear the curse of Napoleon's armies.
19:26We will start to right the balance.
19:28But to realign the power balance,
19:34Hitler neglects to coordinate his offenses with his Japanese and Italian allies.
19:38He doesn't even inform Mussolini that he plans to invade the USSR.
19:43Hitler sees war as an individual sport.
19:51Whereas Churchill is more of a team player.
19:54As he told Ribbentrop in the 30s,
19:55his mission is to turn the entire world against Hitler.
19:59He shuttles back and forth between Roosevelt the capitalist and Stalin the communist
20:04in order to build an invincible coalition.
20:10But the Kremlin's leader has his own demands.
20:13He wants a second front in Europe to help relieve the Red Army.
20:16Winston, still traumatized by the failed landing at Gallipoli, balks.
20:25But to bring down the Reich, the old lion puts aside his fears.
20:31In the utmost secrecy, he convinces Stalin and Roosevelt to first attack the Axis powers' weak spot, North Africa.
20:38On November 8th, 1942, Anglo-American troops disembark in Oran, Algiers and Casablanca.
20:54Operation Torch devised by Churchill is a resounding success.
21:03A few days earlier, General Montgomery launched his attack on El-Amane in Egypt against the enemy's stronghold.
21:14He breaks Rommel's Afrika Korps and forces them into a long retreat.
21:24On the Russian front, Hitler's army can't budge and steals itself for another harsh winter.
21:30The old lion's efforts at last bear fruit.
21:34The coalition works in concert.
21:36Always on the go, Churchill is a veritable dynamo.
21:41He inspires his troops and his generals with a hunger for victory.
21:47All the while preserving his inimitable sense of humor.
21:51When General Montgomery says to him,
21:54I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I am 100% fit,
21:57Churchill replies, I drink, and I smoke, and I am only 200% fit.
22:01Hitler can't accept defeat.
22:14He becomes more and more irritable.
22:17He's lost confidence in his generals.
22:19Halder, Lietz, van Mondstein, Keitel, and Guderian are relieved of their commands or transferred to another front.
22:26Sometimes Hitler doesn't bother to replace them and takes their posts himself.
22:32He thus becomes the commander of all the armed forces, the commander of the army, and the commander of a division of the army within the army.
22:42His multiple roles are a caricature.
22:45He could practically hold a meeting of the general staff all by himself.
22:49Upon learning that Hitler has given himself all the power, Churchill taunts him.
22:55The jaws of another Russian leader are closing on Hitler's armies.
23:05They have, of course, the consolation of knowing that they have been commanded and left, not by the German general staff, but by Corporal Hitler himself.
23:17But this consolation is short-lived, because the Soviet counterattack is of an unprecedented force.
23:28The Weimark situation is desperate.
23:31But Hitler doesn't care.
23:34His determination has turned into obstinacy.
23:40The war genius has only one strategy.
23:43Don't back down.
23:47The Weimark meets its Russian Verdun.
23:53In Stalingrad in February of 1943, General Paul has signed the surrender of the Sixth Army.
24:04Hitler has caused the worst defeat in German military history.
24:08The Axis forces count 400,000 men dead, wounded, or captured.
24:18After a continuous 23-year rise to the top since his failed putsch, Hitler begins his fall.
24:25He becomes more and more mystical and inscrutable.
24:28He says,
24:29the god of war has gone over to the other side.
24:37But while Hitler is losing the war, Churchill is losing control of his leadership.
24:43Despite the Allied success, he's been superseded by Roosevelt and Stalin, the new masters of the war, and no longer has full control of operations.
24:51In Tehran, November 1943, Churchill is painfully conscious of his weakened position.
25:00One more.
25:02I realized to Tehran for the first time what a small nation we are.
25:08He writes in his memoirs.
25:10There I sat with the great Russian bear on one side of me, and on the other side the great American buffalo.
25:17And between them, the poor little English donkey, who is the only one who knows the right way home.
25:22He was the bulldog, the old lion, and now he compares himself to a little donkey.
25:30Depression has hit again.
25:32And soon pneumonia will send him to the mat.
25:36Winston fears his final hours are drawing near.
25:38But a few days later, fickle as ever, the patient is much better, and poses in front of cameras in a uniform that no army general would dare wear.
