The Lviv massacre of 1941 began as Nazi troops entered the city. Jews were dragged from homes, humiliated, beaten, and murdered in pogroms fueled by propaganda and hatred. Einsatzgruppen and Ukrainian nationalists carried out mass killings, while thousands were later confined to the Lviv ghetto a...

On 10 June 1944, just four days after D-Day, the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich descended on the peaceful village of Oradour-sur-Glane. In a few hours, they murdered 642 people—men, women, and children—and burned the village to the ground. This documentary recounts the massacre, the testimonies...

In June 1942, following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi forces carried out one of the most infamous reprisals of World War II: the massacre of Lidice. On Hitler’s orders, 173 men were shot, women were deported to camps, and 88 children were murdered. The village was burned to the gro...

On 10 June 1944, the SS descended on the Greek village of Distomo. In just hours, 228 civilians—men, women, and children—were slaughtered. Pregnant women were mutilated, infants bayoneted, and homes burned to the ground. This film reveals how Nazi reprisals against partisans turned into one of Gr...

June 1944. As Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, the German 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich begins a campaign of terror across occupied France. In the town of Tulle, 99 men are hanged in public as a warning to others. The next day, the same SS unit destroys the nearby village of Oradou...

On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union and unleashing a war of extermination. In occupied Belarus, entire villages are wiped out in brutal reprisals. One of the most horrifying atrocities occurs in Khatyn, where 149 civilians – including 75 children...

Hidden deep in the forests near Wejherowo, one of the earliest Nazi mass murder sites claimed the lives of up to 16,000 people. They were Poles, Kashubians, Jews, and the mentally ill — executed simply because they were deemed “undesirable.” This is the chilling story of Piaśnica, a crime Europe ...

On 6 April 1941, Nazi Germany invaded Greece under Operation Marita, but the brutal occupation that followed would leave scars far deeper than the battle for territory. Three years later, on 5 April 1944, soldiers of the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division, aided by Bulgarian collaborators, d...

In the forests near the village of Palmiry, northwest of Warsaw, the Nazis carried out one of the most brutal crimes of the occupation. Between 1939 and 1941, over 1,700 Poles — politicians, scholars, artists, clergy, and resistance members — were executed in secret mass shootings. The victims re...

On 17–18 August 1944, as Allied forces advanced through France and Nazi Germany’s grip on Western Europe began to weaken, violence erupted in German-occupied Belgium. After resistance fighters killed Belgian Nazi collaborator Oswald Englebin near Charleroi, Rexist militias loyal to the occupiers ...

1 September 1939 marked the start of a brutal occupation of Poland, as German and Soviet forces divided the country. Terror soon spread, targeting communities suspected of aiding the resistance.

Michniów became one such target. By 1943, the village supported Polish underground fighters and elite...

In 1941, following the launch of Operation Barbarossa, German forces occupied Lithuania and began the systematic destruction of Jewish communities.

In the town of Utena, persecution started immediately. Jews were subjected to forced labour, violence, and imprisonment before being taken to the ne...

In October 1942, the notorious 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen carried out one of the most brutal atrocities in occupied Yugoslavia. During Operation Kopaonik, SS troops entered the Serbian village of Kriva Reka, where hundreds of civilians were murdered, homes destroyed, and villa...

In 1943, during the Second World War, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) launched a brutal campaign against the Polish population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. Entire villages were destroyed, churches became death traps, and tens of thousands of civilians — including women and children — were ...

After Italy's surrender in September 1943, Nazi Germany occupied Rome and imposed a regime of fear, arrests, and repression. As resistance activity intensified, a partisan bomb attack on 23 March 1944 killed 33 German policemen in Via Rasella.

The German response was immediate and ruthless. On A...

In August 1944, as Nazi Germany faced imminent defeat, German occupation forces carried out one of the last and most devastating atrocities on Crete. Under the orders of General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, troops of the 22nd Infantry Division surrounded nine villages in the Amari Valley, executed 1...

In June 1942, just weeks after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi Germany unleashed a wave of terror across the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Following the betrayal of the Czechoslovak resistance network, the small village of Ležáky was erased from the map. Thirty-seven adults we...

On 28 July 1944, the peaceful Montenegrin village of Velika became the scene of one of the worst massacres in the Balkans during the Second World War. Soldiers of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" and the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS "Skanderbeg", aided by local coll...

In July 1941, days after Nazi Germany captured Lwów (today's Lviv, Ukraine), the Gestapo and SS arrested and murdered 27 university professors and lecturers, along with members of their families, in a calculated attempt to destroy Poland's intellectual elite.

This is the story of the Lwów Profes...

This is the story of how Nazi Germany and its Latvian collaborators destroyed the Jewish community of Liepāja during the Holocaust. Beginning with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, it follows the arrival of Einsatzgruppe A, the first mass shootings, the anti-Jewish measures im...

In August 1943, German occupation forces carried out one of the deadliest massacres in occupied Greece. After partisans briefly passed through the village of Kommeno, the Wehrmacht falsely portrayed the incident as a partisan attack and ordered a brutal reprisal. At dawn on 16 August, German moun...

In March 1944, one of the worst massacres in wartime Croatia unfolded beneath Mount Kamešnica. During a brutal anti-Partisan operation, soldiers of the notorious 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" and the 369th Infantry Division swept through Croatian villages, murdering thousands o...