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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
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Source 1: Steinicke, O. ‘A visit to a new apartment’: Steinicke, O. (1929) ‘Besuch in einer Newbauwohnung’ (‘A visit to a new apartment’), Magazin für Alle, vol. 4, no. 7 pp. 22–3 (July 1929).

Source 3: Joseph Goebbels (1928) ‘Rund um die Gedächtniskirche’ (‘Around the Gedächtniskirche’), Der Angriff, 23 January.

Source 4: Bingham, A. (2004) ‘“An era of domesticity?”: Histories of women and gender in interwar Britain’, Social and Cultural History, vol. 1, no.2, pp. 225–33, Berg Publishers.

Figure 1: Photographer unknown. Fox Photos/Getty Images

Figure 2: ‘Spring 1926: Even the stork is confused!’, cartoon from German weekly periodical ULK, vol. 55, no. 11, 12 March 1926. Photo: © Universit ätsbibliothek Heidelberg.

Figure 3: ‘Business girls like Cuticura’, cartoon from Illustrated London News, 11 July 1925, p. 96. Photo: © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans.

Figure 4: Russian poster giving advice to expectant mothers on healthy practices during pregnancy and at the birth, 1925, lithograph, printed in colours on paper, 51 × 66 cm. Photo: © Wellcome Library, London.

Figure 5: La syphilis maladie héréditaire assassine la race, 1920, France, lithograph on paper, 62 × 81 cm. Photo: U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, USA.

U-Bahn interactive map footage: Potsdamer Platz Walter Rutman, Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (public domain)

U-Bahn interactive map footage: Onkel Toms Hutte: Matt Frei Berlin © BBC (2009)

U-Bahn interactive map footage : Krumme Lanke: Matt Frei Berlin © BBC (2009)

U-Bahn interactive map footage: Nollendorfplatz: Matt Frei Berlin © BBC (2009)

Berlin nightlife: Matt Frie Berlin © BBC (2009). Includes: Image: Anita Berber in der Tanschoepfung ‘Cocain’ – ÖNB/Wien. Image: Anita Berber mit Hose – ÖNB/Wien.

U-Bahn interactive map adapted from: http://www.berliner-verkehr.de/snetze.htm

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