What is the setting of The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris, Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood?

There are several important levels of setting in these two stories. The main ones have to do with place and time - specifically, the city of Berlin, in Germany, between World Wars I and II. This was a period when Germany was recovering from the financial, military and social hardships resulting from their defeat in the first, and struggling with socio-political upheaval (i.e., the rise of both the Communists and the Nazis) prior to the second. In other words, Berlin in this period was a city of upheaval and transition, a set of circumstances which gives the book a context of instability within which the characters are struggling not only to retain some degree of normality but also to simply survive.