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Original Release
09/05/1989 on BBC
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Charles Wheeler | Self - Narrator |
| Joachim Fest | Self - Biographer of Hitler / Self - Hitler's Biographer |
| Hans von Herwarth | Self - German Army in Poland, 1939 / Self - German Embassy in Moscow |
| Waldo Heinrichs | Self - Author 'Threshold of War' / Self - Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia |
| Ikuhiko Hata | Self - Professor, Takushoku University / Self - Takushoku University, Tokyo |
| Chihiro Hosoya | Self - International University, Niigata |
| Eric Sevareid | Self - CBS News Correspondent |
| Ted Willis | Self - 1930s Labour Youth Movement |
| Stéphane Grappelli | Self |
| Adolf Galland | Self - German Air Force in France, 1940 |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Britain | Tuesday, 05 September 1989 |
| 2 | Germany | Tuesday, 12 September 1989 |
| 3 | USSR | Tuesday, 19 September 1989 |
| 4 | Italy | Tuesday, 26 September 1989 |
| 5 | France | Tuesday, 03 October 1989 |
| 6 | Japan | Tuesday, 10 October 1989 |
| 7 | U.S.A. | Tuesday, 17 October 1989 |
| 8 | Global War | Tuesday, 24 October 1989 |
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Charles Wheeler | Self - Narrator |
| Joachim Fest | Self - Biographer of Hitler / Self - Hitler's Biographer |
| Hans von Herwarth | Self - German Army in Poland, 1939 / Self - German Embassy in Moscow |
| Waldo Heinrichs | Self - Author 'Threshold of War' / Self - Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia |
| Ikuhiko Hata | Self - Professor, Takushoku University / Self - Takushoku University, Tokyo |
| Chihiro Hosoya | Self - International University, Niigata |
| Eric Sevareid | Self - CBS News Correspondent |
| Ted Willis | Self - 1930s Labour Youth Movement |
| Stéphane Grappelli | Self |
| Adolf Galland | Self - German Air Force in France, 1940 |
| Vittorio Mussolini | Self |
| Alec Douglas-Home | Self - P.P.S. to Neville Chamberlain 1937-1940 |
| James Roosevelt | Self - Son of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| William L. Shirer | Self - CBS Correspondant, Poland 1939 |
| Jun Etoh | Self - Professor, Tokyo Kyogo University |
| J.A. Graf von Kielmannsegg | Self - German Army in France, 1940 / German Army in Russia, 1941 |
| Arthur Anders | Self - Commander, USS Panay, 1937 |
| William Leuchtenburg | Self - Professor, University of North Carolina |
| Reinhard Spitzy | Self - Secretary to Foreign Minister 1936-1939 |
| Erich Kuby | Self - Author 'When Poland was German 1939-45' / German Army in Russia, 1941 |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Hugh Purcell | Executive Producer |
| Denys Blakeway | Producer |
| Bill Treharne Jones | Producer |
| Christopher Warren | Producer |
| Sally Irvine | Producer |
| Richard Vaughan | Producer |
| Angus Macqueen | Producer |
| Marisa Appugliesi | Producer |
| Sallyann Kleibel | Producer |
Editors
Carol Owens, Sara Gosling, Graham Dean, Mike Jackson, Paul Hardy
