90 Second Narratives

Berlin: Little Neighborhood, Big Politics

June 29, 2020 Sky Michael Johnston Season 2 Episode 4
90 Second Narratives
Berlin: Little Neighborhood, Big Politics
Show Notes

“Tucked away in northwest Berlin, the quiet residential streets of Moabit’s Beusselkiez belie the drama they witnessed in the early twentieth century…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Teresa Walch.

For further reading:
Stormtroopers: A History of Hitler’s Brownshirts by Daniel Siemens (Yale University Press, 2017)
The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin: Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914 -1945 by (Cambridge University Press, 2018)