Massed ranks of uniformed men fill a Nuremberg street beneath towering swastika banners in this prewar photograph, a visual record of the Nazi Party's carefully staged displays of unity and strength. Nuremberg served as the ceremonial stage for the annual Reichsparteitag rallies of the 1930s, mass spectacles designed to project the regime's power both domestically and internationally. Images such as this survive today as sobering documentary evidence of the propaganda machine that helped consolidate Nazi control over Germany in the years leading up to the Second World War. Project: 218493