Die Deutschen is a German television documentary produced for ZDF that first aired from October to November 2008. Each episode recounts a selected epoch of German history, beginning with the reign of Otto the Great and ending with the collapse of the German Empire at the end of the First World War. In November 2010 the second season of Die Deutschen was published in German television, beginning with Charlemagne, the Frankish King, and ending with Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. Historical events are recreated through a combination of live action scenes and computer generated animations. The series was filmed at over 200 different locations in Germany, Malta, and Romania at a cost of approximately €500,000 per episode.
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Otto and the empire
Heinrich and the pope
Barbarossa and the lion
Luther and the nation
Wallenstein and the war
Frederick the great and the empress
Napoleon and the germans
Robert blum and the revolution
Bismarck and the german empire
Wilhelm and the world
Charlemagne and the saxons
Frederick ii. and the crusade
Hildegard of bingen and the power of women
Charles iv. and the black death
Thomas müntzer and the peasants' war
Augustus the strong and love
Karl marx and the class struggle
Ludwig ii. and the bavarians
Rosa luxemburg and freedom
Gustav stresemann and the republic
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