Saluting crowds on the Hauptmarkt, Nuremberg 1937
A sea of raised arms before the Frauenkirche, faces at every window, and close views of the people in the crowd as the formations march past.
The camera stands in the midst of the crowd on the Hauptmarkt: hundreds of arms rise toward the square, the Gothic gable of the Frauenkirche hung with banners behind. Faces fill every window of the steep-roofed houses, framed by embroidered swastika drapes. Close in, the salute is not uniform: a round-faced man stares ahead, a nurse stands among uniformed men, an old man with a white beard raises his arm, SS men with the death's head on their caps salute beside young civilians.
Emperor Charles IV built the Frauenkirche in the 1350s on the site of the synagogue destroyed in the pogrom of 1349; its clock of 1509 shows the electors paying homage to him. In 1937 the square before it bore Hitler's name.
Film The Frauenkirche above the saluting crowd, 1937
Film Saluting crowd before the Frauenkirche, Nuremberg 1937
Film A meal in the crowd, then raised arms, Nuremberg 1937
Film Spectators at the windows of the square, 1937
Film Windows hung with swastika drapes, 1937
Film The Schöner Brunnen and the Frauenkirche clock, 1937
Film The salute as the parade passes, Nuremberg 1937
Film Raised arms before the houses of the square, 1937
Film The whole square saluting, Nuremberg 1937
Film Faces in the saluting crowd, Nuremberg 1937
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