The Snapshots in Time Collection
Crowd and Nazi Party Standard-Bearers at a Public Rally, Nuremberg, Germany, 1930s
This photograph captures a Nazi Party public rally in Nuremberg, Germany, during the 1930s, with a crowd giving the raised-arm salute as a party standard bearing the swastika flag is paraded past the city's medieval fortifications. Nuremberg served as the site of the annual Nazi Party rallies (Reichsparteitag) before the war and later, after Germany's defeat, hosted the International Military Tribunal war crimes trials. Images such as this document the mass political spectacle used by the Nazi regime to consolidate public support. Project: 218501