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The Call of Far-Away Places (1919–1928)
Episode overview
The teenager Paul Simon takes up the hobby of wireless radio and marries the girl Maria, but leaves the village and never returns.
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The Centre of the World (1929–1933)
Episode overview
Paul Simon's brother Eduard moves to Berlin and meets the socialite Lucie.
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The Best Christmas Ever (1935)
Episode overview
Eduard Simon becomes the mayor of a village near Schabbach.
1x4
The Highway (1938)
Episode overview
A highway is built near Schabbach, and one of the engineers, Otto, becomes Maria's lover.
1x5
Up and Away and Back (1938–1939)
Episode overview
Paul writes from the United States that he is visiting, forcing his ex-wife Maria to break up with Otto. However without proof of his Aryan lineage Paul is unable to enter Germany.
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The Home Front (1943)
Episode overview
Anton Simon, fighting on the Russian front, marries Martha Hanke via a telephone wedding. Schabbach villagers confront the morality of Nazism.
1x7
Soldiers and Love (1944)
Episode overview
The Simon family deals with the waning years of the German war.
1x8
The American (1945–1947)
Episode overview
Paul returns to Germany. The Simon family struggles for prosperity in the lean post-war years.
1x9
Little Hermann (1955–1956)
Episode overview
Hermann has a love affair with 26-year-old Klärchen, who is ostracized from Schabbach.
1x10
The Proud Years (1967–1969)
Episode overview
Anton Simon and his brother Ernst struggle for success in their businesses.
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The Feast of the Living and the Dead (1982)
Episode overview
It is the twilight years of the older generation of the Simons, with a flashback to Maria's 70th birthday party and then her funeral.

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