Berlin in the late 1920's early 1930's was all about exploration and experimentation it was all about sexual freedom. Before the Berlin's that everyone knows—the Hitler one, the walled one—there was the libertine city of the Weimar era, which lasted from after World War I until Hitler's rise to power in the early 1930s. The capital of the newest democracy, home to the most emancipated women anywhere, Berlin for the first time could legitimately claim to be one of the world's cultural centers. The city was obsessed with the arts, caught up in séances, striptease acts and transvestite balls. Though Germany was mired in political and financial problems, it was fertile ground for producing master-works Fritz Lang made "Metropolis"; Thomas Mann wrote "The Magic Mountain"; Otto Dix painted himself into art history; and Marlene Dietrich had her breakthrough role in "Der blaue Engel."
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