Buses, broad streets and a gas works, Berlin 1937
Double-decker buses and trams cross a busy boulevard, cars an almost empty square, a sentry paces before a columned porch, and cranes turn over a gas works.
Buses advertising Imi and Henko swing round a junction, pedestrians hurry over the tram lines, and on a quiet residential street a woman pushes a pram beneath a flag. A black car crosses a wide, almost empty square before a large modern office block with a stepped corner tower; a broad street runs straight between tall offices and a classical palace. Behind a lawn and flower beds, a sentry with a shouldered rifle marches up and down before the columned porch of a large white building. Beyond heaps of dug earth, the lattice jibs of cranes turn above the halls and gantries of a gas works near Berlin, smoke rising from its chimneys.
Berlin counted four million inhabitants. The guarded building is not identified; ministries and official residences with sentries at their doors lined the Wilhelmstraße and the Wilhelmplatz, the heart of Hitler's government.
Film Sentry before a guarded building in Berlin, 1937
Film A quiet residential street with a flag, 1937
Film Buses and trams on a Berlin boulevard, 1937
Film Double-decker buses advertising Imi and Henko, 1937
Film Modern office building on a Berlin square, 1937
Film A wide street in central Berlin, 1937
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