The three-part series focuses on the stories and experiences of German settlers, Schutztruppe soldiers and locals who experienced the decisive events first-hand - and left accounts for posterity. BROADVIEW TV reconstructs the history of the German colonies on the basis of these personal fates and presents the key experiences of these protagonists in elaborately staged scenes. Using the latest CGI, mass scenes such as the Herero uprising with the decisive battle on the Waterberg in Southwest Africa or the bloody conflicts between Germans and Africans in East Africa are staged. In addition, there are exciting stories of cannibal villages in German New Guinea, the odyssey of a mother with her newborn child through the steppes of Southwest Africa and a sect of nudist sun worshippers in the South Seas.

Commissioned by ZDF, BROADVIEW TV for the first time explores the question of what the Germans were looking for in the colonies of German Southwest Africa, German East Africa and the protectorates in the South Seas. Who were the people who went to the colonies and what dreams did they pursue? What conflicts arose between the "masters" and the "colonial peoples" and what traces did the Germans leave behind?

First broadcast on ZDF: Tuesday, 13 April 2010, 8:15 p.m.