History Series / BabylonBerlin

* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Richard Pechtmann aka "Fritz" comes to Wendt with a blackmail demand in Season 3. Wendt asks if Richard has told anyone else he was coming, and when Richard answers in the negative, Wendt shoots and kills him.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: In Season 4, Weintraub killed Edgar Kasabian ("the Armenian") by turning the tables at what was supposed to be his own murder, and blowing up a building with Kasabian in it. But it turns out that Kasabian is very much alive, and in hiding, as a surprised Gereon learns when Kasabian summons him to a meeting.

Four seasons have aired so far, being co-produced by Creator/Sky1 and [[UsefulNotes/GermanTVStations ARD]]. It has been the most expensive non-English television production of its time. The series streams in the US on Creator/{{Netflix}}. A ComicBookAdaptation has been published by Glénat.

* EnemyCivilWar: Berlin's SA leader, Walther Stennes, attempts to seize control over the nascent Nazi Party from Hitler's Munich clique in Season 4. The Social Democrat-led police force, [[spoiler:with the help of an undercover Gereon and much to the chagrin of Colonel Wendt (who'd much rather see Stennes dead)]], are more than happy to [[LetsYouAndHimFight fan the flames by tacitly boosting Stennes' faction]]. [[ForegoneConclusion Unfortunately, Hitler ends up winning regardless]].

* EnemyCivilWar: Berlin's SA leader, Walther Stennes, attempts to seize control over the nascent Nazi Party from Hitler's Munich clique in Season 4. The Social Democrat-led police force, [[spoiler:with the help of an undercover Gereon and much to the chagrin of Colonel Wendt (who'd much rather see Stennes dead)]], are more than happy to fan the flames by tacitly boosting Stennes' faction. [[ForegoneConclusion Unfortunately, Hitler ends up winning regardless]].

** His party superior is similarly protective of his subordinates [[spoiler:and seems to take it quite personal that Wendt got rid of two of them.]]

* EnemyCivilWar: Berlin's SA leader, Stennes, attempts to seize control over the nascent Nazi Party from Hitler's Munich clique in Season 4. The Social Democrat-led police force [[spoiler:with the help of an undercover Gereon and much to the chagrin of Colonel Wendt who'd much rather see Stennes dead]] are more than happy to fan the flames by tacitly boosting Stennes' faction. [[ForegoneConclusion Unfortunately, Hitler ends up winning regardless]].

* EnemyCivilWar: Berlin's SA leader, Stennes, attempts to seize control over the nascent Nazi Party from Hitler's clique in Munich. The Social Democrat-led police force [[spoiler:with the help of an undercover Gereon and much to the chagrin of Colonel Wendt who'd much rather see Stennes dead]] are more than happy to fan the flames by tacitly boosting Stennes' faction. [[ForegoneConclusion Unfortunately, Hitler ends up winning regardless]].

''Babylon Berlin'' is an epic German [[FilmNoir Neo Noir]] series created by Creator/TomTykwer, Achim von Borries and Henk Handloegten, and based on the book series by Volker Kutscher. It is set in the capital of the UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic in 1929, in a time of political upheaval, poverty-fueled crime, and [[TheRoaringTwenties lavish jazz parties]].

The show centers on ''Kommissar'' Gereon Rath (Creator/VolkerBruch), an enigmatic police inspector from [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Cologne]] who -- sent on a clandestine mission in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} by his mayor, [[UsefulNotes/TheChancellorsOfGermany Dr. Konrad Adenauer]] -- joins the ''Sittendezernat'', the vice squad of [[UsefulNotes/TheThinFormerlyGreenLine Berlin's police]].

* TookALevelInJerkass: Helga and Toni become nastier and selfish individuals following their falling outs with Gereon and Charlotte in Seasons 3 and 4. Even Gereon and Charlotte have their lows in the third season.

