Various - Schlager im Spiegel der Zeit Schlager im Spiegel der Zeit - 1930

1-CD with 76-page, german language booklet. 28 tracks, playing time: 85:23.

The wild twenties are over. These were dramatic times. And they stayed. The unrest even increased. Heinrich Brüning becomes Chancellor of the Reich. Famine in China kills several million people. SA man Horst Wessel is shot down and dies a little later. Max Schmeling becomes boxing world champion. Berlin Supreme Court declares marriage invalid because the wife had not named all ex-lovers to her husband before the wedding. Unmarried people have to pay a single tax.

The Pope permits birth control only by observing the woman's days off from conception. Sonja Henie becomes world champion in skating. India demands independence, Ghandi's arrest leads to turmoil. The USA starts the comic strip series 'Blondie'. The sound film prevails: Worldwide, 250 million people go to the cinema every week, 115 million of them Americans. French military withdraws from the Rhineland. Book bestseller 'Nothing new in the West' is shown on the big screen.

Moscow show trials: Stalin defends purges of the party from opposition forces. For the first time in the USA, air passengers are being looked after by a stewardess. The crisis management of the government fails, the Reichstag is dissolved, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg leads the official business by emergency decree in view of the difficult financial situation. Uruguay becomes football world champion.

Slide to the right in the Reichstag election: The NSDAP becomes the second strongest political force, the KPD the third strongest. In the Reichswehr trial before the Reichsgericht in Leipzig, Hitler declares that he would abide by the Weimar Constitution and not want to overthrow it. The first photocopiers are installed in Berlin. Mine accident in Aachen causes 250 deaths.