Topic

Weimar Berlin

Democracy, culture and crisis, 1918–33.

Weimar Berlin1920–1933 Berlin’s Social Democrats and Communists outvoted the Nazis at every Weimar election. They never once voted together

Weimar Berlin1919–1945 In 1919 the Prussian Academy of Arts took its first woman member since 1833. In 1933 the Nazis forced her out

Weimar Berlin1929–1938 Convicted for printing military secrets the Reichstag had partly heard already. The conviction still stands.

Weimar Berlin1926–2017 Marlene Dietrich became famous at this cinema in one night. Five years later, an antisemitic riot began at its door