11 September 1944 - another 9/11, a symbolically important date in the Second World War: Allied soldiers crossed the border into Germany for the first time. From the Our Valley in Luxembourg, two reconnaissance patrols of the 5th US Armoured Division advanced onto German soil almost simultaneously and reconnoitred the deserted Siegfried Line positions. One patrol was led by US agent Warner Holzinger, who had emigrated from Germany, while the other was accompanied by 19-year-old French interpreter Olaf Tillette de Mautort. After the scouting parties had completed their mission, the news went...

'On the Way to Bellapais' takes us to a country that no government in the world recognises apart from Turkey - to the 'Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus', the northern part of the Mediterranean island that has been divided since 1974. The author travels on foot, by bus and by hitchhiking across the Turkish part of Cyprus: from Girne and Bellapais via Famagusta and Varosha to Dipkarpaz on the Karpas Peninsula, from there to the divided capital, Levkosa, and meets locals who tell him about their hopes and fears. In many places, he follows in the footsteps of the British writer Lawrence...

30. Januar 1945. Während Adolf Hitler seine letzte Rundfunkrede hält und sich vor der Küste Pommerns mit dem Untergang der "Wilhelm Gustloff" die größte Schiffahrtskatastrophe der Menschheit ereignet, wird am gleichen Tag in Berlin und in der Atlantikfestung La Rochelle der mit bombastischem Aufwand produzierte Propagandafilm "Kolberg" uraufgeführt. Das Pommerndrama, das vom preußischen Abwehrkampf gegen die napoleonische Besatzung 1807 erzählt, sollte nach dem Willen von Joseph Goebbels das Kinopublikum zum Durchhalten um jeden Preis anstacheln und die Einheit von Volk und Armee...