War Diaries 1939 DVD In this first film of the series, 1939, follow the prelude to war and consider how the Treaty of Versailles, drawn up after the First World War, failed to keep the peace. Watch the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany and those who attempted to stop his bid for global domination. See for yourself the preparations made by the people of Britain as war became inevitable from the enforcement of the blackout to the evacuation of the nation's children.