Weeks of War

January 1945 – November 1945 (1x8)

Air date: May 22, 2022

By January 1945, the end of the war seemed in sight, but there were still many challenges to overcome on the Eastern Front, in the Pacific and even in Western Europe. This episode covers the events in the weeks following the Yalta Conference, the attack on Okinawa, the Battle of Berlin, and the devastation following the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The conclusion is the week in which the Nuremberg trials began.