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-JfSl Ad A scene from "Germany 1933-1939," which is premiere telecast for "World at War" series Films recapture world ot war World War II. To some it's merely flickering images of John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in helmets and camouflage. To others it's a vague recollection of a father, uncle or brother in uniform returning home thin and tired. To some it is the painful memories of someone who didn't come home. ness to the 1944 Polish uprising.

"The World at War" has been made by an international team under award-winning Executive Producer Jeremy Isaacs. The Chief Historical Adviser for the project is Dr. Noble Frank-land, DFC, official war historian and Director of London's renowned Imperial War Museum. The narrator is Sir Laurence Olivier. World War II: the heroism, the cowardice, the inefficiency, the greatness, the scope of humanity, the dedication to one objective.

It remains the darkest hour, and the most brilliant moment in recorded history, and now it is visually explored in actual footage from the era, and contemplatively explained by those who were actually there. May we all benefit from their hindsight. als, soldiers, and journalists tell of the rise of Adolf Hitler, the downfall of Prime Minister Chamberlain's government, the complete failure of the Maginot line's protective powers, the Battle of Britain, and Operation Barbarossa 's drive toward Moscow. AMONG the Americans shown, starting with episode No. 6 which is about Pearl Harbor, are George Elliott, a radar station operator in Hawaii, now living in Long Branch, New Jersey; former Governor Averell Har-riman, then President Roosevelt's special envoy to Britain; General Curtis Le-May; General Mark Clark; Cartoonist Bill Mauldin; Mrs.

Kay Morgan, then Kay Summersby, General Eisenhower's driver and Dr. Al-icja Iwanska, State University at Albany, an eye-wit that a major British television series has premiered first in the U.S.A., and been shown concurrently in both America and Britain. To produce the series, crew members screened and edited miles and miles of film from national and private sources. Some, such as the footage of Operation Barbarossa showing Hitler's vicious assault on Russia, have never been shown outside of the Soviet Union. Much has never been seen by the general public, including rare color home-movies taken by Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun.

Remarkable interviews with statesmen, military leaders and civilians from all of the major countries involved are used to show the human sentiments of the times. German, French, Russian and English gener Now it is history, but how many know and understand what caused the nations of the world to erupt into the most devastating cataclysm this, planet has ever endured? I llODAY, (SUNDAY) at 7 p.m.,WOR-TV will premiere "The World at a $3,000,000, hour-long, 26-part series from Britain's biggest independent program producer, Thames Television This is the first time 20 THE JOURNAL-NEWS.