Fun fact: due to the way the treaty of Versailles was written the German police were actually permitted to use sub machine guns and other equipment that was banned for the German military to possess.
Yeah, talk about "militarizing the police." So, the allies felt, "Well, we do not want your army to have terrible weapons that might be used against our militaries. But it is still okay to use these weapons on your own civilians." Makes sense, LOL.
Similarly, one Winter war veteran was interviewed (I believe in the 1990s) and asked a similar question regarding the battle of Raate Road. To which he responded: "We killed them all. But not a single human being, they were all Russians."
it looks really good. It's an era not so long ago, but black and white photography makes it seem very distant. But these are basically our grandparents and great grandparents.
@@momotheelder7124 I have to disagree. 1920's is a long time ago, not only because it's 100 years ago, but because culture and mentality of the entire world has changed completely since then.
There's plenty of fotage showing that the communist were also armed. This fictional scene creates an ilusion were just the police was violent, when in reality was a civil war on the streets.
@@88avenegra88 Well, in the show, the Communist factions were also well armed in other scenes, or were trying to get their hands on a valuable cargo which they could buy weapons & finance an uprising. In one episode, a Communist faction guns down a rival group in their basement hideout.
Not only the "Blood May", but also the suppression of the "German October" in 1923, when a Soviet-style revolution was attempted with Soviet help, cost thousands of lives. 20,000 to 100,000 people were killed by politically motivated violence until 1933, the majority of them by supporters of the coming regime. If anyone asks "why" to what followed, the answer can be found in this period between 1912 and 1935. Nicht nur der "Blutmai", sondern auch die Niederschlagung des "deutschen Oktober" 1923, als mit sowjetischer Hilfe eine Revolution nach sowjetischen Vorbild versucht wurde, kosteten Tausende von Menschenleben. 20.000 bis 100.000 Menschen kamen bis 1933 durch politisch motivierte Gewalt zu Tode, die Mehrzahl davon durch Anhänger des kommenden Regimes. Wenn jemand nach dem "Warum" fragt, zu dem, was folgte, findet die Antwort in dieser Zeit zwischen 1912 und 1935.
There was even a revolution in 1918-1919 which resulted in the abdication of the german Kaiser. Germany was a turmoil. There was several paramilitary groups called "Freikorps", made of demobilized WW1 soldiers. They commonly clashed against communists and anarchists on the streets. On 1923, a demobilized austrian corporal made a Putsch in a german brewery in Münich and so started WW2.
Today, they bang the baton against their riot shields. Their health insurance carrier probably determined that repeated baton slapping could damage their non-dominant hand.
We still do this nowadays, using the riot shields like they mentioned above. It's a old tradition that we carried from the Romans, who also did this during formation.
@@jordanmadison6924 And so were the communists. Hell, I'd even say that it was a good thing that the Freikorps fought these guys, as without them, Germany would've been irretrievably lost.
Berlin was only one city. The most brutal uprisings for example occured between 1920 and 1923 in the Ruhr valley. Here is a quick list. - 1918 November Revolution which started in Kiel - January 1919 Spartacist Uprising (communist uprising in Berlin) - March 1920 Kapp Putsch (Freikorps started a successful coup, but had to give up after four days because of the SPD) - March 1920 the Red Ruhrarmy fights for one month against the Reichswehr in the Ruhr valley - March 1921 socialists and communists fight in Halle and Hamburg against the Reichswehr - October 1923 SPD and KPD fights against the Reichswehr in Hamburg and Saxony - October 1923 in the Rheinland nationalists tried to seperate the Rheinland and the Palatine from Germany - November 1923 Hitler and Ludendorff attempted a coup - 1923 -1925 German nationalist, socialist and communist insurgencies fight against the french troops in the Ruhr valley And aside from political conflicts: - Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920. The Baltic Landswehr tries to establish an independent Latvian Republic led by the German minority. After being defeated, the Baltic Landswehr is integrated into the Latvian Army to fight against the Red Army. The Latvian government gives autonomy rights to the German minority. - Estonian War of Independence 1918-1920. The Baltic Landswehr tries to establish an independent Estonian Republic led by the German minority. Although they lost, the Estonian government gives autonomy rights to the German minority. - First (1919), Second (1920) and Third Silesian Uprising (Polish nationals try to separate Silesia from Germany)
The last one isn't fair, the German splinter groups were fighting French and Belgium Army in the valley to prevent it being annexed into France and Belgium. So in this sense they are being patriotic. For those that don't know, France/Belgium invaded Ruhr to "get it" since Germany wasn't paying reparations it was supposed to. They wanted to gain the coal and steel produced in the Ruhr for themselves.
I was stationed in Germany during the 70s and one guy who was in World War 1 told me that after the war, Marshal Law was declared and sometimes agitators would be shot down on the street.
Yea. The social democrats hired the Free Corps to take down a communist revolution that happened right after the war. So tensions were high. Crazy times
i wouldnt say completely recovered, nazis mainly relied on enormous levels of spending to stimulate the economy, which entailed taking out equally massive loans, the thinking in the nazi's top brass was that they would simply use gold reserves and other valuable resources from conquered territories to pay off these loans, but that was a bit of a gamble as well. It was only after ww2, that germany was truly able to fully recover from ww1
It is and of course he has to hide it from Wolter, who criticised a former policeman who was traumatized by the WW1 and became a full blown drug addict. "A trembler" Wolter tells Rath.
