Days That Shook the World — Season 1, Episode 6: Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel
Documentary • 50 min • 3 seasons, 32 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
9 November 1938 and 14 May 1948. Just ten years after the Nazis openly attacked Jews and their property - a huge step on the nightmare spiral to the Holocaust, the 2000 year old dream of a Jewish homeland becomes a reality and the state of Israel is Born.
About Days That Shook the World
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana
- E2The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler
- E3The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela
- E4Hiroshima
- E5The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall
- E7Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
- E8Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie
- E9First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl
- E10The Assassination of JFK / The Resignation of Nixon
- E11Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight
- E12Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager / Donald Campbell