Berlin

As Nagorski points out, Berlin was, during the interwar period, the most interesting and exciting city on Earth. A sublime and cutting-edge culture was combined with peculiar politics, skyrocketing inflation and a lot of kinky sex. The political drama was rendered all the more fascinating by the shenanigans of a clown called Hitler whom few observers took seriously. Americans were welcomed because they represented the New World, a state of aspiration for Germans. Given the inflation, American dollars were powerful, making the frolics these visitors could enjoy in this land of fantasy all the more intense.

This from a review of new book, Hitlerland.

This gives me a chance to say that Berlin was exciting before the National Socialists came to power. It was interesting afterwards to. I'm not sure it was ever a dull place. Nina Hagen came from Berlin..