WWII: Operation Barbarossa

June 1941. The Germans have racked up a series of easy victories. Exhilarated by their successes in Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, they prepare to leave for a secret operation in the East... Before Christmas, they're sure of it: they'll be back home.

How could they have imagined that they were about to embark on a brutal war that would claim six million lives in the space of a few months?

The players in this story, soldiers and civilians alike, record their experiences, both on the German and Soviet sides: in the form of short amateur films - the Germans filmed a lot - but also in letters and diaries. Far from the official accounts and state propaganda, another side of Operation Barbarossa is revealed, from the perspective of men and women, plunging us into the heart of the inferno...