https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/sublanguageid-ger/pimdbid-4378376/season-1
Here you can find German subtitles, I'm not sure if they work with HBO tho. You might need a video player supporting subtitles.
The subtitles in the link might be inaccurate at places, but they are mostly right I think. I'm not so sure as my German is only B1 level.
Lastly I must say the German in the show is confusing even with subtitles lol.
I don't think they went far enough to show the complete depravity of Berlin nor the poverty. Reading about it makes it seem the people were collectively possessed. The show mostly seems to portray the period of one of freedom and liberation but what kind of liberation is having groups of 10 year olds forced into train station sex work with exploitative tourists because a wheelbarrow full of money won't buy a loaf of bread? What sort of liberation is rampant drug addiction and escapism?
I agree, I found it odd they portrayed the Communist as sympathetic. They were thugs and authoritarians who were just the other side of the coin to the Nazis imo. You see that in a lot of history education, the Communist get off lightly.
If you want to read the book I quoted you can find it on LibGen here...I think they have it in ebook and pdf.
https://libgen.pw/search?q=Voluptuous+Panic+The+Erotic+World+of+Weimar+Berlin
They have other books on the topic as well.
Eric D. Weitz Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
E. J. Feuchtwanger (auth.) From Weimar to Hitler: Germany
1918–33, Ben Fowkes (auth.) Communism in Germany under the Weimar Republic
DVD set season 4 on Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Babylon-Berlin-DVD-Volker-Bruch/dp/B0B9T7DVPX
Says it will be available from 12th December. Maybe Amazon US will have a similar offer by then? Sadly no Blu-Ray as of now.
Maybe getting an HBOmax account somewhere in Europe is your best option for season 4 whilst supporting the creators.
I recently bought this hardcover coffee table book to support the series as well (it is the season of giving isn’t it?). I’m quite excited about its pre-Christmas arrival! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Babylon-Berlin-Michael-T%C3%B6teberg/dp/3963180781
I had more issues with WOW which came out with episodes 1 day earlier. I had to be on a specific location of ExpressVPN Germany. I didn't have any issues with the ExpressVPN for England if you use Google, it is good to open a new page and do a search and it might make you confirm you're not a robot then I open the NOW/WOW app.
Only with a subscription, which you should be able to buy through PayPal (it’s about US$8.99/month) if you live almost anywhere outside of Germany with a secure VPN based in Germany. I use ExpressVPN.
Hmm. You might check VPN, try American again, I just finished BB season 3 less than a month ago and was using American Netflix with IPVanish VPN. If that doesn’t work, it’s a bit of a stretch but I’ve found that Japanese VPNs tend to work for foreign TV shows offered by the big names, i.e. Hulu, Netflix, and so on.
Looks like there are some available to me. https://subscene.com/subtitles/babylon-berlin-second-season
I'm waiting till it's all released to watch, though.
Or you use VPN to get an American IP address, but it has to be a software that gives your entire PC a new IP; a browser plugin is not enough to trick Netflix. Maybe try NordVPN or something similar. Hideman is an option as well.