Bürgermeister-Smidt-Brücke in Bremen spans the Weser to both banks, at the tip of the Teerhof, through the heart of the German city-state. Bürgermeister Johann Smidt was a preeminent Bremer statesman in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for the founding of Bremerhaven, in an effort to save the faltering Hansestadt from its silting river. As Senator, he represented the city-state in the Congress of Vienna where the new German Confederation took shape. Smidt took extra care to assure the individual German states would be allowed to separately determine the citizenship of the Jewish people living within their boundaries. It was his life’s work to exclude Bremen’s Jews from political and social life. Bürgermeister-Smidt-Brücke was named for Smidt as part of Bremen’s inchoate denazification after World War II. The film HANSA BOY ETWAS DAS KOMMT NIE WIEDER VOR directly addresses the namesake of the bridge. It intends to lay open the fate of the unspeakable history bound up in the structure’s name.