The Weimar Republic, also known as interwar Germany, lasted from 1919 and 1933, and was basically a sexual free-for-all. In terms of sexual liberation and divine decadence, there was nothing more in-your-face than the Berlin sexplosion of the '20s. So what was really going down? You've probably seen it immortalized in films like Cabaret, but these real life stories of Weimar decadence make Liza's dance moves in look downright tame.

Sexual liberation and bold, progressive art movements like expressionist cinema, Dada, and Bauhaus burgeoned in post-war Germany, though the restrictive terms of the Treaty of Versailles, imposed on Germany at the end of WWI, created numerous social and political problems. As author Mel Gordon put it, this drug-and-sex fueled cultural Renaissance was born of deep anxiety instilled by WWI: “It wasn’t just sex the way, say, the French would have enjoyed it, like a good meal or music. Rather, it was sex that was always mixed with something else, like danger, power, or death.”

Conservative backlash to the new artistic and sexual progressivism, which was unjustly blamed on Jews, coupled with negative inflation and social unrest created the perfect conditions to blend the vile soup of Nazism, and so died the beautiful chaos of the Weimar Republic.

But while it was good, everything was happening in the Weimar Republic, a gender-bending orgy of modern life. And sex in Weimar Germany was everywhere. Homosexuality, nudity, prostitution, and orgies were easy to come by, as were drugs and alcohol.

So take a look at these real-life accounts of what was going down in the Weimar Republic. You'll never look at Germans the same way again.