They say "Internationale Solidarität", "Befreit das Volk" and "Berlin bleibt rot" which means "International solidarity", "Free the people" and "Berlin stays red".
@@theredjoker8857 Why are you so upset? Because your little evil idea enslaves people? Oh did they not enact REAL communism? Maybe if 'The Red Joker' takes the lead on communism in 2023, then it'll work for sure!
One of the best programs/series I have ever seen in my life. God is it historically accurate. I spent 12 hours straight watching this. Can hardly wait for the nextinstallment.
Germany between the wars is such a complex society, you will never see something like this. A young empire was torn down in the greatest war of them all. Hyperinflation, political conflicts, communism vs everything else, and the rise of one corporal from Munich. I strongly recommend that everyone reads Remarque's "The road back" and "The black obelisk". Fantastic works. In many countries the same things happen, the most ruthless, savage political option rises to the top. Well, not in the real democracies, but I am talking from a Balkans perspective, we are at least 50 years behind the rest of Europe. Also eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary) isn't exactly smart with their proto-fascist choices
Democracies are falling now. It has reach its limit in the 90s because of lack of morality. Now, is just a dead mess with lots of money to spend. Just give few decades to secular states spending all their fortunes trying to keep dead democracies alive. Sleeping theocracies will just return to take care of the world as it always was, since the beginning.
There is no such thing as proto-fascist. That is a dumb made up term. Stop calling btch-tier nativist nationalists Fascists. You have no idea what that term means.
amazing that the Weimar Republic managed to stay democratic for 12 years... Over 10% communists, 100,00 soldiers for 70,000,000 inhabitants, a police force that looked the other way when right-wing crimes happened, a totally fucked economy, right and left wing militias fighting on the streets and basically a coup every single year.
Yeah, and after this, then come the Nazis. Then the Communists. Which is ironic if you think how much politically Germany changed in the 20th century. From Monarchy, to Republicanism, to Fascism, to Communism, to Republicanism again (?).
I absolutely love this show I've watched every episode. There's one fact that you wouldn't believe is that the communists actually almost took the weimar Republic over among the chaos of post WW1 Germany and the soldiers had to fight on homeland instead of the trenches
@@timojek their rights to what? Putting people they don't like in slave camps? Killing ethnic minorities? Or is it the right to have a starving population?
@@chrisheckel3887 Sailors actually. Much of the actual Army itself was pro-monarchy or at the very least pro-stratocratic. This is due to the culture shock veterans had trying to integrate into the new Republic and the sense of belonging and continuity they got from joining the paramilitary organizations like the Freikorps. Navy on the other hand, much like Russia, had more leftist, socialist and communist tendencies.
I saw a news program many years ago showing how the modern German police broke up a gang of English football hooligans rampaging in Dusseldorf. Simple tactic of turning the dogs loose on them.
Bro, I come from Düsseldorf. I used to work in the Altstadt, a buddy and I went to watch Germany against the Argies during the WM 2006. Everyone in the Altstadt was shitfaced and things escalated very quickly. Of course we didn't participate since we're not morons, but it took us a good few minutes to get out of there since it was so crowded. The riot police was absolutely savage. I remember when they ordered everyone to clear the area in front the McDonalds (everyone from Düsseldorf knows which one I mean) right fucking now. Some drunk dude probably didn't hear them, he was just standing there alone and minding his own business, probably thinking about what Burger he's going to get. A big ass cop with full riot gear and a baton tucked into his arm stuck ran up to him full speed and clothelined the fuck out of him, the poor fucker didn't even realize what was about to happen to him. You can interact with normal cops there, no problem but if you see them in riot gear, just turn around and leave the area asap.
@@bennai2 that's why the American 180 was created, basically a tommy gun in .22 that could have up to 275 rounds in a drum mag. The idea was you could aim it at the street and "ricochet" the rounds into protesters, that the rounds would be so light they wouldn't be life threatening.
Really amazing, especially the level of detail and scene setting. Definitely agree that it feels like you're there. That being said, OP clearly didn't watch the damn clip with his eyes open.
Yes he was. The dynamic between him and Rath made the first two series the best. But other figures such as Benda, Jannicke, Kardakov and Svetlana also added so much light and shade to the first two series. The 3rd series felt anaemic in comparison. BB is a lot better when it has a larger political element, the 4th series has that and although it's not as good as the first two, it does mark a return to form.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 yes... I finished the 4th season a few days ago, I think it's much better that the 3rd and almost as good as the first two seasons. I think we need more of the politics and grind character developments with those lavish music/dance. I still miss Benda and Wolter as they were solidifying the first 2 seasons, but it's still very good. I also like how much flawed they are making every character. Also, Graf and Jacoby are easily the best example of how homosexuality should be tackled. Liv Lisa Fries is generally as good as she was in the first season in this one. The show almost collapsed and fell into predictability with the Berlin gang plot, but they ended it well... one of those two (great characters) had to go and I think they chose the right one IMO. I heard they are doing the 5th one... I hope they slow the timeline down...I don't want this to necessarily drag to WW2.
