World War II: The Last Frontier
A 2017 documentary about the World War II Space Race between the United Stated, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
0:14 - The year was 1943 and World War II is raging across the globe.
0:24 - Hitler is in control of Germany and militant fascism expands its hold on Europe.
0:36 - France, Poland, and parts of the Soviet Union lay occupied.
0:45 - Japan and Italy are in an alliance with Hitler's Germany.
0:50 - England, While beaten down, still holds out on the western front.
0:57 - Church Hill Speech
1:12 - President John F. Kennedy rallies the American people.
1:16 - J.F.K. speech
1:48 - On the European eastern front, an unlikely US ally, the communist and revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, resists the Nazi blitz krieg invasion.
2:00 - Lenin Speech
2:05 - The Red Army is lead by comrade Trotski, who rose to power after the revolution that over threw the Imperial rule of the Russian Czars.
2:18 - What the Russians do not have in weapons and training, they make up for with raw number of people and cities that they are ready to sacrifice in a scorched earth campaign.
2:32 - Inside the Soviet seat of power in Moscow, Lenin is joined by his closest adviser Joseph Stalin who rose through the ranks after his early involvement in the revolution.
2:50 - Stalin AKA "Uncle Joe", while appearing as a friend and confidant of Lenin's, is a nefarious character who covets the Soviet seat of power for himself.
3:03 - Likewise, the alliance with America and the Soviet Union is a fragile one. Their ideologies of capitalism and communism clash. In many ways a war is also brewing between the two, a clod war.
3:18 - The players and stakes were set. The winners and losers of both wars will ultimately be determined by the space race.
3:29 - What most people do not realize is that World War II was not just the first war to use Nuclear weapons. It was the first war to be fought and won in outer space.
3:40 - As fall started giving way to winter, a large portion of the Red Army was under siege and surrounded by German forces in St. Petersburg.
3:52 - Trotski entrenched with his soldiers, sent an urgent telegram to Moscow. His forces were almost overtaken, they would not last long.
4:01 - Trotski would need reinforcements and heavy artillery to take back the city and to survive.
4:10 - Back in Moscow, Stalin intercepts the urgent message. In a plot to weaken Lenin and take control Stalin makes sure the message is never delivered.
4:23 - In Berlin Wernher von Braun, under the direct super vision of Adolf Hitler, was working on the V2 rocket which would bring a quick and decicive end to the war by making it possible to establish a moon base.
4:39 - JFK knew that the United States was falling behind in the space race but the stakes were too high, the fate of capitalism hung in the balance.
4:48 - JFK needed a visionary and a diplomat who could recruit one of Germany's top scientists.
4:57 - What he got was an imagineer.
4:59 - It was then that the president requested a summit with Walt Disney.
5:05 - Walt had been selected to go directly to war time Berlin and to obtain a scientist. The details were imagineeered that very night in the Oval office.
5:16 - The CIA put key assets in play and convinced the Germans that rogue elements of American corporations were interested in commercial trade.
5:28 - The Germans gladly invited the delegation to Berlin.
5:31 - Along with Walt came Coca Cola and IBM
5:35 - In order to mask their true mission real companies would conduct real trade with Nazi fascists.
5:41 - Once in Berlin Coca Cola distracted Germans with refreshing Fanta while IBM shifted the focus to better tech solutions for the death machine.
6:02 - Walt had his eye on von Braun, the greatest aerospace mind of all time.
6:07 - The last obstacle was Hitler who kept watch on Wernher day and night.
6:12 - The CIA urged Walt to shift his objective to a different scientist but Walt would not listen.
6:19 - Once the CIA saw that he could not be presuaded they approached the president to personally speak to Mr. Disney.
6:27 - JFK did in fact contact Walt with a secret line directly into Berlin.
6:31 - John urged Walt that he could achieve the impossible and reminded him that if America were to win, they would need the very best.
6:39 - They would need Braun.
6:43 - Walt in a stroke of genius informed Hitler that he was invited on an all paid vacation to Disney world so he could relax a bit from the war.
6:52 - Hitler was thrilled.
6:55 - Now with Hitler out of the picture it was easy to convince von Braun to leave the Nazi's.
7:02 - One day before Hitler's return from Disney world Coca Cola, IBM, and Walt Disney snuck Wernher von Braun out of Germany by leaving a low paid intern behind and having Braun take his place on the plane.
