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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 Battle for Charlemagne

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

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Riemenschneider: Sculpting the Spirit

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

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Holbein and the Hansa

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

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Iron Nation

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

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1848: The People's Flag and Karl Marx

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

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Gutenberg: In the Beginning Was the Printer

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

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D眉rer: An Artist for All Germans

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

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Porcelain: The White Gold of Saxony

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

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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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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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Bismarck the Blacksmith

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

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Kathe Kollwitz: Suffering Witness

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

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Money in Crisis

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

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Purging the Degenerate

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

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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 Germans Expelled

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

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Out of the Rubble

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

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The New German Jews

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

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Barlach's Angel

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

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Reichstag

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

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