[[{“value”:”The author is Harlad Jähner, and the subtitle is The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918-1933. I quite enjoyed this book, which focuses on elements such as the dance, or the growing prominence of the automobile, as essential elements of Weimar. Here is one good passage: In the early 1920s most people didn’t go
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The author is Harlad Jähner, and the subtitle is The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918-1933. I quite enjoyed this book, which focuses on elements such as the dance, or the growing prominence of the automobile, as essential elements of Weimar. Here is one good passage:
In the early 1920s most people didn’t go to see a particular film, they just went to the cinema. For that reason, many cinema owners didn’t think it necessary to set a particular time for the screening to start. Films were just shown one after the other, ini any order. People came and went, they pushed their way along the rows of seats in the middle of the film and watched for as long as they flet like it. If the projectionist wanted to go home early he just played the film speeded up, silent films can take that. More importantly, there was no need for the audience to listen, so they made any amount of noise, chattted, applauded or commented bawdily on the action.
Recommended, and the author stresses just how rampant sexual harassment was in Weimar employment relations, even relative to other, earlier periods of time.
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