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#1
S1E11 9.0
Part XI

Natalie and Aaron spend four days traveling to Auschwitz; on arrival, one of them is sent directly to the gas chambers. In the Philippines Sea, Byron Henry, in command of a submarine, gets ready for his first action as Captain. Hi...

#2
S1E12 8.6
Part XII

In April 1945, FDR dies and several days later Hitler, along with several of his cronies, commits suicide. Pug Henry and Pamela Tudsbury are finally married. President Harry Truman asks him to become his Naval aide, forcing him to...

#3
S1E8 8.5
Part VIII

Still in the camp at Theresienstadt, where prominent Jews have been interned, Natalie and Aaron have to deal with the fact that more and more of ghetto residents are being shipped to concentration camps in the East. Berel Jastrow ...

#4 Part X S1E10 8.5
#5 Part II S1E2 8.4
#6 Part VII S1E7 8.4
#7 Part IX S1E9 8.4
#8 Part V S1E5 8.2
#9 Part III S1E3 8.1
#10 Part VI S1E6 8.1

Lowlights

#12 S1E1 Part I 7.9

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Victor 'Pug' Henry finds himself in command of a cruiser, the USS Northampton. His son Warren is a naval aviator on the USS Enterprise and son Byron continues his service on a submarine, the USS Devilfish. Pug's wife Rhoda continues her affair with Palmer Kirby and Byron's wife Natalie has a difficult decision to make when a German Foreign Office official suggests that she and her uncle Aaron Jastrow stay in Italy rather than travel to Palestine. Pamela Tudsbury and her father start a world tour where he will report for the BBC from the far reaches of the British Empire. She is quick to let Pug know that they will also be stopping in Hawaii.

#11 Part IV S1E4 8.0
#10 Part VI S1E6 8.1
#9 Part III S1E3 8.1
#8 Part V S1E5 8.2

The Quality Arc

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Episode Engagement

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