Interwar German Police vs. Commies | Babylon Berlin

[@hansstrudel9614]

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.

[@JohnSmith-ct5jd]

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.

[@fotppd1475]

Was there a SINGLE thing stated on this sh*ity piece of paper that was not straight up stupid?

[@PcGamerify]

Private Firearm Ownership was illegal during the Weimar Republic?

[@Siphilium]

I'll believe anything at this point

[@C.A._Old]

Bad Era For 1920s Germany. & All World.

[@nordicrepresentative3125]

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.

[@momotheelder7124]

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.

[@ernestov1777]

​@@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.

[@fredlandry6170]

Germany was in chaos after WW1 which was just the right environment for the Nazis to rise to power.

[@88avenegra88]

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.

[@jonathantan2469]

@@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.

[@BDNeon]

Pretty much interwar German Politics in a nutshell. It really was like a civil war constantly in the streets.

[@heilodin1]

Not really.

[@thecouncilofthirteen2943]

Yeah... for like early 1919 and a bit of 1920. This was a very sudden and random spike of violence in 1929

[@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659]

And only in Berlin, the German countryside looked very different at the time

[@michaelneuwirth3414]

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.

[@julioalbertoherrera1339]

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.

[@Ambtran2023]

I would love to be somebody who sells red cloth during this time

[@HowlingWolf518]

Or a window repairman.

[@bobross2362]

The irony in this comment is pure genius. Congrats you win the internet.

[@arsonviburnums8453]

They made it to themselves

[@t.wcharles2171]

Playing both sides I like it

[@thitran1362]

gotta hustles.

[@razputin611]

Not a cell phone in sight, just people enjoying the moment.

[@twofiveb]

No keyboard warriors anywhere to be seen!

[@JohnSmith-ct5jd]

Okay, thumbs up at that comment. LOL.

[@lichtbringer2289]

Yes, they seem to take it all in.

[@robloxrobloxeverybodyroblox]

only people dying in the moment

[@4ebees]

🤣🤣🤣

[@WhiteAnims2]

"This upset the police, that they would punish them severely"

[@EmperorProtects1]

Oversimplified gamer

[@JohnSmith-ct5jd]

"punish them severely" translated from German into English means something to the effect of, "machine gun them down in the streets". LOL.

[@nicolasmarazuela1010]

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)

[@WM-gf8zm]

you forgot also the bavarian socialist republic

[@Ramzi1944]

I did not know all this had happened, thank you for sharing

[@Rheinlander1904-uc5od]

Auch wenn es nicht zur Thematik gehört: Bayer & der OFC 💪🏻

[@SuperChuckRaney]

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.

[@Ramzi1944]

@@SuperChuckRaney I agree

[@forenamesurname4674]

I never noticed Gereon's hand shaking at 4:12 - Good touch.

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

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.

[@kinghans6266]

Even w/o ptsd relatable.

[@kellymcbright5456]

"Welcome back to the trenches" his brain signalizes.

[@RealUncleRico]

Good cawk

[@LETMino85]

And how he reacts, doesn't know what it means, just wanting it to stop... Trauma wasn't understood.

[@kokadosh8763]

3:01 Bruh even the fucking cat is not safe💀

[@Briselance]

Why they would do that is beyond me.

[@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

@@Briselance It's called "police terror". It got a whole lot worse.

[@gingerdude]

Freikorps... They did what they wanted to dk

[@kervisote20]

@@gingerdude that was the Police

[@Dalverne61]

Nah Oggy timetravelled back to the days of the Freikorps

[@frederickoftheartic2209]

Those armored cars definitely were Freikorps. I doubt the police were allowed to do that.

[@thecouncilofthirteen2943]

welcome to the 1920s. And yes, the police was allowed to use such measures.

[@mnessenche]

Police, Freikorps, not much difference in the 20s

[@jordanmadison6924]

they did this constantly, the police and military in germany were hilariously evil lmfao

[@kentrosaurusboi3909]

​@@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.

[@jordanmadison6924]

@@kentrosaurusboi3909 bad news about who won

[@2NangMan]

...the cat was an innocent bystander in the production of this scene...

[@paceeterna9826]

The Red Cat

[@aka99]

@@paceeterna9826 the only red who is okay

[@jason-hy8ci]

C' est La Vie. Animal Rights. Animals should have Human Rights...... Right? That also comes with the Everyday Human Right of the "Innocent Bystander." May the Road Rise my Friend....🫡

[@travisreed1730]

The cops tapping their clubs across their hands all in sync is kinda badass.

