4 episodes:

Into the Promised Land

A group of 40 German Americans from Loose Creek, MO travel to Germany to search for their roots. They find them on the Münks farm in the Rhineland, where their ancestors were born 150 years ago.

The Price of Freedom

Examines the struggles of early German settlers in Texas, including the story of a group of 65 men who fled the state to fight for the Union in 1862. They ran into a squad of Confederates, and most were killed.

Little Germanies

The 1904 sinking of the General Slocum, an excursion boat on its way to Long Island, marked the beginning of the end for the Little Germany neighborhood on Manhattan's Lower East Side. But other "Little Germanies" were flourishing across the United States by the end of the 19th century.

A People Disappears

As the Nazis came to power, many Germans fled to the United States, only to encounter prejudice and mistrust. In 1937, 16-year-old Max Ebel, a known anti-fascist, arrived in Boston and entered the U.S. military. He requested assignment to the Pacific but was arrested and imprisoned for many months in various internment camps. The program also follows the story of the Nathorffs, a married pair of Jewish-German doctors who emigrated to America from Berlin.