Legacy Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Make love, not war

50 mins

The Hague, 1969. The unworldly Alexander falls head over heels in love with the hip, free-spirited Ellen. When she discovers that Alexander's family is hiding a dark war past, she resolutely breaks with him. Shocked by Ellen's rejection, Alexander reconnects with his embittered father and tries to find out what he did as an SS soldier during World War II.

Episode 2

Bist du der Bully?

49 mins

Fate has brought Ellen and Alexander back together. As they prepare for marriage, Ellen learns more and more about Alexander's unhappy childhood. She convinces him to search for his long-lost mother in Germany. Meanwhile, Alexander's father also returns to Germany. The death of his uncle and mentor from Riga brings him back into contact with his 'Alte Kameraden' and that awakens wild childhood memories in him.

Episode 3

Op ridderschap en trouw

50 mins

A visit to his mother gives Alexander a serious hangover, disappointed he turns away from Wera. His father Frans is now fully enjoying his nostalgia trip to Germany. He delves into the past and relives his great, romantic childhood love with Wera. But at the end of the 1930s dark clouds of war also gather over Latvia. The young, brash Frans falls more and more under the spell of Nazism.

Episode 4

Het bal begint

50 mins

At the end of the 1930s, Frans and Wera are fighting for their love. While the Old Lord tries to match his heir with a good wife, and even the Kennedys come into view for a while, Frans only wants to marry Wera and then join the army. Thirty years later, Alexander and Ellen continue to search in vain for answers to the past. They visit an old SS friend of Frans and ask him the ultimate question: did Alexander's father commit war crimes?

Episode 5

Een Duitse held

50 mins

The Münninghoffs each try to get through the war unscathed in their own way. But Frans learns at the Wiking Division that there is no honor to be gained on the battlefields in the east and Wera gets entangled in the German destruction machine in Poland. Only the Old Lord does good business in the Netherlands. Cunning as he is, he maintains good contacts with both the resistance and the occupier. Thirty years later, Ellen and Alexander are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new Münninghoff.

Episode 6

Een baby

50 mins

In Ukraine, Frans is involved in a devastating war crime. When he rebels against his officers, he is sent to a suicide squad. In the Netherlands, the Old Lord brings his relations in the resistance and the German supreme command into contact with each other and thus becomes involved in an assassination plot on Hitler. Ellen and Alexander experience the most difficult hours of their lives when their baby is born prematurely and appears unviable.

Episode 7

Een Nederlandse familie

50 mins

The war is nearing its end. Alexander is born during a Russian bombing raid in Poland. Frans takes his son to safety in the German countryside and then has to return to the Eastern Front, to a certain death. In the Netherlands, the Old Lord is in a tight spot after a raid. Both the Sicherheitsdienst and the resistance see him as a traitor. Many decades later, the loss of the baby threatens to drive Ellen and Alexander apart again. But the grief also brings him closer to his mother.

Episode 8

Een bevrijding

50 mins