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19. "FÜHRERS" GEBURTSTAG UND DIE HARZBURGER FRONT, 20.04.1933
19.01 / Demonstration, starting from Waterlooplatz
19.02 / The police there (near the market hall)
19.03 / SA marches (Georgstraße)
19.04.01 / Grammar-school boys march along
With the clear-sightedness of a political man who recognises the coming fascism and also fights it in political work, Ballhause also observes the advancing military education of the children. A column of middle-class children, recognisable by their clothing. "Pennälermützen", uniformed beings, led by a boy with a steel helmet. From left to right below, they march through one of his photographs. The oblique view lets them pass by and figuratively slide into their demise, as we know today.
(Boström, Jörg: Ein Nachruf auf den Fotografen Walter Ballhause, in: Website Arbeiterfotografie, accessed on 02.02.2021, URL: http://www.arbeiterfotografie.de/verband/erfurt-2007/aufruf.html)
[Photo taken: Waterlooplatz, Hanover]
(Boström, Jörg: Ein Nachruf auf den Fotografen Walter Ballhause, in: Website Arbeiterfotografie, accessed on 02.02.2021, URL: http://www.arbeiterfotografie.de/verband/erfurt-2007/aufruf.html)
[Photo taken: Waterlooplatz, Hanover]
19.04.02 / Grammar-school boys march along
Many of his pictures reflect a sensitively perceptible expression of fateful doom, which is not infrequently a deep emotion, especially when the people depicted are so often children. Sitting or playing in desolate streets, they seem to be part of a drama in a society whose sun is already low and whose terrible response to its own unsolved social problems is shortly accepted by everyone without question. An atmosphere of hopeless composure pervades many of the depictions, likewise in the rendering of the children, who march in military formation, playing according to their age, but already accompanied by the drumbeat of their future catastrophe.
(Rosenblum, Naomi and Walter, in: Walter Ballhause. Photographs between Weimar and Hitler 1930–1933, New York 1987)
[Photo taken: Waterlooplatz, Hanover, 20.04.1933]
(Rosenblum, Naomi and Walter, in: Walter Ballhause. Photographs between Weimar and Hitler 1930–1933, New York 1987)
[Photo taken: Waterlooplatz, Hanover, 20.04.1933]
19.05 / The "Führerpaket" for the unemployed (you can catch mice with bacon)
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, Old School, Hanover]
19.06 / SA and Gestapo maintain peace and order in the workers' quarter (Hann.-Linden)
[Photo taken: Hanover, between March and June 1933]
19.07 / SA workers patrol the working-class district of Linden (Limmerstrasse)
"I drove or walked up and down this street every day – to the employment office in the middle of the city. And over here, that's cut off, another [SA] column is already marching. I'm being watched from there."
(Walter Ballhause 1984, in: Interview with Hannes Schmidt (excerpts published in: Medium, 1985, 11/12, p. 80 ff.))
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, corner of Velberstraße, Hanover]
(Walter Ballhause 1984, in: Interview with Hannes Schmidt (excerpts published in: Medium, 1985, 11/12, p. 80 ff.))
[Photo taken: Limmerstraße, corner of Velberstraße, Hanover]
19.08 / The lie-baiting ("Why closed?")
"The inflammatory and lying poster on 1.4.1933, affixed to every shop of Jewish owners (here at the silk house Marx am Küchengarten) in Hanover."
(Walter Ballhause on 21.03.1988)
(Walter Ballhause on 21.03.1988)
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