Germany: history and culture
A collection of Radio 4 programmes about Germany.
Kaiser Wilhelm II descendant on "guilt" of WWI—Today, 09/12/2014
Prince Philip Kiril of Prussia seeks forgiveness for his family's role in WWI.
Bauhaus: Cradle of the Modern
Neil MacGregor focuses on the Bauhaus school of art and design, founded in Weimar in 1919.
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One People, Many Sausages
Neil MacGregor focuses on two great emblems of Germany's national diet: beer and sausages.
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The View from the Gate
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Neil visits the Brandenburg Gate.
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The Stasi Jigsaw Puzzle
Chris Bowlby tells the story of the attempt to rescue East Germany's Stasi secret files.
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The Berlin Airlift—The Reunion
Sue MacGregor reunites British military personnel involved in the historic Berlin Airlift.
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At the Buchenwald Gate
Neil MacGregor visits Buchenwald, one of the earliest and largest concentration camps.
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The Thirty Years War—The Invention Of..., Germany
How the events of the Thirty Years War hugely influenced later German nationalists.
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Tunnelling Under the Berlin Wall—Witness History
In 1964 a group of West German students helped more than 50 people escape from East Berlin
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Goethe—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great German polymath, Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
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The Brothers Grimm—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
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From Clock to Car: Masters of Metal
Neil MacGregor focuses on the long tradition of German metalwork, from clocks to cars.
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Bismarck—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg discusses the original Iron Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck.
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Morgenthau Plan and post-war Germany—Things We Forgot to Remember, Series 8
Michael Portillo remembers the Morgenthau Plan, drawn up to punish post-war Germany.
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The Germans Expelled
Neil MacGregor focuses on the forced movement of more than 12 million Germans after 1945.
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Episode 1—The Great War of Words
Invasion and atrocity in 1914 transformed Britain's entry into the war into a moral cause.
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Purging the Degenerate
Neil MacGregor focuses on how the Nazis attacked art they viewed as degenerate.
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Berlin—Book of the Week, Month of Madness
Christopher Clark on Germany's blank cheque to Austria-Hungary for war against Serbia.
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Money in Crisis
Neil MacGregor on the emergency money created to replace metal coins, and hyperinflation.
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Episode 1—1914: Day by Day, 1914: Day by Day - Omnibus
The world reacts to the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
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Episode 2—In Our Time, The Written World
Melvyn considers the impact of the invention of the book.
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Melencolia
Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is on a mission to decode Durer's Melencolia 1.
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Hitler in History—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg examines Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany though historiographical theories.
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The British Germans
Why many thousands of former British army soldiers have settled in Germany.
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