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Weimar republic
May 28, 2021
Peter Bradshaw
Billy Wilder’s Escape From the Nightmare of Europe
Classic American movies “Some Like It Hot” and “Sunset Boulevard” emerged from the tumult and horror of interwar Germany.
March 2, 2020
Adrian Daub
A Whiff of Weimar
Is Germany in danger of repeating its Nazi past?
February 14, 2018
Adrian Daub
What Babylon Berlin Sees in the Weimar Republic
A new police procedural set in interwar Germany holds a warning for today’s audiences.

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