* ItWillNeverCatchOn:
** Rath and Gräf hitch a ride on an early prototype of the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_52 Ju-52/3m transport and bomber plane]]. Despite being (rightfully) exalted by its pilots as having a tremendous potential, the plane is so faulty that it barely manages to take off and at one point almost falls out of the sky after after a lightning strike.
** Foreign ministers Stresemann and Briand attend one of the first performances of Brecht‘s ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'', which would go down in history as one of the most influential stage plays of the century. They end up walking out halfway through its first act.

** Rath and Gräf hitch a ride on an early prototype of the Ju-52 transport and bomber plane. The plane is so faulty that it barely manages to take off and at one point almost falls out of the sky after after a lightning strike.
** Foreign ministers Stresemann and Briand attend one of the first performances of Brecht‘s ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera''. They end up walking out halfway through its first act.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Litten Hans Litten]] was a real attorney working for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_Hilfe Rote Hilfe]], famous for once subpoeaning and cross-examining Hitler himself. He would later be DrivenToSuicide in Dachau concentration camp.
** [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Trollmann Johann „Rukeli" Trollmann]] was a real German interwar boxing champion. He would later be disqualified and murdered by the Nazis for his Roma ethnicity.

** Walther Stennes’ attempt to lead the Berlin SA in rebellion against the NSDAP leadership in Munich is doomed to fail, and will end with the [[ThePurge Night Of The Long Knives]] and Stennes’ exile.

** [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Trollmann Johann „Rukeli“ Trollmann]] was a real German interwar boxing champion. He would later be disqualified and murdered by the Nazis for his Roma ethnicity.

** As many scenes were ShotOnLocation at locales that, while historic, are still in public use, one can (for example) still see modern OSHA-compliant handrails and blind-friendly ground markings in the backgrounds of subway stations.

Four seasons have aired so far, being co-produced by Creator/Sky1 and [[UsefulNotes/GermanTVStations ARD]]. It has been the most expensive non-English television production of its time. The series streams in the US on Creator/{{Netflix}}.

** The Soviet secret service agents are incredibly sloppy. Besides using a gun that's easily traceable back to them to murder 15 people -- honestly, why even ''have'' a special gun reserved for covert operatives? -- they leave a paper trail that the greenest newbie cop could follow, kidnap a Trotskyist on a public street in front of a crowded apartment building with an obvious witness (Gereon) that they take ''no'' measures to silence, bury those murdered dissidents in shallow enough graves that a fox can dig up the corpses, and spend their time taking part in illegal dogfighting bets, which gives the Berlin cops a perfect opportunity to arrest them.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Litten Hans Litten]] was a real attorney working for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_Hilfe Rote Hilfe]], famous for once subpoeaning and cross-examining Hitler himself. He would later commit suicide in Dachau concentration camp.

''Babylon Berlin'' is an epic German [[FilmNoir Neo Noir]] series created by Creator/TomTykwer, Achim von Borries and Henk Handloegten. It is set in the capital of the UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic in 1929, in a time of political upheaval, poverty-fueled crime, and [[TheRoaringTwenties lavish jazz parties]], [[TheShowOfTheBooks based on]] the book series by Volker Kutscher.

** Voss the HangingJudge is likely based on the lawyer [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Voss_(Jurist) Hermann Voss]]. Like the show's Voss, he worked in Berlin 1931, was a [[UsefulNotes/TheStudentenverbindung fraternity student]], a [[BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats Freemason]], an antisemite, and would later become an SA member and Nazi ideologist.

Not to be confused with either ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Series/Babylon2014'' (which has some quite similar themes) or ''Film/Babylon2022'' (which is also set in TheRoaringTwenties, in Hollywood instead).

Three seasons have aired so far, being co-produced by Creator/Sky1 and [[UsefulNotes/GermanTVStations ARD]]. It has been the most expensive non-English television production of its time. The series streams in the US on Creator/{{Netflix}}. A fourth season started to air in October 2022.

Not to be confused with either ''Series/BabylonFive'' or ''Series/{{Babylon|2014}}'' (which has some quite similar themes).