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A 5 page essay that summarizes and analyzes director Edgar Reitz’s epic 1984 fifteen-hour, TV series, Heimat: Eine Deutsche Chronik (Homeland: A Chronicle of Germany), offers a vision of German history that dramatizes the perspective of the ordinary rural German citizen, while simultaneously relating the texture of historical events in the twentieth century to the cultural ethos that served to define the ways in which the German people perceived themselves and their nation. The first paper on this series (khheimat.rtf) discusses episodes 1 and 2. This paper focuses on episodes 3-7, which cover World War II. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: D0_khheima2.rtf
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the perspective of the ordinary rural German citizen, while simultaneously relating the texture of historical events in the twentieth century to the cultural ethos that served to define the ways
in which the German people perceived themselves and their nation. This is basically what Reitz means by the series title of "Heimat." The first two episodes of the series introduce
the three families whose members are the focus on the narrative. These episodes span the pre-war decades and the rise of Hitler to political power. Episodes three through seven cover
the war years, and dramatize the effect of the war on the people of fictional village of Schabbach. The American mindset has long looked at the rise of Hitler
and the Holocaust and asked how the German people could allow this to happen. Reitzs perspective on Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust offers answers that are both subtle
and profound as he reveals the way in which historical events were perceived at a grassroots German level. Episode 3, "The Best Christmas Ever, 1935" shows how Hitler and National
Socialism ushered in economic prosperity. The people of the village purchase cars and radios. Eduard and Lucie build a large villa in a neighboring village, of which Eduard is made
mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," carry the narrative forward, but also show
major events in the life of the village, such as a highway being built next to Schabbach, connecting the village to a broader world, which is a purpose also accomplished
by the coming of radio and telephone lines. As in the first two episodes, the technological marvels of the modernity, radio, photography and film play a large role in telling
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