The Great Anti-Bolshevik Exhibition, Nuremberg 1937

From a high window the camera looks down on a solid crowd; a chain of SS men with linked arms holds back a whole street above the river while SA men march past. The dark front of the exhibition hall bears from end to end the words Große Antibolschewistische Ausstellung between tall swastika banners and garlands, and over the entrance stands a large sculpture of a figure on a globe. At doors hung with laurel wreaths, SA men in brown, young men in white jackets and women in summer dresses push inside, watched by an SS man with an armband. On an advertising pillar a poster shows a shrouded figure over a slumped body before burning houses.

The exhibition opened for the party rally in September 1937, part of a campaign by Joseph Goebbels' ministry against 'Jewish Bolshevism'. The war in Spain, where German airmen were fighting, gave it fresh material every day. Germany and Japan had signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in November 1936; Italy joined it in November 1937, two months after the rally.