The photograph shows a section of Hamburg Harbor, taken from an elevated vantage point behind a riveted steel lattice railing. Several steamships are moored at the dock facilities, including a larger passenger or mail steamer with two funnels; smoke rises from another vessel in the background. Numerous masts, cargo tackle, and harbor cranes enliven the silhouette and convey the image of an active transshipment port. In the travel film, this harbor view forms the arrival context following the Atlantic crossing of the ocean liner St. Louis: the sequence guides the viewer from the open sea into the heart of Hamburg’s overseas traffic. Hamburg appears here as Germany’s central port of entry, from which the journey into the interior begins.