Home Front
Jul 14, 2026 · 39 min · 20 segments
As the tide begins to turn against the Axis powers, the leaders of Germany and Japan deploy opposite strategies on their home fronts. Hitler and his propaganda minister do everything in their power to…
Jul 14, 2026 · 39 min · 20 segments
As the tide begins to turn against the Axis powers, the leaders of Germany and Japan deploy opposite strategies on their home fronts. Hitler and his propaganda minister do everything in their power to…
Kugler scores a last goal.
Great cities have been bombed.
Whole nations have been occupied.
So theaters remain open, stadiums remain open, sporting events go on as scheduled.
The Germans from the beginning of the war have really been sheltered and shielded by Hitler because there is a belief that Hitler has that one of the main reasons that Germany collapsed in 1918 was because the population didn't have enough to eat, their morale failed, and all of a sudden they turned against the government.
Hitler constantly tells the German people they're a master race, but you know, deep down inside, he doesn't trust them at all.
He was seared by the events of the First World War.
Nothing could have looked stronger than the Kaiser's government in 1918, and it was overthrown in a revolution lasting a single day.
If they aren't given what they want, if they don't have enough to eat, if they don't have the material, that they're going to somehow turn on him.
And so he is very, very determined to make sure that the German people don't feel the pinch of the war.
But in early February, Germans across the Reich are told in a short radio broadcast that the Sixth Army has been destroyed at Stalingrad.
The sacrifice of the army was not for nothing.
90,000 captured and over 200,000 dead.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Germans had a family member or a friend or knew someone who fought at Stalingrad.
Nobody's been prepared for this.
For the families of people who are serving on the Stalingrad front, it unleashes a wave of panic.
Kugler scores a last goal.
Great cities have been bombed.
Whole nations have been occupied.
So theaters remain open, stadiums remain open, sporting events go on as scheduled.
The Germans from the beginning of the war have really been sheltered and shielded by Hitler because there is a belief that Hitler has that one of the main reasons that Germany collapsed in 1918 was because the population didn't have enough to eat, their morale failed, and all of a sudden they turned against the government.
Hitler constantly tells the German people they're a master race, but you know, deep down inside, he doesn't trust them at all.
He was seared by the events of the First World War.
Nothing could have looked stronger than the Kaiser's government in 1918, and it was overthrown in a revolution lasting a single day.
If they aren't given what they want, if they don't have enough to eat, if they don't have the material, that they're going to somehow turn on him.
And so he is very, very determined to make sure that the German people don't feel the pinch of the war.
But in early February, Germans across the Reich are told in a short radio broadcast that the Sixth Army has been destroyed at Stalingrad.
The sacrifice of the army was not for nothing.
90,000 captured and over 200,000 dead.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Germans had a family member or a friend or knew someone who fought at Stalingrad.
Nobody's been prepared for this.
For the families of people who are serving on the Stalingrad front, it unleashes a wave of panic.
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