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New apartment blocks hung with swastika flags, 1937
Two women with shopping bags walk down a new avenue past five-storey blocks whose balconies are hung almost floor by floor with swastika flags.
A long five-storey apartment block with brick-framed, rounded balconies runs down a newly planted avenue. Swastika flags and pennants hang from balcony after balcony; two women with shopping bags walk away from the camera, and a wider view along the street shows flags on almost every floor.
Blocks like these were built in their tens of thousands in the 1920s and 1930s to house working families. On the regime's holidays the flags went out, and the party's block wardens, one for every few dozen households, noted which balconies stayed bare.
