Crowds on the Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg rally 1937

The long colonnaded tribune, hung with rows of swastika banners, stretches across the frame; crowds stream past the foot of its white pylons. From the stands the camera looks across the vast field, dark with standing blocks, to the line of flags on the far side, and a row of raised arms salutes toward a white platform beneath a forest of flag masts.

Albert Speer modelled the tribune, some 360 metres long, on the Pergamon altar; it was one of the few rally buildings ever completed. The field held some 200,000 people, and its geometry was made to be seen from above and on film, as Leni Riefenstahl had shown the world at the rally of 1934.