Babylon Berlin

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1. #001

   Babylon Berlin is the most expensive non-English-language series ever made and, with a budget of roughly 40 million euros, the most expensive German series to date.

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2. #002

   The doorless elevators in the Berlin police headquarters are known as paternoster lifts. Such a lift consists of a continuously moving loop of slow-moving cabins, one half traveling upward and the other downward. These structures were common in pre-World War II European buildings, and a large share of them have been preserved in Germany, though most surviving lifts are no longer in public use because of obvious safety concerns.

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3. #003

   The character Alfred Nyssen is largely based on the real-life industrialist Fritz Thyssen.

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4. #004

   Production designer Uli Hanisch paid tribute to his famous colleague Ken Adam. Adam was born in Berlin as Klaus Hugo Adam and was Jewish; his father, Fritz Adam, was a shop owner and had to flee the Nazis in 1934, though some things had to be left behind. Among them was a planned huge shopping center whose construction Hanisch now uses for the set, which is why Adam & Sons can be seen on its Art Deco facade.

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5. #005

   Several episodes contain deliberate but subtle musical anachronisms: songs originally recorded by the English glam rock singer Bryan Ferry and his band Roxy Music, performed in a jazz style appropriate to the 1920s. Ferry worked on the series' music and also appears as a singer at the Moka Efti.

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6. #006

   The character Ernst Gennat, head of the Berlin police homicide division, is inspired by a real person. The real Ernst Gennat was responsible for developing many of the modern police procedures used to handle murder victims, procedures that were widely used in Europe at the time and later throughout the world.

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7. #007

   Inspector Rath (Volker Bruch) watches his nephew build a model of a World War I Fokker D. VII fighter and tells him about the great flying aces Richthofen, Goering and Udet. Bruch played Lieutenant Lothar von Richthofen, the Red Baron's younger brother and a famous ace in his own right, in The Red Baron (2008).

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8. #008

   The character Otto, also known as Horst Kessler, is a thinly veiled version of the SA member Horst Wessel, who was killed in an argument over a prostitute he lived with by two Red Front fighters. The subplot of season 3 is based on the killing of Wessel, a symbolic martyr for the Nazis.

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9. #009

   The railway freight car bears the plates AB2305 and TY1113. Achim von Borries was born on November 13, while Tom Tykwer's birthday is May 23.

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10. #010

    When Gereon Rath calls to connect to Cologne, he mentions the numbers "13-08". Henk Handloegten was born on August 13.

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