A half-timbered old town and its Adolf-Hitler-Platz, 1937
Old men in black hats, a courtyard with wooden galleries, a view over steep roofs to a gate tower and a street sign reading Adolf-Hitler-Platz.
In a cobbled street of steep half-timbered gables, two old men in wide black hats bend over a sack; one looks up as a rope and hook run up to a gable hoist past a carved sandstone wall. The camera climbs into a courtyard enclosed by wooden galleries hung with geraniums, looks out from a tower over a mass of tiled roofs to a slender gate tower and the fields, and finds a blue enamel sign reading Adolf-Hitler-Platz above a furniture shop and a painted gable with a clock.
The name of the town is not established. After 1933 nearly every German town renamed its principal square or street after Hitler; most reverted in 1945. The old towns themselves were what the tourist posters of the Reich railways sold abroad.
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