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Jan 11, 2005 Season 1 Episode 1 60 min TV-MA

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Season 1 Episode 1 — Aired on Jan 11, 2005 • runs about 60 minutes.

Notable cast/guest names in this episode include Linda Ellerbee, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Horst-Günter Marx.

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This episode sets the stage for the series and examines the radical increase in violence against all opponents of the Nazi state. In particular, it explores the German army's invasion of the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941 and connects this campaign to the first gassing experiments in Auschwitz, Poland, which were aimed at Russian prisoners of war, not Jews.