Rare Color Pic of a Nazi Rally

[walto]

Amazing that my German in-laws are always like "We didn't know any and weren't related to any. We don't know anybody who was related to or knew any. They didn't know anybody who were related to or knew any. Etc. Etc."

[Tom Storer]

That's a lot of Nazis, all right.

[Mike Schwartz]

should also ( at least) be in the cameras & photography thread

[Gentle Giant]

I heard that the brown acid going around at that rally was a bad batch.

[pig pen]

That is a disturbing picture, mostly because I feel like we haven't learned a fucking thing since then.

[Ron Thorne]

I always thought that thread was specifically for posters to share photographs they personally shot.

You are correct. That was the genesis for that thread. And, sharing photos and stories of cameras, new and old.

[Mike Schwartz]

didn't think the premise for camera & photography was solely pictures taken by posters...it's not prefaced I don't believe

[Monte Smith]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves pictures of Nazis!

[rawac]

A bit information:

The picture was taken 1937 by Hugo Jäger, on the >Reichserntedankfest< (empires thanksgiving). The area was called >Reichsthingplatz< (empires assembly place), Bückeberg (east of Hannover, near Hameln). The assembly was hold several times before WWII. 1937 the last time, afterwards they needed the trains for even worth. 1200000+ participant, organized by the >Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda< (Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda). Thanksgiving was on of the highest holidays of the Nazis, together with the first of may. The thanksgiving assembly was part of the >Blut und Boden< (blood and soil) ideology.

The photo was bought by Timelife Pictures for the magazin LIFE in 1965 from Hugo Jäger, with approximately 2000 others.

[Jimmy Cantiello]

My first inclination when I saw that photo was to start looking for Waldo in his red and white striped shirt and knitted hat. Just sayin'.

[bluenoter]

Ralf---

Thank you.

[LennyH]

My first inclination when I saw that photo was to start looking for Waldo in his red and white striped shirt and knitted hat. Just sayin'.

I'm almost sure Zelig is in there somewhere.

[Monte Smith]

More Nazis! More Nazis! More Nazis!

[sozamora]

Ok, this may be dumb question but why are the swastiskas not tilted?

[Ron Thorne]

Here is a link to an explanation of the symbol known as a swastika. Click below.


The swastika sign (卐) – a symbol of Buddhism or Nazism?

[7/4]

mandatory attendance.

[sozamora]

Here is a link to an explanation of the symbol known as a swastika. Click below.


The swastika sign (卐) – a symbol of Buddhism or Nazism?

I'm aware of the different uses of the symbol, but even that article states that the Nazi swastika is at an angle:

The Nazi used the right facing form and tilted the swastika symbol at an angle of 45 degrees with the corners pointing upwards and invariably in black.

My only explanation was that at mass rallies the Nazis played up the volkisch rhetoric and used more traditional Aryan symbols.

[Ron Thorne]

From: The Swastika and the Nazis - A Study of the Misuse of the Swastika by the Nazis


"When in 1920 Adolf Hitler was appointed chief of propaganda for the National Socialist Party, he realized that the party needed a powerful symbol to identify it and distinguish it from rival groups. In Nazi theory, the Aryans were the German's ancestors, and Hitler concluded that the swastika, which had been ''eternally anti-Semitic,'' would be the perfect symbol for ''the victory of the Aryan man.''

Actually, the swastika flag proved to be a dramatic one, and produced a hypnotic effect on the masses.

The Nazi flag was red, with a black sinistroverse swastika, lying on an angle, to produce an even more dynamic illusion of circular movement. But it took some time until it was fully adopted as the official Nazi symbol."

http://www.intelinet.org/swastika/swas_evolution.html

[Dr Dave]

Bunch of bullshit.

http://archaeology.about.com/od/indusrivercivilizations/a/aryans.htm

[jwaggs]

Your German in-laws from Little a Rock?

[moldyfigg]

I think I can pick out McConnell in the third row.

[jwaggs]

That's Brian Williams in the third row. He was shot down by German and was being held hostage.

He is a great member of the Greatest Generation.