Berlin, the Gold in 20s, the Cultural Hot House

In the mid-1920s, Berlin was a cultural hot house. The headlamps glittered off the asphalt and neon flashed on cinema facades. It was consumed in a kind of artistic, head and mystic orgy. That's what we think of when we think of Berlin but for what, seven eights of the city? There was little work there. Many were living in squalor. And that was before the crash of 1929.

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