60x Deutschland

The Year 1949 (1x1)

Uitzenddatum: Mrt 02, 2009

Germany in 1949 still an occupied country. The Cold War is harsh reality. Yet the supply of West Berlin by the Soviet Union blocked. With a massive airlift get the Western Allies to the city to lift the blockade in May alive. In the West as in the East while the preparations for the founding of the two German states. In May it is in Bonn, where, in October in East Berlin. Still determined primarily by the concerns and needs of life "John Doe" in the East and West. That name to the division on the still existing ration cards. The longing for a little happiness in daily life but also satisfies: 800,000 life-hungry people lined the first Carnival in Cologne after the war in the streets.