Castle, factory and old town, 1937
A castle on a wooded hill, workers streaming out of a factory's main entrance, and the end of a shift in a street of half-timbered houses.
Framed by overhanging leaves, a castle with tall roofs and a tower rises over woods and a meadow. Beside a road, a plain factory block with a projecting clock and the word Haupteingang above its gate lets out a stream of men in jackets and caps; below the slate-hung and half-timbered houses of the old town they walk home, stopping in groups to talk and light cigarettes.
The town is not identified with certainty. The sequence shows the Germany of the small industrial towns, where castle, workshop and old streets lay side by side. By 1937 full employment had returned, and in the skilled trades there was already a shortage of workers.
