Reich President Hindenburg greeting Reich Chancellor Hitler on Memorial Day, March 12 1933 |
Robert Ley and Ferdinand Porsche giving Hitler a model of the Volkswagen as a birthday present. Hitler had desired the building of a cheap car that ordinary German families could afford. |
President Hindenburg greeted by an SA honor guard at Potsdam |
The Reich Chancellery in Berlin |
The Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Hitler’s office |
The Reich Chancellery in Berlin, the marble gallery |
The Honor Temples in Munich |
One of the two Honor Temples at a ceremony in Munich |
Poster of SA member fighting back communists in a meeting hall during the Kampfzeit, the time before the NSDAP came to power in 1933 |
SA man standing by a fallen comrade |
The Führerbau, a major Party office building in Munich |
Hitler’s office in the Munich Führerbau |
The Munich Führerbau |
Horst Wessel leading an SA column at the 1929 Nuremberg Rally. He was shot soon thereafter in his home by a communist. The Horst Wessel Lied, the Horst Wessel Song, became the rallying song of the Sturmabteilung, which was created to fight communists who attacked Conservative and Nationalist political meetings after World War I. |
Photograph from the Reich Youth Rally in Potsdam, 1932 |
SA march in Sadortmund, 1933 |
Hitler speaking at the SA rally in Dortmund, 1933 |
Hitler speaking at the SA rally in Dortmund, 1933 |
The poster says: “Hitler is building. Help him. Buy German goods.” |
Poster advertising the German autobahn system built in the 1930s, the most modern road system in Europe at the time |