Seasons & Episodes
The Call of Far-Away Places (1919-1928)
1918 (November) -- World War I ends. 1919 -- the Weimar Republic is set up at Weimar, Germany. Katharina and Mathias S
The Center of the World (1928-1933)
1929 -- the Great Depression begins further impoverishing the less fortunate Germans. This puts great pressure on the
The Best Christmas Ever (1935)
From Berlin the sickly Eduard brings his wife Lucie home to Schabbach. Lucie is an extremely ambitious woman and wants
The Highway (1938)
1938 -- to escape the politically worsening situation in Germany, the famous German movie star Marlene Dietrich emigra
Up and Away and Back (1938-1939)
1938 (June) -- German heavy-weight boxer Max Schmeling loses badly in a rematch with American boxer Joe Louis. A bomb
The Home Front (1943)
1943 -- the last large-scale German offensive assault on the eastern front begins at Kursk. The military situation re
Soldiers and Love (1944)
1944 (June 6) -- the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. 1944 (July 20) -- would-be assassins
The American (1944-1947)
1945 (May 8) -- Germany surrenders. Lucie sees the arrival of the Americans in Schabbach as just another opportunity
Little Hermann (1955-1956)
1955 -- West Germany joins NATO, while East Germany joins the Warsaw Pact. Maria absolutely dotes on her son Hermann.
The Proud Years (1967-1969)
1968 -- there are student demonstrations and unrest in West Germany as in the rest of the West. 1969 -- Chancellor
The Feast of the Living and the Dead (1982)
1982-1998 -- reign of Helmut Kohl as Chancellor of Germany. He saw the destruction of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 19
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