Babylon Berlin Season 5: A Tender Requiem for the Weimar Republic

Key facts

• The fifth season of Babylon Berlin is directed by Henk Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, and Achim von Borries.
• The season's plot begins on January 30, 1933, with Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor, and ends with the Reichstag fire on February 27-28, 1933.
• The series is available for streaming on ARD Mediathek along with previous seasons.
• The storyline involves murders of World War I veterans connected to Hitler's medical file from Pasewalk.
• The Nazi Party aims to eliminate witnesses to Hitler's psychological state, and characters hope to influence the March 5 election by revealing the file.
• Reinhold Gräf, a police photographer, seeks a gender reassignment and witnesses the decline of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science, which moves to Switzerland.
• The series depicts the persecution of LGBTQ+ individuals, including a scene where Gräf and Fred Jacoby are humiliated by the SA.
• Dr. Schmidt, Gereon Rath's brother, delivers a radio address listing early 20th-century achievements, unaware of future atrocities.