Weimar Under the PalmsThe story of the German exilesand cultural titanswho settled in Pacific Palisades and influenced American culture. In the early twentieth century, Pacific Palisades was home to America's most modern film studio of the time as well as the proposed site of the world's largest Christian centre. By the end of the 1920s, this Los Angeles neighbourhood had become the refuge of the rich and beautiful as German and Austrian filmmakers, among them Salka and