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Maybe Bernie is a new version of Young Indiana Jones. In his TV-Show from the early 90's Indy showed up on nearly every theatre of WW I around the world: from the trenches of Flandern to Palestine, East Africa, Russia and so on. And he met interesti…
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If The Dead Rise Not: At the end of chapter 24 Bernie is heading from the police hq in Potsdam to a train station named "Teltower Tor". As far as I know (and I know Potsdam pretty well, my father was born and raised there) there never was a train st…
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In chapter 8 of QF the corpse of Sabine Färber is found in the slaughterhouse-area, she lives near by "at Pettenkofer Straße in Lichterfelde. Kerr is mixing up Lichterfelde, a suburb in the south of Berlin, and Lichtenberg, the district near the sl…
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It' a big political discussion in Germany for the last two months: the equating of anti-semitism and fear of muslims. But that's a difficult theme and I don't wanna say something about this topic in a foreign language. My english is too bad for poli…
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It's been some years, since i read MC, but there were two major mistakes: 1. The train station at Nollendorfplatz ist part of the normal Berlin tube (not part of the Stadt-Bahn). Only the rich boroughs of Berlin had underground-stations, Schöneberg…
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Hahaha, I started reading QF yesterday and in the first Berlin-flashback a policeman with my name (well: nearly) is appearing!
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It should be "Fatherland" by Robert Harris. Or Len Deightons "SS-GB". Or the brilliant "Man In The High Castle" by P.K. Dick. I'm not sure if Otto Basils (austrian author, very funny!) "Wenn das der Fuehrer wuesste" is translated in english.
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I've read most of them: Isherwood - for instance - is clearly a big inspiration for the Bernie-Gunther-novels since AQF. Döblin is THE classic Berlin-novel. The same with the Fallada-books, which took place in pre-war-Berlin. I haven't read Noote…