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Germany: Memories of a NationEpisodes

  1. Reichstag

    Neil MacGregor ends his journey through 600 years of German history at the Reichstag.

  2. Barlach's Angel

    Neil MacGregor focuses on Ernst Barlach's sculpture Hovering Angel, a unique war memorial.

  3. The New German Jews

    Neil MacGregor discusses why Germany has the fastest-growing Jewish population in Europe.

  4. Out of the Rubble

    Neil MacGregor talks to a woman who cleared rubble from the streets of Berlin in 1945.

  5. The Germans Expelled

    Neil MacGregor focuses on the forced movement of more than 12 million Germans after 1945.

  6. At the Buchenwald Gate

    Neil MacGregor visits Buchenwald, one of the earliest and largest concentration camps.

  7. Purging the Degenerate

    Neil MacGregor focuses on how the Nazis attacked art they viewed as degenerate.

  8. Money in Crisis

    Neil MacGregor on the emergency money created to replace metal coins, and hyperinflation.

  9. Kathe Kollwitz: Suffering Witness

    Neil MacGregor focuses on the art of Kathe Kollwitz, witness to the suffering of war.

  10. Bismarck the Blacksmith

    Neil MacGregor charts the career of Otto von Bismarck, known as the Iron Chancellor.

  11. Bauhaus: Cradle of the Modern

    Neil MacGregor focuses on the Bauhaus school of art and design, founded in Weimar in 1919.

  12. From Clock to Car: Masters of Metal

    Neil MacGregor focuses on the long tradition of German metalwork, from clocks to cars.

  13. Porcelain: The White Gold of Saxony

    Neil MacGregor focuses on how German chemists discovered the secrets of Chinese porcelain.

  14. Dürer: An Artist for All Germans

    Neil MacGregor focuses on the work of Dürer (1471-1528), the defining artist of Germany.

  15. Gutenberg: In the Beginning Was the Printer

    Neil MacGregor examines how Johannes Gutenberg's inventions transformed our world.

  16. 1848: The People's Flag and Karl Marx

    Black, red and gold become the colours of Germany, and Karl Marx publishes a manifesto.

  17. Iron Nation

    Neil MacGregor focuses on 19th-century uses of iron, from jewellery to the Iron Cross.

  18. Holbein and the Hansa

    Neil MacGregor focuses on the Hansa, the great trading alliance, and the painter Holbein.

  19. Riemenschneider: Sculpting the Spirit

    Neil MacGregor focuses on the supreme limewood sculptures of Riemenschneider (c1460-1531).

  20. The Battle for Charlemagne

    Was Charlemagne a great French ruler, or was he Charles the Great, a German?

  21. One People, Many Sausages

    Neil MacGregor focuses on two great emblems of Germany's national diet: beer and sausages.

  22. The Walhalla: Hall of Heroes

    Neil MacGregor visits the Walhalla, a 19th-century temple to German-ness, built in Bavaria

  23. One Nation Under Goethe

    Neil MacGregor focuses on Germany's great national poet Goethe, who was born in 1749.

  24. Fairy Tales and Forests: The Grimms and Caspar David Friedrich

    Neil MacGregor on how the Grimms and painter Caspar David Friedrich shaped German identity

  25. Luther and a Language for All Germans

    Neil MacGregor examines how Luther created the modern German language.

  26. Fragments of Power

    Neil MacGregor discovers how coins reveal the range and diversity of the Holy Roman Empire

  27. Strasbourg - Floating City

    Neil MacGregor visits Strasbourg, now in France but also a key city in German history.

  28. Kafka, Kant and Lost Capitals

    Neil MacGregor visits Kaliningrad, now in Russia but formerly the German city Konigsberg.

  29. Divided Heaven

    Neil MacGregor examines the story of the two Germanys, East and West, created in 1949.

  30. The View from the Gate

    Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Neil visits the Brandenburg Gate.