Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history using objects, art, landmarks and literature.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dwbwz
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 hours 57 minutes
Barlach's Angel
Neil MacGregor focuses on Ernst Barlach's sculpture Hovering Angel, a unique war memorial.
The New German Jews
Neil MacGregor discusses why Germany has the fastest-growing Jewish population in Europe.
Out of the Rubble
Neil MacGregor talks to a woman who cleared rubble from the streets of Berlin in 1945.
The Germans Expelled
Neil MacGregor focuses on the forced movement of more than 12 million Germans after 1945.
At the Buchenwald Gate
Neil MacGregor visits Buchenwald, one of the earliest and largest concentration camps.
Purging the Degenerate
Neil MacGregor focuses on how the Nazis attacked art they viewed as degenerate.
Money in Crisis
Neil MacGregor on the emergency money created to replace metal coins, and hyperinflation.
Kathe Kollwitz: Suffering Witness
Neil MacGregor focuses on the art of Kathe Kollwitz, witness to the suffering of war.
Bismarck the Blacksmith
Neil MacGregor charts the career of Otto von Bismarck, known as the Iron Chancellor.