History (United States) - Continuity (May 23, 2026)

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]close to dying.

[00:00:04]For six dark years, the world was on fire.

[00:00:08]The Second World War is the largest event in human history.

[00:00:14]No part of the globe was untouched. No life unchanged.

[00:00:20]It's easy to lose sight of the true cost of those years.

[00:00:24]The human cost.

[00:00:26]We saw human beings at their absolute worst.

[00:00:30]But we also saw them at their absolute best.

[00:00:34]Willing to sacrifice their lives so that others may live.

[00:00:43]Every single person had a story.

[00:00:47]These are the stories that make us who we are.

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[00:03:32]Trying to predict the future is a hazardous occupation. The only thing we can be sure of is that it will be absolutely fantastic.

[00:03:40]I'm thinking of the incredible breakthrough, the communication satellite. These things will make possible a world in which we can be in instant contact with each other wherever we may be.

[00:03:52]When that time comes, the whole world will have shrunk to a point.

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[00:04:18]Northern Germany, September 8th, 1944.

[00:04:22]At a top secret military research and development facility, Nazi Germany unleashed