Little America: Freunde und Feinde

SYNOPSIS

After returning from an "angel maker", Erika collapses in front of her parents' house and is picked up by the emergency doctor, while Marie and George enjoy their first night of love. Back at base, George faces the racist harassment of Sergeant Hoskins. Marie is welcomed with open arms by her family despite the betrothal, but thrown out by Siegfried's mother Anneliese when she visits Erika in the hospital. Due to the complications after the abortion, Erika can no longer have children and tells her mother that she was raped when she tried to send her back to the Paulinenstift. Meanwhile, after her night with George, Marie turns to Amy, who takes away the young woman's illusions: Neither the army nor society will ever accept "black and white love. Siegfried will not accept that Marie and George will be happy in Kaltenstein. That's why." Amy arranges contact with her cousin in East Berlin. Amy sees a future for both of them only in the GDR. Marie is immediately ready to leave everything behind, George finally agrees. Meanwhile, the rapist is searched for in Kaltenstein Identity Erika is silent. While Mayor Strumm is persuaded by his wife Anneliese and the pastor to declare a moral emergency, bar owner Schwiete, who is actually called Schweriner, is planning his revenge: in a simulated pogrom procession he walks through the streets with the entertainer Ape. They reveal the involvement of the mayor and former SS local group leader in the expulsion of v on Schwietes Jewish uncle Sami - in whose house the Strumms have lived since then. The mayor's career is ruined in one fell swoop. In order to at least keep business with the Americans going, the Strumms demand from Erika to supply the rapist's name. When she testifies to Colonel McCoy, she blames George. Marie waits in vain for him at the train station the next morning.