Hugh Carlton Green´s life has in many respects been bound up with Germany. As a young student he went to Marburg to lear German. In 1933 he saw the establishment of the dictatorship in Munich; then he was the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Berlin until he was expelled shortly before the outbreak of war. In Warsaw he experienced the German invasion and later both in Belgium and France also had to flee in face of the advance of the Wermacht. After a short spell of service in the Royal Air Force, where he interrogated German airmen who had been shot down, he was made head of the German Service of the BBC. In 1946 he was appointed Control Officer of the Northwest german Radio (NWDR). Although he occupied this post for only two years, he is still remembered today as one of the fathers of radio under public law in the Federal Republic of German . Greene returned to the BBC and later was its Director General for several years. During this time he married the Berlin actress Tatjana Sais. Sir Hugh Greene, as he has been known since his knight-hood has often returned to Germany, as critical observer, as advisor and as friend. Heinrich Breloer accompanied Greene on a journey into the past and has filmed encounters at historic locations in Cologne, Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg and London.