Episode 5-- The Allied High Command hides the true human cost of the D-Day invasions at Normandy, both military and civilian. More and more questions are posed about what is happening to the Jews of Europe. Having kept the truth about the fate of Jewish minorities and others hidden, Germany invites members of the International Committee of the Red Cross to tour the "show camp" Theresienstadt, near Prague, to dispel rumors of mass killings. The Japanese are growing increasingly anxious while the Americans are being bombarded with anti-Japanese propaganda. The firebombing of Tokyo, recorded by Koyo Ishikawa, kills more than 100,000 and shocks the Japanese people but neither the Americans nor the Japanese want to acknowledge the true brutality and Ishikawa buries his photographs in order to protect the truth of what happened for future generations. Episode 6-- In 1945, the stories change again as some of the realities of the war emerge and the beginning of the Cold War shifts alliances. The British aim their radio propaganda at the French resistance while Vichy Nazi collaborators fight back with their own anti-Allies campaign. The "free French" reclaim Paris and the Allies push the Germans out of France and close in on Berlin. Goebbels launches one last campaign for the Volkssturm, the people's army, as all remaining German men are conscripted to no avail. The Allies celebrate Germany's surrender as the war in the Pacific continues and Americans ramp up their anti-Japanese campaigns. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki force Emperor Hirohito's surrender. The truth of the holocaust begins to emerge and the process of de-Nazification begins as the Allies take over all European media and the Nuremberg trials begin.

English and French language tracks on DVD version only.

2 episodes with a scene index on 1 DVD: Episode 5: 1944-1945 hiding the horrors = 1944 1945: l'horreur cachée ; Episode 6: 1945: changing the story = 1945:espoir et désarroi.