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The „Moka Efti“ was an an actual coffee shop in Berlin around the time Babylon Berlin is set. It was opened by the Greek Giánnis „Giovanni“ Eftimiades in 1926 as the first of two coffee shops he ran in the city. It contained various stores such as a hairdresser and places to play chess or billiards. The „Moka Efti“ was very popular additionally because it presumably featured the very first escalator in Berlin. There were served about 25.000 cups of coffee per day and the place turned into a giant dance hall at night. The NSDAP booked it for an exclusive party event in 1934. Both „Moka Efti“ and „Moka Efti am Tiergarten“ were destroyed in 1943 due to an air raid.

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Gustav Stresemann was guiding the Weimar Republic through hard times and attempts of revolution. Germany joined the League of Nations while he was Reich Chancellor and later foreign minister. Together with his French counterpart Aristide Briand he made sure Germany and France got closer again after WW1. At the Locarno conference in 1925 at Lake Maggiore he would let a ship cruise as long as it would take until every German question was answered and things settled. (Stresemann was not able to speak French - I feel sorry for translator) 1926 he and Briand received the Nobel Price for Peace. They both supported the pan-european idea.

Fun fact: a „Stresemann“ is a special suit, originally created for the Locarno conference.

starting my magister thesis about Babylon Berlin soon, my plan is to annoy you guys with any boring interesting  Gereon and Lotte thoughts history facts I come across doing my procrastination research during the next months. 

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