The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin

Politics, Consumption, and Urban Space, 1914-1945

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvMolly Loberg

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Who owns the street? Interwar Berliners faced this question with great hope yet devastating consequences. In Germany, the First World War and 1918 Revolution transformed the city streets into the most important media for politics and commerce. There, partisans and entrepreneurs fought for the attention of crowds with posters, illuminated advertisements, parades, traffic jams, and violence. The Nazi Party relied on how people already experienced the city to stage aggressive political theater, including the April Boycott and Kristallnacht. Observers in Germany and abroad looked to Berlin's streets to predict the future. They saw dazzling window displays that radiated optimism. They also witnessed crime waves, antisemitic rioting, and failed policing that pointed toward societal collapse. Recognizing the power of urban space, officials pursued increasingly radical policies to 'revitalize' the city, culminating in Albert Speer's plan to eradicate the heart of Berlin and build Germania.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-03-29
Mått157 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor338
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108417648

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Acknowledgements; List of figures; Introduction: streets of desire and discontent; 1. Paper revolutions: urban advertising in the aftermath of the First World War; 2. Commerce turned inside out: street hawkers, shopkeepers, and the moral geography of consumption during the inflation; 3. Crowd control: traffic, spectacle, and demonstrations during the 'golden twenties'; 4. Fortress shops and militarized streets: looting in depression-era Berlin; 5. When rogues become regulators: 'coordination 'of the streets under the new Nazi regime; 6. Visions of a Nazi world capital: urban 'revitalization' from the Christmas market to Kristallnacht; Epilogue: eradicating Berlin: urban destruction from Germania to the Second World War; Bibliography; Index.

'Molly Loberg illuminates the sequential phases of the commercial and political 'scramble for space' and struggle for access to and control of the streets of post-World War I Berlin. Alongside the less well known contestations - the stories of rogue placard pasters, hawkers, beggars, unruly drivers, and gangs of thieves - is the assault on Jewish space in Berlin. The extinction of Jewish space preceded the extinction of Jewish life. This is a deeply-researched, highly original, and creative venture in spatial history.' Christopher R. Browning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill