The final chapter covers the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 and the immediate aftermath.
Set in Berlin, 1914, the story begins with five friends meeting one last time before their lives are upended by the war.
The detailed features of the episodes in the acclaimed German miniseries (originally titled Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter ) follow five friends through the horrors of WWII. Episode 1: A Different Time (Eine andere Zeit)
: Greta is executed shortly before the war ends. Charly is captured by the Soviets but eventually finds her way back to Berlin.
: The surviving friends—Wilhelm, Charly, and Viktor—meet in the ruins of the bar where they started, mourning their lost youth and their dead friends.