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100 Must-Reads

DW book expert David Levitz about 'Blood Brothers' by Ernst Haffner

Berlin's Mitte district is trendy, and it's expensive. People who live in Mitte have made it. But that wasn't the case in the early 1930s, when it was all about survival in that part of the city. 'Blood Brothers"' by Ernst Haffner.

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