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Berlin children in the 1920s, by Willy Römer. |
Willy Römer, 1887-1979, was a Berlin-based photographer. He documented the Spartakist revolution of 1919. In 1920 he founded a photo-agency together with Walter Bernstein. This enterprise was very successful, but with the Nazis accession to power, it was labeled "Jewish business" (Bernstein was of Jewish origin) and had to close down.
As luck would have it, his large photographic archive was not damaged by the fighting in World War II.
Another child photograph, not by Römer this one, but by Marianne Breslauer:
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| By Evgeny Henkin, 1930 |
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| 1929 - Ullsteinbild, unknown photographer |
As far as I can see we have three teenies in Babylon Berlin with names, thus characters we will meet again: Moritz, Toni and Arndt, son of Major Scheer who brings Moritz into his peer group and then to Hitlerjugend. This is the generation we have to watch in the next seasons as the Nazis were very good in "catching" young people.
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