25:55Very quickly, the miracle man finds the energy to dive back into military maps and planning.
26:01Because Churchill, like Hitler, can't stay away from a map for very long.
26:09The two warriors are nightmares for their generals.
26:13They give orders and modify strategies, when in fact neither of them are great strategists.
26:20But there is a difference.
26:22Winston knows he's an amateur, and listens to his advisors, who save him from irreparable mistakes many a time.
26:31But there is a difference.
26:34Whereas Hitler, by purging his staff, has essentially silenced his generals, because they don't dare contradict him, despite repeated catastrophes.
26:43Since the beginning of the war, Germany has already lost three million soldiers, and the future looks worse.
26:51The disembarkment is coming.
26:54The Fuhrer never questions his course of action, and announces,
26:57The Western plutocracy can attempt to land whenever they like.
27:03They will fail.
27:09In several months, England has become an immense arsenal in preparation for D-Day.
27:16Churchill is still just as cagey about landings, but this time he has a trump card.
27:20His secret services have assembled a phantom army.
27:27Codename, Operation Fortitude.
27:30To misdirect German reconnaissance units, thousands of inflatable vehicles of all types are deployed near Dover, to make it look like a landing in the Pad Calais.
27:39Full decoy divisions, made out of rubber, are placed in the fields.
27:47Hitler had leaked false intelligence to the allied nations about his military might in the 1930s.
27:52Well, he's going to get a taste of his own medicine.
27:55Churchill can't be sure the illusion will work, but he has a joker on the opposing side, Adolf Hitler himself.
28:08In the night between the 5th and 6th of June, 1944, the biggest armada ever assembled makes its way towards the French coast.
28:27Hitler goes to bed at 4 a.m.
28:30At 6 in the morning, the fleet is spotted and combat is engaged.
28:34German generals immediately call the chief of staff, fearing this armada is the dreaded invasion fleet.
28:45They call for reinforcements in case of an attempted landing.
28:51But General Jodl refuses to wake the Fuhrer to request authorization.
28:57One doesn't disturb a sleeping dictator, especially not Hitler.
29:02Hitler isn't roused until 10 in the morning by his camp aide.
29:13But Hitler is convinced that the attack on Normandy is nothing more than a diversion for the real landing in the Pad Calais.
29:20He refuses to send reinforcements.
29:25Hitler has taken the bait.
29:27The inflatable rubber decoys of Operation Fortitude did the job.
29:31It's already 2.30 in the afternoon when Hitler orders reinforcement troops.
29:50That's eight hours after the armada was sighted.
29:52It's too late.
29:53Fear of the dictator and his unilateral authority serve to hasten the success of D-Day.
30:05Churchill is relieved.
30:07Drawn by the smell of gunpowder as always, he visits the landing beaches himself.
30:11Winston Churchill now came himself onto the soil of Normandy.
30:17The visit was brief.
30:19It didn't take long for the Prime Minister to satisfy himself that all goes well on the first stage of the assault of Europe.
30:25The Prime Minister and his party return to the destroyed Kelvin in complete confidence of still greater successes to come.
30:34The architects of victory return home.
30:41Despite the successes of the Allied Forces landing, the dictator will not admit defeat.
30:45The Berlin bluffer bets everything on a last counter-attack.
30:50A tactic he masters.
30:52On December 16th, to the shock of Allied forces, 1900 cannons opened fire in the Ardennes region of France.
30:59For the first hours, the surprise attack surpasses the expectations of the German General Staff.
31:08Hitler's playing poker.
31:09This offensive could freeze the Western Front and convince the Anglo-Americans to negotiate with him to unite against the Soviets.
31:22The move surprises everyone.
31:25General Bradley, commander of the 1st US Army, is furious.
31:30He rages,
31:32My God, where does this son of a bitch get his manpower?
31:39Hitler savors his victory.
31:43But it's premature.
31:44The road conditions, the downed bridges, and especially the scarcity of petrol paralyze any progress.
31:51Soon daylight allows Allied air forces to harass the Wehrmacht.
31:55They give no quarter and regain the upper hand.
32:01Hitler has lost his wager.
32:04At his headquarters, worry and tension mount.
32:09Gehring suggests negotiating an armistice.
