Neil MacGregor ends his journey through 600 years of German history at the Reichstag.
Published on Friday, 7th November 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on Ernst Barlach's sculpture Hovering Angel, a unique war memorial.
Published on Thursday, 6th November 2014.
Neil MacGregor discusses why Germany has the fastest-growing Jewish population in Europe.
Published on Wednesday, 5th November 2014.
Neil MacGregor talks to a woman who cleared rubble from the streets of Berlin in 1945.
Published on Tuesday, 4th November 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on the forced movement of more than 12 million Germans after 1945.
Published on Monday, 3rd November 2014.
Neil MacGregor visits Buchenwald, one of the earliest and largest concentration camps.
Published on Friday, 31st October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on how the Nazis attacked art they viewed as degenerate.
Published on Thursday, 30th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor on the emergency money created to replace metal coins, and hyperinflation.
Published on Wednesday, 29th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on the art of Kathe Kollwitz, witness to the suffering of war.
Published on Tuesday, 28th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor charts the career of Otto von Bismarck, known as the Iron Chancellor.
Published on Monday, 27th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on the Bauhaus school of art and design, founded in Weimar in 1919.
Published on Friday, 24th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on the long tradition of German metalwork, from clocks to cars.
Published on Thursday, 23rd October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on how German chemists discovered the secrets of Chinese porcelain.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on the work of Dürer (1471-1528), the defining artist of Germany.
Published on Tuesday, 21st October 2014.
Neil MacGregor examines how Johannes Gutenberg's inventions transformed our world.
Published on Monday, 20th October 2014.
Black, red and gold become the colours of Germany, and Karl Marx publishes a manifesto.
Published on Friday, 17th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on 19th-century uses of iron, from jewellery to the Iron Cross.
Published on Thursday, 16th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on the Hansa, the great trading alliance, and the painter Holbein.
Published on Wednesday, 15th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on the supreme limewood sculptures of Riemenschneider (c1460-1531).
Published on Tuesday, 14th October 2014.
Was Charlemagne a great French ruler, or was he Charles the Great, a German?
Published on Monday, 13th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on two great emblems of Germany's national diet: beer and sausages.
Published on Friday, 10th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor visits the Walhalla, a 19th-century temple to German-ness, built in Bavaria
Published on Thursday, 9th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor focuses on Germany's great national poet Goethe, who was born in 1749.
Published on Wednesday, 8th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor on how the Grimms and painter Caspar David Friedrich shaped German identity
Published on Tuesday, 7th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor examines how Luther created the modern German language.
Published on Monday, 6th October 2014.
Neil MacGregor discovers how coins reveal the range and diversity of the Holy Roman Empire
Published on Friday, 3rd October 2014.
Neil MacGregor visits Strasbourg, now in France but also a key city in German history.
Published on Thursday, 2nd October 2014.
Neil MacGregor visits Kaliningrad, now in Russia but formerly the German city Konigsberg.
Published on Wednesday, 1st October 2014.
Neil MacGregor examines the story of the two Germanys, East and West, created in 1949.
Published on Tuesday, 30th September 2014.
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Neil visits the Brandenburg Gate.
Published on Monday, 29th September 2014.
