Babylon Berlin, this 16 part German production on Netflix is slow moving at times, (losing something sometimes in translation I think with both dubbed over in English and occasional written translations at bottom of screen) but totally great in period sets, dress and historic timeline focus.
Showing the corruption, political chaos and decadence of Berlin in last days of the Weimar Republic.
A drug addicted vice cop (suffering from PTSD from WWI) from Cologne on special assignment in Berlin on a mission to find blackmail material (porn) placing politics of that distant city under a sword in an upcoming election (and the city government of Konrad Adenauer there).
And the deep state, industrialists (planning a coup to restore the Kaiser), Russian factions (a fortune in Czarist gold hidden on a freight train with traveling papers from Leningrad to Istanbul presumably for a waiting exiled Trotsky) and spies and underworld gangsters carrying out other nefarious deeds to thicken the plot.
An underlying theme of forgiveness and personal redemption in the final scenes.
Not surprising that someone like Hitler could take over in the economic mess caused by the Depression. More to that story and not known in the west btw.
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