History Series / ChariteAtWar

It is set in the RealLife Charité hospital in Berlin, from 1943 to 1945, focusing on the drama of the doctors and patients at the hospital. Among the characters are:

* VillainousBSOD: The Nazis, most prominently de Crinis and Nurse Christel, slip into this once Germany's defeat becomes increasingly clear.

* WouldHitAGirl: Martin claws at Christel's throat and threatens to strangle her if she says one more wrong word. Considering [[TheDogBitesBack what she has done to him]], she definitely [[AssholeVictim had it coming]].

* TeacherStudentRomance: There are undertones of this between de Crinis and Anni. They never actually ''do'' anything; they're both married after all, but they're very warm with each other, Anni regards her doctoral advisor's words highly and he obviously keeps her close to the state ideology, and de Crinis goes great lengths to help her dissertation. Anni grows more distant from him after Karin's condition becomes obvious, but she still takes advantage of de Crinis' affection for and attraction to her to help Martin.

* HateSink: Professor de Crinis is a homophobic, racist, arrogant, system-loyal Nazi bully with a [[SmugSmiler disgustingly self-satisfied attitude]] and no redeeming qualities whatsoever. He defames an injured soldier, gives homosexuals a choice between concentration camp and castration, and generally thinks "substandard" people should be sterilized or, better yet, euthanized.

* AdultFear: Comes with Karin developing hydrocephalus; Anni and Artur have to face that their daughter might wind up disabled -- and all the consequences that means in Nazi Germany: Karin will be considered an "unworthy life", could fall prey to the euthanasia programme, and the parents themselves could be considered for a sterilization after that.

** With Martin [[spoiler:in his cell]], he calls him "Sauerbruch's show pony", making it obvious he thinks he's only kept around to show off how great Sauerbruch is with his prosthetic, [[spoiler:insinuates that his relationship with Otto was clearly seduction on his part and not really wanted on Otto's whom he cals Martin's "catamite",]] and implies that his death is the best thing for the world at large, all while seeming perfectly pleasant and calm. He even offers Martin a cigarette.

* FauxAffablyEvil: De Crinis is usually seen with a big smile on his face, his manners and tone as cordial as can be while he unapologetically threatens people, in one case resorts to physical abuse of a patient, and makes sure that everyone who's not a Nazi conformist will suffer an awful fate. This trait reaches its biggest extents during the scenes where he taunts Karl Bonhoeffer and Martin, respectively.
** With Martin [[spoiler:in his cell]] he calls him a 'Sauerbruch's show pony' and makes it obvious he thinks he's only kept around to show off how great Sauerbruch is with his prosthetic, [[spoiler:insinuates that his relationship with Otto was clearly seduction on his part and not really wanted on Otto's,]] and implies that his death is the best thing for the world at large, all while seeming perfectly pleasant and calm. He even offers Martin a cigarette.

* DefectorFromDecadence: Otto has rejected Nazi propaganda and methods for long, but [[spoiler:Martin getting arrested]] is the last straw for him -- he deserts and goes into hiding.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When the end is near and a Nazi official declares that the entire medical staff will be armed, violating the Geneva Conventions that demand them to remain neutral, even de Crinis looks appalled. And there is one time when he looks truly, utterly shaken: [[spoiler:When Magda Goebbels asks him for cyanide to [[OffingTheOffspring poison her children]].]]

** In the same episode, Otto talks to Christel and she brings up a relationship between a German and a Jewish woman which she disapproves of. Otto asks jokingly: "Can love be a sin?" We learn next episode that [[spoiler:he's gay and in love with Martin -- the upcoming relationship is very much illegal and liable to prosecution in Nazi Germany.]]