Using the example of three generations of a Hamburg working class family, the rise of the working class from the founding of the Wilhelmin Empire to the First World War, over the time of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism to the destruction of the Third Reich.
Gerhard Bienert
Ursula Braun
Christian Balhaus
Roland Knappe
Gudrun Wendler
Herbert Köfer
Christel Peters
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Renate Blume
Frank Michelis
Alexander Papendiek
Ilse Bastubbe
Georg Leopold
Siegfried Weiß
Hans Teuscher
Angela Brunner
Helmut Schreiber
Helmut Schellhardt
Fritz Links
Kaspar Eichel
Peter Friedrichson
Carl-Hermann Risse
Gerda Abelt
Friederike Aust
Peter Bause
Karl Brenk
Frank-Otto Schenk
Traute Sense
Günter Wolf
Hermann Beyer
Ute Boeden
Klaus-Peter Pleßow
Jutta Liebster
Willi Neuenhahn