Description
What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-33 by Joseph Roth is a vivid collection of essays capturing Berlin during the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic. Roth, one of Germany’s most influential journalists, ventured beyond the city’s official façade to chronicle the lives of the marginalised — Jewish immigrants, criminals, and society’s forgotten figures. Through his sharp, impressionistic prose, Roth paints an atmospheric portrait of Berlin’s moral decay and fragile beauty while issuing early warnings about the rising Nazi threat. A powerful historical and literary document of a city on the edge.
