In the time of the Weimar Republic after World War I , the New West incorporated by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act became synonymous to the Golden Twenties . Large cinemas like the Ufa-Palast am Zoo opened , then the main locations of German film , accompanied by a lively variety and '' Kabarett '' scene , while in 1928 Max Reinhardt took over the Kurfürstendamm theatres in the rooms of the former Berlin Secession . Shortly afterwards , first antisemitic encroachments occurred on Jewish residents and shopkeepers , culminating in the '' Kristallnacht '' pogrom of 1938
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
City West