The Rest is Noise, Berlin in the 20s and 30s - in pictures
Marlene Dietrich performs in her famous role as Lola in the Blue Angel, 1930Photograph: AFPGerman dramatist Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), c1930. Photograph: Roger Viollet/Roger Viollet/Getty ImagesGerman composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) with his wife, Austrian singer and actress Lotte Lenya (1898-1981), photographed c1940. Photograph: Archive Photos/Archive Photos
The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in a production in Paris, 1937.Photograph: Lipnitzki/Roger ViolletAn anti-French demonstration in Konigsplatz, Berlin in 1923 protesting against the French occupation of the Ruhr Photograph: Associated Newspapers/Rex FeaturesA Berlin woman starts the morning fire with Deutsche Marks "not worth the paper they are printed on'', due to hyperinflation following the first world war.Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex FeaturesA Hitler Youth rally in 1933Photograph: Rex Features
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