[@billkallas1762]

Reminds me of 1968 Chicago.

[@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

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.

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

It's kinda terrifying, which is exactly the response they want of course.

[@deloreandmc88]

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.

[@Frille512]

@@deloreandmc88 ''we''

[@kevinhealey6540]

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.

[@lolomgmetobavi]

Pretty sure you mean "martial" law...

[@LowSkillSurvival]

>Marshal Law worst larp of al time

[@Professor_Fate]

@@lolomgmetobavi No. He meant "Marshal Law." They were forced to listen to Eminem 24/7.

[@sblbb929]

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

[@kevinhealey6540]

@@lolomgmetobavi Thank you professor.

[@paulhindenberg6364]

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.

[@aka99]

thanks, now i am gonna go and will watch every episode!

[@aka99]

i binged watched it in a week and yes, this is serie is also the best serie i have ever seen!

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

What’s it called

[@Gravity_studioss]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 "Babylon Berlin", its in the title of this video

[@LETMino85]

It's captivating.

[@vermas4654]

Interesting to hear "Wir sind das Volk" in-between. Especially with its usage over the years

[@theredjoker8857]

They say "Internationale Solidarität", "Befreit das Volk" and "Berlin bleibt rot" which means "International solidarity", "Free the people" and "Berlin stays red".

[@Sercer25]

@@theredjoker8857 Free the people by putting them in the chains of communism!

[@theredjoker8857]

@@Sercer25 Dude do you even understand what communism, socialism, marxism etc. is? "Communism is when the state does stuff" or what?

[@Sercer25]

@@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!

[@theredjoker8857]

@@Sercer25 Thx for proving me right. You can't even give one single definition of communism or explain what communism is about...

[@J7C.]

Ahh so this is why Wilhelm Winter joined the Eastern Front

[@radegastov1570]

Yes lmao.

[@coleman4840]

I was just about to comment about that

[@Snaut1]

1:40 "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation."

[@Uuuu-y8s]

Crazy how Germany recovered twice, first from this mess and then from the even bigger mess of WW2

[@Bell_plejdo568p]

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

[@justit1074]

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

[@AndJoa]

They never recovered. They are a vasal.

[@goblinpresident4234]

A lot of aid from the Marshall Plan

[@DeatheaterSirius]

Just like Chinese

[@colonial6452]

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.

[@bojanivanisevic1072]

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.

[@Rustythemouse]

3:30 me and my cousin in every multiplayer FPS since 2006.

[@tiernanwearen6624]

What an exciting time to be alive

[@Piddel]

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.

[@AnImperialGod]

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 (?).

[@atsava]

Exciting yes. But do i want to live between two World Wars and in the Great Depression? I think not.

[@roymarshall_]

For a whole lot of people over the next 25 years it was one hell of a time to die

[@eho6380]

It was a pretty cool era, everyone became a millionare 🤑

[@kobodas]

Wilhelm Winter before joining the Wehrmacht

[@liammiller1472]

0:01 OH MY GOD IT'S LEUTNANT WILHELM WINTER

[@villageidiot9012]

This is what he did before the war…

[@Exiled_King95]

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]

You describe it like the communist where the Bad ones even to they got killed every time they would Protest for their rights

[@spaghetticat110]

@@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?

[@Cotac_Rastic]

@@spaghetticat110 Wtf are you talking about. Or are you mixing up your fantasies with actual atrocities committed by fascists?

[@chrisheckel3887]

Many of the communists were former soldiers lol

[@jtc863]

@@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.

[@ChristianVBlue3]

3:01 Rip commie cat

[@arbanasialbanesi]

*Rest in Hell, rathermore 😉

[@jonzi8877]

Better ded than red!

[@innatecharisma]

😂😂 what in God's name

[@sangbum60090]

Chairman Meow

[@billysfliegendesfahhrad8254]

​@@jonzi8877ok kiddie

[@robertc8110]

The production is great, the music fantasic!

[@valiciprian2061]

The government of Weimar republic was social democrat. The communists were considered too radical for Germany.

[@DeGuzmanJorge]

Not sure why this turned up in my recommended but Babylon Berlin is an incredible series and I recommend it to everyone who loves noir detective stories and interwar German politics

[@amare1cro]

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

[@itube0047]

Poland and Hunary is doing extremely well compared to the insanity in Germany, France, etc.

