History Series / Deutschland83

* ARealManIsAKiller: [[spoiler: Defied by Martin. He had been a teacher to an orphan boy named Roberto in Angola. When Martin returns to Angola later in the series, Roberto has been ordered to plant bombs and shoot to kill people. At a moment when Roberto has been told to kill Leonora, Martin tells Roberto that "Killing doesn't make you a man, it just makes you a killer", and Roberto lets go of the gun and joins with Martin and Leonora.]]

** A real-life example in the cast - Sylvester Groth (Schweppenstette) started his acting career in East Germany. On a trip to Austria, he chose not to go back and defected to West Germany.

* MoneyDearBoy: In universe, East Germany is in such an economic mess that they must raise funds by selling weapons to the Apartheid regime in South Africa, even though they are aligned with the resistance movements and neighboring communist states.

* AdultFear: Several.
** What if you knew an apocalyptic nuclear war was going to devastate your country, but couldn't tell anyone or act on it, because the information is classified - or you're not supposed to have it in the first place?
** [[spoiler:Martin]] worries that his son will grow up without a father - as he did.
** Edel has to grapple with his son rejecting every ideal he holds dear, then running away from home. [[spoiler:And then committing a terrorist hostage-taking.]]
** A lover dying of a then-poorly understood, highly infectious, incurable disease, [[spoiler:that is, AIDS.]] He may also have infected you with it.
** The fear of imminent nuclear war. Worst, the Pershing-II missiles posed this to the entire Soviet high command, as the missiles could reach Moscow faster than their early-warning system could detect an attack, meaning nuclear war could break out with absolutely no warning.
** For Annette: Martin disappears with no word, for weeks. [[spoiler:And she's carrying his child, which she learns after he disappears.]]
** Ursula shows a grave and realistic concern when the commune Yvonne has joined causes her to stop coming home for days at a time, and more so when Yvonne offhandedly mentions some cult-like, controlling behavior, like controlling when she can go to her home and even pressuring her to change her name.

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* DramaticIrony / ForegoneConclusion:

* TheMole: Martin. [[spoiler:Lt. Karl Kramer]] also works for the Stasi.

* TheEighties

** Averted later in the series, where Fritz invents a system which can turn on house appliances via voice activation, a bit like Alexa. Dietrich and Fuchs think Fritz's inventions ''will'' catch on, to the point where they try to rip Fritz off by attempting to trick him into signing the rights to the inventions and his whole company over to them!
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: Tina, again. She's convinced a man she sees at a nearby table and who later comes to see her for medical advice is the same man who interrogated her in the Stasi. People tell her she is being paranoid, and she even begins to think she is herself. But it turns out she was right the first time!]]
* UndercoverAsLovers: [[spoiler: Walter has to go undercover in West Germany in order to infiltrate the banking system there. He is given a brand new identity, along with a fake wife, Beate, who is another HVA agent. They meet for the first time at "their" house and have to act like they are a couple who have been married for years!]]

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Fritz invents a computer with a camera on top, similar to a webcam. A West German businessman refuses to invest in it, asking "Who wants to be watched while they are on the computer?!?".

A second season, set three years later and called ''Deutschland 86'', was broadcast in 2018 in Germany and 2019 in Britain. A final installment in the trilogy, ''Deutschland [[UsefulNotes/HoleInFlag 89]]'', is planned.