Party leaders, officers and newsreel cameras, 1937

Before a building hung with bunting, swastika shields and flags, film cameras stand on tall tripods and ladders above the crowd; officials in brown and black walk to and fro across the tram rails. A solid line of SS men holds back the crowd along the shop fronts while party leaders and officers stand about in twos and threes, shake hands and salute informally before the Schöner Brunnen. Two army officers climb up through the stands past the camera.

The moment before Hitler's arrival gathered the whole hierarchy of party and army on a few square metres of cobbles. The leaders' faces are too small to identify with certainty; the cameras that recorded them, placed under the control of Goebbels' ministry, recur again and again in the frame.