[1] The main topic of the triptych is the different aspects of the nightlife in a German big city of the golden twenties.

The women present visible jewelry and wear dresses, the fabrics and patterns of which could also be found in medieval paintings.

On the left panel, several prostitutes stand contemptuously in front of the bar's red-lit entrance, looking at two men, one lying on the floor and the other a war cripple.

The right panel shows a group of high-class prostitutes dressed in furs, who seem to be striving towards the viewer in a row and carelessly walking past another war cripple.

The art professor Marsha Meskimmon has written how the war veterans are "shown weakened in every way by the aggressive sexuality of Weimar women.

However, Dix was targeted by several of the volkisch art critics, including Richard Müller and Bettina Feistel-Rohmeder.