History of Germany — Comprehensive

Introduces the Reformation and the political and theological upheaval in German principalities.

Portrays the Berlin Conference and Europe’s partition-making diplomacy during the scramble for Africa.

Shows scientific, hospital and gender hierarchies in Berlin in the late imperial period.

Explores Kashubian and Prussian-German relationships around the changing East Prussian borderlands.

Shows the First World War through a German soldier’s disillusionment.

Revisits the violence and collapse of German military morale in the final phase of the war.

Shows the appeasement crisis and diplomatic calculations around the 1938 Munich Agreement.

Centers the work of Miep Gies and others helping Jews hide from Nazi persecution.

Follows young Germans through the war and their changing relationships to Nazi institutions.

Portrays German soldiers’ ordeal on the Eastern Front and the consequences of aggression.

Depicts the White Rose student resistance and Nazi state repression in 1943.

Dramatizes the disintegration of the Nazi leadership in Berlin in April 1945.

Shows early postwar interrogations and the International Military Tribunal in 1945–46.

Examines legal and moral responsibility of German judges for crimes under Nazism.

Uses the rabbits inhabiting Berlin’s border strip as an unusual documentary perspective on the Wall era.

Tells an East–West German espionage story beginning in 1983 and extending across the late Cold War.