Bismarck most have been looking upon this jumping up and down screaming “See you stupid Kaiser beating up communist and rioting works wanting better pay is the best idea!”
I like the action scenes in this Series and the areas of history accuracy are great but only parts of this series are accurate to the era (this scene is accurate, but a lot aren’t)
@@magnajota4341 sorry but the dominant party in Weimar regime was the SPD and the chancellor in 1929 was social democratic if I remember correctly he was a guy named Marx
@@MrPro897 Müller* They may have been the strongest party. But the police was full with fascists. Who after the power grap by the Nazis helped them and joined forces with SA.
@@MrPro897 Marx was not an SPD politician he was part of a party called Zentrum(Center), which was a conservative catholic party, that would be center right. 1929 did indeed have an SPD chancellor named Müller. Since a new government would not switch out the entire police force upon getting elected that doesn't really matter thought. Weimar republic had a ludicrous number of parties and the coalitions would take some pretty absurd forms with parties essentially only having in common that they did indeed want to maintain the democratic republic rather than form communist, monarchist or faschist systems.
@@svenkampen1647 the weimar republic was very Bad . Many Germans were Starving and wiithout Jobs . Hitler saved Germans from Starving and communism and Made a powerfull Germany
04:44 This must have sucked to be a police agent, uniformed or plain-clothed, in Berlin during these years. :-/ Trying to keep things under control while you actually can only control so little and nearly everyone else screams for blood.
What ? Did you watched the Video or informed yourself about the time ? The Police was brutal and evil. Most of them were nazis in the later Stages of the Republik and the Show Shows the nature of the weimar Police pretty acurat
Got into geneaology on my dad’s side. My great grandma Bertha left Germany (I don’t know whether she lived in Berlin or not) when she was 24 alongside her then 17 year old brother Erwin in 1923 when they arrived here, followed by her 10 year old daughter Grace (birth name Hildegarde) sometime around 1929. I wonder if my great aunt Grace lived in Berlin and witnessed stuff like this as a little girl. That had to be quite impactful on a child’s psyche to watch this. I mean, watching neighbors get arrested, police brutality in the streets, complete mayhem all over… No wonder why my great grandma Bertha and her brother Erwin left Germany if this was the day to day reality they had to live with. They lived in a more rural part of the country, but I’m certain that the problems there were similar.
1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? [4] Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? [5] Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
"Nur eine Muskete aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Ein bisschen armselig für ein "rotes Hauptquartier". Wen erinnert das an eine kürzlich aufgeführte Posse? Mit einem "braunen Hauptquartier"?
Das beste an dieser Reichsbürger-Razzia war ja, dass man die Kaisertreuen in den Medien als Terrorgruppe bezeichnet hat, obwohl man als Terrorgruppe per Definition mindestens einen Anschlag verübt haben muss. Interessant, dass dahingegen tatsächliche (muslimische) Terroristen als verwirrte Einzeltäter zu bezeichnen sind.
@@detlefkerkau2609 Von wegen kaisertreeu. Das sind verwahrloste Braune im Samtumhang. _Wie die Würstchen unter dem Würsten, so das Haus Reuss unter den Fürsten._
Germany spread communism to Russia, communism started in Germany. They took their own medicine that they use to poison and suffered Russia from 1918. Take that, Germans!
@@archravenineteenseventeengermany was never communist while russia was. And even now russia suffers because of it while germany is doing well. What should i take exactly?
The concept of dedicated "Riot Police" is a very recent idea, adopted by most countries after WW2 and the rise of Internal Security Services in those countries. Before then riot supression was seen as simply just another duty of the regular officers who would simply wear their standard uniforms and kit like it was any other day on the job, their main weapon was intimidation and the fear of reciprosity to dissaude rioters from throwing things or otherwise harming the officers.
@@AnthonySagen dont go 'okay bud' after saying you want everyone who you personally dont agree with to be shot in the street. Do you really not see that fascism is the ethically worst option of them al?
Extremely well done research too so it helps look at that time to reminds us today about how organized labor was dangerous yesterday, the fact that we can organize and not just ask for workers right but also bargain for better wages today should not be ignored, more importantly it should never be taken from granted, people need to understand it’s always a march, always in movement no matter what, so either we are moving that march forward or we are moving it backwards, and in the west we have been moving it backwards for about 5 decades already. It’s very good and very poignant for us which is one of hallmark of a good series, it makes it relevant, it moves from being just an entertainment to becoming a piece of art.
Fun fact: due to the way the treaty of Versailles was written the German police were actually permitted to use sub machine guns and other equipment that was banned for the German military to possess.
Yeah, talk about "militarizing the police." So, the allies felt, "Well, we do not want your army to have terrible weapons that might be used against our militaries. But it is still okay to use these weapons on your own civilians." Makes sense, LOL.
Was there a SINGLE thing stated on this sh*ity piece of paper that was not straight up stupid?
Private Firearm Ownership was illegal during the Weimar Republic?
I'll believe anything at this point
Bad Era For 1920s Germany. & All World.
