Wall’s account of their holiday is full of vivid images: the white sandy road winding through a dark, mysterious pine forest, the group of factory workers delighted by King George V’s birthday greetings to Hitler and the cigarette cards depicting French military police brutalising German civilians in the Ruhr. Der Triumph des Willens [Triumph of the Will], watched in a smoky cinema ‘chock full and terribly overheated’, was as unpleasant as the stuffy opera where old ladies hissed at a fidgeting Iremonger to have more ‘Rücksicht [consideration]’ for others. They warmed to the burly Bavarian
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Variety of experiences but antisemitism dominates
