This is the whole story, beginning in the 1930's with Japan's invasion of China and Germany's buildup and Blitzkrieg into neighboring Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1939. Contains historic newsreels and rare footage.

Title from disc labels. Extra features include newsreel footage of Kamikazes, the Nuremberg Trials, Enemy POWs, The Holocaust ; Displaced persons.

Disc 1 : part 1: 1931-1942 -- part 2 : 1942-1944. Disc 2 : part 3 : 1944-1945.