IMMORALITY IN BERLIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17380, 31 January 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)

IMMORALITY IN BERLIN.

Z: POST WAR CONDITIONS. ' ,\ ■ -''■*■ fy ;'. MOBDERS AND ROBBERIES. ?-:/.-, {.Long before' the war oroks out,' Berlin / bad established a reputation for being the most immoral city in the whole world; '■■■ , and, judging by the sights to be seen '-. "here,to-day, tie downfall of the Empire,' instead of being "a warning to the evili doers, had the opposite effict, writes '- a correspondent. Drunkennets, immorality, aud obscenity are on the increase, and once staid and respectable citizens' *re abandoning- themselves to the basest forms of lustfulnesi. -In theatres and music-halls, foritfriy catering for the respectable public, "poses plastiques", are now the chief attractions, in which 'costumes are conspicuous by their absence.

The dance hall are nightly crowded with wen and women—the latter three-parts naked—while bathing costume balls and similar saturnalia are attended by people who were in pre-war days looked upon ( , as beyond reproach. • 'Crime is rampant, and not a day passes without people being held up ami robbed » places where formerly one could traverse in safety at any hour of the night. ab ° ut a «i 5& ttd mar3ers we of "W -;