In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take human life, "I wouldn't know, I've only ever killed Communists"
Follow your leader
Similarly, one Winter war veteran was interviewed (I believe in the 1990s) and asked a similar question regarding the battle of Raate Road. To which he responded: "We killed them all. But not a single human being, they were all Russians."
@@stevensmith1031 Stalin's a tough act to follow tho, I dont think cerebral hemorrhaging is a practical suicide method.
Follow your leader
@@stevensmith1031 Follow yours, commie. 3/5/1953
They did such a good job with this show that it feels very real like I stepped in a time machine and experiencing the 1920s Berlin.
it looks really good. It's an era not so long ago, but black and white photography makes it seem very distant. But these are basically our grandparents and great grandparents.
@@momotheelder7124 I have to disagree. 1920's is a long time ago, not only because it's 100 years ago, but because culture and mentality of the entire world has changed completely since then.
Germany was in chaos after WW1 which was just the right environment for the Nazis to rise to power.
There's plenty of fotage showing that the communist were also armed. This fictional scene creates an ilusion were just the police was violent, when in reality was a civil war on the streets.
@@88avenegra88 Well, in the show, the Communist factions were also well armed in other scenes, or were trying to get their hands on a valuable cargo which they could buy weapons & finance an uprising. In one episode, a Communist faction guns down a rival group in their basement hideout.
Pretty much interwar German Politics in a nutshell. It really was like a civil war constantly in the streets.
Not really.
Yeah... for like early 1919 and a bit of 1920. This was a very sudden and random spike of violence in 1929
And only in Berlin, the German countryside looked very different at the time
Not only the "Blood May", but also the suppression of the "German October" in 1923, when a Soviet-style revolution was attempted with Soviet help, cost thousands of lives. 20,000 to 100,000 people were killed by politically motivated violence until 1933, the majority of them by supporters of the coming regime. If anyone asks "why" to what followed, the answer can be found in this period between 1912 and 1935.
Nicht nur der "Blutmai", sondern auch die Niederschlagung des "deutschen Oktober" 1923, als mit sowjetischer Hilfe eine Revolution nach sowjetischen Vorbild versucht wurde, kosteten Tausende von Menschenleben. 20.000 bis 100.000 Menschen kamen bis 1933 durch politisch motivierte Gewalt zu Tode, die Mehrzahl davon durch Anhänger des kommenden Regimes. Wenn jemand nach dem "Warum" fragt, zu dem, was folgte, findet die Antwort in dieser Zeit zwischen 1912 und 1935.
There was even a revolution in 1918-1919 which resulted in the abdication of the german Kaiser. Germany was a turmoil. There was several paramilitary groups called "Freikorps", made of demobilized WW1 soldiers. They commonly clashed against communists and anarchists on the streets. On 1923, a demobilized austrian corporal made a Putsch in a german brewery in Münich and so started WW2.
I would love to be somebody who sells red cloth during this time
Or a window repairman.
The irony in this comment is pure genius. Congrats you win the internet.
They made it to themselves
Playing both sides I like it
gotta hustles.
Not a cell phone in sight, just people enjoying the moment.
No keyboard warriors anywhere to be seen!
Okay, thumbs up at that comment. LOL.
Yes, they seem to take it all in.
only people dying in the moment
"This upset the police, that they would punish them severely"
Oversimplified gamer
"punish them severely" translated from German into English means something to the effect of, "machine gun them down in the streets". LOL.
3:01 Bruh even the fucking cat is not safe💀
Why they would do that is beyond me.
@@Briselance It's called "police terror". It got a whole lot worse.
Freikorps... They did what they wanted to dk
@@gingerdude that was the Police
Nah Oggy timetravelled back to the days of the Freikorps
The cops tapping their clubs across their hands all in sync is kinda badass.
Reminds me of 1968 Chicago.
Today, they bang the baton against their riot shields. Their health insurance carrier probably determined that repeated baton slapping could damage their non-dominant hand.
It's kinda terrifying, which is exactly the response they want of course.
We still do this nowadays, using the riot shields like they mentioned above. It's a old tradition that we carried from the Romans, who also did this during formation.
@@deloreandmc88 ''we''
Those armored cars definitely were Freikorps. I doubt the police were allowed to do that.
welcome to the 1920s. And yes, the police was allowed to use such measures.
Police, Freikorps, not much difference in the 20s
they did this constantly, the police and military in germany were hilariously evil lmfao
@@jordanmadison6924 And so were the communists. Hell, I'd even say that it was a good thing that the Freikorps fought these guys, as without them, Germany would've been irretrievably lost.
@@kentrosaurusboi3909 bad news about who won
Berlin was only one city. The most brutal uprisings for example occured between 1920 and 1923 in the Ruhr valley. Here is a quick list.
