4 half historical past documentary Liberation: D-Day To Berlin premeires this week on SBS.

80 years on from the autumn of Nazi Germany, we expertise the liberation of Western Europe by fashionable eyes. Unrivalled restoration and knowledgeable colourisation of the surviving archive transports us into an emotional and hard-hitting story that balances heroism and tragedy, hope and despair, and exposes the truth of warfare carried out with a ferocity that left no-one untouched, or unchanged.

Episode One:
On sixth June 1944 Allied armies storm the Normandy seashores to start the conquest of Hitler’s fortress Europe. As they battle to interrupt by German traces the individuals of France face the devastation of whole battle tearing by their homeland. Some reside in hope that years of occupation are nearly at an finish, others in worry of the retribution awaiting those that collaborated with the Nazis.

Thursday, 1 Could at 8.35pm on SBS.