Three days later, Smith pencilled into his notebook: ‘Great excitement. I am invited to go with Alfred Rosenberg to see the Hundertschaften [companies of 100 men] pass in review before Hitler on the Cornelius Street.’ Afterwards he wrote: A remarkable sight indeed. Twelve hundred of the toughest roughnecks I have ever seen in my life passed in review before Hitler at the goosestep under the old Reichflag, wearing red armbands with Hakenkreuze … Hitler shouted ‘Death to the Jews’ etc. and etc. There was frantic cheering. I never saw such a sight in my life.
