An old town by the water, 1937
Tall gabled stone houses rise from an ivy-covered wall above still water, and a car edges down a narrow street of half-timbered houses.
From a bridge the view runs along a quiet stretch of water to a row of stone houses with steep gables, built on top of a massive wall overgrown with ivy; a footbridge crosses further on, and one or two figures walk along the path below. In a narrow street of half-timbered houses with overhanging floors, pedestrians and cyclists come and go and a dark car noses its way down between the shopfronts.
The town is not identified. Old walled towns of this kind were what the Reich railways and the tourist offices sold to foreign visitors as the romantic Germany, a picture that the regime was glad to leave undisturbed while it built its motorways and parade grounds elsewhere.
