Berlin 1933: Diary Of A Metropolis - 2023 - 7/10
AKA - Berlin 1933:Tagebuch einer Großstadt
Compiled from diary extracts, letters, newspaper reports, film, newsreel footage.
Month by month chronology from residents living in and observing events during 1933.
Early on, street battles continue between the Nazi SA and the Communist Red Front.
By the end of December, democracy was finished.
What staggers is how swiftly the National Socialists, once in power, moved.
Enemies were persecuted, imprisoned, murdered. Opposition intimidated and crushed.
Radio and film were soon brought to heel, public opinion controlled.
After 1933, events only picked up momentum.