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Defeat in World War I had shattered the rigid certainties of Berlin’s “Prussianness” and left the town open to radical adventures in social and artistic expression almost unimaginable in the older cultural capitals of Vienna, London, and Paris.
Friedrich Wilhelm I (1713–1740) despised the baroque glitter of his parents’ court, and subjected the previously easy-going Berliners to a frugal, rigid concept of Preussentum (Prussianness), that is, unquestioning obedience to the ruler and his administrators, and sharply defined class distinctions, affirming the supremacy of the aristocracy and officer class and that of soldiers over civilians in general.