My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor

Almost exactly 64 years after Barbie’s first Toy Fair, I flew to Berlin. It was March 4, 2023. I was staying in the second bedroom of an old fourth-floor walkup with a former DJ in her 30s, who now ran a seasonal arepa stand. The apartment was sandwiched between a street named for Karl Marx and one whose namesake discovered an inflammatory disorder that can cause rectal bleeding.