Berlin 1930s

[Michi]

I was advised to watch this. I don't know if it has been mentioned here before - impressions of interwar Berlin city life:

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

follow that up with a binge of Berlin Babylon and you have inspiration for pulp scenario settings galore.  The three wheeled pickups would be nice to have.

[Michi]

The three wheeled pickups would be nice to have.

Tempo A400
from 1938 also the similar Goliath F 200/F 400

[robh]

Tempo A400
from 1938 also the similar Goliath F 200/F 400

Wonderful little video.
The Goliath is from 1935 and a couple of the NAG double decker buses are the 1934 models so with the 1938 Tempo this film must be close to the outbreak of the war.
For being so late it is surprising there are still so few obvious signs of the NSDAP, just the one unidentified building next to the restaurant with the (blurred out) hakenkreuz on red banner. Not even any on the building being, very lazily, guarded by the soldier.

[Sakuragi Miniatures]

Thanks for sharing, I love these videos that show what a place was really like at the time!

[carlos marighela]

Indeed, thanks for sharing Michi. I've been looking for building colour schemes so I can get the most out of my Berlin structures. I've been looking for something pre war, so I can have buildings with interchangeable signage useful from 1918 through 1961 and on to 1984. Obviously, interspersed with more modern items post war but I want a core of buildings useful for all.

[carlos marighela]

I'm sure you are familiar with the film Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt but excerpts have been colourised.



Here's the original 1927 version for those that haven't seen it.

[molecatcherjohn]

Those little three-wheelers...you're tempting me....reckon one of those would be pretty easy to model for 3D printing...

What would be top of your list to produce?

[HerbertTarkel]

Oh that looks fab!

I had a work colleague who’s master’s thesis was the very not-very-underground LGTB scene in Berlin and how even early NSDAP were “in the scene”. She was great resource for that time frame. Could listen to her talk about that period all day, she was very passionate about it.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

There is also the play I am a Camera based on Christopher Isherwood’s Farewell to Berlin.  The inspiration for Cabaret. There was a TV recent adaptation with Matt Smith playing Isherwood, but i don’t recall the title.