Summer 1944. While coping with the crisis in the West after the Allies landing in Normandy on 6 June 1944, Hitler had also to face a series of disasters on the Eastern Front. On 22 June the Soviets had launched a major offensive against Army Group Center, which within six weeks had torn a great gap in the front, destroyed thirty German divisions, and taken the Red Army to the gates of Warsaw. Then the story continued with one of the darkest episodes in the Waffen SS history: The Rape of Warsaw.

Summer 1944. While coping with the crisis in the West after the Allies landing in Normandy on 6 June 1944, Hitler had also to face a series of disasters on the Eastern Front. On 22 June the Soviets had launched a major offensive against Army Group Center, which within six weeks had torn a great gap in the front, destroyed thirty German divisions, and taken the Red Army to the gates of Warsaw. Then the story continued with one of the darkest episodes in the Waffen SS history: The Rape of Warsaw.