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Newspapers on the streets of Berlin, 1937
A front page reports Mussolini's thanks to Hitler, and vendors sell the Nachtausgabe with news of Shanghai and Goebbels' Der Angriff.
Clipped to a stone wall, a newspaper announces Mussolini's telegram of thanks to Adolf Hitler, Unlösbare Freundschaft, above a magazine cover of the two dictators in profile. By a lamp post a news vendor hung with papers sells to a young man in shirtsleeves; another, Nachtausgabe on his cap, holds up the evening paper with the Japanese attack on Shanghai, and his neighbour offers Der Angriff.
The fighting at Shanghai began on 13 August 1937. Mussolini's state visit of 25 to 29 September, with parades in Munich and Berlin, sealed the Axis. Joseph Goebbels had founded Der Angriff in 1927.
