Six years that changed the world · 3 stories

World War II

Every continent, six years, and the lines we still quote.

Phrases you’ll meet

  • We shall fight on the beaches
  • D-Day
  • Never again

Journey 1 · 1939 to 1945

The Darkness

A girl writes a diary behind a bookcase while a continent’s Jews are walled in, deported and murdered, and a few strangers risk everything to open a door.

By the end of it, you can tell how the Holocaust happened step by step, and who said no.

Journey 2 · 1942 to 1946

The Price of Victory

Brazilian soldiers climb a frozen mountain in Italy, one bomb erases a city, and the men who ran the Reich face judges at Nuremberg.

By the end of it, you can tell why Brazilians say “the snake will smoke”, how Hiroshima was decided, and where the word genocide comes from.