In November of 1951, a man named Walter Pannewitz rented office spaces on the ground floor of the Römischer Hof, a stately old office building on the corner of Charlottenstrasse and Unter den Linden in Berlin’s Mitte district. Nobody asked many questions at the time. Building owners were happy to have any tenants who could …
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Somewhere in Berlin
The East German film studio, DEFA, was founded in May 1946. During the first few years in post-war Germany, it was literally the only game in town. While the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) in the west dragged its feet on film production (mostly at the behest of Hollywood), the east got the …
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