a doctor and his BMW in 1927 Germany
BMW Dixi convertible, picture from: www.bmwism.com

Maria Orska - genial Polish-Jewish actress in Berlin of the 1920's, one of the first symbols of sex

Gaumont Cinema in Paris, 1930

fashion photo, London 1951, at that time London police has been unarmed

beautiful simple lettertypes

Zappelin under construction (probably LZ 126, 1923)

Bracussi's totem-like sculpture in his native village in Romania

a photo by André Kertész

Dr. Goebbels with German Crown Prince.

Germany in 1945. Please notice white flags in the windows, some of them dramatically small.

Plans of new Moscow, ca 1938.

Plans for Moscow in the 1930-ties. An idea was very simple - the ennemies of the people were to be moved away in this or another way. A lot of space would be created.

Samuel Goldwyn makes his 5-mile walk to the office in the morning, while his limo follows him, 1942.

Marcel Duchamp

Orson Welles, 1937.

Buster Keaton

First robot ever built for the Karel Capek's play "RUR" in the 1920-ties. Czech writer invented the word, which is taken from slavic 'robota' - work.

Heroin - still as a cough medicine introduced by Bayer in 1895, when it was seen as non-addictive form of morphine. The name has been created from German "heroisch" (heroic), making the patient a brave person. It took some time before people realized how addictive it has been.

It has seemed certain in the 1930-ties that the next war will the gas war.

German officer with a modern personal gas mask, ca 1930.

Garbo, the goddess.

US silent film "Peter Pan", 1926

British ships in heavy storm during the WWI, 1915.

Polish wrter, photographer and painter - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, in short Witkacy, 1915

Above: Rinus van der Lubbe in court.

Giant Fanta pop presenting Adolf Hitler to the public. The name Fanta has been invented in Germany as a replacement for Coca Cola. It is the beginning of the word 'fantasy'.