In Normandy, the Waffen SS butcher their military and civilian enemies while some Allied soldiers play fast and loose with the laws of the war. In China, hundreds of thousands flee their homes as friend, foe, and famine take their toll. Meanwhile, the spectre of deportation haunts Eastern Europe as Stalin reshapes his new empire.

At the centre of his shrinking empire, Hitler plans his legacy. Together with his genocidal accomplice Heinrich Himmler, these two top murderers plan the destruction of the imagined creature of Judeo-Bolshevism. This week the children of Warsaw, the people of London, the peasants of Italy, and the souls condemned to slavery and death at Auschwitz pay the price for their warped worldview.