Aleksandr Mikheev’s Reviews > In Search of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City > Status Update

"In 1919, a loaf of bread cost one mark; by 1923, the same loaf cost 100 billion marks".

"Please, gentlemen, a medal for a woman, that is really going too far." - the king, Wilhelm II, about Käthe Kollwitz winning a gold medal at Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1898

"The sociologist George Steinmetz points out that national health insurance, industrial accident insurance and old-age pensions, all introduced by Bismark in the 1880s, were an effective way of lulling the working classes into complacency".

About 1870s: "The problem was the shortage of accommodation that was barely habitable for people on slender or middle incomes. Even public officials struggled. The city's mayor, Arthur Hobrecht, had to scour far and wide to find an apartment in his own city that he could afford on a bureaucrat's salary."