I'm on the second season of Babylon Berlin and I'm feeling very bothered by the story.
The main character is a catholic police man fighting together with the head of police to stop a group called the black reichswehr.
What this group wants? To secretly rebuild the German army after the treaty of Versailles.
Like, why and who during the period would care so much and feel so bothered by this, to the point they would put their lives and careers at risk just to stop this group? Who really during the period really thought "hummm democracy is so good, being defeated is good, please let's keep our army down"?
The characters really have no motivation for their actions, it just seem like an attempt to create a good guy narrative that doesn't include either Nazism or communism.
That the series was financed by the government of Germany, a government mostly led by the Christian democratic union and the social democrats, people with vested interest in depicting a Christian hero for democracy, is very suspicious.
Seeing all those characters who so selflessly sacrifice themselves to rebuild the German army, at no personal gain, people who work toward a cause for pure ideology , pure belief, just make me empathise with them, rather than seeing them as villains.
What is Bernd opinion of this?
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