Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Maker: UNKNOWN
Title: [Allied Troops Enjoy Night Life at the Femina Night Club, Berlin, Germany]
Event Date: 1945-08
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.119140

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Berlin 45; typed label: ALLIED TROOPS ENJOY BERLIN NIGHT LIFE / The most popular night club in Berlin is the FEMINA in Nurnberger- / strasse where, every evening, troops of the Allied nations gather / to dance and drink with the German girls. There is also a cabaret / floor show by German and Russian artists. / The drinks served are cocktails (a vivid crimson unpalatable / concoction) and red wine, which cost five shillings and seven- / shillings and sixpence each – an expensive night out for a soldier. / This, and other clubs, was for a time out of bounds owing to / drinks being made from polluted water, which caused dystentry [sic] / among the troops. / PHOTO SHOWS:- British, American and Russian soldiers dancing / with German girls in the Femina night club in Berlin / GX 1206 August 1945 PN; stamped: COPYRIGHT: / PLANET NEWS LTD. / 3 JOHNSON’S COURT / LONDON, E.C.4 / [illeg.]; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK

Tagasauris Keywords: Aerial View; Dance; Dance music; Face; Group; Group of people; Group of people; Happy; Hat; Indoors; Low angle View; Male; Male and Female; Military officer; Military uniform; Night; No Photostyle; Smile; Uniform; Unrest, conflicts and war; Waist-Up Portrait; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII / FRATERNIZATION IN GERMANY
Retouching: N