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Episode 1 - Into the Promised Land
The inhabitants of a village auction off their property in oder to emigrate as a group
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Episode 1 - Into the Promised Land
By wagon to the Rhine, and then on to ports like Bremen or Rotterdam
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Episode 1 - Into the Promised Land
On board a ship for emigrants
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Episode 1 - Into the Promised Land
German settlers on their way to the "German Belt"
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Episode 1 - Into the Promised Land
The Germans prefer settling near other Germans.
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Episode 1 - Into the Promised Land
Settlers in front of their first housing.
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Episode 1 - Into the Promised Land
Descendants of the Muenks family from the Rhineland.
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Episode 1 - Into the Promised Land
The Münks farm in Loose Creek, Missouri
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Episode 1 - Into the Promised Land
German Farmer in the Amish country
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
Schlickum fleeing
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
Texas Rangers chase the Germans, who refuse to fight for the South.
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
The massacre on the Nueces River
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
Fredericksburg, Texas
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
German Parade
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
German settlers cultivating land near New Braunfels.
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
The trek from the coast to New Braunfels
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
2000 graves line the trail.
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
Carl Schurz flees
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Episode 2 - The Price of Freedom
Director Fritz Baumann
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
Slum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
The Gumpertz Family receives help from a German Welfare Organization.
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
Slum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
Great-grandson of Natalie Gumpertz
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
New arrivals at Ellis Island
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
Examination of immigrants on Ellis Island
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
Henry Z. Steinway
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
The legendary piano factory built by German immigrants.
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
The Steinweg’s first piano is built in the family kitchen.
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
Lower East Side, New York
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
Lower East Side, New York
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
Lower East Side, New York
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Episode 3 - Little Germanies
The German-language press has America’s largest circulation.
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
Max Ebel is attacked by a group of Hitler Youth
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
Hertha Nathorff, a Jewish doctor, leaves Nazi Germany at the last moment
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
Immigration checkpoint on Ellis Island
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
Hertha and Erwin Nathorff
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
Hertha Nathorff, aged 80, in New York
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
New York, around 1900
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
Max Ebel is sentenced to hard labor
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
Max Ebel is released from custody
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
The sinking of the “General Slocum” marks the end of the German community on the Lower East Side.
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
A German immigrant is lynched by American nativists.
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
A German immigrant is lynched by American nativists.
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Episode 4 - A People Disappears
Director Fritz Baumann with DOP Hans Jakobi


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