![]() ![]() ![]() Lovers couple and uncouple families and friends share rituals and laughter most of Berlin’s citizens go about their day with little sense of the larger looming threat to their existence. Lutes especially focuses on the Brauns-a working class family torn apart by a political system that doesn’t care about them. The idle rich, the naive bourgeoisie, and the struggling lower classes: all seek meaning in the warring political factions dividing their nation. Lutes steps back from the larger political upheaval, using the intertwining lives of a small group of German citizens to zero in on the rise of fascism and how swiftly it can replace democracy. With the National Socialist party now controlling Parliament, the citizenry becomes even more divided. The third and final act of Jason Lutes’ historical fiction about the Weimar Republic begins with Hitler arriving in Berlin. ![]() THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO A MASTERFUL GRAPHIC NOVEL TRILOGY THAT FOLLOWS BERLIN CITIZENS AS NAZISM RISES. ![]()
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