7:16 - Hitler came home to find himself suddenly without a space program. Everything done up until now was useless without Wernher.
7:25 - Back in St. Petersburg all looked lost, Trotski only had a tenth of his men remaining and they were starving. The winter however had started to take a toll on the Germans.
7:36 - Many froze and died, some deserted.
7:43 - Trotski again tried to send a message to Moscow for reinforcements.
7:48 - His timing was impeccable. Lenin was strolling past the telegram office as the message came through.
7:56 - I swear revenge upon the enemy.
8:00 - I swear that I would rather die in battle with the enemy
8:06 - Than surrender myself
8:09 - My people
8:11 - And my country
8:13 - To the fascist invaders...
8:17 - Blood for blood!
8:20 - Immediately reinforcements were sent from Moscow. St. Petersberg was taken back by the Soviets.
8:30 - Nazi's start their retreat back to Berlin. Hitler was now losing on every front.
8:36 - Hitler is furious.
8:40 - He yells a lot.
8:43 - He orders large crowds to amass.
8:46 - He yells at them.
8:48 - German volk, remember what you are, remember your past and achievements of your fathers
8:59 - and of your own generation.
9:02 - Forget 14 years of disintegration
9:06 - and rise to the 2000 years of German history.
9:14 - Back in the United States the trade delegation returns to Washington D.C.
9:21 - Wernher von Braun is sent to be debriefed and begins his work.
9:27 - We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
9:38 - JFK meets with Walt. The president regrettably explains to Walt that he is too valuable as a state asset to be allowed to waste away without benefiting the national interest.
9:48 - Walt Disney is to be cryogenically frozen and stored away to be used by his country in the future.
9:55 - Wernher von Braun once just months away from completing his spaceship to the moon has to now start from scratch.
10:07 - In Moscow Stalin in a play for power hires Fanny Kaplan to assassinate Lenin.
10:14 - While making a speech Lenin is shot in the Jaw.
10:19 - He survives but is now frail, delirious, and unable to lead.
10:29 - With the power vacuum in Moscow Stalin ceases the opportunity quickly killing and black mailing his way to power.
10:36 - Concerned citizen and KGB opperative comrade Snowden defects to America and blows whistle on Stalin's spy program.
10:44 - That's a fear I will live under for the rest of my life however long that happens to be.
10:48 - You can't come forward against the worlds most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they are such powerful adversaries that no one can meaningfully oppose them.
11:03 - That news never reaches Russia.
11:05 - All media is state run, Stalin is unaffected.
11:10 - As the Red Army storms the city limits of Berlin Trotski flee's to Mexico fearing Stalin.
11:18 - Stalin sends assassins after Trotski.
11:23 - Uncle Joe now in power needs to make his play to win the war.
11:31 - He concentrates his efforts in the space program and in March of 1944 Sputnik is launched into space. It is the first satellite to orbit the Earth.
11:42 - The United States cannot keep up and has a series of failed launch tests.
11:49 - Stalin pushes on and in October both a Monkey and a Dog are sent to get incinerated in Earths Orbit.
12:20 - A few weeks later the Soviets put the first man in space, his name is Uri Gagarin.
12:27 - Now it was only a matter of time before Stalin establishes his moon base and wins the war.
12:34 - In our struggle for the bright future of humanity
12:38 - In our struggle against war
12:42 - and in our struggle for the preservation of peace.
12:56 - Early morning November 2nd, JFK is assassinated while waving from his limo.
13:03 - America is in mourning.
13:05 - All looks lost.
13:10 - Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President.
13:14 - Reagan a handsome, famous, Hollywood actor is now the nations only hope.
13:21 - He personally works hand in hand with Wernher to finish the space craft.
13:26 - Assassins report to Stalin in Moscow that Trotski has been killed by an ice pick to the head in Mexico.
13:33 - Stalin now holds full uncontested control of the Soviet Union.
13:40 - This war is not an ordinary war.
13:43 - It is the war of the entire Russian people.
13:46 - Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our head
13:49 - but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of fascism.
13:54 - Berlin is surrounded and Hitler makes his last stand in an underground bunker.
14:02 - July 21st 1945 America surprises the world by announcing the launch of its moon bound space craft.
14:10 - Lance Armstrong is determined to be in the best shape to head the moon mission.
14:17 - Wernher von Braun had done it.
14:20 - Hitler in his last ditch attempt to derail NASA tries to shoot the space craft down with a really huge canon called the Heavy Gustav.
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