Die Bertinis is a novel by Ralph Giordano

Ralph Giordano

Ralph Giordano may refer to:* Young Corbett III , boxing champion* Ralph Giordano , German writer...

. The book tells the story of German-Italian family from the late 19th Century until the end of the Second World War . The novel of 1982 is heavily autobiographical, and tells the story largely of Giordano and his experiences in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 during the period of National Socialism  It was made into a ZDF

ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

television series in 1988.