Computer simulations of the generation and temporal evolution of hot plasmas in germanium during the passage of intense picosecond laser pulses have been begun. At 2.7μ two-photon absorption is the generating mechanism for carriers. Carrier heating from free-carrier absorption and energy transfer to the lattice through phonon-carrier collisions are described with an electron-hole band model similar to one previously used to describe plasma dynamics in germanium driven by one-photon absorption. Details of this model will be presented and the results available to date will be discussed.