Panel One: "Cafe Society"

Three students discuss literature in a fashionable cafe. Beneath the table is an image from the destruction of Hamburg in 1945 - a decaying corpse in uniform whose NS armband remains strangely uncorrupted.

In the kitchen of a brothel on the Reeperbahn, the enormous Madame Domenica sits in her underwear. Her minder watches while the hero sags drunkenly across the table where money lies.Beneath the table a young whore crouches, exploited by Domenica. Behind, a quiet procession of girls present their taking to a book keeper dressed as a nurse who enters the amounts in a ledger.

In a fairground with a rollercoaster, a plastic dolphin, a band and stalls selling items such as heart shaped chocolate, two figures are locked in sullen argument. Behind looms a six-storied concrete bunker with gun emplacements on top, which is too expensive to demolish. It is now full of boutiques and art galleries.