Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to the First World War, over the time of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism to the destruction of the Third Reich.
Cast
Gerhard Bienert
Johann Hardekopf
Ursula Braun
Pauline Hardekopf
Christian Balhaus
Ludwig Hardekopf
Roland Knappe
Carl Brenten
Gudrun Wendler
Frieda Brenten
Herbert Köfer
Gustav Stürck
Christel Peters
Frau Rüscher
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
August Bebel
Renate Blume
Cecilie
Frank Michelis
Tabakarbeiter
Alexander Papendiek
Hinrich Wilmers
Ilse Bastubbe
Unknown
Georg Leopold
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Siegfried Weiß
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Hans Teuscher
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Angela Brunner
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Helmut Schreiber
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Helmut Schellhardt
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Fritz Links
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Kaspar Eichel
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Peter Friedrichson
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Carl-Hermann Risse
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Gerda Abelt
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Friederike Aust
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Peter Bause
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Karl Brenk
Unknown
Frank-Otto Schenk
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Traute Sense
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Günter Wolf
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Hermann Beyer
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Ute Boeden
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Klaus-Peter Pleßow
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Jutta Liebster
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Willi Neuenhahn
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Harald Halgardt
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Martin Trettau
Unknown
Carin Abicht
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Gerd Michael Henneberg
Unknown
Hanna Rieger
Unknown
Erik Veldre
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Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
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Carola Braunbock
Unknown
Hans Rohde
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Hans-Peter Reinecke
Unknown
Anita Herbst
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Heinz Laggies
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Christoph Engel
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Hans Flössel
Unknown
Kurt Schmengler
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Hans Klering
Unknown
Horst Papke
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Hans Ulrich Laufer
Berner
Roland Kuchenbuch
Unknown
Berthold Schulze
Unknown
Adolf Fischer
Unknown
Martin Süßenguth
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Gert Hänsch
Unknown
Renate Usko
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Gerd Ehlers
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Christa Pasemann
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Otto Busse
Unknown
Günter Sonnenberg
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Anne-Else Paetzold
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Horst Giese
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Eva-Maria Eisenhardt
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Günther Polensen
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Gertraude Schwarzer
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Jürgen Kluckert
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Siegfried Kellermann
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Klaus Pönitz
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Günter Drescher
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Albert Garbe
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Eckhard Bilz
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Manfred Ott
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