Endgame, 1945 Quotes

“German Girls’ League. Two thousand of them walked several hundred miles on a gruelling ‘Adolf Hitler March’ to reach the city. The rallies saw endless parades, displays of mass callisthenics, continuous music and singing, gala performances of Wagner, solemn ceremonies to honour the party’s ‘martyrs’ killed in the failed 1923 Munich putsch, and military exercises. Their dramatic highpoint came on the evening of the ‘Day of the Political Leaders’. As darkness fell and 100,000 spectators took their seats, 110,000 men marched on to the review field and the space was suddenly lit by a ring of lights illuminating thousands of fluttering party banners. Then, at the instant Hitler entered the arena, one hundred and fifty searchlights shot their beams vertically”
― David Stafford, Endgame 1945: Victory, Retribution, Liberation