Spanning 1919 to 1982, in the fictional village of Schabbach, live Maria Simon and her family, whose lives and community are changed by historical events around them.
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Air Date: 1984-09-16
1918 (November) -- World War I ends. 1919 -- the Weimar Republic is set up at Weimar, Germany. Katharina and Mathia...
Air Date: 1984-09-19
1929 -- the Great Depression begins further impoverishing the less fortunate Germans. This puts great pressure on t...
Air Date: 1984-09-23
From Berlin the sickly Eduard brings his wife Lucie home to Schabbach. Lucie is an extremely ambitious woman and wan...
Air Date: 1984-09-26
1938 -- to escape the politically worsening situation in Germany, the famous German movie star Marlene Dietrich emi...
Air Date: 1984-10-08
1938 (June) -- German heavy-weight boxer Max Schmeling loses badly in a rematch with American boxer Joe Louis. A b...
Air Date: 1984-10-15
1943 -- the last large-scale German offensive assault on the eastern front begins at Kursk. The military situation...
Air Date: 1984-10-22
1944 (June 6) -- the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. 1944 (July 20) -- would-be assassi...
Air Date: 1984-10-31
1945 (May 8) -- Germany surrenders. Lucie sees the arrival of the Americans in Schabbach as just another opportun...
Air Date: 1984-11-04
1955 -- West Germany joins NATO, while East Germany joins the Warsaw Pact. Maria absolutely dotes on her son Herma...
Air Date: 1984-10-21
1968 -- there are student demonstrations and unrest in West Germany as in the rest of the West. 1969 -- Chancell...
Air Date: 1984-10-24
1982-1998 -- reign of Helmut Kohl as Chancellor of Germany. He saw the destruction of the Berlin Wall (November 9,...