S1·E4 – March 11-March 17: Hitler's Last Offensive

The B-29s blitz and the U.S. Air Force's new low-level bombing tactics using incendiary bombs prove deadly for the Japanese. General Curtis LeMay hopes to force a Japanese surrender before American ground forces are scheduled to invade the mainland. Meanwhile in Europe, the Allies are closing in. With the Rhine breached, most Nazis realize their days are numbered and the end is inevitable. Hitler leaves the Reich Chancellory for the last time, and 16-year-old Anne Frank succumbs to typhus in the Belsen concentration camp.

Cast

Greg Stebner

Narrator

Max Hastings

Self - Author, 'Armageddon'

Kerry Smith

Self - Professor, Brown University

Gregory J.W. Urwin

SelfSelf - Professor, Temple University

William Atwater

Self - Curator, US Army Ordnance Museum

Alan Brinkley

Self - Professor, Columbia University

Omer Bartov

Self - Professor, Brown University

Donald Dencker

Self - WWII Veteran, Pacific

Richard Rhodes

Self - Author, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb'

James Sheehan

Self - Professor, Stanford University