Description
The intimate story of Bad Saarow, a beautiful spa town on the shores of Lake Scharmutselsee, a retreat for Berlin’s cultural elite of artists, filmmakers, writers, intellectuals and sports stars since the 1920s. The author has researched the backgrounds of many of these cultural figures, whose destinies were either determined by, or helped to shape the transition from the democratic turmoil of the Weimar years to the rise of the Nazis, the coming of WW2 and the emergence of Communist East Germany. 90pp b/w photos
Tony Holden lives in Nottinghamshire