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Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history using objects, art, landmarks and literature.

Germany: Memories of a Nation BBC Radio 4

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Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history using objects, art, landmarks and literature.

    Reichstag

    Reichstag

    Neil MacGregor began his journey through 600 years of German history at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and ends it at the Reichstag, seat of the German Parliament. These two extraordinary buildings, only a few hundred yards apart, carry in their very stones the political history of the country.
    Neil talks to architect Norman Foster, who in 1992 won the commission to restore the Reichstag, when Germany's Parliament returned to Berlin in the wake of re-unification.
    Producer Paul Kobrak.

    • 13 min
    Barlach's Angel

    Barlach's Angel

    Neil MacGregor focuses on Ernst Barlach's sculpture Hovering Angel, a unique war memorial, commissioned in 1926 to hang in the cathedral in Güstrow.
    Producer Paul Kobrak.

    • 14 min
    The New German Jews

    The New German Jews

    After concentration camps like Buchenwald and extermination camps like Auschwitz, it seemed that the story of Jews in Germany must come to a full stop at the end of the war. Why would any Jew in 1945, or in 1965 for that matter, see any part of their future in Germany? But remarkably Germany today has the fastest-growing Jewish population in Western Europe.
    Neil MacGregor visits a synagogue in Offenbach, near Frankfurt, which was inaugurated in 1956 and has been greatly enlarged in the years since then.
    Producer Paul Kobrak.

    • 14 min
    Out of the Rubble

    Out of the Rubble

    Neil MacGregor talks to a Trümmerfrau, a woman who cleared rubble from the streets of Berlin in 1945, and focuses on a sculpture by Max Lachnit, a portrait of a Trümmerfrau made from hundreds of pieces of rubble.
    Neil also examines the role the launch of the Deutsch Mark played in the re-building of Germany.
    Producer Paul Kobrak.

    • 13 min
    The Germans Expelled

    The Germans Expelled

    Neil MacGregor focuses on a small hand-cart to tell the story of the forced movement of more than 12 million Germans, who fled or were forced out of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945.
    For many, the only way of transporting their possessions was a hand-cart, as they walked to parts of Germany they had never seen before.
    And Neil also reflects on the 1949 Berlin staging of Brecht's play Mother Courage, examining a model of the production's set. Fiona Shaw, who has played the title role, discusses how the image of Mother Courage pulling her cart, amidst the devastation of war, became one of the most memorable stage pictures of the 20th century.
    Producer Paul Kobrak.

    • 13 min
    At the Buchenwald Gate

    At the Buchenwald Gate

    Neil MacGregor visits Buchenwald, one of the earliest and largest concentration camps.
    Producer Paul Kobrak.

    • 14 min

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