A documentary in three parts from the book by William Shirer.

With Hitler and the Nazis firmly established in power-by due constitutional process-Europe looked on paralysed. The democracies, weakened by the First War, further weakened by a world depression, took no effective action as Hitler marched into Austria and Czechoslovakia, and at home started to implement his racial theories. Munich bought a humiliating respite, but the invasion of Poland meant that the democracies had at last to make a stand. Not much of a stand; the German armies and air force scored easy victories over Poland and later Denmark and Norway, Holland and Belgium - and France. At Dunkirk, a British army escaped by the skin of its teeth...
A Wolper-Metromedia production