History Hit traces the last eleven months of the war in Europe, from the Normandy breakout in the summer of 1944 to the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945. Archival combat footage and maps follow Montgomery's failed airborne gamble at Arnhem, Stalin's crushing advance in Operation Bagration, the July 20 plot by German officers to kill Hitler, and the desperate winter counteroffensive in the Ardennes that became the Battle of the Bulge. The film treats 1944 into 1945 as the war's deadliest stretch, showing how Soviet forces pressing from the east and Allied armies pushing from the west closed in on Berlin from both directions at once. Narration keeps the chronology moving between fronts, weighing the miscalculations and gambles on both sides rather than presenting the outcome as inevitable. Expect the standard mix of period newsreel, photographs, and battle maps rather than dramatic reenactment, used to lay out how Germany's collapse actually unfolded on the ground.