[@alissonlares2926]

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.

[@zenster1097]

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.

[@bastobasto4866]

@@itube0047 "Hungary" and "doing extremely well" are two things that don't go together ever since the Austro-Hungarian Empire broke up. World-record breaking hyperinflation, followed by Orban crashing the economy into the dumpster. But hey, I won't stop you whining about immigrants, leftism or whatever little issue you have in mind.

[@f-86zoomer37]

@@itube0047 lol Hungary is not doing well. vast droves of young people are fleeing the orban fascist regime. when young people are leaving that is not a good sign. Poland is only doing well because it's back in the hands of sane people like Donald Tusk. PiS completely ruined Poland for 8 years.

[@matthewanstey5185]

Man Johnny Vegas speaks brilliant german

[@janwrobel8912]

Imagin doing riot police work without impact suits and shields.

[@formalist6096]

Lmao it’s not the USA.

[@RealCodreX]

Riot shields were only really used since the late 60's to early 70's and onward!

[@bennai2]

Imagine rioting and the police setting up an machine gun

[@billkallas1762]

The riot reminded me of the 1968 Democratic Convention. Hundreds of Cops beating protestors.

[@magmat0585]

@@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.

[@paulwiths]

You can see why they called it Red Berlin.

[@AntonBerglund88]

Truly one of the most epic moments of the show, alongside the entire first episode of s4.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

What show?

[@AntonBerglund88]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 Babylon Berlin.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

@@AntonBerglund88 thanks

[@casimirkulikowski5949]

Still waiting on season 4 to be released to US streaming platforms sadly

[@AntonBerglund88]

@@casimirkulikowski5949 Theres this great thing called vietnamese free movie streaming sites.

[@LETMino85]

Speaking both languages, I realize how much is lost in translation tho.

[@alexszilagyi3695]

1:50 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!"

[@muellertobias1441]

Hi, it's "renn weg!" which means "run away!"

[@alexszilagyi3695]

@@muellertobias1441 thanks

[@jesseblue865]

(-: stimmt hab ich auch gehört

[@Lenn869]

a regi billentyüzet jobb voltt amugy

[@LtAce150]

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.

[@Baegitte]

Fun fact: this is what Germans call a comedy show

[@arnodobler1096]

Babylon Berlin is not a so called comedy show

[@Baegitte]

its a joke@@arnodobler1096

[@BlackScisir]

why?

[@WorstLandsknechtEver]

Lol

[@localfatty4364]

I just can’t believe this is the way the world worked and works. Nothing has changed

[@Briselance]

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.

[@therealslimshady3662]

most police officers were party of a political interest group too. Some only in their free time, many also during business hours.

[@timojek]

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

[@thedatroxde]

Great scene, great show, great video. Thx.

[@soundwavegamer2321]

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!”

[@Unknown-ek1ox]

01:05 "Wattn? Muffe?!" (What, scared?) Dit is Berlin wa! Love the accent. Or dialect.

[@cervasfranco]

This video made me watch Babylon Berlin. I am now in Season 3. Thank you.

[@noahjohnson935]

All I see is folks fighting for their rights and people determined to not let them have them.

[@heyokasamurai453]

Well seeing as Germany didn’t even have rights for free speech back then, or now and the fact was the communists were the first to shoot

[@이이-n4z8y]

@@heyokasamurai453 Yes Germany had free speech and rights for it. What they criminalized were enemy agents agitating for the destruction of Germany. Big difference. Now Japan, they had no rights or freedoms of any kind! Much like today.

[@Jelkitosix666]

cry

[@이이-n4z8y]

@@Jelkitosix666 Nah, we'll just find you.

[@Briselance]

00:54 No shields and no helmets either for riot control? Why did they wait so much before using those?

[@oceanicastronaut2830]

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.

[@julioalbertoherrera1339]

The police could simply shoot their guns back then 🔫🔫🔫

[@KoflerDavid]

3:54 The riot control comes here

[@Dadouf112]

@Wodanaz I find it weird how they didnt consider issuing helmets since they were perfect for protecting against objects being thrown at you

[@coolsceegaming6178]

@@Dadouf112 I mean, I think their idea was that you didn’t quite need it.

[@swojal1493]

Very interesting to see Wilhelm before the war. I wonder what greta and charly were doing

[@SuperChuckRaney]

All this pre-game action !! What time does the game start? It's Bavaria vs Berlin?

