Bare-chested ranks and girls in white, Nuremberg 1937
Labour Service men with packs face the grandstand, bare-chested young men stand with their spades, and girls in white blouses stand in rows nearby.
Men in Labour Service caps with full packs and canteens stand in ranks facing the Zeppelin grandstand, the wreathed swastika gleaming on its roof, and standard bearers hold their banners before the stands. Along a rank of young men stripped to the waist, hands rest on spade handles; nearby, girls in white blouses and dark skirts stand in line looking towards the tiers, and three bare-chested young men, seen from below against piled clouds, stand motionless with raised chins.
The display of fit, sunburnt bodies was part of the rally's message: the regime wanted a youth hardened by work and sport, ready for the army. The swastika on the grandstand roof was blown up by the US Army on 22 April 1945.
