Germany looked healed. Jobs returned. Berlin glittered with modern culture and confidence. Then came 1929!

In this episode of Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times, we step into the final years before collapse as the Great Depression tears through Weimar Germany. Nazis and Communists gain mass support which inevitably will lead to conflict. The seeds are watered and extremism bears fruit.

Meet ordinary citizens who provide firsthand accounts as watch savings vanish, unemployment explode, families break under pressure.

Let's step back in time!