Alexanderplatz Unawares

These fragments of a documentary film project by Peter Pewas about Berlins Alexanderplatz show the neon signs on the big department stores but also children playing unsupervised amid the rubble of vacant lots passersby trudging hurriedly through the slush and a torchlight procession of Nazi storm troopers a heterogeneous social reality The film was never completed because the director was arrested by the Gestapo and the footage seized