Germany

1900, End and beginning of a century: Advertisements in newspapers - chocolate, cigars, car, michelin

End and beginning of a century: Advertisements in newspapers - chocolate, cigars, car, michelin

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A white man gives a cigarette to an Indian

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USA

A white man gives a cigarette to an Indian

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Alfred Hitchcock: Interview Ingrid Bergman

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United States, Hollywood

Alfred Hitchcock: Interview Ingrid Bergman

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Berlin, 1920's: post, telegraph, telephone center

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Germany, Berlin

Berlin, 1920's: post, telegraph, telephone center

Berlin, 1920's: post, telegrams sending In January 1919 the leftist Spartacus-rebellion is put down bloodily. Free corps troops abduct Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg on January 15th and kill them at the “Tiergarten”. On March 13, 1920 parts of the “Reichswehr” (empire’s army) overthrow their break-up as ordered by the “Versailler Vertrag” (Versaille agreement) and proclaim the rightist conservative Wolfgang Kapp imperial chancellor. A general strike organized by SPD and KPD leads to the collapse of the Kapp-Putsch. In October of 1920 7 cities, 59 country communities and 27 property districts are being suburbanized to Berlin by law and the city is divided into 20 districts. The population is now 3.8 million, the size 878 square kilometers. Berlin becomes Europe’s largest industrial city and turns out to be a cultural metropolis in the Twenties. Artists such as Otto Dix, Lionel Feininger, Bertolt Brecht and Arnold Zweig and Nobel Prize laureate Albert Einstein live and work in Berlin. In 1923 inflation is at its peak level. In 1924 the „1. Große Deutsche Funkausstellung“ (first big German radio exhibition) inaugurates on the fairgrounds. In 1926 the first “Grüne Woche”(agricultural exhibition) takes place. In August of 1928 the debut performance of “The Threepenny Opera” by B. Brecht occurs in the theater at the “Schiffbauerdamm”. About 150 daily and weekly papers are released in the city. The global economic crisis seizes Berlin in 1929. There are 450.000 people jobless in February.

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