Season 5

Hitler's Last Stand

Season 5

2018tvReturning Series5 Seasons · 28 Ep
DocumentaryWar & Politics

Created by: Mark Oliver

Network: National Geographic

Season aired: 2023-09-01

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Overview

Nazi diehard and fanatics fight to the last man to stop Allied forces from freeing Europe, keeping an unrelenting grip on the naval bases, citadels and fortresses of occupied Europe.

Episodes · 6

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Resistance Revenge

44m2023-09-015

In July of 1944, French resistance fighters called Maquisards declare a Free French Republic on the remote Vercors plateau in eastern France to support the Allied invasion of Normandy.

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Artillery Showdown

44m2023-09-015

In August 1944, when Hitler launches Operation Lüttich to retake the port city of Avranches, German panzer and SS troops quickly overrun the French town of Mortain and encircle a battalion of US soldiers who hold the high ground on Hill 314.

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Fortress Fury

44m2023-09-015

In the autumn of 1944, Patton's Third Army approaches the heavily fortified region of Metz; after being turned back from Fort Driant, Patton's men target Fort Koenigsmacker a month later.

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Guard the Rhine

44m2023-09-015

In February 1945, Allied forces lead an attack out of the Netherlands and onto German soil west of the Rhine defended by elite paratrooper units; a Canadian battalion administrator must assume command of a company and lead them into battle.

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Forest Hell

44m2023-09-015

When his company attempts to capture a small village, an American soldier, born in Mexico but raised in Texas, must crawl through an enemy minefield to capture two German machine gun nests holding up his unit.

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Audie Murphy's Finest Hour

44m2023-09-015

An American 2nd lieutenant sends his company back during an enemy counterattack during the Allied bid to clear the Colmar Pocket; he tries to hold off the German soldiers with his carbine rifle and calling in artillery but runs out of bullets.

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