Feeding the crowd at the rally, 1937
Women in striped aprons sell sausages to SA men, and BDM girls hand bags of food up into the stands.
Deep in the crowd, two women in striped aprons serve from a basket and a metal warming tin to SA men in brown shirts and swastika armbands, one of them smiling straight into the camera. At the edge of the stands, girls of the League of German Girls in white blouses and dark neckerchiefs pass paper bags of food up to the spectators, helped by an SS officer and an SA man, while a naval officer in a white cap reaches down for one.
The crowds on the square often stood for hours before the march-past began. Feeding hundreds of thousands was the work of the party's welfare and women's organisations, and of the city's own sausage stalls, which did a great trade in rally week.