[@samfish5500]

The show lost much when Wolter was gone...he was the best element

[@Anna-zi7sx]

He was great but Lotte is my abosolute favorite. I Love her so much

[@liammeech3702]

Waltuh, we need to take back Berlin, Waltuh?

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

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.

[@samfish5500]

​@@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.

[@rejectionisprotection4448]

@@samfish5500 Tykwer and Co has said that they'll stop in 1933, when Hitler gets elected, so it won't go to WW2.

[@mr.wilson9941]

Interwar berlin being significantly cleaner and more peaceful than modern Berlin

[@kellymcbright5456]

That is not a real city. It is studio built up near Berlin.

[@TankMasterGo]

​@@kellymcbright5456 r/woosh

[@zenster1097]

@@kellymcbright5456 REALLY?! YOU MEAN BERLIN DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THIS?!

[@kellymcbright5456]

@@zenster1097 ;-)

[@Unknown-ek1ox]

"And more peaceful" - all these exaggerations. There were mini civil wars and major unrest in the streets and coup attempts all the time, comparing to back then, the Berlin of today is a blissful peaceful garden of Eden, to exaggerate in the other direction.

[@fettergraf]

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.

[@johnboyle9082]

They need Kendall Jenner with a Pepsi right now

[@MUHAMMADADRYANUMMARBINABDSAMAD]

1:25 that German police is vibing

[@blastromlifyedah]

1:08 Even as someone leaning left, I also would’ve tried to avoid getting involved.

[@4tbf616]

Coward.

[@herrflammen6487]

You have to be a special level of stupid to get in to this

[@P4Tri0t420]

Großartige Darstellung der damaligen schwierigen Verhältnissen Great depiction of the troubled times of the 20´s

[@Inbraneinthememsane]

Eigentlich waren die Verhältnisse recht einfach Kommunismus ist die schlimmste und bösartigste Ideologie die jemals in die Welt geschissen wurde und die einzige korrekte Reaktion darauf ist diese Ideologie zu vernichten

[@MrPro897]

Social democratic police vs Communist protests

[@magnajota4341]

They were not Social democratic, they were fascist

[@MrPro897]

@@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

[@magnajota4341]

@@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.

[@svenkampen1647]

@@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.

[@HENSIONAVDUli]

@@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

[@abraxas8521]

Wer, wer hat uns verraten... Never ending Story

[@dieinternationalesolidarit8540]

Sozialdemokraten!

[@fckwokies]

Fragt das jemand aus der "Deutschland verrecke"-Ecke? Oh the irony...

[@diffkopf]

Noske, Severing und all die anderen Sozialfaschisten

[@darthomerk.]

To be Fair. The Austrian Painter / Mustache Man saved Germany from the communism

[@FinianFhomhair]

BS

[@TroonellaShekelstein]

@@FinianFhomhairhe did, cope.

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

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.

[@m_nscapes9902]

I can see a lot of similarity to today, but this day police in Germany wont shoot at u that easily

[@cinemacats7543]

sadly

[@dukejordan8147]

"You killed my Minecraft dog!" "Oh yeah?! Stop me!" 1:41

[@Jimbob7595]

3:01 Communist cat gets owned

[@esothetics]

lovecrafts cat homie.

[@Briselance]

03:01 Let the cat alone, you brute!!

[@MrNuke_Emall]

Nein

[@muddyhotdog4103]

Commie cats get it too

[@이이-n4z8y]

We fought on the wrong side.

[@heyokasamurai453]

You know Patton had mental illnesses

[@이이-n4z8y]

@@heyokasamurai453 No he didn't, Now what does Patton have to do with anything?

[@heyokasamurai453]

@@이이-n4z8y you quoted patton

[@이이-n4z8y]

@@heyokasamurai453 No, I didn't. Did you see quotation marks? Did you see Patton's name? I stated what 100's millions of others have as well.

[@heyokasamurai453]

@@이이-n4z8y yes I see pattons name at the end

[@tomcooper6108]

In Military Police terms, this is "stick time". How many hours stick time do you have?

[@dr.knolli2514]

Interesting to see, that the Berlin police hasn’t changed in 100 years

[@gustavabensberg4260]

It would be a dream but it obviously isnt. You're spreading commie propaganda!

