The Golden Twenties was a particular vibrant period in the history of Berlin. After the Greater Berlin Act, the city became the third largest municipality in the world and experienced its heyday as a major world city. It was known for its leadership roles in science, the humanities, art, music, film, architecture, higher education, government, diplomacy and industries.
Color variations of doors and entrances in the Hufeisensiedlung (1925-1933)
The Europahaus, one of hundreds of cabarets in Weimar Berlin, 1931
Prostitutes buy cocaine capsules from a drug dealer in Berlin, 1930. The capsules sold for 5 marks each.
The Graf Zeppelin flies over the Victory Column, 1928.
The Golden Twenties, also known as the Happy Twenties, was a five-year time period within the decade of the 1920s in Germany. The era began in 1924, after the end of the hyperinflation following World War I, and ended with the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Tea dance in the garden of the Esplanade hotel in Berlin, 1926
Amusement temples like the Haus Vaterland in Berlin were symbols for the new freedoms of the 1920s