Suzanne and Stephanie walk the halls of a children’s home where their mom described her mother’s ghost haunting her every night. The sisters begin to wonder: can they ever truly finish the memoir without knowing who was responsible for their grandmother’s death? Suzanne decides to try to solve the mystery once and for all. After initial frustration, she finds an ally in Colonel Matt Dietz, a fighter-pilot-turned-WWII-historian, and together, they uncover the incredible truth. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Your well-being is worth it. Visit www.BetterHelp.com/THEMAN to get 10% off your first monthSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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The Dark Road of the Future: 7
In the wake of investigating their grandmother’s death, the sister revisit the day their own mother died and we hear Gabriele’s last words. Focus turns to the aftermath of the bombing and Tante Heide tells of how a black binder found among the rubble would come to haunt her family. Meanwhile, Robert Lusser is trying to get home from Berlin, as Germany crumbles. When the family is finally reunited, they struggle to survive as the their own countrymen turn on them.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Your well-being is worth it. Visit www.BetterHelp.com/THEMAN to get 10% off your first monthSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Broken Glass: 6
Suzanne and Stephanie stumble around a small cemetery in Bavaria, searching for their grandmother’s grave. The next day, the owner of the farmhouse where she died tells the sisters about the devastation that rained down from the sky on a cold March afternoon in 1945 and the sisters revisit the moment Gabriele learned her mother was gone. Then, as the farmer takes the sisters on a tour, showing them bomb craters and shrapnel, they stumble upon a clue that points in a new, and unexpected, direction. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Your well-being is worth it. Visit www.BetterHelp.com/THEMAN to get 10% off your first monthSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Chamber 44: 5
Suzanne and Stephanie visit Tante Heide in Sacramento, California, where the sisters’ beloved aunt has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Realizing that time is running out to get the family story straight, the sisters ask difficult questions - with answers that are not black and white. Back on their odyssey through Germany, the whispers of the dead swirl around them as they walk the dark, dank tunnels of a concentration camp where the V1s were made. When Suzanne tracks down a Holocaust survivor who assembled her grandfather's flying bombs, she finds a surprising moment of grace.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Your well-being is worth it. Visit www.BetterHelp.com/THEMAN to get 10% off your first monthSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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V Is For Vengeance: 4
In the aftermath of the fire bombing, Robert Lusser’s family finds shelter in an abandoned mansion while he heads to a remote island in the Baltic Sea. This is where he must perfect his "wonder weapon" - a never before seen flying bomb that will become the world's first cruise missile. In their search for how their grandfather managed this achievement, Stephanie and Suzanne go behind the locked gates of a ruined military base with an engineer-turned-historian who knows exactly who their grandfather was - and what he did.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp: Your well-being is worth it. Visit www.BetterHelp.com/THEMAN to get 10% off your first monthSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
New episodes released for free every Tuesday.In 2013, journalist Suzanne Rico gets the call. Her mother, Gabriele, is dying. As time ticks down, Gabriele reveals an unfinished memoir about her World War II childhood–and makes a daunting last request: “Finish what I started.” When Suzanne and her sister, Stephanie, dive into their mother’s turbulent past, they come face to face with the truth of their own ancestry for the first time, including mind blowing mysteries that swirl around inventor Robert Lusser–their grandfather–and his work for the Third Reich. As they struggle to bring closure to something as intimate as a memoir, they have no idea of the revelations in store, or the reckoning they will require.
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