WW2 Fans ... especially social historians

This is an 11 episode Mini-series. The first 8 spans the years 1918 to 1947 and it does a good job of looking at the rise of Hitler and the Nazis from the perspective of a small isolated agrarian village in the mountains. WW2 is not front and center here ... there are no battle scenes and tanks ... and very little is said about Jews, concentration camps and the holocaust (arguably too little).

It is because of this perspective that the series is refreshing, unique and worthy of your time. But heed this warning ... do not watch beyond episode 8 which ends in about 1947. Episode 9 (Little Herman) jumps forward another 10 years and WW2 is pretty much forgotten. More so the series really goes sour at this point.