32:12This war is lost, he explains.
32:17Hitler replies.
32:19I forbid you to make any decision whatsoever in the matter.
32:23If you do not carry out my orders, I'll have you shot.
32:26We will never surrender.
32:30We may go down, but we'll take everyone with us.
32:41Hitler continues to put all his hopes on the fall of the Allied coalition.
32:46He tells his generals,
32:48The moment will come when tension within the Allied forces will be so great that a crack will appear.
32:56Every coalition in history has collapsed sooner or later.
33:00The only thing to do is wait for the right moment.
33:03But Churchill has every intention of avoiding this disastrous prediction.
33:08During the Yalta Conference in February 1945, like in Tehran, the old lion carefully composes his arguments to safeguard the great alliance he founded.
33:20He relinquishes protecting Poland from Soviet influence and already senses the fall of the British Empire.
33:27But it's the price to be paid for a solid alliance against Hitler.
33:31To accelerate the breakdown of the Reich, Winston resorts to the kind of terror that Hitler used against him.
33:50The Allied forces double down with massive bombings on major German cities.
33:54In February 1945, Churchill and Roosevelt give the green light to the bombing of Dresden.
34:04Even though this artist city is overrun with tens of thousands of refugees and has no strategic value.
34:15A pilot writes,
34:16The spectacle was fantastic.
34:17From an altitude of 20,000 feet over Dresden, it looked like all the city's streets were engraved with fiery lines.
34:27The flames are visible more than 300 kilometers from the target.
34:34There are more than 40,000 deaths.
34:38Nothing justified this level of destruction.
34:40But Winston hasn't forgotten the Blitz, or Coventry, or the thousands of countrymen killed by German bombs.
34:50Churchill would walk through the ruins, supporting his people.
34:54For Hitler, such a gesture is unthinkable, despite pleas from his minister of propaganda, Goebbels.
35:01Ever since the god of war had gone over to the other side,
35:03the Fuhrer speaks to fewer and fewer of the people who had brought him to power,
35:08and rarely appears in public.
35:10He'd gone from the summits of his Alpine residence
35:13to a Berlin bunker seven meters underground.
35:24It was an historic moment, this visit of a British Prime Minister to the soil of a conquered Rhineland.
35:28How different it is in spirit and meaning from Munich, the last time a British premier went to Germany.
35:35A visit to the front-line gun site produces a characteristic Churchill gesture.
35:40Hitler, personally, he writes on the giant shell,
35:43and the great 240-millimeter gun is plotted to fire on one of the main German escape routes across the Rhine.
35:49In March 1945, the tireless septuagenarian visits the Siegfried Line.
35:59The Reich has finally been breached.
36:02Since autumn 1939, every soldier has made the promise to hang out their washing here.
36:07The old lion will go one better.
36:18He marks his territory by relieving himself on the dragon's teeth with great relish.
36:27Thus, while Churchill parades, Hitler makes his final appearance in the news.
36:31The eagle has transformed into a vulture.
36:39Hunched, decrepit, suffering from Parkinson's disease,
36:45he encourages members of the Hitler Youth to hold on until the last bullet is spent.
36:49The newsreels of the day censor a piece of film.
37:00We see Hitler trembling, incapable of controlling himself.
37:09He sinks into madness, and his regime follows.
37:13Firing squads kill deserters by the dozens.
37:16In the extermination camps, deportees are massacred or driven on long death marches to wipe out every last one.
37:30Having failed to win the war, Hitler wants a substitute victory.
37:34The success of genocide.
37:41Even in Germany, like a final death wish,
37:43Hitler decrees the Nero order.
37:47The wholesale destruction of the German infrastructure,
37:51transportation, electricity, and supply lines.
37:54Having wiped out the Jews, the Slavs, and the Gypsies,
37:58Hitler lets even his own people be destroyed,
38:01as if he wanted to erase every witness to the apocalypse into which he drove Germany.
38:05If the war is lost, what do I care if the people die?
38:12Don't count on me to shed a single tear.
38:15They don't deserve as much, he says.
38:17On April 12th, 1945, President Roosevelt dies.
38:27Churchill is profoundly saddened.
38:30He says,
38:32He was a great friend to us.
38:34He helped us enormously.
