Germany: Memories of a Nation

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Iron Nation

Neil MacGregor charts the role of iron in 19th century Prussia, an everyday metal whose uses included patriotic jewellery and the Iron Cross, a military decoration to honour all ranks. Producer Paul Kobrak.

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  Reichstag

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  Barlach's Angel

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  The New German Jews

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  Out of the Rubble

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  The Germans Expelled

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  At the Buchenwald Gate

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  Purging the Degenerate

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  Money in Crisis

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  Kathe Kollwitz: Suffering Witness

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  Bismarck the Blacksmith

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  Bauhaus: Cradle of the Modern

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  From Clock to Car: Masters of Metal

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  Porcelain: The White Gold of Saxony

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  Dürer: An Artist for All Germans

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  Gutenberg: In the Beginning Was the Printer

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  1848: The People's Flag and Karl Marx