- 1918 November Revolution which started in Kiel
- January 1919 Spartacist Uprising (communist uprising in Berlin)
- March 1920 Kapp Putsch (Freikorps started a successful coup, but had to give up after four days because of the SPD)
- March 1920 the Red Ruhrarmy fights for one month against the Reichswehr in the Ruhr valley
- March 1921 socialists and communists fight in Halle and Hamburg against the Reichswehr
- October 1923 SPD and KPD fights against the Reichswehr in Hamburg and Saxony
- October 1923 in the Rheinland nationalists tried to seperate the Rheinland and the Palatine from Germany
- November 1923 Hitler and Ludendorff attempted a coup
- 1923 -1925 German nationalist, socialist and communist insurgencies fight against the french troops in the Ruhr valley
And aside from political conflicts:
- Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920. The Baltic Landswehr tries to establish an independent Latvian Republic led by the German minority. After being defeated, the Baltic Landswehr is integrated into the Latvian Army to fight against the Red Army. The Latvian government gives autonomy rights to the German minority.
- Estonian War of Independence 1918-1920. The Baltic Landswehr tries to establish an independent Estonian Republic led by the German minority. Although they lost, the Estonian government gives autonomy rights to the German minority.
- First (1919), Second (1920) and Third Silesian Uprising (Polish nationals try to separate Silesia from Germany)
you forgot also the bavarian socialist republic
I did not know all this had happened, thank you for sharing
Auch wenn es nicht zur Thematik gehört: Bayer & der OFC 💪🏻
The last one isn't fair, the German splinter groups were fighting French and Belgium Army in the valley to prevent it being annexed into France and Belgium.
So in this sense they are being patriotic.
For those that don't know, France/Belgium invaded Ruhr to "get it" since Germany wasn't paying reparations it was supposed to. They wanted to gain the coal and steel produced in the Ruhr for themselves.
@@SuperChuckRaney I agree
I was stationed in Germany during the 70s and one guy who was in World War 1 told me that after the war, Marshal Law was declared and sometimes agitators would be shot down on the street.
Pretty sure you mean "martial" law...
>Marshal Law
worst larp of al time
@@lolomgmetobavi No. He meant "Marshal Law." They were forced to listen to Eminem 24/7.
Yea. The social democrats hired the Free Corps to take down a communist revolution that happened right after the war. So tensions were high. Crazy times
@@lolomgmetobavi Thank you professor.
Crazy how Germany recovered twice, first from this mess and then from the even bigger mess of WW2
They got help first after ww1 the bankers funded both sides, than after ww2 the global elite wanted them to be developed, now there being destbalized
i wouldnt say completely recovered, nazis mainly relied on enormous levels of spending to stimulate the economy, which entailed taking out equally massive loans, the thinking in the nazi's top brass was that they would simply use gold reserves and other valuable resources from conquered territories to pay off these loans, but that was a bit of a gamble as well. It was only after ww2, that germany was truly able to fully recover from ww1
They never recovered. They are a vasal.
A lot of aid from the Marshall Plan
Just like Chinese
I never noticed Gereon's hand shaking at 4:12 - Good touch.
It is and of course he has to hide it from Wolter, who criticised a former policeman who was traumatized by the WW1 and became a full blown drug addict. "A trembler" Wolter tells Rath.
Even w/o ptsd relatable.
"Welcome back to the trenches" his brain signalizes.
Interesting to hear "Wir sind das Volk" in-between. Especially with its usage over the years
They say "Internationale Solidarität", "Befreit das Volk" and "Berlin bleibt rot" which means "International solidarity", "Free the people" and "Berlin stays red".
@@theredjoker8857 Free the people by putting them in the chains of communism!
@@Sercer25 Dude do you even understand what communism, socialism, marxism etc. is? "Communism is when the state does stuff" or what?
@@theredjoker8857 Why are you so upset? Because your little evil idea enslaves people? Oh did they not enact REAL communism? Maybe if 'The Red Joker' takes the lead on communism in 2023, then it'll work for sure!
@@Sercer25 Thx for proving me right.
You can't even give one single definition of communism or explain what communism is about...
One of the best programs/series I have ever seen in my life. God is it historically accurate. I spent 12 hours straight watching this. Can hardly wait for the nextinstallment.
thanks, now i am gonna go and will watch every episode!
i binged watched it in a week and yes, this is serie is also the best serie i have ever seen!
Fun fact: this is what Germans call a comedy show
Babylon Berlin is not a so called comedy show
its a joke@@arnodobler1096
Коммунисты это заслужили.
Indeed
Germany between the wars is such a complex society, you will never see something like this. A young empire was torn down in the greatest war of them all. Hyperinflation, political conflicts, communism vs everything else, and the rise of one corporal from Munich.
I strongly recommend that everyone reads Remarque's "The road back" and "The black obelisk". Fantastic works.
In many countries the same things happen, the most ruthless, savage political option rises to the top. Well, not in the real democracies, but I am talking from a Balkans perspective, we are at least 50 years behind the rest of Europe. Also eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary) isn't exactly smart with their proto-fascist choices
Poland and Hunary is doing extremely well compared to the insanity in Germany, France, etc.
Democracies are falling now. It has reach its limit in the 90s because of lack of morality. Now, is just a dead mess with lots of money to spend. Just give few decades to secular states spending all their fortunes trying to keep dead democracies alive. Sleeping theocracies will just return to take care of the world as it always was, since the beginning.
There is no such thing as proto-fascist. That is a dumb made up term. Stop calling btch-tier nativist nationalists Fascists. You have no idea what that term means.
