The restless capital of the Weimar Republic fell to Hitler on 30 January 1933 and staged the 1936 Olympic Games as Nazi propaganda. From the Bendlerblock, conspirators launched the failed coup of 20 July 1944. RAF and American bombing wrecked the city from 1943, and the Red Army stormed it in April 1945; Hitler killed himself in the Führerbunker on 30 April, and the garrison surrendered on 2 May.
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Brian moves into Sally's boarding house and is swept into her nights at the Kit Kat Klub, where the master of ceremonies mocks everything, including the Nazis.
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The series traces how Hitler took power and rearmed Germany in the years before the invasion of Poland.
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Base
Under the Reich Chancellery garden, Hitler moves phantom armies on maps, rages at his generals and turns on those who try to leave.
Battle
Hitler Youth boys man anti-tank guns in the ruins, and an SS doctor tries to care for civilians as Soviet shells fall.
On the road
After the deaths in the bunker, the survivors split into groups and try to slip through the Soviet lines across the Spree.
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In captured Berlin, an officer sifts through Gestapo files looking for what became of the boy.
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Enraged by British bombs on Berlin, Hitler promises a crowd that London will pay for them.
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On her way to Moscow, Lillian carries the money across the border and meets Julia for a few tense minutes in a Berlin café.
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With the Nazis in power, Höfgen returns from abroad, triumphs as Mephisto and accepts the patronage of a powerful general.
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Front line
Drafted to defend the capital, he surrenders to the Soviets and must convince them who he really is.
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Sprink's performance with Anna is interrupted by an officer announcing the call-up of reservists.
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Salomon Sorowitsch lives well off forged passports and banknotes in Berlin's nightlife until a police detective arrests him.
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Back at Reserve Army headquarters, the conspirators launch Valkyrie and race the news that Hitler is still alive.
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Home
From the cellar to the ruined flats upstairs, the residents of one building live through the arrival of the Soviet troops and the weeks that follow.
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On the eve of the invasion of the Soviet Union, the five friends celebrate together and promise to meet again by Christmas.
Camp
Arrested for defeatist remarks, Greta waits in a cell while her former protector in the SS decides her fate.
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When the war is over, whoever is left comes back to the ruined bar where it all began.
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At the Nazi-hosted Games, Louie finishes eighth in the 5,000 metres with a blistering final lap that gets him noticed.
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Arthur Nebe and Heinrich Müller torture Elser to name the conspirators behind him, but he insists he worked alone.
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In the regime's showcase stadium, Owens races under the eyes of the Nazi leadership and finds an unexpected friend in his German rival.
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Inspector Gereon Rath arrives from Cologne on a secret mission and meets Charlotte Ritter, a clerk who dreams of becoming a detective.
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In the glittering Moka Efti, dancers, gangsters and conspirators share the same floor, and Charlotte earns extra money after hours.
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Charlotte and Gereon are caught up in the police crackdown on banned Communist May Day marches in the working-class districts.
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American journalist Nancy Campbell fights the censors to report the truth, and a German family hides their epileptic daughter.
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In a Berlin cell, beaten and offered easy ways out, Franz waits months for trial while Fani's letters keep him going.
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At the Foreign Office, Paul joins officers plotting to topple Hitler and obtains a secret record of his plans for war.
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With their stroke oarsman sick and a bad lane, the Americans line up against the best crews in Europe in front of Hitler.
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Now escorted by long-range Mustangs, the survivors fly against the German capital itself.
Politics
President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany, as conservatives believed they could control him. Within months the Nazis had abolished democracy, banned other parties and begun persecuting Jews and political opponents.
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The German parliament building in Berlin burned, and the Nazis blamed a communist plot. The next day an emergency decree suspended civil liberties, giving Hitler the legal basis to arrest opponents without trial.
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In a coordinated pogrom across Germany and Austria, Nazi mobs burned synagogues, smashed Jewish shops and homes and killed at least 91 Jews. About 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps, marking a shift toward open, violent persecution.
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Senior Nazi officials met in a villa near Berlin, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, to coordinate the 'Final Solution to the Jewish question'. The meeting organized the deportation of Europe's Jews to be murdered in the east.
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Soviet armies crossed the Oder and encircled Berlin, then fought street by street toward the city centre. The garrison surrendered on 2 May, and the Soviet flag over the Reichstag marked the end of Nazi Germany.
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With Soviet troops a few hundred metres away, Adolf Hitler killed himself in his bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery. Admiral Dönitz succeeded him and within a week Germany surrendered.
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Germany's unconditional surrender came into effect, ending the war in Europe after almost six years. Crowds celebrated across Allied countries, while the war against Japan continued in the Pacific and Asia.
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Truman, Stalin and Churchill, replaced midway by Clement Attlee, decided the occupation of Germany and its new borders. Their Potsdam Declaration called on Japan to surrender unconditionally or face 'prompt and utter destruction'.
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