1943: Turning Point of WW2 in Europe (Documentary)

The so-called forgotten year of WW2 sees the Allies push the Germans out of North Africa, Sicily, part of Italy, the Atlantic, and smash the Wehrmacht backwards from the Volga and Kursk in Russia to the Dnipro in Ukraine while Allied bombers begin to relentlessly bomb the Reich itself.

00:00 Intro to 1943
00:47 Tunisia 1943 - Rommel's Last Battle
22:04 U-Boat War 1943 - Hunter to Hunted
38:02 Invasion of Sicily 1943 - Operation Husky
1:06:06 Kursk 1943 - Why Germany Lost
1:27:58 Air War 1943 - Masters of the Air?
1:50:38 Holocaust 1943 - Genocide & Resistance
1:56:41 Conclusion to 1943

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»CREDITS
Presented by: Jesse Alexander
Written by: Jesse Alexander, Mark Newton
Director: Toni Steller
Editing: Toni Steller
Motion Design: Toni Steller , Phillip Appelt
Research by: Mark Newton, Jesse Alexander, Roman Töppel
Fact checking: Florian Wittig, Mark Newton
Executive Producer: Florian Wittig

Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster

Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters
Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3
Music Library: Epidemic Sound
All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2024

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[earltaylor]

My profile pic is my great uncle Earl, who was KIA fighting Germans in the “soft underbelly of Europe.” To this day I wonder if he was wearing his “I love you” helmet when charging German positions in the mountains of Italy.

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[extrahistory]

Honestly, would like to see some videos on Japan and China in 1943. It was rather unique year in both the Pacific and Asia.

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[wfcoaker]

It must have been cool to be Italian American in Sicily in your 20s and get to meet old people who knew your grandparents before they moved to America. That must have been frigging intense!

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