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Hitler takes the march-past on the Hauptmarkt, 1937

SA standards before his open car, Hitler walking past the camera with his hand at his cap, and columns marching past the car below the gabled houses.

A forest of SA standards stands before a decorated building, a large open Mercedes waiting in front and a band drawn up beside it. Hitler, in brown party uniform with a swastika armband, walks across the cobbles close to the camera, his hand raised to his cap, a tall SS officer behind him. From far across the square the camera watches the columns march past the car in which he stands to take the salute, below the long row of gabled houses and the spires of St. Sebald; girls of the League of German Girls cross the foreground with paper bags as the SA passes.

Each year of the rallies Hitler took the march-past of the SA and SS from his car on the Adolf-Hitler-Platz. The SA, stripped of power in 1934, still provided the mass of the marchers.