“Berlin continues to exert a glittering if, to some, reptilian fascination. It will always be haunted by Hitler’s ultimate evil. But it still breathes the giddy air of the 1920s — campy, wicked and darkly fun — and has become a new world center of youth culture and la vie de bohème. Today it is also a power center for the new Europe and an ever more ambitious building site for architecture rebuilt or eagerly modern. The latest testimony to that fascination is Berlin in Lights, a 17-day festival in New York.”