12. The synagogue in Fasenenstraße, Berlin, burns after Nazi stormstroopers set it on fire during the pogrom of 9–10 November 1938.13. The Jewish Community building in Kassel on the morning after the pogrom. Beds, papers, and furniture, thrown out by the Nazi perpetrators, lie on the street. Onlookers and police watch as two people attempt to clear up.14. Passers-by — some smiling, some looking in apparent bewilderment — outside a demolished and looted Jewish shop in Berlin. The amount of glass smashed by Nazi mobs gave rise to the sarcastic appellation ‘Reichskristallnacht’.15. A model family? Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda, and their children Helga, Hilde, and baby Helmut, posing for the camera in 1936.16. Goebbels, broadcasting to the Germans on the eve of Hitler’s fiftieth birthday, 20 April 1939. The Propaganda Minister’s marriage had been under severe strain during the previous months on account of his affair with the Czech actress Lida Baarova, but for prestige reasons Hitler had insisted that Goebbels and his wife did not separate.17. An unusual photograph, taken about 1938, of Eva Braun, Hitler’s companion since 1932 — a relationship kept secret from the German public until 1945.18. With Hitler looking on, General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, greets the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, at the Berghof on 15 September 1938, during the Sudeten crisis.19. German troops crossing the Charles Bridge in Prague in March 1939, a few days after Hitler had forced the Czech government to agree to the imposition of a German Protectorate over the country.20. Hitler’s imposing ‘study’ in the Reich Chancellery, used more to impress visitors than for work.21. Pomp and Circumstance: Hermann Göring addresses Hitler during a ceremonial occasion — probably on Hitler’s birthday, 20 April 1939 — in the New Reich Chancellery, designed by Albert Speer and completed in early 1939.22. ‘The Führer’s birthday’: Hitler is amused, on his forty-ninth birthday, 20 April 1938, when Ferdinand Porsche presents him with a model of the Volkswagen, pointing out that the engine is in the boot. None of the 336,000 Germans who ordered and paid for a car partly or in full ever took delivery of a Volkswagen. The vehicles were produced during the war exclusively for military purposes.
