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A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.

Includes material on "the men who ... finally dispelled the old theory of the Deluge, the Biblical Flood, as the cut-off between past and present."

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy