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This video covers the Western Front of the Second World War in real time, with one second representing one day.

It has been said that the generals fight the last war. The US foreign wars provide a good example of this concept. This video looks at how the experience of the previous US foreign war influenced the decisions made in the next one.

In June of 1944 the Allies had gathered an overwhelming force in Britain and were preparing to begin the decisive campaign against Germany in Western Europe. They planned to land their forces in France and reach the German border by May of 1945. For Germany the only path to victory was pushing the Allied landings into the sea and destroying their forces.

By November 1944 Nazi Germany was on the brink of defeat and the Allies were preparing to unleash the final offensive in some months. The Germans put all of their hope on a desperate counterattack on the Western Front.

On the 1st September of 1939 Germany invaded Poland and with that World War Two began. This video looks at the Polish campaign on an animated map and attempts to answer the question: Why did Poland fall so quickly?