SPIEGEL TV tells the chronicle of the World War II, shows the events on the front and home front, also beyond propaganda. Three proven experts help explain the course of the war, military strategies and personal destinies: the British historian Antony Beevor, who set standards worldwide with his books on 'Stalingrad' and 'Berlin 1945', and the journalist Jörg Friedrich, who has published the controversial bestseller 'Der Brand'.