Season 2
17 episodes
39 min. per episode
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A passionate writer uncovers hidden truths of Europe’s past, forging connections that challenge his understanding of identity and belonging.
Episodes
Before the fall of Hitler, Stalin and the Allied leaders already divided Europe. Poland and Czechoslovakia would fell under Russian control. The people who lived there didn't know that at the time.
1945: the Nazi's were defeated but what to do with the German people? Were they all guilty of the atrocities committed by the Nazi's? If so, do they deserve to be punished?
In Bleiburg, a small Austrian town, Tito's partisans massacred tens of thousands unarmed opponents. The victims were Ustashas, Croatian fascists who sided with Hitler and who were responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands.
How long would it take for Europe could live with the shame of their part in the persecution of the Jews? For a long time some European countries supplanted the memory of their role in the Holocaust.
In 1948 the communists seized control of the glass factory of the father of Jirzi Horak. After 1991 he gets it back, but not all of it.
Writer Geert Mak travels around Europe to visit the places where history was made. He speaks with eye witnesses, relatives and experts. One hundred years of European history in 35 episodes.