WWII PUB

WWII PUB opens the enemy's own files on the American war machine.

After 1945, German generals wrote hundreds of reports for the U.S. Army's Foreign Military Studies program. Hidden microphones at Fort Hunt and Trent Park recorded what captured officers said when they thought nobody was listening. Luftwaffe intelligence and Wehrmacht staff diaries kept returning to one question: how did the Americans do that?

Every episode follows one of those documents. What the German side expected, what it saw, and what it could not explain: artillery that answered in minutes, a plant that finished a bomber every hour, trucks that never stopped, food that arrived hot.

Sources are named on screen: NARA, Foreign Military Studies, U.S. Army Center of Military History, USSBS, Bundesarchiv. Footage from NARA and other public-domain collections; contextual footage is captioned as such.

New episodes every week.