Nuremberg's main synagogue and Der Stürmer, 1937

At an iron gate before a sandstone building, older men in hats stand talking; three boys in overcoats, two of them in the striped caps of grammar-school pupils, laugh together by the balustrade; a woman and a child come down the broad steps of the courtyard, and the congregation disperses. The camera tilts up the façade with its rose window and three domes. Then, at a kiosk, a vendor pegs up the front page of Der Stürmer, headed Die Tarnung, above a caricature of a Jewish man.

The main synagogue, consecrated in 1874, was one of the largest in southern Germany. On 10 August 1938 Julius Streicher, Gauleiter of Franconia and publisher of Der Stürmer, had it torn down as a blot on the townscape, three months before the pogrom of November.