Berlin 1933

Germany -x- Berlin

Eine Einführung: An Introduction

Berlin prospered for centuries under the rule of Gustav, a harsh and strict prince who tolerated no disobedience. For centuries the city had a small but powerful Kindred population which ruled over all mortal matters of importance without fear of retribution; Gustav upheld the Masquerade and none dare defy him.

Quote

"We like our Berlin immensely -- an ugly place it must be to anyone who comes to it hipped or solitary..." -- George Elliot

Appearance

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Climate

Berlin has a Maritime temperate climate according to the Köppen climate classification system. There are significant influences of mild continental climate due to its inland position, with frosts being common in winter and there being larger temperature differences between seasons than typical for many oceanic climates. Summers are warm and sometimes humid with average high temperatures of 22–25 °C (72–77 °F) and lows of 12–14 °C (54–57 °F). Winters are cool with average high temperatures of 3 °C (37 °F) and lows of −2 to 0 °C (28 to 32 °F). Spring and autumn are generally chilly to mild. Berlin's built-up area creates a microclimate, with heat stored by the city's buildings and pavement. Temperatures can be 4 °C (7 °F) higher in the city than in the surrounding areas.

Annual precipitation is 570 millimeters (22 in) with moderate rainfall throughout the year. Snowfall mainly occurs from December through March.

Calendars

Districts

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Demonym

Berliner

Economy of Nazi Germany

The German economy, like those of many other western nations, suffered the effects of the Great Depression with unemployment soaring around the Wall Street Crash of 1929. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, he introduced policies aimed at improving the economy of Nazi Germany. The changes included privatization of state industries, autarky, and tariffs on imports. Wages increased by 10.9% in real terms during this period. However, reduced foreign trade meant rationing in consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.

By the early 1940s, over 500 companies in key German industries had been nationalized, mostly accomplished through the creation of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring in 1937. Multi-national industries in occupied territory were particularly targeted for state ownership, where the Reichswerke absorbed between approximately “50 – 60 per cent” of heavy industry in Czech and slightly less in Austria. The Göring industrial empire was a major attempt towards “restricting private industrial capitalism and substituting a ‘völkisch’, state-run industrial economy.”

In 1934 Hjalmar Schacht, the Reich Minister of Economics, introduced the Mefo bills, allowing Germany to rearm without spending Reichsmarks but instead paying industry with Mefo bills (Government IOU's) which they could trade with each other. Between 1933 and 1939 the total revenue amounted to 62 billion marks, whereas expenditure (at times comprising up to 60% rearmament costs) exceeded 101 billion, thus causing a huge deficit and national debt (reaching 38 billion marks in 1939 and coinciding with Kristallnacht [November 1938] and with intensified persecutions of Jews and the outbreak of World War II.) By 1938 unemployment was practically extinct.

Population

• -- City (4,242,501) - June 16, 1933 census

Arenas

• -- Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium)

Citizens of the City

Paul von Hindenburg -- The second President of Germany from 1925–34 - 1933

The Nazi Party

Adolf Hitler -- Chancellor of Germany - 1933

Eva Braun -- Hitler's Mistress - 1933

Joseph Goebbels -- Reich Minister of Propaganda - 1933

Hermann Goering -- President of the Reichstag - 1933

100px Emmy Sonnemann -- Prominent actress at the National Theatre in Weimar - 1933

100px Rudolf Hess -- Deputy Führer - 1933

100px Heinrich Himmler -- Reichsführer-SS - 1933

100px Martin Bormann -- Personal Secretary to the Deputy Führer - 1933

100px Robert Ley -- Head of the German Labour Front - 1933

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Other German Citizens

100px Bernhard Weiss -- Deputy Police Chief of Berlin - 1933

100px Erich Raeder -- Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Reichsmarine - 1933

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• -- German Citizen - 1933 -- Character Prototype

Vampires of the City

Nosferatu

Melitta Wallenberg -- Die verführerische Kanalratte	Ellison Humboldt -- Die Wahrheit in den Mauern
Ugly Rasputin -- Die unaufhaltsamen Wut	Amelia -- Die weinende Frau

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Tremere

-- Maxwell Ldescu -- Regent of the West -- Der Magus (The Magus)
-- Gotthold -- Chantry Guardian & Elder Gargoyle of Berlin	-- Falk -- Gargoyle bodyguard to Ldescu

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Ventrue

-- Gustav Breidenstein -- The Prince of Berlin	-- Wilhelm Waldburg -- The Eldest Son
-- Peter Kleist -- The Second Son	-- Katarina Kornfeld -- The Royal Daughter

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