Hot off the Press 5! The PDF will change every 2 weeks, so save a copy if you want to use links later on! Members recommend……… Film drama called “Balloon” In 1979, the Strelzyk family attempt to escape from Thuringen in East Germany. Under the watchful eye of the Stasi and the fearsome lieutenant colonel Seidel, they pursue a plan so crazy that most of their neighbours would not believe it if they saw it. With the help of their friends the Wetzels, they try to cross the border into West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon. In German with English subtitles. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pyt7 Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918 In a unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. It is a dramatic tale of national self- discovery, social upheaval and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron. TWITTER @en_germany on Twitter is a fantastic source of news / history in Germany. It is in English. Hot off the Press 5! The PDF will change every 2 weeks, so save a copy if you want to use links later on! Members recommend……… “Deutschland 83 and Deutschland 86 (Walter Presents on All4) The third series of Anna and Joerg Winger’s espionage drama “ Deutschland 89” starts on 26th February. Stylish thriller in which Martin Rauch is conscripted into a plot to drum up hard currency abroad and keep the East German communist project afloat. To catch up on the first two seasons tracking the undercover exploits of East German spy Martin Rauch and his Stasi aunt, Lenora, click on the link below. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/deutschland-83/on-demand https://www.channel4.com/programmes/deutschland-86/on-demand/69622-003 .