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Like there s no tomorrow: 100 years of Berlin nightlife Remember all the fun we had in pre-corona Berlin? The city s swinging bars, roaring clubs and love of all things decadent and pleasurable goes back decades. Ida Krenzlin, 29.12.2020 - 14:00 Uhr Artikel anhören Foto: dpa picture alliance/ullstein bildIntoxicated by jazz. Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald performed at the Badewanne in Schöneberg in the 1950s. Berlin - Berliners have always known how to have a good time. Here s a tipsy stumble through the last century of nightlife history. The 1920s: Babylon Berlin Photo: akg images / Kuzelowsky (digital koloriert)The women of the Ehed Karin Ballet, 1920. “All of Berlin is crazy about my legs!” sings Claire Waldoff. ....
The Swahili teacher killed in a Nazi concentration camp Black people were among the victims of the Nazis. The documented case of Mahjub bin Adam Mohamed also offers insight into Germany s colonial past. While doing research at Germany s Federal Archives, Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst came across a document that shows there was a Swahili teacher named Mohammed Husen who was taken to the Nazis Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin. I was really surprised by that document, because despite my studies as an Africanist historian, I did not know anything about the experiences of Africans during the Nazi era. Even when I researched the topic in academic works, I did not find any studies about it, says Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, a professor of African Studies at the University of Cologne. ....