Berlin Alexanderplatz: Part 2

The subject of this chapter is about the things we must do in life to survive. In some period in German history, a lot of people needed to join the Nazi ranks, even in strange ways, to go by. This is probably the best interpretation of that phenomena that I have seen. Our hero simply sells Nazi newspapers, and is not very interested in the hatred they spill. Interestingly, in this chapter Fassbinder makes us sympathetic to somebody that "sells" himself to the worst political movement of the 20th Century and has a verbal fight with the communist sympathizers that were probably to be killed some years after.