Desc: Soldaten für Hitler - Die Niederlage: Directed by Martin Thoma. With Günter Ettling, Heinz Fiene, Horst Henke, Albrecht Metzger. The second part of the ARD television series "Soldiers for Hitler" illuminates the last years of the Second World War, the decline of the 3rd Reich on all fronts. What happened to those who fought the war, the "soldiers for Hitler"? The beginning of the end began already in 1942. Without the Russian oil in the Caucasus, says Hitler in summer 1942, the war could not be won. To shield the Caucasus operation, the 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army were to advance to the Volga. Their goal: Stalingrad. Half a year later, this secondary war theatre became a symbol of the turning point in the Second World War. The suffering and dying of the 6th Army in Stalingrad has often been described, the events in the many small "Stalingrads" of the Eastern Front never received such interest. It took the Red Army two years to free the soil of the Soviet Union from the Germans. During the many retreat massacres the losses of the Wehrmacht are excessive. Everyone wanted to survive at all costs, but at that time this became a pure lottery game. The fear of Russian captivity and of their own quick courts behind the front is so great that they literally fought to the last round. But not only the inferno of the Eastern Front devours hundreds of thousands, also the other theatres of war demand bloody tribute: in North Africa as on the Atlantic, in the air war over England as on the Western Front, there above all after the beginning of the invasion by the Allies in Northwest France in June 1944. They are the last senseless victims of a fanatical leadership, which above all in the fight for Berlin shortly before the unconditional surrender literally "burns" children in the street fight.