38:36Without him, we would have surely gone under.
38:39Meanwhile, Goebbels telephones Hitler.
38:47My Fuhr, I congratulate you.
38:50Roosevelt is dead.
38:52It is written in the stars that the second half of April will mark a decisive turning point for us.
38:57Hitler is hopeful.
38:59Imagining the coalition will now break, he says,
39:02The great miracle, the one I've always predicted, has happened.
39:06The war is not lost.
39:08But in the east, the Soviet army is on the offensive.
39:24The Red Army pours into Berlin.
39:27It's over.
39:32Hitler has just celebrated his birthday.
39:36He is 56 years old and looks like an old man.
39:39With his usual unbridled confidence,
39:42he declares to a handful of disciples who have remained by his side,
39:45You will see, the Russians will suffer their greatest defeat,
39:49the bloodiest defeat in their history, in front of the gates of Berlin.
39:53But it quickly becomes clear that the Reich that was to last for 1,000 years
39:59has only a few days left to survive.
40:05Hold up in his bunker,
40:07Hitler dictates his final political testament.
40:10His first words are for Churchill,
40:12the only person who stood up to him in 1940,
40:15and the one who caused his downfall.
40:17By refusing to come to an understanding with me,
40:22Churchill subjected his country to political suicide.
40:25At the beginning of this war,
40:27I tried to act as if Churchill were capable of comprehending this great policy.
40:31But he has been attached to the Jews for too long.
40:33My idea behind sparing the English was to prevent irreparable harm in the West.
40:46The Fallen Eagle has one last request.
40:49I want it written on my gravestone.
40:52He was the victim of his generals.
40:53Hitler marries Eva Braun.
41:00On April 30, 1945, he commits suicide in his bunker.
41:05The spell he cast was so powerful that many Germans commit suicide,
41:12following him into darkness.
41:13Radio Berlin announces that Hitler is dead,
41:28fighting to his last breath for Germany against Bolshevism.
41:34Churchill, fervently anti-Russian as well, comments,
41:38Well, I must say, I think he was perfectly right to die like that.
41:41Winston has the last word.
41:50On May 8, 1945, Germany surrenders.
41:56Cheered in the streets, given a standing ovation in Parliament,
42:00congratulated by the King,
42:02Winston savors for one brief moment the results of a six-year battle.
42:05No one had believed in him, not his father, not his colleagues in the deputy chamber.
42:15And yet, just as he promised, he has accomplished the impossible and has written history.
42:20This is your victory.
42:28Victory of the cause of freedom in every day.
42:35In all our life and history, we have never seen a greater day than this.
42:47But the victory quickly turned sour.
42:59The Democrat won the war, but he lost the legislative elections.
43:04Democracy also has its pitfalls.
43:06Churchill sinks into depression.
43:10So he travels, returns to his writing, and packs paintbrushes and 86 bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne in his suitcases.
43:20Perhaps he missed Hitler.
43:24For a time after the death of his best enemy, he lost his reason for being.
43:30Never has a duel so marked the history of the world.
43:38The eagle was the poison, and the old lion was the antidote.
43:43What survives of their battle?
43:51Hitler remains one of the most nefarious men the world has ever known.
43:56And Churchill, one of the most idolized leaders of all times.
44:01He offered the world his bravery and his incomparable humor.
44:04He would continue to write history for 20 more years as Prime Minister and as a Nobel Prize winner in literature.
44:13He'd always miss the smell of gunpowder and the rigors of combat.
44:36Long after the war, when journalists asked what year of his life he'd choose to relive, he replied,
44:481940.
44:50Every time.
44:52Every time.
44:53Every time.
44:54Nella grande metropoli di un'isola lontana, che si allunga sul mare come un grosso ragno dagli immani tentacoli, c'era un sinistro castello, dimora di ombre e di fantasmi, popolato dai più ripugnanti animali notturni, che aveva dell'uomo e del mostro.
45:16Di dentro, ogni qualvolta egli voleva presentarsi agli esseri umani, si preparava una certa bevanda, miscuglio dei più allettanti ma pericolosi ingredienti, che gli permettevano di trasformarsi miracolosamente.
45:35A presto.
45:36A presto.
45:37A presto.
45:38A presto.
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