Himmler and the SS guard of honour, Nuremberg 1937
Open cars sweep onto the field past a line of steel-helmeted SS men, and Heinrich Himmler and his SS leaders climb the grandstand steps.
Spectators at the rope turn and salute as a convoy of open cars rolls onto the field and sweeps in a curve past a long line of SS men in steel helmets and white belts. A group of SS leaders in black climbs the broad steps of the grandstand between the rigid guard, the short, bespectacled Heinrich Himmler at their head; below, officials and officers in white summer uniforms gather on the terrace as the Labour Service blocks stand motionless on the field.
Himmler had been Reichsführer-SS since 1929 and chief of all German police since June 1936. His black-uniformed men guarded the rally grounds, the leaders and, far from Nuremberg, the concentration camps.