Ahh so this is why Wilhelm Winter joined the Eastern Front
Yes lmao.
What an exciting time to be alive
amazing that the Weimar Republic managed to stay democratic for 12 years...
Over 10% communists, 100,00 soldiers for 70,000,000 inhabitants, a police force that looked the other way when right-wing crimes happened, a totally fucked economy, right and left wing militias fighting on the streets and basically a coup every single year.
Yeah, and after this, then come the Nazis. Then the Communists. Which is ironic if you think how much politically Germany changed in the 20th century. From Monarchy, to Republicanism, to Fascism, to Communism, to Republicanism again (?).
Exciting yes. But do i want to live between two World Wars and in the Great Depression? I think not.
For a whole lot of people over the next 25 years it was one hell of a time to die
It was a pretty cool era, everyone became a millionare 🤑
...the cat was an innocent bystander in the production of this scene...
The Red Cat
@@paceeterna9826 the only red who is okay
3:01 Rip commie cat
*Rest in Hell, rathermore 😉
Better ded than red!
😂😂 what in God's name
Chairman Meow
@@jonzi8877ok kiddie
I absolutely love this show I've watched every episode. There's one fact that you wouldn't believe is that the communists actually almost took the weimar Republic over among the chaos of post WW1 Germany and the soldiers had to fight on homeland instead of the trenches
You describe it like the communist where the Bad ones even to they got killed every time they would Protest for their rights
@@timojek their rights to what? Putting people they don't like in slave camps? Killing ethnic minorities? Or is it the right to have a starving population?
@@spaghetticat110 Wtf are you talking about. Or are you mixing up your fantasies with actual atrocities committed by fascists?
Many of the communists were former soldiers lol
@@chrisheckel3887 Sailors actually. Much of the actual Army itself was pro-monarchy or at the very least pro-stratocratic.
This is due to the culture shock veterans had trying to integrate into the new Republic and the sense of belonging and continuity they got from joining the paramilitary organizations like the Freikorps.
Navy on the other hand, much like Russia, had more leftist, socialist and communist tendencies.
01:05 "Wattn? Muffe?!" (What, scared?)
Dit is Berlin wa!
Love the accent. Or dialect.
I saw a news program many years ago showing how the modern German police broke up a gang of English football hooligans rampaging in Dusseldorf. Simple tactic of turning the dogs loose on them.
Bro, I come from Düsseldorf. I used to work in the Altstadt, a buddy and I went to watch Germany against the Argies during the WM 2006. Everyone in the Altstadt was shitfaced and things escalated very quickly. Of course we didn't participate since we're not morons, but it took us a good few minutes to get out of there since it was so crowded. The riot police was absolutely savage. I remember when they ordered everyone to clear the area in front the McDonalds (everyone from Düsseldorf knows which one I mean) right fucking now. Some drunk dude probably didn't hear them, he was just standing there alone and minding his own business, probably thinking about what Burger he's going to get. A big ass cop with full riot gear and a baton tucked into his arm stuck ran up to him full speed and clothelined the fuck out of him, the poor fucker didn't even realize what was about to happen to him. You can interact with normal cops there, no problem but if you see them in riot gear, just turn around and leave the area asap.
3:30 me and my cousin in every multiplayer FPS since 2006.
Imagin doing riot police work without impact suits and shields.
Lmao it’s not the USA.
Riot shields were only really used since the late 60's to early 70's and onward!
Imagine rioting and the police setting up an machine gun
The riot reminded me of the 1968 Democratic Convention. Hundreds of Cops beating protestors.
@@bennai2 that's why the American 180 was created, basically a tommy gun in .22 that could have up to 275 rounds in a drum mag. The idea was you could aim it at the street and "ricochet" the rounds into protesters, that the rounds would be so light they wouldn't be life threatening.
Man Johnny Vegas speaks brilliant german
Really amazing, especially the level of detail and scene setting. Definitely agree that it feels like you're there.
That being said, OP clearly didn't watch the damn clip with his eyes open.
You can see why they called it Red Berlin.
The production is great, the music fantasic!
Truly one of the most epic moments of the show, alongside the entire first episode of s4.
1:08 Even as someone leaning left, I also would’ve tried to avoid getting involved.
The show lost much when Wolter was gone...he was the best element
He was great but Lotte is my abosolute favorite. I Love her so much
Waltuh, we need to take back Berlin, Waltuh?
Yes he was. The dynamic between him and Rath made the first two series the best. But other figures such as Benda, Jannicke, Kardakov and Svetlana also added so much light and shade to the first two series.
The 3rd series felt anaemic in comparison.
BB is a lot better when it has a larger political element, the 4th series has that and although it's not as good as the first two, it does mark a return to form.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 yes... I finished the 4th season a few days ago, I think it's much better that the 3rd and almost as good as the first two seasons.
I think we need more of the politics and grind character developments with those lavish music/dance. I still miss Benda and Wolter as they were solidifying the first 2 seasons, but it's still very good.
I also like how much flawed they are making every character. Also, Graf and Jacoby are easily the best example of how homosexuality should be tackled.
Liv Lisa Fries is generally as good as she was in the first season in this one.
