Gallery of 1920s Berlin Cultural Life
1920s Berlin was a city of many social contrasts. While a large part of the population continued to struggle with high unemployment and deprivations in the aftermath of World War I, the upper class of society, and a growing middle class, gradually rediscovered prosperity and turned Berlin into a cosmopolitan city.
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A Graf Zeppelin flies over the Victory Column, 1928.
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A parade of elephants with Indian trainers from the Hagenbeck show, on their way to the Berlin Zoo, 1926.
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A Neues Bauen (New Building)-style housing development in Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1928.
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A 1922 autorace in Grunewald, Berlin.
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International Women's Union Congress in Berlin, 1929.
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A Rudolf Belling sculpture on exhibit, 1929.
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Communist campaigners during the Reichstag elections, 1924.
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An exhibit of boxing, jiu jitsu, and other sports in the Lustgarten, 1925.
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