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Dear Reader,

Wednesday was absolutely sweltering. Temperatures in Berlin of up to 38 °C got within a whisker of breaking that all-time heat record for the city (set in the 1950s). And what do Berliners do when it’s too hot to think? They go to the Freibad!

We love Berlin’s outdoor swimming pools. They are not just oases in a baking-hot expanse of concrete, they are cross-sections of the city’s society. Macho teenagers hurl themselves from the diving boards before thwacking into the water; women in hijabs cool off in the paddling pool; pierced exhibitionists bask in the sun in the FKK section. Talking of FKK, if you missed Rachel Stern’s excellent piece on Germany’s cultural paradoxes from last week, you can read it online here.)

Yours sincerely,

The German Review editorial staff