Die Spaltung der Welt: 1939-1962 - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Der Traum vom Mond
The series tells the story of the fates and lives of six people from Germany, Israel, France, the Soviet Union and the USA: Wernher von Braun, Hedwig Höss, Nikita Khrushchev, Joan Hinton, Golda Meir and Frantz Fanon.
1939. The Second World War begins in Europe. The young engineer Wernher von Braun wants to go to the moon, but puts himself in the service of the Nazis.
Der Garten vor der Mauer
Hedwig Höss and her family have a new home in 1941: Auschwitz. Her husband Rudolf is the commandant of the concentration camp there. She proudly sets up the official villa with a garden...
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Nikita Khrushchev's battle for Stalingrad is decisive for the course of the war. He receives a dramatic message: his eldest son Leonid is missing. Did he die or even desert?
Little Boy
In 1944, Joan Hinton is recruited for the top-secret "Manhattan Project" in Los Alamos. The young soldier Frantz Fanon risks his life to liberate Alsace.
Heiliges Land
In 1947, Golda Meir's greatest dream came true: the newly founded United Nations decided to divide Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. But the founding of Israel met with resistance...
Eine neue Ära
In 1952, Frantz Fanon took a job as chief physician in the largest psychiatric hospital in French Algeria. Shortly afterwards, uprisings broke out there in an effort to achieve independence from France.
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