The BEST episodes directed by Martin Carazo Mendez

#1 - Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants' War

The Germans - Season 2 - Episode 5

It was a time of upheaval; the Reformation was shaking the established order. In 1521, turmoil reigned in Zwickau, Saxony: The young priest Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525), who preached at St. Mary’s Church, turned against both ecclesiastical and secular authorities and demanded the God-given right to freedom and equality for all people. Müntzer was not a man of compromise. Luther’s criticism of the church—which he had once admired—did not go far enough for him. Not only the papacy, but also the class-based secular order was a thorn in his side.