Season 1 (1984)

The Call of Far-Away Places (1919-1928)
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September 16, 1984 • 1h 30m

1918 (November) -- World War I ends. 1919 -- the Weimar Republic is set up at Weimar, Germany. Katharina and Mathias Simon live ...Read more

The Center of the World (1928-1933)
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September 19, 1984 • 1h 30m

1929 -- the Great Depression begins further impoverishing the less fortunate Germans. This puts great pressure on the ill-equipp...Read more

The Best Christmas Ever (1935)
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September 23, 1984 • 1h 30m

From Berlin the sickly Eduard brings his wife Lucie home to Schabbach. Lucie is an extremely ambitious woman and wants her husban...Read more

The Highway (1938)
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September 26, 1984 • 1h 30m

1938 -- to escape the politically worsening situation in Germany, the famous German movie star Marlene Dietrich emigrates to the...Read more

Up and Away and Back (1938-1939)
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October 8, 1984 • 1h 30m

1938 (June) -- German heavy-weight boxer Max Schmeling loses badly in a rematch with American boxer Joe Louis. A bombshell is d...Read more

The Home Front (1943)
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October 15, 1984 • 1h 30m

1943 -- the last large-scale German offensive assault on the eastern front begins at Kursk. The military situation really begin...Read more

Soldiers and Love (1944)
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October 22, 1984 • 1h 30m

1944 (June 6) -- the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. 1944 (July 20) -- would-be assassins plant a bo...Read more

The American (1944-1947)
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October 31, 1984 • 1h 30m

1945 (May 8) -- Germany surrenders. Lucie sees the arrival of the Americans in Schabbach as just another opportunity for her t...Read more

Little Hermann (1955-1956)
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November 4, 1984 • 1h 30m

1955 -- West Germany joins NATO, while East Germany joins the Warsaw Pact. Maria absolutely dotes on her son Hermann. She has ...Read more

The Proud Years (1967-1969)
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October 21, 1984 • 1h 30m

1968 -- there are student demonstrations and unrest in West Germany as in the rest of the West. 1969 -- Chancellor Willy Bran...Read more

The Feast of the Living and the Dead (1982)
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October 24, 1984 • 1h 30m

1982-1998 -- reign of Helmut Kohl as Chancellor of Germany. He saw the destruction of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989) and th...Read more