The show almost collapsed and fell into predictability with the Berlin gang plot, but they ended it well... one of those two (great characters) had to go and I think they chose the right one IMO.
I heard they are doing the 5th one... I hope they slow the timeline down...I don't want this to necessarily drag to WW2.
@@samfish5500 Tykwer and Co has said that they'll stop in 1933, when Hitler gets elected, so it won't go to WW2.
Now this is how you deal with antifa!
_Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions._
Interwar berlin being significantly cleaner and more peaceful than modern Berlin
That is not a real city. It is studio built up near Berlin.
@@kellymcbright5456
r/woosh
@@kellymcbright5456 REALLY?! YOU MEAN BERLIN DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THIS?!
@@zenster1097 ;-)
This video made me watch Babylon Berlin. I am now in Season 3. Thank you.
Great scene, great show, great video. Thx.
Wilhelm Winter before joining the Wehrmacht
Wer, wer hat uns verraten...
Never ending Story
Sozialdemokraten!
Fragt das jemand aus der "Deutschland verrecke"-Ecke? Oh the irony...
Noske, Severing und all die anderen Sozialfaschisten
1:49 I know that it's german and I suck at my knowledge of german but it sound like "Állj meg! Állj meg!" which means hungarian as "Stop! Stop!"
Hi, it's "renn weg!" which means "run away!"
@@muellertobias1441 thanks
Bismarck most have been looking upon this jumping up and down screaming “See you stupid Kaiser beating up communist and rioting works wanting better pay is the best idea!”
Therefore a wall 🧱 was built to get both violent groups apart.
All this pre-game action !! What time does the game start? It's Bavaria vs Berlin?
3:01 Communist cat gets owned
lovecrafts cat homie.
I like the action scenes in this Series and the areas of history accuracy are great but only parts of this series are accurate to the era (this scene is accurate, but a lot aren’t)
wait until the freikorps pull up
Cuál es el nombre de la serie o película 😅
Interesting to see, that the Berlin police hasn’t changed in 100 years
It would be a dream but it obviously isnt. You're spreading commie propaganda!
@@sbaeneg4738 AfD is a controlled op
@@sbaeneg4738 verständlich
@@sbaeneg4738 You say that like its a bad thing...
@@annehero7157
Voting for faschists is kinda bad
Social democratic police vs Communist protests
They were not Social democratic, they were fascist
@@magnajota4341 sorry but the dominant party in Weimar regime was the SPD and the chancellor in 1929 was social democratic if I remember correctly he was a guy named Marx
@@MrPro897 Müller* They may have been the strongest party. But the police was full with fascists. Who after the power grap by the Nazis helped them and joined forces with SA.
@@MrPro897 Marx was not an SPD politician he was part of a party called Zentrum(Center), which was a conservative catholic party, that would be center right. 1929 did indeed have an SPD chancellor named Müller. Since a new government would not switch out the entire police force upon getting elected that doesn't really matter thought. Weimar republic had a ludicrous number of parties and the coalitions would take some pretty absurd forms with parties essentially only having in common that they did indeed want to maintain the democratic republic rather than form communist, monarchist or faschist systems.
@@svenkampen1647 the weimar republic was very Bad . Many Germans were Starving and wiithout Jobs . Hitler saved Germans from Starving and communism and Made a powerfull Germany
This looks good, I remember Volker Bruch in Generation War.
Er war auch in „Der Rote Baron“ von 2008. Ich liebe diesen Film
Great show!!
My grandpa was a Freikorps member , he later fought on the western front as part of the 9th and 12th army
Then he was a great man, but you his grandson has an anime girl as your profile picture.
@@1889AP All kind of people have anime profile pictures.
@@1889APfreikorps were traitors to the people
@@orchestra.enjoyer lol take the L weeb.
@@1889AP Why?
04:44
This must have sucked to be a police agent, uniformed or plain-clothed, in Berlin during these years. :-/ Trying to keep things under control while you actually can only control so little and nearly everyone else screams for blood.
most police officers were party of a political interest group too. Some only in their free time, many also during business hours.
What ? Did you watched the Video or informed yourself about the time ? The Police was brutal and evil. Most of them were nazis in the later Stages of the Republik and the Show Shows the nature of the weimar Police pretty acurat
Opens up my heart
Got into geneaology on my dad’s side. My great grandma Bertha left Germany (I don’t know whether she lived in Berlin or not) when she was 24 alongside her then 17 year old brother Erwin in 1923 when they arrived here, followed by her 10 year old daughter Grace (birth name Hildegarde) sometime around 1929.
I wonder if my great aunt Grace lived in Berlin and witnessed stuff like this as a little girl. That had to be quite impactful on a child’s psyche to watch this. I mean, watching neighbors get arrested, police brutality in the streets, complete mayhem all over…
No wonder why my great grandma Bertha and her brother Erwin left Germany if this was the day to day reality they had to live with. They lived in a more rural part of the country, but I’m certain that the problems there were similar.
Teachers when the students actually want to learn about real life stuff like taxes and bills (mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the cell)
0:01 OH MY GOD IT'S LEUTNANT WILHELM WINTER
1 John 3:15
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Matthew 7:3
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
[4] Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
[5] Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
What series is this , it looks well made?