[@hayro252]

@@sbaeneg4738 AfD is a controlled op

[@Der-Stahlhelm]

@@sbaeneg4738 verständlich

[@annehero7157]

@@sbaeneg4738 You say that like its a bad thing...

[@vinz4066]

@@annehero7157 Voting for faschists is kinda bad

[@fredlandry6170]

This looks good, I remember Volker Bruch in Generation War.

[@tjv-logs]

Er war auch in „Der Rote Baron“ von 2008. Ich liebe diesen Film

[@TheMemeStationTMS]

wait until the freikorps pull up

[@noahboat580]

why does the captions not work? i selected the language but theres no text

[@noahboat580]

oh captions start at 2:08

[@justamoravian1042]

Fun fact ; the shot at 1:28 is a recreation of an actual picture

[@jrneal1220]

Way to miss one of the points of the show, including meditations on moral ambiguity (although some characters are more moral than others overall), as well as the divisions among different communist groups. Remember when the Stalinists massacred the Trotskyites? That said, the way the cops handled the SA near the end of Season 2 was more justifiable, given that they were actually causing trouble for no good reason, as they would at a larger scale five years later. 90 years later in the States, cops are unfortunately pretty soft on the SA's present-day manifestation, but seem to have no problem beating up people peacefully protesting for civil rights.

[@David-bl6yg]

Didn’t feel very peaceful here in LA or for my friends in Portland

[@pertsa7614]

you believe in your own lies huh?

[@krellio9006]

You are looking at the show with your own personal bias. if you watch the show objectively you will see that there are no "good" faction in it.

[@jimservu]

Peaceful protests that resulted in 1-2 Billion dollars in damages, the highest recorded damage from civil disorder in U.S. history.

[@thoorwulfn9z383]

thats just because you're a leftie

[@Owarinoseraph141]

Cuál es el nombre de la serie o película 😅

[@c.h.i.p140]

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)

[@JeremiahBayta]

The same actor from Generation war am I right guys?

[@Brigadewolf]

Hey it's Wilhelm Winter

[@Tiger74147]

Where can one watch this?

[@charliev906]

Netflix US, in Germany I think it's on the Sky network

[@archravenineteenseventeen]

Today, they can't stop the mud wizard

[@Yoghurtslinger]

What series is this , it looks well made?

[@pbgamesarchiv]

Babylon Berlin...

[@jonathantan2469]

The TV show is based on the novels, which has many differences.

[@Yoghurtslinger]

@Jonathan Tan just had the notification will take a look. Thank you 😊

[@wallyschutz6160]

This is not how anyone should be treated brother

[@sussybaka42069]

Commies should :)

[@peterocoole6953]

@@sussybaka42069 commies and fascists down with the extremist! ✊

[@markhudson517]

The horseshoe must be flattened.

[@warcrimeconnoisseur5238]

@@sussybaka42069 Well said brother, I will never forgive for what they have done in Russia

[@warcrimeconnoisseur5238]

@@sbaeneg4738 Hahahaha, dont fucking care, that plebian ideology is the death of humanity

[@ibrahimdalupang]

Teachers when the students actually want to learn about real life stuff like taxes and bills (mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the cell)

[@poyloos4834]

The way people treat communists as subhumans to this day is honestly baffling. Ones political ideology is reason enough to forsake your humanity it seems.

[@fsdds1488]

Same goes for religion and culture, there's tons of people calling for subhuman treatment for other people just because they eat or don't eat certain things, or believes in a set of value they don't agree with, its just another form of superiority complex, xenophobia (as in the case of outright fear and rejection over foreign cultures) and in some context outright racism (for example, calling for destruction of an ethnic group because they eat rabbit, that's right, racism over a rabbit, and I saw similar comments more than once).

[@arnaldotablante1302]

To be entirely fair, they do the same to other people based on social status or contrary political beliefs, besides being some of the most hypocritical set of ideologies existing in the last 2 centuries.

[@911-d2b]

I wonder how you would treat someone who holds national socialist ideology. I would assume you would treat them the same way.

[@poyloos4834]

@@911-d2b actions speak louder than beliefs. The Nazi party did horrible things, and yet the average nazi was not an irredeemable monster. Some were, don’t get me wrong, but it wasn’t because national socialism was their ideology, it was because they did monstrous things to people.

[@tefky7964]

@Hyperborean Feelz With modern view sure, but by that time I quite get why communism looked like good idea.

[@OndrejBukacek-xf3yh]

Gute Arbeit!

