Rally-week streets and a colonial display, 1937
Streets hung with banners fill with uniforms and Sunday clothes, and a painted display recalls 'Germany and its colonies in Africa 1914'.
A narrow old-town street is hung from end to end with swastika banners, a Gothic spire at its end; a wide street with tram rails is full of SA men, soldiers and civilians walking under flagpoles. Above a shop front hangs a long painted display, Deutschland und seine Kolonien in Afrika 1914, setting a small outline of the Reich beside the far larger shapes of Cameroon, Togo and German East Africa, each with its area, its population and the note that France or England now administered it.
Versailles had taken all of Germany's colonies in 1919. The Reich Colonial League, founded in 1936 under Franz Ritter von Epp, kept the grievance before the public; beneath the display, hardly anyone in the crowd looks up.
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