1 Season
6 Episode
Apocalypse: The Second World War - Season 1 Episode 3 Shock (1940–1941)
Polish prisoners and Jews are forced into slave labour to complete Nazi building projects. The Italian army is in disarray so Hitler dispatches one of his best generals to Libya. The Afrika Korps fry eggs on the surfaces of their tanks amidst the blistering desert sands of North Africa. Shock includes vivid colourised footage of the battle for the Soviet Union as the Germans struggle toward Moscow in the brutal Russian winter.
- Year: 2009
- Country: France, Belgium, Canada, United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary, War & Politics
- Studio: France 2
- Keyword: holocaust (shoah), world war ii, nazi, allies, miniseries, soldier, warfare, bombing, 1940s, axis
- Director: Henri de Turenne, Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle, Jean-Louis Guillaud
- Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Heinrich Himmler