[@franzlinke8086]

Opens up my heart

[@PunishedBeerCanBennyIV]

the description is very true

[@antonisververis2946]

a normal day in kosovo

[@FinianFhomhair]

A lot of bootlikers and faschos in the comment section. If it wasnt for the workers movement you would be still working 14 hours a day.

[@travisreed1730]

I'm going to ask a dumb question, the Spartacist Uprising?

[@breakfaust]

that was 10 years before this

[@travisreed1730]

@@breakfaust oh.

[@breakfaust]

this was just another one of the bloody conflicts that occurred during the weimar years

[@Uthedudeful]

Blutmai, 1929, where the police violently suppressed Communist May Day protestors. The centre-left Social Democratic Party banned public gatherings but the Communist Party organised May Day demonstrations anyway as an act of civil disobedience and the police responded by beating anyone they could get their hands on.

[@nighthawkdutchchameleon9815]

Is this a series?

[@randuru]

Babylon Berlin.

[@petebondurant58]

This show, especially in later seasons, become so pro-communist...that it was unwatchable.

[@FinianFhomhair]

Poor right wing snowflakes, always getting offeneded by everything 😢

[@TroonellaShekelstein]

@@FinianFhomhairyour literally offended by this clip which is why you’re seething in the comments.

[@overcastandhaze]

Fun times to be had by all. Pick a side and be the entertainment or don't and enjoy the show.

[@MickeyMouse-el5bk]

Fun fact: 0:48 they scream: "Scheiss Rechte" "means shitty right wing" but the right wing wasn't their problem😂

[@mooswikinger1247]

They dont scream that - The guy at front shouts "Wir haben Rechte! / We got rights!" and the crowd chants "Befreit das Recht / Liberate the law"

[@MickeyMouse-el5bk]

@@mooswikinger1247 Das höre ich mir definitiv nochmals an.

[@planetkc]

Is that Wilhelm from Generation War?

[@sussybaka42069]

@@planetkc Yes, tue very same actor

[@UlrichWrangel]

I have a 1929 police Luger, wonder how much of this shit it did?

[@richmondlandersenfells2238]

Bro you got your hands on one gem!

[@UlrichWrangel]

does it have a unit mark on the grip strap?

[@ding1466]

Whose in the armored cars?

[@cinemacats7543]

Freikorps probably.

[@gingerdude]

Freikorps

[@konstantinosnikolakakis8125]

Security police, the show takes place in 1929, this scene is in the May Riots.

[@annedejong1040]

It was expected Germany would be sooner Communist than Russia would, I mean: Russian quote

[@archravenineteenseventeen]

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!

[@swagkachu3784]

​​@@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?

[@archravenineteenseventeen]

@@swagkachu3784 and Karl Marx was a Jewish German. The communism started there via books

[@gimzod76]

Yeah but Marx was wrong about everything.

[@muddyhotdog4103]

@@swagkachu3784 it all ended in authoritarian dictatorship where the government owned all means of production, wasn't too far off from each other

[@Qwerty-he7ib]

Подскажите пожалуйста название фильма !

[@Rick2010100]

Babylon Berlin a multi part (Season 1-4, 5 in production, each season has 12 x60 min episodes ) Netflix/German public TV series. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5bOi6OhjstqY6c

[@Auditer2009]

4:24 If they can't find any "brave martyrs" among themselves, they'll make one out of someone else.

[@eliasbutler57]

I thought he was motioning them to drop the flag

[@Briselance]

@@eliasbutler57 He might also be motioning them to scramble back in.

[@jamesmortimer4016]

@@Briselance He is yelling for them to go back in

[@LifeOfRiley2166]

Has anyone seen the latest season, if so where?

[@kaljic1]

This is how "Commies" should be treated eh? Save your trolling for X (Twitter) please.

[@MaRi-zp9zk]

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.

[@0xdeed771]

Don't get too despondent, the kids these days have definitely taken a turn for the better in that regard

[@WielkaStopa-qh1rr]

Are you sure commies jus wanted human rights? Not some global revolution, killing others esp. rich and making utopian rules of country?

[@jakock04]

Tolles Video, das eindrucksvoll die Zustände Ende der Zwanzigerjahre in Deutschland zeigt, leider aber eine ziemlich geschmacklose und unterkomplexe Aussage in der Infobox...

[@SlytherSnake]

Why? Commies wish the same for you... Actions speak louder than words.