This photograph, part of a collection of wartime-era negatives associated with Nuremberg, Germany, documents a mass public gathering in the city's historic old town, with onlookers rendering the Nazi salute as a uniformed column parades past a medieval stone gate carrying a swastika banner. Nuremberg served as the ceremonial site of the Nazi Party's annual Reichsparteitag rallies throughout the 1930s, and images such as this offer a sobering documentary record of the mass mobilization and public spectacle that characterized the Nazi regime prior to and during World War II. Project: 218501