A Day in the life of 1920s Berliners

[karl]

A day in the life of 1920s Berliners. This was life in the city from early morning through the day until evening. The way they dressed, cleaning of the door steps to begin the day by, children off to school. Adults starting their work day, manufacturing machines from metal forming to milk bottle machine filling.

This is how people lived in the 1920s Berlin.



Karl

[Jaga]

Karl,

interesting movie about the beginning of the day. My aunts and uncles would probably love to see it if they would be alive.... the kids going to school, people opening stores, daily life

[karl]

Jaga

Thank you most kindly for your reply and interest. Some would find this boring, a few would ignore as not fitting for entertainment, but your self found it as part of life as it was meant to be.

I must confess though, this was a reveal of long past Anthropology method of study my self long ago whilst in school {University}. Beyond though, our time as students was not just to learn what our professors intended as a course of study, but to learn how to learn as a continuation for life. With this as your self, we learnt the skill of observation/empirical observation and recording.

I do realize your direction in training and mine was different, but the methodology with use of tools we were taught to use, are similar.

There was a film {video} that accompanied the above titled: Berlin after 17:00. This was very raw and shown the other side of Berlin as the sun went down. It was/is very lusty and with night life of all sorts and considerable nudity. These were the post war years and people had been kept under tight control with both lies of their goverments conquest to win the war. Truth after the fact revealed the fallacy of what they had been told. With this, was to do most every thing they were not supposed to do in the manner of freedoms without restraint.

The future was laid down with the foundations built upon these years that were in time good/bad and ugly. The good was the freedom in music, clothing styles, breaking away from tradition to form new manners of life. The bad was the fighting between various factions for power and political dominance. The bad was the formation of the new political power of Nazi party. The ugly was the result in later years of the destruction of the German nation used by this Nazi political power base in a sensless war.

The end result? What we have today in the present time and place.

I am curious though, was this similar with the people in Poland in those years? Or, was the religious control of the Church to prevent such actions of the people too much?

Karl

[pieter]

And on the German country side in Bavaria.

[karl]

Dear Pieter, yes, Heimat und Bavaria two situations of sensitivity and yet, admiration. For all these years, have I heldt such contempt for the Bavarians and yet, have admired them for their land of mountains and snow with such lovely Castles that dot their land. And, yet they show such contempt to agrivate us of the sea lands.

Heimat has and is such a film that brings upon at present, a wetness of the eye, for I do miss the land, but more so of long past, Esbjerg that is so far in travel, but so close in heart.

See what you have brought,,and with this, a lightness of heart to my self, but yet weighed in heart of rememberance of a time that no longer exist.

Of Heimat, I loved that film and watched all as it was presented. Of course this was in German land, but so similar to our house I grew up in. The story is in German language, whilst ours was Frisian in the house and Dansk out side the house, the feeling is still the same.

Thank you for presenting....

Karl