This is a very large book of photos and an extended essay on the culture, popular, low, and high, of Berlin between WWI in 1918 and the establishment of Hitler as Reichs Chancellor in 1932. The book does not put much emphasis on the political situation. Though there are a number of photos of Nazi demonstrations, there is little discussion of either the Nazi party or of any of the other political movements of the time. Nor is there any discussion at all of German rearmament. The economic depression is alluded to, but its impact on society and on individuals is not discussed.
Perhaps this book is aimed at art historians or at cultural historians. As a guide to understanding the subsequent events in Berlin, it fails miserably.
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