HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: BLACKOUT YEARS IN BERLIN

Are you afraid of the dark? 

The answer is is most probably yes. Few people are comfortable not seeing where they are going, or what might be lurking ahead. An extreme form of that fear is known as noctophobia. 

When in the 1930s Nazi authorities introduced blackout regulations in Germany - strict orders forbidding using any sources of light that could potentially reveal the size or the position, or even individual locations in a city - three things were clear: that a war was coming, that crime and accidents in Berlin would soar, and that people had to learn how to live their daily lives in one of the largest cities in Europe without any outdoor illumination.

In today's episode of the podcast it all begins in 1935.