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The First Hour

Germany 1945 – the Third Reich has just collapsed and the first Allied troops are moving in. What happened in the first hour after the end of the Second World War? Re-enacted scenes alternate with the accounts of eyewitnesses, not many of whom are likely to be alive by now.

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Germany 1945 – the Third Reich has just collapsed and the first Allied troops are moving in. What happened in the first hour after the end of the Second World War? Re-enacted scenes alternate with the accounts of eyewitnesses, not many of whom are likely to be alive by now.

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