Babylon Berlin...
The TV show is based on the novels, which has many differences.
@Jonathan Tan just had the notification will take a look. Thank you 😊
Will Netflix add season 4 ?
shame on you workers for not wanting to die like a serv
They wanted a Revolution and an utopic society that would have never worked out.
Today, they can't stop the mud wizard
Really need that new season
Season? Episode?
"Nur eine Muskete aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Ein bisschen armselig für ein "rotes Hauptquartier". Wen erinnert das an eine kürzlich aufgeführte Posse? Mit einem "braunen Hauptquartier"?
Wieso braun? Da ist ein Fürst ... also Kaisertreue.
Das beste an dieser Reichsbürger-Razzia war ja, dass man die Kaisertreuen in den Medien als Terrorgruppe bezeichnet hat, obwohl man als Terrorgruppe per Definition mindestens einen Anschlag verübt haben muss. Interessant, dass dahingegen tatsächliche (muslimische) Terroristen als verwirrte Einzeltäter zu bezeichnen sind.
@@detlefkerkau2609 Von wegen kaisertreeu. Das sind verwahrloste Braune im Samtumhang.
_Wie die Würstchen unter dem Würsten, so das Haus Reuss unter den Fürsten._
Hey it's Wilhelm Winter
Has anyone seen the latest season, if so where?
03:01
Let the cat alone, you brute!!
Nein
Einfach das shababs botten haus im Geschichtsunterricht film.
They need Kendall Jenner with a Pepsi right now
Where can one watch this?
Netflix US, in Germany I think it's on the Sky network
Name of show
a normal day in kosovo
It was expected Germany would be sooner Communist than Russia would, I mean: Russian quote
Germany spread communism to Russia, communism started in Germany. They took their own medicine that they use to poison and suffered Russia from 1918. Take that, Germans!
@@archravenineteenseventeengermany was never communist while russia was. And even now russia suffers because of it while germany is doing well. What should i take exactly?
@@swagkachu3784 and Karl Marx was a Jewish German. The communism started there via books
why does the captions not work? i selected the language but theres no text
oh captions start at 2:08
Me going through the “do not thread on me” house
Deutscher Kommentar
00:54
No shields and no helmets either for riot control? Why did they wait so much before using those?
The concept of dedicated "Riot Police" is a very recent idea, adopted by most countries after WW2 and the rise of Internal Security Services in those countries. Before then riot supression was seen as simply just another duty of the regular officers who would simply wear their standard uniforms and kit like it was any other day on the job, their main weapon was intimidation and the fear of reciprosity to dissaude rioters from throwing things or otherwise harming the officers.
The police could simply shoot their guns back then 🔫🔫🔫
3:54 The riot control comes here
@Wodanaz I find it weird how they didnt consider issuing helmets since they were perfect for protecting against objects being thrown at you
@@Dadouf112 I mean, I think their idea was that you didn’t quite need it.
Is this a series?
Babylon Berlin.
Very interesting to see Wilhelm before the war. I wonder what greta and charly were doing
American police departments need to do this to Antifa and BLM.
Fascist. You can't get more explicit than this.
@@something1600 Sure thing bud.
American police is way worst and more militarized than the one portrayed here
@@AnthonySagen dont go 'okay bud' after saying you want everyone who you personally dont agree with to be shot in the street. Do you really not see that fascism is the ethically worst option of them al?
Another day in Seattle…
What is name of that film?
Babylon Berlin
The same actor from Generation war am I right guys?
Just wait till the freikorp shows up 😅
They couldnt even win against the local german police force 🤣 Germany forever! No communists!
Or until the Red Army shows up in 1945.
thats crazy have you ever heard of the oder neisse offensive
@@navajoguy8102 No Ukraine?
Look up the early life section of the instigators behind the Spartacist Uprising.
"oh shit! theyre shooting at us communists! put the huge fucking flag down thatll teach em"
Is the show good at all
Fun fact ; the shot at 1:28 is a recreation of an actual picture
Fantastic.
Extremely well done research too so it helps look at that time to reminds us today about how organized labor was dangerous yesterday, the fact that we can organize and not just ask for workers right but also bargain for better wages today should not be ignored, more importantly it should never be taken from granted, people need to understand it’s always a march, always in movement no matter what, so either we are moving that march forward or we are moving it backwards, and in the west we have been moving it backwards for about 5 decades already.
It’s very good and very poignant for us which is one of hallmark of a good series, it makes it relevant, it moves from being just an entertainment to becoming a piece of art.
Don't get too despondent, the kids these days have definitely taken a turn for the better in that regard
Wie heißt die serie bitte
Babylon Berlin
Exactly what our police should do to Antifa and BLM.
Agreed.
"The federal police should indiscriminately murder antifascists and people whose motto is ", do visit a shrink immediately.
ACAB
Oh hey, a fascist apologist!
Fascist, this is literally just fascist tactics.
I'm waiting for season 4 to start on Netflix.
I heard there's a movie theater called f movies that lets you rent it for free along with alot of other titles :) S4 was good
Some cities the police where communist don't know how long that lasted. Know friekorp fought with some. Crazy period in history.
How our fathers went to school
thats shows you how strong the communist were