📅 Year of Production: 2009
🎞️ Genre: Color Historical Documentary | Part Two titled: L’Écrasement (The Crushing)
🌍 Original Language: French (Available with Arabic subtitles)
🧭 Overview of Part Two
In the second part of the documentary series Apocalypse: La Deuxième Guerre Mondiale, the camera moves from the prelude to the heart of fierce battles. Titled “The Crushing” (L’Écrasement), this part highlights the year 1940, when the war entered a more brutal phase, and the Nazi war machine began crushing Europe one country after another.
⚔️ Key Themes of this Part
The invasion of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands by the Blitzkrieg plan.
The rapid collapse of the French army and the surrender of Paris without real resistance.
The beginning of the Battle of Britain: the first real stand against Nazism by the Royal Air Force.
Winston Churchill rises as an inspiring leader refusing to surrender.
Everyday life under bombing, and the tragedy of civilians living amid destruction.
The Italian attack on North Africa and the emergence of a new front in the conflict.
🎯 Main Messages in this Part
The film highlights the speed of Hitler’s conquest of Europe, and reveals the weakness of the Allies’ coalition at the war’s start.
Fear, chaos, and mass displacement of millions of civilians show the human reality beyond the military battles.
This part confirms that the world was on the brink of complete abyss.
🎥 Highlights of this Part
✅ Rare and colorized archival footage in high resolution shown for the first time.
✅ Strong visual narration supported by sound and musical effects creating tension and emotion.
✅ A coherent storytelling combining facts and personal experiences of soldiers and civilians.
📷 Official Series Poster (Shared for all parts)
▶️ 🎬 Watch the Film – Part Two
🔍 You can watch it on:
The National Geographic or Arte channels.
YouTube (with subtitles or dubbed versions).
Platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime depending on your region.
🎖️ “In this part… war is no longer a possibility, but a reality crushing continents and turning cities into ashes.”
📌 Follow the other parts to understand the sequence of the war until its end, and the meaning of “end of the world” from a historical and human perspective.