Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man.
“Antisemitism has no place in Berlin, and that also applies to the art scene.” The film festival was also home to an effort to promote constructive conversation about the Israel-Hamas war ...
Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was going to be a flash point in the Cold War, and this came to a head in 1948. Germany had been divided into four zones of ...