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S01E06: The Mediterranean and North AfricaMussolini’s ambition had always been to recreate the old Roman Empire. The trouble was, he was a disaster militarily. After failed attacks in North Africa and Greece, his armies were on the run. Hitler now faced a difficult choice. Did he divert troops needed at other fronts to support his ally, ordid he let Mussolini fall? Hitler chose to support him —a decision that would spell disaster for both of them. Hitler would lose hundreds of thousands of troops and Mussolini would lose his life. This episode tells the extraordinary story of the war in North Africa and features the heroics of the tiny island of Malta as it withstood wave after wave of Nazi assault. It ends with the Allies fighting their way up Italy and Germany in retreat.
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Air Date:
Oct 02, 2009
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50 minutes
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Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Erwin Rommel, Chester W. Nimitz, Douglas MacArthur, Benito Mussolini, Georgi Zhukov
